[sllug-members]: Broadband when DSL not available?

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Monday 11 September 2006 04:05pm, David J Iannucci wrote:
> > And Qwest only charges $5/mo for the privilege of "naked" DSL.
>
> Huh?  Are you kidding?  Surely then, they should charge the same $5
> for POTS customers?

If you have DSL with a voice circuit, Quest charges x/month for the DSL link.  
If you take away the voice circuit (what their customer service people 
call "Standalone DSL", since, I'm guessing "Naked DSL" could offend too many 
people?), then they charge x+$5/month for the DSL link.

That's to encourage you to waste an extra $60/month (depending on a bunch of 
variables) with their voice service.

> But Xmission tells me that the minimum service 
> option (384K or something?) is $15 (not including their own charges,
> of course).  Am I misunderstanding something?

For the 384k DSL, Xmission charges you $15/month, you still have to pay Quest 
for the DSL line.

I have 1.5Mb/1.0Mb naked DSL with Xmission.  I pay Xmission $168/year (that 
works out to $14/month :) ), for the DSL service.  I can't get faster where I 
live because my DSL is via a neighborhood DSLAM (which is on my property 
actually) and they haven't updated that equipment to support the higher 
speeds yet.

But, I don't care, I'm going to have Utopia soon and have 15Mb each way for a 
grand total of $40/month for everything and will be able to completely punt 
Quest out of the house :) .  It's only a few months away.  I can hardly wait.

Hey, you....yeah, you over there...put your tongue back in your mouth.  Yes, I 
know Utopia rocks the casbar, but you only have to move to where the 
bandwidth is to get it. :)
-- 
Lamont R. Peterson <lamont at gurulabs.com>
Senior Instructor
Guru Labs, L.C. [ http://www.GuruLabs.com/ ]

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