DSL ISP question

[henryay]

Ok, i've decided cable is too expensive, and i'm looking into Qwest's 640k/256k DSL.
Now, I want my university to be my ISP provider (which is free) and qwest as the line provider.
Would my data be rerouted to my university?
I want to know because i know that my university throttles the data (packeteer) or does the data go directly into qwest's backbone?

 

[Soybomb]

Are you sure your university will supply the bandwidth for students dsl accounts? I've never heard of any doing that before.

Assuming they did your data would pass from your house, through the phone company's CO and then over a circuit to your university's equipment in a cage at the CO or back to their noc, and out over their backbone.

 

[JackMDS]

Why do you want the Uni. to be your ISP?

 

[henryay]

http://dsl.colorado.edu/

Can I use CU as an ISP?

Yes! CU provides service to DSL customers as an ISP which can help reduce the cost of DSL service since affiliates of the university are not charged for this service.

I wonder if this would affect my ping alot. When i was living in the dorms, i get pings of 10-20ms on CS servers, i was practically lanned with some servers. I wonder if the extra hop would slow things down. (if it is routed)

 

[JackMDS]

Well next step find out if Qwest will accept your Uni. as an ISP.

If yes choose it, and try. No good change the ISP.

Qwest would not care.

After life is not really good if your CS pings are bad. :Q

 

[Drakkon]

it says right on the front page that qwest offers promo packages so i sure as heck hope they go together...
as for where data would be routed I'd say thats a matter of inquiry...but really that one extra hop(if there is one) should only add a couple ms since between qwest and a univ usually there is a pretty decent connection