Poll: What connection do you have?

"The UK is finally on track for broadband from 1st April after BT announces ADSL price cuts."

BT ADSL here in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Cost £140 for the installation and £40 a month for the service.
Between me and my flat mate its £20 each so its not so bad.
A price cut would be nice though....

Just found this at www.btopenworld.com and had a laugh...
http://www.btopenworld.com/surfmonkey
BT Surfmonkey :haha:

Can you find anything saying that this reduction is also for existing broadband customers cause if it is I am only giving my flatmate £15 towards the bill

Is that 'wires only' or BT engineer installed?

Tell me what you think of this offering from Plusnet....http://portal.plus.net/info2/adsl_pricedrop.html

That must be the cheapest ADSL ISP in the UK, surely!?

I'm making enquiries to Plusnet and should be ready for ADSL from 1st April. I still need help choosing an ADSL modem (or router??) though.

http://info.blueyonder.co.uk/comparecost.html

Blueyonder do a good deal as well. I know a lot of my CS clan ([S.C.O.T.S]) that use this service in Glasgow. One thing to check is the up and down stream speeds. A lot of ADSL services give you a 512k downstream and a 128k upstream. If your uploading lots to remote servers etc. then this may be something to look at.

The modem I have from BT is a USB modem.
I believe there are also Ethernet modems that plug into a Network card on your PC. I believe these are generally preferred althought I can't remember why, I have a look around the net to see what I can find out.

My set up for sharing ADSL is one PC with ADSL USB modem, Internet Connection Sharing and a network card connecting it to a nice and cheap Scan 10 port switch/hub. The other two computers just connect to the hub. The other option is a router connected to the ADSL modem which then allows any individual computer to start the connection to the net.

Links:
Questions: DSL broadband routing...
Help with ICS

I am one of the lucky ones who have cable. I also am fortunate to live in an area that has more than one cable company who compete with each other instead of a monopoly. In the end, I get great service and good pricing on my service. I have had it for 4 years now and had 0 problems with my provider.

well broadband is not as expensive here as it sounds it is in the UK. Cable modem costs $40 a month; $7. modem rent is included. DSL costs $50 a month and requires a contract so I decided to go with a cable connection. The connection used to be fantastic until @HOME went bankrupt now Comcast has setup their own lines but they are very laggy. I think they are planning to increase their prices by 5 dollars or so pretty soon.:rolleyes:

This is interesting, I thought there would be a LOT more cable/ADSL users in this forums. I guess I'll be stucked to modem for quite some time until the local ISPs here rollout broadband in a big scale. Broadband is only available in VERY selected areas i.e. areas where "high income earners" live e.g. condominiums. Very irritating...

Furthermore, it just got more expensive surfing the net. The phone tariffs just went up.. Blech...

adsl... Costs me around 80$ a month, but it's cheaper than what it'd cost me with regular modem... (online 24/7 at least )
For that price I get (alledged) 704k downstream and 128k upstream...

Too bad the *****ic ISP/telco went with the wrong ADSL setup, so I only have duplex, as opposed to full-duplex...

I can't wait to until May, when a new ISP opens op for ADSL in my area... Then it's around 70$ for 2Mbit downstream and 800k upstream! Oh, yeah

Don't you realise, the US gets everything earlier and cheaper than the UK. Like I already said, this year will be the year broadband starts to take off in the UK. I think I read somewhere that broadband in the US is used by 60% of homes with 40% still using narrowband. In the UK, we get the technology at a "reasonable" price after years it has already been available in selected areas (my area being one of them).

The sad truth is although i'm prepared to pay £22.99 - £29.99 a month (the NEW low price range for ADSL in the UK) with an initial £59 BT line activation fee plus a new ADSL modem for £50 - £100 and also 2 or 3 micro-filters for £12.99 each, the US still gets the above cheaper

Find out which adsl ver BT is using (CAP or DMT), and buy a modem from the states.. (or buy one which supports both types... Uncommon, but not rare..)

And while you're at it, why not buy the rest of the stuff you need from the states...
You won't need to pay the US taxes, and if you ship each individually you might avoid the UK taxes... Could save you some £'s...

.02$

Cable is costing me 37 per month because I own a cable modem. Its pretty good service. I have had a few issues but for the most part Im very happy with the service.

cable modem

cool. i'm the 1st to vote for "None"

Seems as if I am in very good company with those who use modem...although there have not been many who have voted thus far. A very close second is DSL...it would be nice...but guess I'll just have to settle for modem for now.

At home I use 28k, here at school I use partial T1.
My family (I mean me and my mother) are soon moving, and I hope to get DSL in my new house. It would be heaven

All I have to say is that I love my cable modem!!! Every time I ping it I get speeds upwards of around T1 to T3 connections! Don't think I could go back to the days of dialups...

me too.... i don't know how i managed with that rubbish....

Dude, I've been stucked with that rubbish ever since I started using the computer Thank goodness for company's leased line

155Mbps ATM right now (I'm at school), lousy 56k at home (the bloody ISP's wont give ADSL outside the city )

Hey, me too.