Topic: How do you access the internet and how much does it cost you? (Read 2105 times)
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« on: Apr 18, 2007, 02:13:25 AM »
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?
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« Reply #3 on: Apr 18, 2007, 10:40:06 AM »
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
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« Reply #4 on: Apr 18, 2007, 10:47:36 AM »
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
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« Reply #5 on: Apr 18, 2007, 01:41:19 PM »
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
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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
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« Reply #12 on: Apr 18, 2007, 06:00:59 PM »
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!
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« Reply #13 on: Apr 18, 2007, 06:07:52 PM »
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.
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since 30 euro for my connection is paid by my Boss, my connection is cheap too
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« Reply #14 on: Apr 18, 2007, 06:10:20 PM »
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.
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« Reply #15 on: Apr 18, 2007, 06:20:13 PM »
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.
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.
I hope thats not the future in Europe... (but you must be happy, AT&T customers have free local phone calls right?)
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.
wow, I remember my first ADSL was arround 50 euro (14 more then now) for a 512/64 connection
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« Reply #19 on: Apr 18, 2007, 09:04:49 PM »
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 )