sounds like something that they should have been doing years ago.<br>but i guess that may be too much to ask of ma bell.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <<a href="mailto:jeff@ocjtech.us">jeff@ocjtech.us</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Neal Daringer <<a href="mailto:admin@c0wzftp.com">admin@c0wzftp.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> beforwarned i have heard that qwest is doing major upgrades to their<br>
> network. none of which, that i have heard, is actually fiber to the home.<br>
> they are increasing their dsl service speeds to better compete with current<br>
> cable company offerings. of course, i hope i am wrong, for all of our sakes.<br>
> fiber to the home is like the holy grail for internet service. almost<br>
> impossible to come by and when you have the opportunity to have it you must<br>
> respect it and treat it as though it was your first born child.<br>
<br>
Qwest's calls it's fiber upgrades FTTN - Fiber To The Neighbourhood.<br>
I think that means that they will run fiber to a cabinet in your<br>
neighborhood, and then run on copper to your home. Basically, all<br>
this is doing is bringing the DSLAM closer to your home which allows<br>
running DSL at speeds faster than the 1.5M most people can get when<br>
the DSLAM is in the central office. According to Qwest's web site<br>
it's not available to me in Ankeny - I wasn't able to find a full<br>
listing of the cities that they are deploying in though.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.qwest.com/vdsl/learn/vdsl.html" target="_blank">http://www.qwest.com/vdsl/learn/vdsl.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/fiber-optics.html" target="_blank">http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/fiber-optics.html</a><br>
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