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1. Comment - Report: DSL to Overtake Cable Internet

   (Jun 20, 2006 - 11:30 PM)

   I've got Qwest's 1.5 meg DSL plan at my house, and all I can say is thank you Qwest, for allocating so much bandwidth to the upload portion of the frequency spectrum on our lines. My 85 KB/sec upload lets me send files faster than any person in town with cable (cable in the nearby city tops out at 45-55 KB/sec upload). We pay for 1.5Mb/sec, and are averaging at 135KB/sec down, which is pretty good considering we're nearly 5 miles from the CO (and I have no idea what the lines are like or how they're done since they're all buried). Living in Idaho and still waiting for word on when Verizon will bring FiOS here (yes, I checked Verizon's expansion plans, and my state is in the list of states not yet wired that should be wired by '09 from what I've heard). Shame that the big companies like Cox, Comcast, and Charter aren't around here (yet) to challenge CableOne's monopoly, since no one has a choice in cable here. But satellite, DSL, and local wireless companies give choice in TV and general internet availability, so cable doesn't matter too much here.