We've had this dicussion here already: it's FTTNode. On Jul 17, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Nate Carlson wrote: > Just a bit of clarification - 20mb/896kbps is *not* FIOS - Qwest > advertises this as "Fiber optic fast", but what it really means is that > they run fiber to the DSLAM that serves your line. 20mbit/896kbit is > ADSL2+. > > Qwest does offer VDSL in certain parts of the metro, which is available at > speeds of 40mbit/20mbit, 40mbit/5mbit, and also adds a 5mbit upstream > option to 20mbit, 12mbit, and 7mbit tiers. If you got 896k upstream, > however, you are ADSL2+, not VDSL. > > As far as I know Qwest does not have any plans to roll out a real > fiber-to-the-home option - it's all fiber to the 'neighborhood' with > various technologies running over copper to deliver the service. > > (Of course, Qwest does offer fiber services to businesses, but it's quite > a bit more money than we're talking for DSL.. *grin*) > > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote: >> 20Mbit. Which comes with an unreported upload cap of 896Kbps. >> >> But I'm probably calling them on Monday to tell them to pick everything up and take it back; Ran my own speed test through speedtest.net and the reported download speed was 3.2-4.5 Mbps. Same website on my cable modem reported 25+ Mbps on download. >> >> -- >> Ryan >> On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Donovan wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote: >>>> I'll probably only end up cutting one of the two cable internet lines into my apartment... >>>> >>>> 16Mbit download -- pretty nice >>>> 600Kbit upload -- not so nice >>>> >>>> Ran a speed test on our "public" cable line at home and got 30Mbit down and 3Mbit up. >>>> >>>> Setting up a static IP on the Qwest website appears to be nearly impossible, that's a shock. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ryan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >>>> >>> >>> Which package did you get? >>> >>> -- >>> Donovan Niesen >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list