Broadband speeds.

[Jimmyjammer]

Just curious about broadband speeds and prices in America.

Broadband (whether cable, DSL etc etc) where I'm from is highly expensive (USD$60 a month) and is also capped in terms of bandwidth AND download limit. So you're given a quota of about 3 gig per month and if you go over that you pay per MB.

Now, my questions are as follows:

1) Do most broadband providers in the big cities of the US give you unlimited downloads for a set fee?
2) Why do they all state speeds in terms like 735KB when most people talk in kilobytes rather than kilobits. I keep having to divide by 8 to see if it's any good!
3) Is it possible to pay something in the region of $40 a month and have unlimited downloads at speeds of around 60kilobytes a sec?

If all the above is true/correct....how do you guys not spend all your time downloading things?!

God, if Kazaa downloaded like that for me I'd have every bit of software or MP3 I could ever want....You see I'm still on 56K for about Us$25 a month. Sucks.

 

[klah]

It seems most providers offer 1500/256Kb (190/30KB) for $40-50/month with no cap on bandwidth usage.

 

[Jimmyjammer]

Originally posted by: klah
It seems most providers offer 1500/256 for $40-50/month with no cap on bandwidth usage.

So that's about 187K a sec in real terms?

Wow.

 

[MacBaine]

Yeah, what klah said is pretty accurate. I am getting 1500/~400 for $50/month with no cap.

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Jimmyjammer

If all the above is true/correct....how do you guys not spend all your time downloading things?!

Didn't you see that thread where everyone was complainging that their 320GB of drive space was full?

 

[Nohr]

I'm in Texas and pay $45 a month for cable modem access. 1024/128, no download limits. Maxes out at about 120KB/s down and 15KB/s up. I get charged $10 a month for renting the modem from them (plan on buying one shortly) so it'd actually be $35 if you had your own.

 

[Jimmyjammer]

Sickening....being stuck on 56K is such a killer.

God, you guys could just see an ad on TV for some album and then have it downloaded in about 5 mins!!!

 

[klah]

Originally posted by: Jimmyjammer
Sickening....being stuck on 56K is such a killer.

God, you guys could just see an ad on TV for some album and then have it downloaded in about 5 mins!!!

But that would be stealing!!!

 

[Jimmyjammer]

But that would be stealing!!!

Yeah but stealing at that speed isn't a crime, it's a luxury !!

 

[Kaervak]

I've got cable provided by Adelphia at $40.00 a month. No known download limit, no known download speed limit. I usually transfer at 300+ KB. My upload is capped at 128k. It's nice, when I fist got it in April of 2k1 I was completely amazed at the speed. Now it's almost like normal transfers. Still would suck horribly if I had to go back to dial-up.

 

[Yomicron]

I have Cox cable for $45/mo, 3000k/300k connection and no download caps.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Speedtest on Bellsouth ADSL comes down at 1.23Mbps. Not too shabby...

 

[LOLyourFace]

Attbi.
$42 a month, 1.5Mbits down, 300k up (capped exactly at 35k per sec)

I couldn't be any happier. I Love it.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
Attbi.
$42 a month, 1.5Mbits down, 300k up (capped exactly at 35k per sec)

I couldn't be any happier. I Love it.

Thank goodness attbi does not have a bandwith cap. I would blow it to pieves every day. I download a good 2-4 gb per night from newsgroups.

 

[MacBaine]

In Soviet Russia, Internet logs on to you! Wait... That's SBC Yahoo DSL

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
Attbi.
$42 a month, 1.5Mbits down, 300k up (capped exactly at 35k per sec)

I couldn't be any happier. I Love it.

Thank goodness attbi does not have a bandwith cap. I would blow it to pieves every day. I download a good 2-4 gb per night from newsgroups.

:Q I usually do a few gigs a MONTH. Although when I first got my cable, I did a few gigs in a few hours.

 

[N8Magic]

You should live in Canada.

My current service is 3400Kb down and 800Kb up with no cap for $49.95 a month. ($31.56USD/mo)

 

[StrongBad]

I have $45 Road Runner in New York...

Here is a NYC Speak-easy report:
2002-11-17 23:40:56 EST: 1940 / 367
Your download speed : 1940227 bps, or 1940 kbps.
A 236.8 KB/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 367804 bps, or 367 kbps.
Seems like broadband .. above the 1mbit barrier!

bandwidthplace.com says:
2.2 megabits per second

I couldn't live without broadband!

 

[rh71]

To answer your 1,2,3 questions at the same time: move to NY, NJ, CT and get Optimum Online. It's ~$40 for unmetered/unlimited bandwidth (I've double checked this) and also the fastest in North America (by fact). One of those other threads around ATOT asked us to do a speed test. I got 3.206Mbps. If you don't want to do the math, that's ludicrous speed on an at-home cable connection.

Originally posted by: Jimmyjammer
Just curious about broadband speeds and prices in America.

Broadband (whether cable, DSL etc etc) where I'm from is highly expensive (USD$60 a month) and is also capped in terms of bandwidth AND download limit. So you're given a quota of about 3 gig per month and if you go over that you pay per MB.

Now, my questions are as follows:

1) Do most broadband providers in the big cities of the US give you unlimited downloads for a set fee?
2) Why do they all state speeds in terms like 735KB when most people talk in kilobytes rather than kilobits. I keep having to divide by 8 to see if it's any good!
3) Is it possible to pay something in the region of $40 a month and have unlimited downloads at speeds of around 60kilobytes a sec?

If all the above is true/correct....how do you guys not spend all your time downloading things?!

God, if Kazaa downloaded like that for me I'd have every bit of software or MP3 I could ever want....You see I'm still on 56K for about Us$25 a month. Sucks.

 

[Eli]

Well, until friday.. I had 1500k/256k for 49.99/mo (including modem rental) from ATTBI. I almost always get the rated ~180k/sec or so download, and always get the ~30k/sec upload. Just depends on the source.

No limit.. I would transfer between 3-4gb/week.

Right now I'm on a 28.8k modem until I can get the bill paid. In 17 hours and 40 minutes, I've downloaded 38,740,800 bytes, and uploaded 9,246,500 bytes. That's just surfing the forums/ebay.

 

[djheater]

Originally posted by: rh71


God, if Kazaa downloaded like that for me I'd have every bit of software or MP3 I could ever want....You see I'm still on 56K for about Us$25 a month. Sucks.

[/quote]

You are posting at a forum for tech geeks who often spend 8-10 hours (average... I know we've all topped that at one time or another) a day directly in front of the monitor... I've considered a bucket quite often.

Probably 85% or more of all broadband users have no idea how to download warez and I'd bet greater than 50% have no idea how to download mp3's. all of us do, and all our geek friends do but that's not everybody.

what I'm trying to say is there are plenty of middle-upper class people out there paying for the service we are abusing... Our huge middle class is paying for a service they don't understand because people are telling them they should and we the geeks are currently living off the fat. We hope and pray it will continue.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: rh71


God, if Kazaa downloaded like that for me I'd have every bit of software or MP3 I could ever want....You see I'm still on 56K for about Us$25 a month. Sucks.

You are posting at a forum for tech geeks who often spend 8-10 hours (average... I know we've all topped that at one time or another) a day directly in front of the monitor... I've considered a bucket quite often.

Probably 85% or more of all broadband users have no idea how to download warez and I'd bet greater than 50% have no idea how to download mp3's. all of us do, and all our geek friends do but that's not everybody.

what I'm trying to say is there are plenty of middle-upper class people out there paying for the service we are abusing... Our huge middle class is paying for a service they don't understand because people are telling them they should and we the geeks are currently living off the fat. We hope and pray it will continue.

[/quote]

Fix your quoting.. I didn't say what you quoted me saying.