Internet connections in Europe
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
My connection is metered, although it never used to be. I couldn't tell you what the quotas are though because every time I look for them they change. It used to be 150GB, then 50GB. Now I think it has split into a ratio of peak to off peak usuage.
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Here in Italy, metered connections are really rare. The vast majority of home connections are unlimited 4mbit-down/256kbit-upload DSL lines. Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
You mostly have high-end DSL (flat) or 56k modems (metered). Or (as in case of our company) 2 sucky ISDN lines, because you don't get DSL on optical :(
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My connection is metered, although it never used to be. I couldn't tell you what the quotas are though because every time I look for them they change. It used to be 150GB, then 50GB. Now I think it has split into a ratio of peak to off peak usuage.
Ðavid Wulff Audioscrobbler :: flickr Die Freiheit spielt auf allen Geigen (video)
David Wulff wrote:
My connection is metered, although it never used to be.
"It isn't metered internet," said the Doctor, "it's flat-rate internet with peak-time quotas." "I don't care what you call it," said his sister. "It's a nasty thing to find on your computer. I won't have it in the house!" "But the ISP has promised me," the Doctor answered, "that it won't overcharge anyone. It doesn't have the money to send TCP/IP to Africa all the time. It's cheap and on the whole has excellent uptime. Don't be so fussy." "I tell you I WILL NOT have it installed," said Sarah. "It eats Linux Distributions. If you don't get it replaced this minute I'll -- I'll go and get AOL!" "All right," said the Doctor, "go and get AOL. It can't be used." And he shut down his Red Hat system and went out into the garden. So Sarah Dolittle got AOL and went offline, and the Doctor was left all alone with nobody to IRC with in his Apple family.
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Here in Germany, many DSL users had connections limited to 5 or 10 GB/month (with additional cost when you used more bandwidth) with prices around 10€/month, unlimited connections being only a bit more expensive (20€/month). But the prices dropped quickly, you can get unlimited connections for less than 10€/month now. In fact, I cannot find a provider still offering connections limited by bandwidth. Nearly all people I know have DSL with 1 Mbit/s or more, though I heard rumors that some 56k dialup users are still around and still paying for connection time... DSL seems to be available nearly everywhere now (I'm living in a village with only 500 inhabitants and got it three years ago) except for some cities who had replaced the copper cables with glass fiber. DSL goes from 500 kbit/s to 6 Mbit/s. All other home users (few) use ISDN (64kbit/s) or even slower modems. Cable modems are not common among home users, at least in my area.
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Here in Italy, metered connections are really rare. The vast majority of home connections are unlimited 4mbit-down/256kbit-upload DSL lines. Luca The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance.
56k modem are *only* metered. ISPs offer some time-metered DSL lines, but I think there is only a handful of people still using them... There is also one company that offers fiber optic connection (10 mbit full duplex) flat and metered both, but that costs more than usual DSL lines (that reach even 24mbit-down with ADSL2+). ___________________________________ Tozzi is right: Gaia is getting rid of us. My Blog [ITA] - eMule Server .NET
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I have an unmetered (I need to check that) 2 mbps ADSL connection through Pipex and have had adsl for a number of years without any problems.
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Almost all ADSL lines here in Denmark are un-metered. I have a 4096/768 myself :) - Anders
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Almost everyone has flatrate here. Metered subscriptions are available for some ADSL connections. My 10Mbps subscription is flatrate (~35USD/month), and is soon upgraded to 100/10MBps without extra charge ;P Some statistics for you: http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2649_34225_35526608_1_1_1_1,00.html[^] Cheers, Fredrik
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Out of curiosity, are most home based internet connections in Europe still metered? What is the broadband usage for homes? Or are most of you from Europe just logging in from work? Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I have an unmetered cable 5120/1024 connection. Most providers use an Acceptable Use Policy overhere. Arjan