ISP pricing

Roger Allen

OK, at the office we have a leased ISDN line (I think), which is shared between all the employees. But as the software group is about the only people who use the internet, that limits it down to 5 (except for out e-mail which goes once/30 mins). Not sure of the cost. But I get to use it for free :-D At home I have a dial-up ISP connection with Demon internet at £17/month. Its a waste of money at the moment, as I dont get to use my home PC. But if I do connect I get about 45kbs. I do use the work connection to play the odd game of counter-strike :-D :-D :-D Roger Allen Sonork 100.10016 If I had a quote, it would be a very good one.

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$75 /month for digital cable, including cable modem and cable tv.

benjymous

I pay about £15 / month ( $20 US ish ) for unlimited 512kbit cable broadband in the Uk, which I share between 2 PCs (and any other computers I have hooked into the router at the time) I don't know how I'd cope if they introduced any kind of bandwidth quota -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

Jon Sagara

$35US/month for cable modem. No data transfer limit. Dynamic IP. Free email account w/ 10 MB web space. Jon Sagara "Did you bring the butfor?" "What's a butfor?" "To poop with, silly."

Lost User

Work: 4 channels (256k) of a T1 for about $350/mo. Shared via a proxy server to over 50 PCs. Unlimited data transfer. Home: 1.5Mb/sec DL & .5Mb/sec UL via cable modem for $50/mo. Shared via SMC Barricade router/switch to 4 PCs. Includes 10Mb of web space and up to 5 e-mailboxes. Unlimited data transfer. If my cable company (AT&T) ever institutes a transfer limit or start charging per MB, I will hunt down their corporate officers and torture them until they cease and desist. :mad: :mad: Mike Mullikin "Thank you America, every night I see increasingly stupid things happening here in Australia. Then you come along and top it." - Michael Martin - The Lounge :bob:

Josh Knox

$39.99/month for cable TV and internet. All the bandwidth I want... :cool: Josh Knox that-guy.net

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Jeremy Falcon

My Internet connection is free. It's a dial-up but I don't d/l huge files, so it's not big deal for me. I used to tech-support an ISP and they let me have an account for life. It's the least they could do because if you have ever done tech support -- it sucks. Jeremy L. Falcon "You do not know the power of the dumb side." Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants momentarily?

Roger Wright

I'm not being too badly overcharged - USD 20 for 2Mbps, unlimited. But I recently did a little favor for the ISP, so the next five months are free:-D

Jeremy Falcon

Roger Wright wrote: But I recently did a little favor for the ISP Lemme guess Chuck, you kicked the arses of their competitors? Jeremy L. Falcon "You do not know the power of the dumb side." Homepage : Sonork = 100.16311
Maybe my mangling might misguide malicious miscreants momentarily?

Roger Wright

Jeremy Falcon wrote: you kicked the arses of their competitors? Not exactly:-D I repaired his misbehaving access point, restoring service to a bunch of customers (most importantly, myself) and saving him a second trip across the river on a rainy Sunday afternoon. The timing was perfect, it being the only significant rain that afternoon we've had in a year :laugh:

Cathy

For the first 6 months I pay $20 a month for the AT&T cable modem after that it goes up to about $45. Astound is offering it for $35. I don't think I signed a contract so I'm thinking about switching at the end of 6 months. I'm a little scared though. I'd loose my email address and I'd have to redo my website. I like AT&T's service. What if Astound's service sucks? Is anyone else using the Astound service? Any insight would be appreciated. :confused: Cathy Life's uncertain, have dessert first!

Roger Wright

Cathy wrote: and I'd have to redo my website Don't you keep a copy on your home PC? It shouldn't be too much hassle to rehost it, if you do. If not, fire up your PWS or IIS and transfer a copy of the whole site there as a backup and working copy.

Cathy

I used their template stuff. I don't think it would be transferable. I'll try. It's only $10 a month. Is it worth it? Cathy Life's uncertain, have dessert first!

Giles

Not sure what it is at work, but I've seen it download numerous files pretty quick. VS6 SP5, comes down in about 15 seconds. At home 56K dialup. Guess where I do my downloading, stricktly business only.:-D

Roger Wright

Cathy wrote: I used their template stuff. That may be a problem, especially if they're using a lot of server-side stuff you can't steal. But you can save each page in your inetpub/wwwroot folder and manually patch the links. Tedious, yes, but it can be done more easily than rebuilding from scratch. Cathy wrote: It's only $10 a month. Is it worth it? That's up to you. If you don't have a domain registered, I think Yahoo's geocities still offers webhosting for free. If you do, or want to register a domain, check out ReadyHosting.com. They charge $99/year, provide 500MB of space, unlimited email addresses and aliases, and if you register a new domain through them, they renew your registration for free as long as you still maintain a site on their system.

David Cunningham

It appears I'm on the same package as Josh. Oh and that's C$, so like $27/mo. David http://www.dundas.com

peterchen

Can't you use any of these webleech? The most basic option would be the "Make available offline" of IE. This one won't work with server-side scripts (rather it does work, but not for you ;) - but there might be others that do. Of course, there's the legal problem of using their templates graphics layout etc. for your site.

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