Author Topic: The cost of internet. (Read 10553 times)

Lucerin Red · « **Reply #60 on:** November 04, 2009, 03:55:07 AM »

Price: $50/month
Bandwidth: 20MBPS Down/ 4MBPS up
Location: Lexington, KY, 40502
Cap: NONE

seems I pay a little more than most but get a better deal in terms of bandwidth/$, ahahahah, plus no cap

Slysoft · « **Reply #61 on:** November 05, 2009, 12:27:20 AM »

With my new N router my rates got a nice boost...

NaRu · « **Reply #62 on:** November 09, 2009, 05:20:37 AM »

Price: $120/Month
Bandwidth: 25Mbps/5Mbps
Location: Wallingford, CT
Cap: None
ISP: Comcast Business

daley · « **Reply #63 on:** November 09, 2009, 05:34:20 AM »

Price: $69.95 monthly
Bandwith: ADSL2/2+ Speeds up to 24,000 kbps / i dunno maybe 1.5Mbps.
Location: Australia
Cap: 22GB Peak (between 12pm-2am) 30GB (off peak 2am-12pm)
ISP: Iinet

namaiki · « **Reply #64 on:** November 09, 2009, 03:27:29 PM »

Price: $69.95, or was it $79.95..
Bandwith: Down of up to 1MB/s, up of about 20KB/s...
Location: Australia...
Cap: 20GB Peak (between 12pm-12am) 40GB (off peak 12am-12pm)
ISP: Optus

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #65 on:** November 09, 2009, 03:37:11 PM »

Wtf is up with Australian ISPs? I thought Comcast's 250GB cap was bad.

Drew · « **Reply #66 on:** November 09, 2009, 09:53:01 PM »

Quote from: sdedalus83 on November 09, 2009, 03:37:11 PM

Wtf is up with Australian ISPs? I thought Comcast's 250GB cap was bad.

No kidding.

20GB? Jesus.

daley · « **Reply #67 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:13:48 PM »

Quote from: Drew on November 09, 2009, 09:53:01 PM

Quote from: sdedalus83 on November 09, 2009, 03:37:11 PM
Wtf is up with Australian ISPs? I thought Comcast's 250GB cap was bad.
No kidding.

20GB? Jesus.

agreed! and not to mention the peak times are shit! if you have 2 super geeks in the house (like my sister and myself) you hit 20Gb hell easy. within normally 2 weeks of reset.

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #68 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:18:28 PM »

2 weeks? If you maxed your connection it would take a few hours.

daley · « **Reply #69 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:22:20 PM »

2 weeks is us being good :~)

Azn drama, game updates and anime. Bahaha the house of girl geek.

edited: for spelling

namaiki · « **Reply #70 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:35:00 PM »

Quote from: daley on November 09, 2009, 11:22:20 PM

2 weeks is us being good :~)

So, it's not just my house like this.

daley · « **Reply #71 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:47:02 PM »

Quote from: namaiki on November 09, 2009, 11:35:00 PM

Quote from: daley on November 09, 2009, 11:22:20 PM
2 weeks is us being good :~)
So, it's not just my house like this.

not at all!@

optus is a fucking ripp tho. Come over to iinet!@

Eiyu · « **Reply #72 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:48:50 PM »

Quote from: sdedalus83 on November 09, 2009, 03:37:11 PM

Wtf is up with Australian ISPs? I thought Comcast's 250GB cap was bad.

You want to know how Bad Canadian ISP are ?
Rogers introduces DOCSIS 3.0 based service (upto 50Mbps down and upto 2.0 up) at a monthly rate of $150 and with a cap of 175 GB
With their wording Upto they can actually throttle us and not actually provide us with what we are paying for. (This is already taking place some area of GTA and yet they still tries to push people to upgrade to higher speeds)

In short Canada has shitty ISP who won't want to upgrade the current infrastructure and believes are our
Internet Speeds are up there with other developed nation.

namaiki · « **Reply #73 on:** November 09, 2009, 11:59:29 PM »

I've been considering, but the thing is, if I switch over to another company (ie TPG ADSL), I apparently need to get another phone line installed.. something about a something loop..

edit: lol Australia's still worse, I think we're talking 20Mbps down and shit all up..

edit2: I dunno.. sighs//

daley · « **Reply #74 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:01:27 AM »

yeah i know my down speed is OKAY at best but my upload is complete crap. I have no idea what the iinet broadband 2 speed is up but it must be slow.

edit: and what crap are they telling you about installing another phoneline? why would u have to do that

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #75 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:05:37 AM »

Quote from: namaiki on November 09, 2009, 11:59:29 PM

edit: lol Australia's still worse, I think we're talking 20Mbps down and shit all up..

I'd much rather have a 6/1 line with no cap than a 20/2 line with a 50GB cap.

Shit, I used to do 400GB/month with my 1.5/.8 3G service. Then Sprint gutted it(it's now about .3/.05) and capped it at 5GB.

namaiki · « **Reply #76 on:** November 10, 2009, 12:07:25 AM »

Quote from: daley on November 10, 2009, 12:01:27 AM

edit: and what crap are they telling you about installing another phoneline? why would u have to do that

I have no idea.. I called TPG and Exetel a few months back and same thing from both of them..

edit: above emoticon appears to be a little inappropriate

ReyBrujo · « **Reply #77 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:38:25 AM »

Ugh, how do you get these plans with huge uploads?

I pay around USD 20 for 3MB/.5MB (was paying USD60 for 1MB/.25MB). After the offer expires I will be paying around USD 50. Hopefully I will be able to upgrade to a 5MB plan soon.

sdedalus83 · « **Reply #78 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:48:09 AM »

Australian broadband: pumping data like it's 1999.

Gamerzhell · « **Reply #79 on:** November 10, 2009, 03:50:38 AM »

Quote from: daley on November 10, 2009, 12:01:27 AM

yeah i know my down speed is OKAY at best but my upload is complete crap. I have no idea what the iinet broadband 2 speed is up but it must be slow.

edit: and what crap are they telling you about installing another phoneline? why would u have to do that

ADSL2+ upload speed is 1 mbps (only hits around 100 kb/s though)
ADSL2+ M upload is 3 mbps, only ISPs in australia which support this are adam and internode i think.

another thing, don't go TPG if you value your gaming experience (any servers outside of australia will give you really really really bad pings, even in australia they're terrible)