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How are you connected to the net?

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SFA_AOK

Member
Inspired by something John TV said in another thread a while back...

I'm more interested in connections at home...

1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?

I'm just wondering how prices and speeds vary from country to country :) My specs:

1. UK
2. ADSL
3. 512/256 about to go up to 1Mb (I assume the upload goes up to 512 as well)
4. £30 a month ($55 according to http://www.xe.com Technically, I don't pay, my folks do :D)
5. Not at the moment, come next year the 1 meg service has 30GB download limit per month, half meg has 15 GB limit.
 
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8bit

Knows the Score
Switzerland
ADSL
1200/200
69 CHF(56 USD)

The price hasn't changed in 4 years, but it was initially 512/128 with 3 Gig cap per month. Now it's unlimited.
 
B

B'z-chan

Banned
matrix-chair.jpg

this is what i'm saving up for, it connects right into your brain dude.

Fresno California
Comcast
5mbit download/1200 upload (uncapped) I have to cap between the hours of 6 am and 8pm, but i dont use my net usually between then.
$50 bucks a month
Unlimited
 
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MrPing1000

Member
1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?


1. Northern Ireland (UK :p )
2. ADSL
3. 512/256 (Definately thinking about 1mb now its only £30 but i think i mite be out of range)
4. £25.28 (BT decided to give us a 10% discount on what we were paying then they went and lowered the price further so thats what we pay)
5. 15gb cap has just been introduced (30gb for 1mbit) but its not being inforced until 2005


And SFA the upload stays at 256
 
G

Ghost

Chili Con Carnage!
UK
Cable Modem (Telewest)
1.5mbit down 750kbit up
£35 on its own
If theres a limit i havent found it yet.
 
V

Vennt

Unconfirmed Member
UK
ADSL
512/256
£140 per Quarter
No caps, and none planned.
(I'm on BT Openworld Business account, immune to next years caps - wheeee! :D)

I'm probably going to migrate to Nildram though, an uncapped 1MB service for the same as I am paying now, but I want to see how they cope and whether they are likely to cap first. (If if so by how much.)


Freeburn.
 
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Shompola

Banned
Swe
ADSL
10Mbit/1Mbit
No cap
No limit
I think 5 unique IP-addresses or something.
Price- equivalent of 52USD a month or so.
 
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El Papa

Member
SFA_AOK said:
Inspired by something John TV said in another thread a while back...

I'm more interested in connections at home...

1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?
Click to expand...
1.) Los Angeles, CA USA
2.) Covad ADSL
3.) 1.536mbDL/125kUL
4.) $39.95/month
5.) No download caps
 
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seanoff

Member
Australia
ADSL
1.5mb/256(Commercial Grade, never being down in 4 yrs, 6 static IPs, more available, run my own servers)
$300/mnth
3GB down 12Gb up
 
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FnordChan

Member
acousticcoupler.JPG


Okay, sorry, couldn't resist. I'm in the US and am, at the moment, am leeching off my work's internet access, a fat ol' T1. I figure I can do without the internet the rest of the day.

FnordChan
 
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lexbubble

Member
1. US
2. Cable
3. Umm...yeah, don't recall off the top of my head. Just high speed cable.
4. $50 a month
5. Not that I know of...
 
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calder

Member
1. Canada
2. Cable
3. er, I dunno. I think 512/256 is the common one, right? I have the 'normal' package.
4. about $39/month CDN I think which works out to $29 US... it's a bundle with tier3 cable TV so I don't know exactly but it's around $74 a month in total
5. no caps, but I did get an email about file sharing from my ISP one when I uploaded a few gigs more than normal in a month. They do throttle some ports now though, but just the old default napster ones.
 
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Hooker

Member
Netherlands
ADSL
2240/416
€56 monthly
FUP, never had a problems yet and I down and upload quite a lot
 
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Suerte

Member
1. Scotland, UK
2. Cable
3. 1.5Mbps/512k
4. £25
5. Apparently 1GB a day, but I go over this all the time and they haven't said anything, ever.
 
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Manders

Banned
US
DSL (Sprint)
512/256
$45
no caps


I hate this shit. For the same price I can get cable internet with 3 mb download speed. I would've switched already if it weren't for this fucking contract you're in for a year. Less than a month to go, but then I gotta start paying for newsgroups.
 
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moist

Member
US
DSL
8mbps/768kbps
$120
supposedly a 10 gig cap but i've gone over 50 and have never been billed for it
 
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SFA_AOK

Member
Cheers cheers cheers :)

:O at Shompola's connection! Is that regular in Sweden or do you have some sort of sweet deal?

Very varied in speeds and prices, wonder what the people in Japan are getting...

Keep 'em coming!
 
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Fatty Melon

Member
1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?



1. United Arab Emirates
2. ADSL
3. 512 / 128
4. $ 75
5. No
 
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Segata

Member
1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?

1. Sweden
2. Cable
3. 10 Mbit
4. Around $55
5. No.
 
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RedDwarf

Smegging smeg of a smeg!
1. What country are you in? United States
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?) Cable
3. What speed connection do you have? 3000/256
4. How much do you pay for the service? $45
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download? Not yet
 
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human5892

Queen of Denmark
SFA_AOK said:
1. What country are you in?
2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
3. What speed connection do you have?
4. How much do you pay for the service?
5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?
Click to expand...
1.) US (East Coast)
2.) At home, dial-up.
3.) 56k.
4.) $10 a month.
5.) Down...load?
 
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LinesInTheSand

Banned
1. What country are you in?
USA

2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)
Cable

3. What speed connection do you have?
3Mb down/ 256Kb up

4. How much do you pay for the service?
like $35 a month

5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?
No
 
TheQueen'sOwn

TheQueen'sOwn

insert blank space here
1. What country are you in?

Canada

2. How do you connect to the net? (ADSL? Cable? Dial-up?)

ADSL

3. What speed connection do you have?

3.0 Mbps download speed / 1.0 Mbps upload speed

4. How much do you pay for the service?

Regular rate $34.95/month access (CDN)

5. Are there any caps on how much you can download?
Nope.
 
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MrPing1000

Member
Ghost said:
Man...the UK is getting 0wned by ISPs :(
Click to expand...

yup, we are getting screwd, cable prices have been going down quite nicely but adsl has remained exceedingly high. 1mbit was £40 up until a few days ago. Now its £30
 
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neptunes

Member
1. Canada
2. Cable
3. 1.5/mbit (not sure)
4. 34.95+Tax
5. Unlimited, but if you download more than 15gigs in one day they'll call you to see whats up.
 
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Shompola

Banned
":O at Shompola's connection! Is that regular in Sweden or do you have some sort of sweet deal?"

No special deal at all. This is more or less what they offer now in most places. I used to have 512/512 until a couple of weeks ago for the same price!
 
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Crazymoogle

Member
Haha, Neptunes, 15GB a day, no wonder! ;)

1. Canada
2. Cable
3. 5megabit down / 1 megabit up
4. something like 50 cdn/month (aka 30-35 USD)
5. Not really. The official limit is 50GB/month but even if I hit 100GB there is still only a 1/3 chance of getting in trouble over it. At 50-75GB, no worries.
 
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Joe

Member
2004-07-07 14:56:50 EST: 5832 / 923
Your download speed : 5972369 bps, or 5832 kbps.
A 729 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 945626 bps, or 923 kbps.
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1. usa (new york)
2. cable (optimum online)
3. (above)
4. i pay nothing :) (brother works for cable company)
5. no download/upload caps.

i'm actually moving to PA real soon so im gonna have to wave goodbye to the great optimum online. im gonna be getting rcn mach5 cable, anyone have any experience with that? how is it?
 
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yoshifumi

Banned
1. usa
2. dsl (on my laptop through wireless network)
3. 1.5 mbps
4. 30 dollars/month or so (not sure, i don't pay for it)
5. no
 
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gofreak

GAF's Bob Woodward
Ireland
DSL
512/256
30 euro
8GB/month (for 45 euro you can get a 16GB cap)

The cap still sucks, though I've never exceeded it. The speeds could also do with improving (though I hear there'll be 1Mbit/sec cable connections available soon for under 50 euro, with no cap, so I'll definitely be getting that). The situation here but a year ago was terrible, but it's getting better all the time now, mostly because the government has been shamed into pusing the market forward.
 
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Otaking

Member
USA
Cable
512/128
$39.95
None that I'm aware of....

I'm hoping for the day that we can move up to 1mbit downstream and maybe a faster upstream for hosting my Neverwinter server. But at this current price I'm afraid they'll be charging through the ass for it.
 
X

XMonkey

lacks enthusiasm.
1. Orange County, CA, USA
2. DSL (SBC Yahoo)
3. 3500/315
4. $49 or $45 a month (one of those 2..)
5. No, SBC owns.
 
Stuggernaut

Stuggernaut

Grandma's Chippy
USA (Seattle area)
Verizon DSL
1.5mbps/384kbps
$29.95 (Package with phone, normal is $34.95)
No cap.

I wish the DSL in this area would upgrade...a lot of other areas around here are at 3mbps now.
 
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