Worldwide Internet Access Speeds
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
I pay £30 a month for 8Mbps* plus the usual extras - web space, loads of POP3 email accounts, etc. The line is capped at 40GB a month, but if you hit this, you just have to pay for the extra bandwidth used (though I believe this is only enforced if you exceed the 40GB by a serious amount). I also get to claim back some of my monthly costs from my company (as I work from home, so I need the connection to do my job) - currently I get £12.50 back, so, all in all, it works out as about €25/$30. * I am currently on a 2Mbps connection, and am being upgraded to 8Mbps on Friday at no extra cost (though distance from the exchange means I'll probably only get 6-7Mbps). There is also a looming DSL price war in the UK, so I fully expect prices to drop later this year.
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
Currently just 'upgraded' to a 10Mb cable modem connection for £35 a month. Currently, its running at < 1Mb for anything no located on ntl's network, which was not quite what I was looking for. I'll go to 8Mb ADSL if things don't improve, at least my bulldog 2Mb connection was actualy 2Mb for the internet, not NTL's crappy content services. Ryan
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
In SouthEast US, I pay $50/mth for a 3Mb Down/ 256k Up line. BW
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
In SA I found there's no way to get good internet without signing a 2 year contract with some blood sucking ISP. I resorted to using my cellphone's GPRS at R2/MB (1$ US ~ R6.40) It connects at 115Kb/s and I use it as little as possible. you can't forget something you never knew...
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
I pay £13 ($22) per month for 2Mb down/ 512k up, no limits, with Telewest and their service has been pretty good. Much better than NTL! The tigress is here :-D
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
USA - Michigan Cable (Comcast) 8mbps down, 768kbps up $66/month The speed really is there. Especially if I use an app like FlashGet to split downloads into 5-10 connections. Late at night it's not uncommon to get 1.25 MegaBytes/sec.
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
Italy, with my provider (the other ones offer about the same services at the same prices): ADSL, 32.95 Euro/month with the ZyXEL Prestige 660HW[^] router 4 Mbit/s down, 256 Kbit/s up, no limits. As soon as it will become available, they will upgrade my line at 12 Mbit/s down and 1 Mbit/s up with no extra costs. :) ___________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA]
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
Denmark. I live on a little island called Bornholm. Here we can max get a 2048/512 kilobit with no limitations for ~ 65$ monthly. Other places in Denmark, you can get faster connections like 10 Mbit/s / 768 Kbit/s for 75$ monthly. Programming is like Mathematics… you take ONE step at the time! ;-)
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
Here in Mexico, I pay about $55 USD per month for ADSL (1 Mbps down/256 Kbps up).
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix Chihuahua, Mexico
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
In Trivandrum, India, the last connection I used was a 256 Kbps line that cost Rs 55,000 bi-monthly - comes to about USD 610/month. Regards, Nish
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
USD $49.00 per month. Speed: 4 MB/S
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Hi, I am curious to hear from you guys in other countries around the world about your internet access speeds and the costs thereof. I am from South Africa and believe me when it comes to speed and affordability...we are living in the dark ages...I think its a result of years and years of our telecoms provider monopoly. Anyway...for an ADSL connection we pay +- USD70.00 for a 512mb download which is also capped at 1gig per month...when you hit the cap, the spead is reverted back to dialup speed...shocking isnt it !!! Cheers, Craig ** I'd rather try and fail than fail to try ;) **
SA sucks for internet, doesn't it? ;P I was lucky enough to be allowed to hang around my dad's office a lot when we lived there (he worked at SoftNet, an ISP in the Lowveld area) and at the time we had about 256kbit in the office. At home we used dialup and were happy with 2kb/s (we lived on a farm). Nowadays, in the Netherlands, a veritable broadband paradise compared with SA, we pay 30 euros a month for 10mbit down/1mbit up via ADSL2+ (yes, it's capped at 10mbit). We have no data limit (never heard a peep even after heavy downloading, so it seems like not entirely false advertising ;P) and have some useless web space (25mb?) and pop3 boxes we don't use. What's nice is that we also have a fixed IP so I can run a webserver at home. Paul
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In Trivandrum, India, the last connection I used was a 256 Kbps line that cost Rs 55,000 bi-monthly - comes to about USD 610/month. Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
comes to about USD 610/month.
Is that $610.00, $61.00 or $6.10 per month in USD? I sure hope, not $610 :) Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
comes to about USD 610/month.
Is that $610.00, $61.00 or $6.10 per month in USD? I sure hope, not $610 :) Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]
Rocky Moore wrote:
Is that $610.00, $61.00 or $6.10 per month in USD? I sure hope, not $610
That is US $ Six Hundred and Ten :-) 610 dollars and 0 cents. Here in Toronto, I pay CAD$ 50 + tax for a 5 Mbps connection. Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there! -
Rocky Moore wrote:
Is that $610.00, $61.00 or $6.10 per month in USD? I sure hope, not $610
That is US $ Six Hundred and Ten :-) 610 dollars and 0 cents. Here in Toronto, I pay CAD$ 50 + tax for a 5 Mbps connection. Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
The Ultimate Grid - The #1 MFC grid out there!WOW! Even a few years ago, a T1 line would only cost a little more than that ;) Good to be in Canada huh :) Rocky <>< Latest Post: SQL2005 Server Managemnet Studio timeouts! Blog: www.RockyMoore.com/TheCoder/[^]