[olug] Any Qwest users on the list

[Kenny Kant]

  Its funny when a thread comes up that goes along with something that 
has been on my mind recently.  I have been thinking about switching to 
some type of Qwest bundle to save some money compared to Cox.  Your 
comment about the crappy consumer hardware makes me want to know how 
receptive would QWEST (or Windstream ..etc) be to allowing a customer to 
bring their own hardware to terminate the DSL service.   My mind goes to 
something like a cheap Cisco 1700 or 800 series with a DSL interface 
card installed.  Has anyone ever worked with Qwest or other carriers to 
do this??  Do you have to watch out for the type of DSLAM ...etc that 
you are connecting to?  Any thoughts on potential benefits outside 
better troubleshooting / stability ?  KDSI out in Grand Island would 
even go as far as using a 1700 with dual DSL ports to provide some type 
of channel bonding for more bandwidth.  Has anyone ever done stuff like 
this?

Speaking of cool Internet connectivity... can you still purchase regular 
dual channel ISDN in Omaha?? :)

Kenny


On 9/23/2010 7:52 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227) wrote:
> Used to work for them... network's not bad, consumer hardware is crap.
>
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Marc Mapes<marcmdm2005 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I would have to say Qwest is good. As long as there modems dont crap out on
>> you. Been through 3 different models in a year. **KNOCK ON WOOD**
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Christopher Cashell<topher-olug at zyp.org
>>> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:32 PM, Brian Roberson<roberson at bstc.net>
>> wrote:
>>>> Curious about the impact of their major outage on home service.
>>> I don't use Qwest for Internet, but my parents do.  To assist with
>>> maintaining their computers, I have them configured to maintain an
>>> OpenVPN connection to me.  I just checked the connection status, and
>>> there's been no drop on the VPN.  Looks like things are still running
>>> fairly well there.
>>>
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