How do you access the internet and how much does it cost you?

Me, I only have unlimited dial-up internet access at $15/month (bundled with the landline phone). I know mine is slow but I really dont need broadband because I seldom do downloads and streaming so dial-up works for me.

What about you people?

I have dialup here for 19.95 a month plus 6% GST. I get 31.2 Kbps max.

lol dialup (now I know why I still create fast loading websites)

mine is a
ADSL 6/1 mbit for 36 euro a month

I have 2* 512/256 lines one for the house and one for the garage :)
they cost £19 each but have a connotation of 1|10 and unlimited downloads, here in the UK you can get very cheap broadband but it nearly always limits the amount you can download to 1 or 2gb a month, I get through that in a day :)

Interesting the download limit, there are here in the netherlands a few cheap offers here doing the same...but most provider offering unlimited downloads or fair use

Damn you Olaf! I used to have a fast connection like that, but since moving to Germany I'll have to cope with 1Mbit down and 128kbps up :( I pay about 20 Euro a month

hehe, maybe the reason why I moved from Germany to the Netherlands, hehe

LOL! They have 4mbit lines available here in town, but since I live too far away from the switching station I'll have to do with 1Mbit...

now im just wondering why the need for so much speed? imagine 4 mbps as compared to my 56 kbps... he he he...

hehe, you know it if you surf the net with a fast connection and you go back to the dialup

yeah i know its fast, plenty of internet cafes here and they are all on broadband.

but i can make do with a 56k if its cheap.

since 30 euro for my connection is paid by my Boss, my connection is cheap too :)

I have had to live with dial-up for about half a year, I was close to hanging myself with the telephone cable but figured it would be a very slow and painful death... Having to work on a dial-up internet connection after being used to broadband is seriously the most frustrating thing I have experienced in my life!

i think my 56k connection is ok by my standards. i can bear with it. but someday, when my Google income increase, i will also upgrade to 700 kbps broadband.


you have a boss olaf? i thought you are a businessman.

Interesting that high speed connections seem to be cheaper in Europe.

I'm on a dial-up account made worse by crummy phone service, so I never get anywhere near the actual connection speed we are actually paying for. We pay $19.99 a month. High speed around here runs $40+ and the lower priced ones are often entry pricing (pricing that goes way up after 6 months at the cheap tempting price) or bundled where you have to already have some other more expensive service  as well.

back here in the Philippines, a 700 kbps broadband connection costs US$21/mo, a 1 mbps at US$31/mo, while a 2 mbps is at US$41/mo. and there is also the 56kbps dialup at US$15/mo.

yep I'm (I have a double life)

I hope thats not the future in Europe... (but you must be happy, AT&T customers have free local phone calls right?)

wow, I remember my first ADSL was arround 50 euro (14 more then now) for a 512/64 connection :D

Strange. Bandwidth in USA is much cheaper than Europe, but still our internet connections are cheaper :)

I have a 2mb ADSL line which costs about 20-30 euro. Thanks to the European commision, our country is keep on upgrading the networks and make prices lower (otherwise I would still have a 11 kbps dial up connection :) )

I'm planning to move to town with a year and will go to DSL and get a faster connection then. This current connection sucks as I can't get Unix distros or anything good that I need to download or upload fast.

we have WIFI spots with every McDonalds restaurant here in the Netherlands :0

Wish that was true here, then I could use my break time to get more work done...LOL

i didnt know there was an 11 kbps.


my connection also comes with free national direct dialing. im only charged for cellphone and international calls.


WhiteEagle big improvement on your site!

which site are you referring to, as I have 4 of them?

Well back in 96 there was :)

i have O2 internet express adsl, 2mbit for something about 400 czech crown/month (about 20$/month)

why do you need two? cant you just setup a network?


thank goodness our providers here didnt think of that download limit thing, they just charge you per minute your online. but what i got is the unmetered dialup.

The garage has my servers, and testing network, the house has the other PC's they actually are connected via a wireless bridge between the 2 networks ;) but are kept on separate subnets. Actually have 3 networks as I have a guest network within the house which sits on the same subnet as the house but runs into an old box running as a captive portal. It just makes life easier when friends come to stay, no need to mess around with settings.

hm...different subnets maybe a way to protect my network for my wife an daughter :)

ventureskills, i can imagine your house like the HQ of CTU in the tv series 24, huh?

A setup like that could still do with just one 'net connection

well, as long as tim can afford it, i think he believes that "we should never place all our eggs in one basket."