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I've been looking at getting this for the added cost of $5 extra per month. My ISP offers a 1 MBps (Megabytes, not bits) for about $45 per month. With all these gamers on the forums, would you think about upgrading your connection to one of these guys if you were a gamer or Bit Torrent lover? It would be worth the extra cost in the long run. Think of the benefits.
DudeMiester
05-09-2005, 02:54 AM
Don't get me started on those damn money gouging ISPs. Here we have Rogers cable, and I kid you not their pricing is like this:
128kbit -- $25
3000kbit -- $43
5000kbit -- $47
Now all I can ask is why the hell do they even have a 3000kbit offering? It makes no sense to get it, at all. They would be much better off pricing it at $35, as a sortof middle of the road connection. It's such a f-ing joke here. 128kbit is way too slow to be useful, and then they have no middle product, they basically force you to get their most expensive one! It's ludicrous. Furthermore, I researched other ISPs around here, and they all do the same thing. It's like a damn cartel!!
I pay $40.61 Canadian with tax (GST only, since it's Alberta). That's for a 625 KBps (5000 Kbit) download speed. The 1 MB is only $5 more. What's the harm? Your's is Rogers. I'm with Shaw. Totally different companies. Totally different services. They do offer a Lite Speed internet, which is 5x faster than 56k dialup. It's $24.95 per month. I guess that would be their middle ground. They don't get any lower than that. Dialup is history where I live. They envision a future where there are wireless hotspots everywhere by 2024. Out with dialup, in with 802.11 and Shaw High Speed XTreme, they'd say.
NetNessie
05-09-2005, 06:17 AM
max of 24000k for AU$59.95 p\mo http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Jokke_r
05-09-2005, 06:25 AM
i have a 1Mb/512Kb connection an i kid you not, i pay like 40euros for it per month
a 10Mb connection ~1MB for around 45 is just unfair.
Damn monopoly over here with the Broadband services, the local telephone company is the only proper ADSL service provider around here, there are others which might be cheaper but since they need to use the local phone companys lines to get to your house the cost automatically goes up a tad since they need to pay the phone operator.
But the cost have been going steadily down for the last 3 years, i started with 256Kb/256Kb for 50bucks!
in a year or two we'll have optic cables going over to sweden and they'll prolly offer a lot better deal.
10Mb Cable or anything related to a Cable connection is shite though since you share it, DSL is the way to go.
IwantMORE
05-09-2005, 07:16 AM
I've just gone 2meg http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Wamplet
05-09-2005, 08:46 AM
As someone stated, watch out for the 29.95 a month packages, especially for DSL. they tend to be 128K down connections. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/redface.gif
My cable used to be 1.5, then 3 and now got upgraded to 5 a few months ago, for free. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
If you plan to play games online, you definitely need a good connection. That way you can play with 200+ ping on an overloaded server instead of 1000. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Jokke_r
05-09-2005, 08:56 AM
With my 1Mb/512Kb ADSL connection i play HL2DM and CS:S with around 40 ping or lower
biXen
05-09-2005, 09:31 AM
Connections are listed as MegaBITS in general, stop confusing me http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I have 4500/700 right now, with ADSL. And I gotta say I'd manage fine with 1000 Mb down. Hardly ever find many people to get things faster on torrent or anything, not that I'm very active with it either. Can be good on DC++ if you find someone close to you or so though. And new torrents for popular things of course.
KillerByte
05-09-2005, 12:09 PM
jeffbthomson said:
I pay $40.61 Canadian with tax (GST only, since it's Alberta). That's for a 625 KBps (5000 Kbit) download speed. The 1 MB is only $5 more. What's the harm?
Is there a download cap for this service? I fail to believe they can nearly doubly your service for only $5 more without imposing some restrictions.
I've just been upgraded from 750kbps to 2Mbps for free, because my ISP has done a package upgrade across the board. This costs me £24.99 (approx $47 USD) per month. There is an implicit download limit of 1Gb per day with this company, NTL. Some of the other broadband providers here impose a limit of 1Gb per month, which I find absurd especially with connection speeds increasing.
EDIT: I just realised JT's connection is more than twice the speed of mine, yet it works out at roughly £17 per month. How is that fair?
Tedski
05-09-2005, 04:00 PM
Your main problem there is NTL. Apart from the likes of Australia, compared to most of the 'old' EEC and certainly to the US and Canada, we have been paying over the top for years in the UK. Main culprit originally was BT who made all sorts of excuses to delay upgrading or sharing networks to bleed every last penny they could from dialup. NTLs problems (ignoring the financial grief they got themselves into the other year or so) are largely due to them being the first cable providers around, and assuming that cable was going to mean TV. My provider, Telewest, came along later by which time the stuff they were installing was more up to date and could be used easier for broadband internet. Both companies missed the trick by thinking that TV was going to be their major revenue source. Telewest don't actually put any cap on how much I download in a day, and I have their 4mb connection. NTL started doing it because their kit couldn't cope with the amount of traffic generated by filesharing in particular. Cable companies in the UK have far greater problems with uploads than downloads, the problem being that you still need a data transfer for verification at least when downloading. Even now, I think my upload speed is only something like 512k, yet I do get the full 4mb download.
There is a download limit, which is 50 GB per month. I know, Ivan hates me for this. Okay. My brother has a friend of his who's a network admin, and his download speeds are 1.4 MBps on this thing (That's 7 Megabits per second as advertised, but again, network traffic and the modem limit the speed). It really depends on network traffic and the server. The tech guy who I spoke to said that this new thing is set to become one of the fastest residential connections available in Canada. Not only to us in Calgary, but all Shaw customers, ranging from Vancouver, British Columbia all the way to Winnipeg Manitoba.
DudeMiester
05-09-2005, 05:44 PM
Rogers has 60GB per month on all their internet packages.
avatar_58
05-09-2005, 07:23 PM
Bandwidth limits suck. I finally switched to the 3mbs bell highspeed, but together with our cable bill its quite expensive. I may be switching to cable internet w/ digital cable tv and it may cost LESS than bell... http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif God I love bundles!
Kevin Wolff
05-09-2005, 07:42 PM
3000kbit -- $43
5000kbit -- $47
Now all I can ask is why the hell do they even have a 3000kbit offering? It makes no sense to get it, at all.
3000 is the highest it goes here, and that's for $58. Consider yourself lucky.
DudeMiester said:
Rogers has 60GB per month on all their internet packages.
Yeah, but how much do you pay? For $45 Canadian, I'd say that a 7 Mbps (7000 Kbps) connnection is pretty good. It can reach 1 MBps (8000 Kbps) or more when there's less traffic.
shiranui
05-09-2005, 08:14 PM
You all suck! I have 100Mbit (up & down) optical fibre internet with unlimited downloads, and it's cheap too.
No.I dont actually get the full 100Mb, but, last time I measured, I got about 40Mb.
Inanimate Carbon Rod
05-09-2005, 08:51 PM
Thats because the Japanese people live in a technological wonderland.
Mediocre, Man.
05-09-2005, 09:02 PM
NetNessie said:
max of 24000k for AU$59.95 p\mo http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Ah! I see from your profile that you live in Adelaide... they're one of the first to benefit from Internode's ADSL2+ service I believe.. is that who you're with?
I cannot wait for that to come available in Brisbane. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif
Steve
05-09-2005, 09:11 PM
I'm on a 2Mbps connection at the moment. But I pay the earth for it - $69.95 a month with a 10GB cap. Supposedly New Zealand has the worst internet plans\pricing in the world. That's what happens when one company owns the phone lines. But I'm NEVER going back to dial up. Never.
DudeMiester
05-09-2005, 09:24 PM
Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Thats because the Japanese people live in a technological wonderland.
w3rd. I wish I had fibre. My entire university only gets 100Mbit to split between the thousands of students.
So paying $45 per month is not so bad. I get 24/7/365 tech support, and there's hardly any downtime, except for network upgrades or power outages (one in a million chance. We've never had a blackout for about 30 years, according to my parents). Would be nice to have a T3 connection, but that would be like an arm and a leg. We don't even sell those here, AFAIK. Only for businesses and governments. No way in hell a home user would use one, even if they are using their own web/gaming server.
Sayantan
05-09-2005, 10:35 PM
Heh ............ what a thread over here.
Seems only like a dream to me. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif :'(
Vroomfondel
05-10-2005, 12:51 AM
Sayantan said:
Heh ............ what a thread over here.
Seems only like a dream to me. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif :'(
Same here. This is how South African internet compares to the rest of the world. (http://www.hellkom.co.za/research/adsl2.htm) http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
shiranui
05-10-2005, 03:05 AM
Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Thats because the Japanese people live in a technological wonderland.
But it comes at a price - just look up and there are unsightly cables everywhere.
Vroomfondel
05-10-2005, 03:09 AM
shiranui said:
Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Thats because the Japanese people live in a technological wonderland.
But it comes at a price - just look up and there are unsightly cables everywhere.
That should be no problem for you, since you don't have eyes on top of your head. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hhg.gif
Kevin Wolff
05-10-2005, 02:23 PM
shiranui said:
Inanimate Carbon Rod said:
Thats because the Japanese people live in a technological wonderland.
But it comes at a price - just look up and there are unsightly cables everywhere.
If they carrry 100Mbps internet, cables are beautiful.
I am getting fiber to the home (september '05), 10 Mbps full duplex + Telephone + TV (Analog and digital) for 50 Euro a month.
Local area speed is even 100 Mbps so we are setting up our own TV and radio station as well as game servers in the neighbourhood now.
Also another competitor is now offering 20 Mbps ADSL (version 2) for 40 Euro a month.
Spain:
I have a 1Mbit/320Kbit ADSL plus all the local and national calls for free (by phone, not VoIP) for 32,90€/month.
They say that for the end of this year will up the download speed to 8Mbit (paying the same).
Here happens the same as UK and other european countries... the national phone company has the grips on all the last mile, so there's no competition and the prices are unofficially fixed across all the ISPs. http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif
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