Price Check

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

In Jordan, generally speaking, everything costs way more than it should with respect to your income. So I'm just comparing internet connectivity prices. I have an offer for 2 Mbps WiMax internet (wireless because Orange the monopolistic infrastructure owner here bites hard) with no transfer caps would set me back about $500 USD a year (345 JOD / year) and I would add another $80 USD for each static IP address or $500 USD per subnet of 4 addresses with two being reserved and two usable. So, in my specific case, I'll be coughing up $500USD tomorrow for a year, and because I'm friends with the sales person's brother, he's being a pal and is waiving the base station deposit fee. What do you get for the same amount (equivalent) where you live or how much would it cost to get what I just described?

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AspDotNetDev

I have ClearWire in the US and pay $40/month ($480/year) for a 2Mbps connection (the setup fee was waived because I signed a 2-year contract, which costs about $40 to end prematurely). I could go with Charter to get faster internet that is cable-based, but their customer service sucks big time and ClearWire has the advantage that it is portable (I also got it setup in a matter of minutes when I moved to a new apartment, so I didn't have to wait a week for Charter to stop by and setup stuff). I don't really think it's that terrible of a deal.

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Lost User

I guess WiMax is what drives up the price, fortunately I don't need that. I have ADSL, up to 20Mbit (in practice 7Mbit due to line length), no cap for $120 a year.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

See, if I were to get the land line based 2Mb ADSL line, it would still cost the same, but it would have a cap of 10-15 GB depending on the vendor, and there is an enforced 25% bandwidth capacity upload limit enforced by Orange who are the sole owners of the nation's communication infrastructure (this is a carry over from when it was Jordan Telecom, a wholly owned state corporation, now 45% owned by Orange and the rest "privatized"). In addition to that, you get the worst support by far. I mean, they'll kick you when you're down and then urinate on you, then light you on fire. With a smile.

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Lost User

I pay £180 (less than $250) for an average 4-7Mb line. Service is excellent and faults minimal, if you're in the UK take a look at eclipse[^].

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Yeah, but I'll bet you a whole year's worth of internet, you're making at least 10 times what I'm making here, so for you, ~ $500 is not as big a deal as it is for me (not implying that its nothing, just a smaller fraction of your income is being spent on this).

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AspDotNetDev

Perhaps. What it costs a month is about what I make an hour.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Its quite often that I have to stay up very late at a client's site because the lines from Orange (regardless of the ISP) fail. I'd love to know what uninterruptable internet is (from Orange, where I have office space rented, we're sharing a 4Mb fiber optic connection which is almost 10x more expensive per Mb, but is worth it.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

In my case, almost a day.

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Rajesh R Subramanian

I'm paying about 1700 INR a month for a 4Mbps connection (25 Gig data transfer limit per month). No yearly contracts available with my provider. So, it's about 440 USD a if I calculate it for a year.

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Mike Hankey

The only problem with Clearwire is that if you get in an area that doesn't have decent reception the service sucks big time. That's what happened to me and I was stuck with a 2 year contract...they don't like me I was a pain in there a&*.

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AspDotNetDev

It worked nicely for me because they gave me the modem to test for 48 hours. It worked great (I'm apparently right by a tower) so I signed up. I have a 12-month lease with my apartment, so I figure I'll be covered for a while. And since the setup fee that I saved on was larger than the disconnect fee (though, that's apparently a recent change in their policy), I figure it wouldn't be too bad if I moved to a place that no longer had service.

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Mike Hankey

I live in Florida where everything is high and wages low. I have a package deal with local cable co. for Basic cable (Required for Internet) and Internet for $115/mo so I figure if I split the price between the two it's still $57.50/mo or $690/yr. The only plus is that it is fast.

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Mike Hankey

Agreed in your case it's not such a bad deal. They must have changed policy since I had it some 4 years ago, there was no Try-before-buy. At the time my credit was whacked and I couldn't get anything else so for me it was either them or nothing.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Less for twice the speed but capped. Strange, I would have thought India was even cheaper. Still beats here though.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Any download caps? How fast? Support? I'm betting it beats what I have here by miles.

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Mike Hankey

Haven't had any cap problem and really pushed it...There were 3 of us using it and downloaded videos, music etc. constantly. Have seen it as fast as 2MB/s usually around 800MB/s so yes it is fast. Support...normal. I've had a problem and they say they will investigate but will charge me if it's not there fault so I haven't had them out. Mike

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Dalek Dave

£240 per year. 20Mb unlimited, free hardware.

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Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

Mike Hankey wrote:

800MB/s

:wtf::omg: huh!!!! are you sure its not Mb? MB = Mega Byte, Mb = Mega bit, or did you mean 80? Either way, that still beats the best we have here hands down.

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Lost User

Inflammable urine??!!! :wtf:

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