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Title: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: McNorris on April 27, 2005, 04:36:24 AM

Just Wondering...

In SLC, UT, USA

Cable 40 USD
DLS   40 USD (ISP and DSL)

Anything else and it just goes up!
And 40 bucks seems like too much.

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: T_Bone on April 27, 2005, 09:13:27 AM

about the same here, and all around Raleigh, NC

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: on April 27, 2005, 03:45:47 PM

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McNorris wrote:
Just Wondering...

In SLC, UT, USA

Cable 40 USD
DLS   40 USD (ISP and DSL)

Anything else and it just goes up!
And 40 bucks seems like too much.

£37.99 for a 3MB Cable line from NTL.

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: McNorris on April 28, 2005, 02:49:08 AM

@mdma

Damn, 40 pounds is a lot, considering the value of a pound.

@T-Bone

$40 seems a lot for Raleigh. Last I was there it was a great deal bigger than SLC. (And Beautiful, even more so)

Maybe 40 is just the magic number of what people will pay.

However in Seoul, South Korea it is FAR cheaper... Adjusted for cost of living, etc... It's around twenty USD.

And get this my Brother-In-Law has never heard of useing a 56K or less modem with a computer. Hell, Korean Air is about to put internet access on all flights.

I talked to him and then thought the $40 I was paying was a rip-off.

Thanks fellows, we're all getting ripped off. :lol:

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: Darklight on April 28, 2005, 02:14:28 PM

$50 AUD for 1.5 down / 256k up w/ 20gb downloads here. (ADSL)   :-(  1.5mb is the fastest widely available DSL speed here.  One of the national ISP's has launched "8mb ADSL" with speeds quoted as "from 1.5mb up to 8mb", but it's not widely available.  So count yourself lucky you can actually get fast ADSL   :lol:  :-P

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: T_Bone on April 28, 2005, 04:17:53 PM

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McNorris wrote:
@T-Bone

$40 seems a lot for Raleigh.

Time Warner might be cheaper (it's faster and better too, and has better usenet access), but out here in the styx we have to settle for Charter.

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: adz on April 29, 2005, 02:48:34 AM

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Darklight wrote:
$50 AUD for 1.5 down / 256k up w/ 20gb downloads here. (ADSL)   :-(  1.5mb is the fastest widely available DSL speed here.  One of the national ISP's has launched "8mb ADSL" with speeds quoted as "from 1.5mb up to 8mb", but it's not widely available.  So count yourself lucky you can actually get fast ADSL   :lol:  :-P

I'm pretty happy with Optus Cable, 10mbps down, 128kbps up and 12GB/month for AU$65. Bigpond just removed all speed caps on their cable plans, so hopefully Optus will follow suit.

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: whabang on April 29, 2005, 11:45:46 AM

10 Mbit down, 1 up, 395 SEK / mo., no caps.

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: asian1 on April 29, 2005, 04:42:28 PM

In South Korea they provide 50 Mbps for home users.
In France it's 20 Mbps.
In Taiwan, the local government provide free Wifi access.

Unfortunately most broadband ISP put a cap on the download limit (1 GigaBytes/less / month).

I use 128 Kbps line, but I can download up to 30 Gigabytes / month.

BBC Clickonline show about the Broadband service:

http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickonline.asp?pageid=665&co_pageid=2

Title: Re: How much money for high speed in your locale?
Post by: whabang on April 29, 2005, 11:04:11 PM

I'll get a 100 Mbit bi-dir this summer (hopefully).