Well we got our DSL set up today — I’ve finally come circle and back to DSL with Qwest after my brief year long stint with Comcast. Their “comcastic” service was okay but nothing worth writing home about. Their 48 kbps upload speed was painfully slow and their download speed ONLY AVERAGE. It’s community-based speed…if all your neighbors are using, chances are your download speed will suffer. Everyone shares the burden.

Well, setting up the DSL modem was a pain in the ass — the setup CDRom that I was provided with didn’t work (I’m assuming it’s because I have Firefox as the default browser and not IE). So I ended up drilling through the CDRom to find the Start.htm file located in CDROM:\Manual Installation\Start.htm (and of course I ran it with IE to avoid any complications—complications that could have been avoided if Qwest developers were better at cross-browser compatability).

With that instruction guide, it gave me my username and password for the PPPoA authentication in the modem itself. What a pain in the butt.

Now I just have to figure out why I’m only getting 640 kbps up, when I was told I’d get 896 kbps. DSL Reports shows me at about 1.2 MBPS down and 512 KBPS up. Not as cool as I’d like it to be.

April 24, 2006, 6:58 pm

Filed under: Awareness

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