I've only lived here for 18 months so I am not an expert on the whole Qwest/Daybreak marriage. The most important thing I know is that Daybreak residents are lucky enough to have a fiber to the home infrastructure. Fiber to the home (FTTH) is a huge plus for anyone that fully utilizes their internet as it allows for much higher upload and download speeds. I was extremely disappointed when I found out that I had FTTH but was only able to get 10Mbps. Basically this is the equivalent of having a Ferrari with a speed limit governor. The fiber we have in our community is a huge waste of money if it is being capped at the same speed that the other copper providers are able to provide. From the sound of things Qwest has committed to providing faster speeds to users by the end of the year. If we are able to get up to 100Mbps download and upload, we will be among a very small minority of residential internet users with those speeds. This would be a huge gain to anyone who works from home, streams media, does online backups, and will allow you to run your phone, tv, and internet online without any performance degradation.

All of that being said; of the current two "choices", I would obviously choose 1 for the lower costs and higher speeds. But if I were able to add a choice it would be to open up the FTTH infrastructure to other internet providers within the valley that have already been able to utilize the UTOPIA network. Currently and if our FTTH is owned by Qwest, our only real option besides Qwest is Comcast. As much as I haven't been a fan of Qwest and our "dedicated" speeds, Comcast is just as bad if not worse. And if Qwest can provide higher speeds then its a no brainer. Comcast can't touch the speeds Qwest has proposed (100Mbps) and the cost will be much higher.

Wow, didn't expect that to be so long winded. Hope I didn't ramble too much, I just really want to finally have "high speed internet".

FYI, I plan on being at the Open House on Tuesday to ask my questions...I'm saving my vote for after the meeting but currently plan on voting for option 1.