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[NMLUG] Qwest/MSN?
Just though that I would add my $.02. I have a Comcast cable modem and
as shocking as is may seem I've had no issues with it. Even their
service has been excellent. Having recently moved the Comcast service
tech was sitting at my new house, at 8:30am on a Saturday, waiting for
me the very day I moved in. With that said, personally the price
difference for a QWEST DSL vs a Comcast cable modem isn't all that
great...
QWEST DSL = $19 per meg
Comcast = $8 per meg
Sure a cable modem is shared bandwidth but I've never gotten below
4megs. Not to mention that I don't have to be within 19000ft of a
comcast central office to get max bandwidth. Lastly the name QWEST is
not associated with good service or reliability.
It's a shame that America is lagging so far behind in terms of broadband
services.
http://muniwireless.com/community/guests/872/
Eric
On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 17:58 -0600, Peter Espen wrote:
> My QWest DSL (1536 Kbps down, 896 Kbps up - I havn't upgraded to the
> 1.5M yet) with
> SWCP as ISP and two SWCP e-mail accounts cost me $29.99/month for the
> Qwest DSL on my Qwest bill and $27.76/month for the SWCP ISP service
> and two e-mail accounts for a total of about $57.76/month.
>
>
>
> On 5/14/06, John K <rosaandme@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I agree with all the below-mentioned points about MSN vs. local ISP's. I had
> > NMIA dial-up for awhile and absolutely loved the Linux support. What it
> > comes down for some people is price. I haven't checked it out myself but I'm
> > told that the premo service with two email accounts ($3 each) w/SWCP is
> > about $75/month. That compared to $27/month for first year and then
> > $45/month after w/Qwest MSN is a substantial difference. This obviously is a
> > choice everyone has to make for themselves and there are a lot factors, most
> > of which have been mentioned. (I for example couldn't do Qwest DSL w/NMIA
> > b/c my phone line wouldn't allow it, so I had to go with Comcast.)
> >
> > Right now I'm just trying to get a technical question answered: is it
> > possible to set up an email client like Thunderbird (not a webmail client)
> > while running Linux using Qwest MSN? Has anyone done this? It seems like it
> > should theoretically be possible but I don't know enough to know for sure.
> >
> > Thanks everyone for your feedback!
> >
> > Peter Espen <peter@espen.net> wrote:
> > On 5/14/06, Matthew McCleary wrote:
> > >
> > > I've got to disagree there, though keep in mind that I'm not in New Mexico
> > > -- I'm in Trinidad, Colorado. I've had Qwest/MSN 1.5 Mbps DSL service
> > since
> > > mid-December and have had virtually zero downtime and hardly any
> > flakiness.
> > > If I had to assign numbers I'd say I get a glitch maybe once every two
> > > months or so, and it's always short-duration (2 hours or less).
> >
> > Of course, that assign IP numbers thang is an ISP function (in your case
> > MSN).
> > Once every two months or so for 2 hours or less sounds pretty bad to me.
> >
> > I've had QWEST DSL for almost 8 years now. For a while initially I
> > had Qwest.net as an ISP until they bailed and started migrating
> > everyone over to MSN. At that point, I bailed and went to local ISP
> > service with Qwest DSL and have been very, very happy. Another thing
> > about most (not all, but most) local ISPs is that they are usually
> > quite linux savvy and happy to support you if you're running
> > linux...with MSN you'll typically get call-support-dropped faster than
> > a hot potato as soon as you mention that bad 5 letter word: LINUX.
> >
> > There's absolutely no reason I can see to use MSN, especially if
> > you're a linux user. You'll also tend to get much better internet
> > routing characteristics from a good local ISP, much better than MSN
> > can provide.
> >
> > >
> > > Matthew
> > >
> > > On 5/14/06, Michael W. Folsom wrote:
> > > > I second that idea -
> > > >
> > > > You don't have to deal with the MSN barf - they run a bad shop and you
> > > > are headed to call tree hell.
> > > >
> > > > Frankly there is a more basic reason - I've worked with a few folks that
> > > > went the Qwest/MSN route and the connection doesn't seem that stable.
> > > > My Qwest/SWCP DSL connection has been up for 5+ years - down only 3
> > > > times, all of which were my fault.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > > Peter Espen wrote:
> > > > > I recommend QWest DSL and I also recommend avoiding MSN. Go with a
> > > > > local ISP instead. I use SWCP and have always been satisfied.
> > > > >
> > > > > On 5/13/06, John K wrote:
> > > > >> I have a friend who's experimenting with Linspire and is thinking
> > about
> > > > >> taking advantage of Qwest's $26.99/month DSL promotion w/MSN as the
> > > ISP.
> > > > >> Does anyone have this service up and running w/Linux? We're pretty
> > > > >> sure he
> > > > >> could get online w/out a problem but we're not so sure if we'd be
> > > > >> able to
> > > > >> set up and use an e-mail client like Thunderbird. It seems like it
> > > > >> should be
> > > > >> possible but neither of us are experts and you never know with MSN.
> > > > >>
> >
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