Internet speeds, a lil survey.

Valmont · 09-23-2003, 09:40 AM

Here in the Netherlands a 1024/256 ADSL costs about $52 to $80. Without fancy deals that is.
How is this in your country? I have no clue, but I'd like to know.

- Val -

Belisarius · 09-23-2003, 11:02 AM

Cable here is about $50. It's (and this is from rough estimation of my experience) about 300K (that's kilobytes, not bits) download and about 20K upload.

Sat, well I've seen prolonged spikes of 4 Megabits. But it's unreliable, and at times dialup is faster. And they have a stupid "Fair Access Policy" that really limits downloads. That costs about $80, plus the equipment.

Here being upstate NY.

sde · 09-23-2003, 11:33 AM

cable here is $40/mo .. i get about 1.8m down and 160k up.

bdl · 09-23-2003, 06:49 PM

I've had DSL here in Southern California for several years, 768/128 (kbps) and I pay roughly $40. monthly. There have been ups and downs with the service, and I've thought about going cable...have to look into it...especially where I'm at they say I'm pretty much capped at 768 download speed.

CaN Opener · 09-23-2003, 09:22 PM

40$

1800kbs down
512kbs up

go to www.dslreports.com they have a huge amout of info on how mutch around the world broadband is and what thier speed are

Hrqls · 09-24-2003, 06:55 AM

cable in the netherlands can be compared with asdl (in price, although cable is a tidbit cheaper) ...

the speed of asdl here is garanteed while with the cable overhere your speed depends a bit on how many of your neighbours are on cable internet as well ... in cities (and areas where lots of people are on internet via cable) asdl might be faster .. in the countryside cable is faster

bdl · 09-24-2003, 02:11 PM

Well thats it. I have ordered CABLE and am saying goodbye to DSL. Thank you all for inspiring me. =)

sde · 09-24-2003, 02:14 PM

Adelphia, my providor blocks broadcasting on port 80, so i can't run a web server on that port .. that is my only gripe.

bdl · 09-24-2003, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by sde
Adelphia, my providor blocks broadcasting on port 80, so i can't run a web server on that port .. that is my only gripe.

Yeah, I've just ordered Adelphia, and that's part of their user agreement. Fortunately I don't really need to run anything from here anyway.

revolution · 09-24-2003, 05:43 PM

i just left florida and had dsl for 4 years at 1500kbps down, 256kbps up for $45 monthly...moved to phoenix and got cable at 3200kbps down, 260kbps up for $44 monthly

Valmont · 09-24-2003, 06:15 PM

Well, ordered SDSL 3Mb/3Mb today. Operational in December. So it's going to be a cool christmas for me. And an expensive one.
Hmm, we haven't got a "cry" symbol here

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bdl · 09-24-2003, 08:45 PM

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Originally posted by revolution
i just left florida and had dsl for 4 years at 1500kbps down, 256kbps up for $45 monthly...moved to phoenix and got cable at 3200kbps down, 260kbps up for $44 monthly

You make me sick. :p

Eyelfixit · 09-25-2003, 06:55 PM

Cable D.S.L. 40 Can. = about 23 US

bdl · 09-26-2003, 08:01 PM

Well, got cable hooked up today; just fired it up and I'm getting an average of 500kbps, which is about 300kbps less than I got with DSL.

bdl · 09-28-2003, 10:44 AM

Well after having sub-par speeds the last two days, it's finally jumped up to what I would expect, around 1.2mbps. Not bad.