I have 256 - and I would very much like more bandwidth.  Just about any
activity on the Internet could benefit from a faster pipe.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

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Of Adam Maloney
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 10:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20646] Root login + Free hosting


IMHO, ordering more than a 256k line is absurd.  USWest is now Qwest won't
guarantee you any amount of bandwidth, whether you buy a 512k or a 7MB
pipe.  Now that they stopped rate-limiting at the CO, you'll train at
whatever speed your line is capable of.

Incidentally, I found out that they stopped rate shaping at the DSLAM
because they are going to stream some sort of local content to their
subscribers...but the tarrif (sp) requires them to do the same for all the
non USWest.net customers as well.

Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, ^chewie wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 04:09:11PM -0700, John S. wrote:
> > I'm in Burnsville, on a 512kb Dsl, provided by Qwest
> > and Visi.com. Maybe you should move???
>
> I'm in Uptown, just off Hennapin, and my 256K DSL w/Qwest and Visi.com
> is going live on the 7th. ;-)  *whee*  Do you see a large benefit with
> the extra 256K?
>
> --
>   Chad "^chewie, gunnarr" Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net>
>               http://wookimus.net/chewie
>


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