Poll: What connection do you have?

Satellite access has the main advantage of being available anywhere in the world, the question is, does anyone actually want it for the price/performance?

I'm getting ADSL from 1st April and i wanted to know, should i get an Alcatel Speed Touch USB ADSL modem for £95 including 2 micro-filters OR an internal PCI Connexant ADSL modem from DabsValue for just £51? Get a well-known brand or a budget value make that should give the same functionality?

I've got the Alcatel SpeedTouch Home modem, and has had absolutely no probs with it... It's easily to configure for use with a hub/swtich, has built in DHCP server and some more... And it's dead easy to configure!

Guess the USB should have similar properties, though I'd go for the Home ver, or something else using cat-5... (makes it easier to connect more machines later...)

.02$

I have been using the internet for the past 4 years, lot a long time =).

I was and is now always using the same service provider: BC.TELUS, but i switched service plans. 2 years using 56K Dial up and i think i had a limit to 100 hours a month. You really age fast when you use dial up =) . . .

For the past 2 years, I have been using ADSL Highspeed Connection. I am really pleased with the results. Max Bandwidth for up: 80k/s down: 160k/s

that is kilobytes


It was $200 for the 3com home connect ADSL modem. And it pays off while you use it . . . every month you pay nothing because of a deal agreement rebate. Its all gone now =)

So its around $40 a month . . . no bandwidth limits

pretty good =)

Frequently, it tends to slack and goes down for awhile . . . maybe for mantainance.

other then that i enjoy it =)

TRUFFLES

Hmm, its probably been available that long in the UK except the prices were so high that only the rich could afford it.

2 yrs later and the prices are low enough for nearly anybody to afford it in the UK with prices from £22.99 to £29.99 per month for ADSL access. The only problem remains of if its available in your area in the UK.

How much does £22.99 ($32.81) to £29.99 ($42.80) compare to the lowest xDSL price in the US?

Exchange rate used: 1.42700

DSL isn't too big in my area of the states, but that is largely due to the fact that the only phone company around here that handles DSL is Ameritech. Few companies are as top heavy as this one in our area.

SO most people opt for either cable or dial up, rather than go through the pain of Ameritech Customer Service.

Re:connection

Cable here in Newfoundland. My ISP is in competition with the provincial phone company(ADSL), so competiton is good. I pay $40.00/mo. including cable-modem rental. That's in Canadian $, by the way..

They raised the tariffs in Brunei too? Man.. That blows! Actually, I just found out that they've only raised the tariffs for the local calls by 1 cent. The Internet calls remain the same... Thankfully.

Don't forget even if you can access it anywhere in the world, you'll still need a local ISP to dial in so that you can have your uplink.

- actually, the cheapest ADSL ISP in the U.K is www.f2s.com - £22.50 a month

But plusnet seems a better deal, you get decent hosting thrown in.

I'm gonna stick with 56k till June, then upgrade :grinthumb !)

hurray!

Finally got ADSL connected today after waiting for my line to be activated and after some initial teething problems (upgrading drivers and settings) its all working nicely.

All i can say is, what a difference!

And all the benefits of a second phone line have come into effect! :grinthumb

56.6 Modem, using BT Ireland, but it never runs faster than 32.0

I've got a modem...

(Mumbles)

It's a 56k..

But, I'm going to get aDSL for $50 a month from a good local ISP.
1.5 Mbps Downstream/128 Kbps Upstream

:grinthumb

P.S. - Congrats Snowy on your new connection.

check my dial up internet rates:

Monthly bill:

Monthly fee: B$45
Free Hours: 36hrs
Access Fee(excl. excess hours): No of hours used in one month x B$0.03
Excess Hours' Charge : B$0.027 per minute

Is this ridiculous or what?

me: ISP#1 - €10/month, NO free time, 1c/min, about 31.2K
ISP#2 - free, NO free time, 2c/min, about 48K (maximum I've had 54K, at 3 a.m.)

But the telco gives 150 Minutes free to calls on all ISP's using 189X numbers... which both mine do

BUT the FASTEST drivers for my OEM modem give 24K.... So i have to use the laptop for any DL'ing, then dig out a cross-over cable, transfer the files..... really hard


I have net bills about €45 a month....

I've had DSL for about 2 months. Its rated at 384k up/384k down but for the first month I was getting over 700k down . I thought that was pretty cool but then a few days ago my connection didnt work for a few hours and when it started working again it only gets 292K down on bandwidth tests. The service costs $50 a month and it was supposed to be $200 for the special Paradyne modem but I bought the same one off of Ebay for $56 brand new:grinthumb

Just got back from my dad's over in San Diego, he had DSL...

I dunno about getting it over here at my house. My mother is a bit shaky about the "unrestricted" access it gives me to the internet :dead: My current ISP blocks all pRon sites and the like...
Of course, it is provided by my school district for employees, so I'm not surprised :dead: blah blah blah...

Plus it does cost $150-200 here to set it up, of course...

Temporarily, and on fridays only....

I now have temporary work experience in a building with 1Mbit/s DSL lines... only on fridays till December though..

School - full T1, 1.544Mbit
Home (right now) - cable modem, 2Mbit/256k
Work - DSL (not sure on type), 5Mbit/640k

AT&T are pretty cool - $35.95/month plus two IP addresses.

I have currently have 56K, but will have RoadRunner (extremely high speed Cable) by at the most X-Mas. My friend averages a 800 kb connection and downstreams on most servers around 500kbps, and 384kbps upstream. He downloaded UT 2003 Demo last night for me in 10 minutes. I cant wait to get out of the medevil age !!