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Re: Amen...
QWest (formerly USWest) was terrible in Colorado. In new development areas of Colorado Springs, within city limits, back in 2000, they were installing Digital Subscriber Loop systems (fibre to the neighbourhood) that multiplexed all the neighbourhood phones onto fibre to the exchange. The equipment they were installing multiplexed using 2 bits too few to enable dialup users to get 56kbps, let alone DSL! The fastest you could get using their systems on dial up was 26.4kbps. This was brand new deployment. They couldn't upgrade the mux and line cards to newer ones because they had several years worth of these systems in stock or ordered!
Meanwhile cable was just laying its fibre to the nodes in 2000. USWest was left in the dust when cable internet hit town. |
