[sllug-members]: DSL in SLC

[Adam Barrett]

On 12/12/06, twitchej at xmission.com <twitchej at xmission.com> wrote:
> Quoting Steve Dibb <steve at wonkabar.org>:
>
> > I know this has come up a million times I'm sure, so I apologize, but
> > I've never seen these issues specifically addressed, so I'm just
> > gonna ask.
> >
> > I just moved to SLC, and right now I have Comcast cable for my
> > internet connection.  It works well, but it sort of "blinks"
> > sometimes for a few seconds about every ten minutes or so.  It can
> > get rather annoying when you're doing a lot of work remotely.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm looking at getting DSL, probably with Xmission.  These
> > are my big questions though:
> >
> > 1.  Do I have to get an account with Qwest?  If so, how do I get them
> > to provide *just DSL*, and no phone line, or any other bundled stuff.
> >  Is that possible?  If so, what's my total monthly bill going to be
> > from them?
>
> I believe they have what they call "naked dsl" that is dsl without a
> phone line. I'm not sure what the costs would be. I use Qwest with
> xmission as my isp and have been quite satisfied with this combination.
>
> > 2.  What are the speeds like?  I grew up with a 2400 baud modem and
> > BBS's so I'm familiar with kbps speeds, not megabit.  Right now I'm
> > averaging between 800K/s and 1.5 megabytes/second with Comcast.  I'm
> > not picky on speed though (as long as it's generally fast / stable).
> > It looks like Xmission offers "multi-megabit" whatever that is.
>
> I signed up for the Multi-megabit, over the past 3 years have only had
> one outage during the day time hours. I generally get between 4-5
> megabits.
>
> > 3.  Do I have to sign a contract?
>
> I did not have to sign any contract with either xmission or qwest.
>
> > 4.  How does that work with the modem?  Do you just rent one, or can
> > you buy one and save paying an eternal renter's fee?
>
> I  purchased a cisco 678 when I signed up 5 years ago. Now I think they
> use the actiontec and actually you can buy these at BestBuy or CompUSA.
>
> > Thanks guys!
> >
> > Steve
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What is your upload bandwidth like? Still 768?
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Adam Barrett
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