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 at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Gabe Turner (officer) <dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu> To: <tclug-list at 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 at veldy.net > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > -- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > Gabe Turner | X-President, > UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery > U of M Supercomputing Institute for | Univerisity of Minnesota > Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu > > "You seeck leettle monkey!" > - Ren Hoek in "Stimpy's Invention" > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org