Re: [TCLUG:21012] USWest DSL and local providers

[Adam Maloney <adamm@sihope.com>]

US-West started rate-limiting at the DSLAM as soon as they had the ability
to do it (older users were grandfathered in with unrate-limited speeds).


Adam Maloney
Systems Administrator
Sihope Communications

On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Gabe Turner (officer) wrote:

> But was USWest capping it, or were the ISPs (e.g. USWest.net, VISI, etc)
> capping it?  I'm pretty sure my ISP (Sound Internet, www.scc.net) as always
> allow people to burst.  Though, I've always had bridged DSL and not routed.
> 
> Gabe
> 
> On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:08:42AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > They didn't always offer it.  When you started the service, they didn't know
> > how to cap it.  They now do.  They have been capping new installs for quite
> > some time.  Just lately, they decided to open up the pipe again - because of
> > competition I am sure.   They have sent out letters to all the 256K
> > customers stating as much.   Now, some of the ISPs in town will not or have
> > not lifted their own caps on the service, so even though the line works at
> > 640, the bandwidth is still capped at 256.  I am wondering who out there
> > seems interested in competing with USWest.net?
> > 
> > Tom Veldhouse
> > veldy@veldy.net
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp@acm.cs.umn.edu>
> > To: <tclug-list@mn-linux.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 11:02 AM
> > Subject: Re: [TCLUG:21012] USWest DSL and local providers
> > 
> > 
> > > USWest always offered it at 640k, it just wasn't advertised.  I've had DSL
> > > since Oct. '98 and have had 640k the entire time.  They just advertised it
> > > as 256k and let those close to the CO burst up to 640k.  For the last 2
> > > years I've been consistantly getting 60kb/s downloads.  Though, uploads
> > are
> > > a different matter and have always been capped at 256k.  Anyone notice and
> > > increase in upload speed?
> > >
> > > Gabe
> > >
> > > On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 10:49:56AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
> > > > Now that QWest has officially opened the pipe to 640 Kbps, are there any
> > > > providers in town (other than USWest.net) that will offer these speeds
> > and
> > > > static IP's for residential customers?
> > > >
> > > > Tom Veldhouse
> > > > veldy@veldy.net
> > > >
> > > >
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