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 >