[QCLUG] DSL in the Quad Cities

[Jason Sweat]

On 6/9/07, Mark Riedesel <klown@revealed.net> wrote:
>
>
> agamotto wrote:
> > david l goodrich wrote:
> >> I'll be moving from Des Moines to the Quad Cities in early July.  Right
> >> now I've got a DSL line with a /29 netblock, and i'm pretty pleased with
> >> it.
> >>
> >> Does anyone in the Quad Cities do something like this?
> >>
> >> Anybody recommend or not any particular ISP in the area?
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>   --david
> >
> >     I know that SBC/AT&T DSL has been working fine for me here in Moline
> > for about three years now.  I am consistently getting 1.5Mbps or
> > whatever it is called now.  It can go faster, but I am not on the net
> > enough to justify paying for it.  I have no idea what a /29 netblock is,
> > so I can't help you there.  The only service I would avoid is the DSL
> > service by Quest in Iowa.  I have yet to hear one person praise them.
>
> What? You mean my 1.5Mbit Qwest DSL that runs at 100Kbps (yet the modem
> says connected at 1536Kbps) on weekdays and sometimes shoots up to 1Mbit
> on weekends doesn't deserve praise?
>
> /me throws a tantrum and knocks bucket of sarcasm all over the floor
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I switched to Qwest DSL in April after my Mediacom cable bill got
jacked up another $8 per month.  I had some fits and starts with the
modem, but once I had all the filters in place in my house, and got a
UPS for the modem and my firewall computer, and did not have the line
from the wall to the modem going through the surge surpressor in the
UPS it has been running at 3.5Mb ever since and I can't complain.

Regards,
Jason
http://blog.casey-sweat.us/