[Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)

[Dan Hockey]

I live in a part of Saylorville where cable is the only thing I can get.
-dh

Carl Olsen wrote:

>Qwest offers DSL in my area (Saylorville Township), but only for home use.
>They don't have anything equivalent to the service I get from Mediacom.  All
>I can say is that I rarely experience any interruption in service.  It's
>been at least 6 months or longer since I had an interruption and that was
>only for a couple of hours.
>
>Carl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
>Of Jeffrey C. Ollie
>Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 11:06 PM
>To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL v. Cable (Ankeny)
>
>I'm on the northwest side of Ankeny (near Westwood Elementary) and I've
>had DSL service for several years now.  The only downside to DSL in
>Ankeny is that some areas can't get DSL because the phone lines are too
>old and Qwest doesn't want to recondition them.  The majority of the
>problems that I've had with my DSL service were because of a poor
>quality DSL modem.  The modems that Qwest sends out now may or may not
>be of better quality than the one I received.
>
>Qwest's DSL tech support wasn't very helpful the one time I called them
>(the problem ultimately turned out to be a failing DSL modem).  The
>woman that I spoke to was obviously following a script and didn't really
>know what she was talking about.
>
>I'd recommend _not_ renting a DSL modem from Qwest.  Best Buy has a
>couple of models for a reasonable price.  In fact they are the same
>modems that Qwest would ship you if you were to rent one from Qwest.
>
>Jeff
>
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