What's your internet deal?

[Rigoletto]

I am allowed to infest forums on the minimum wage because I have an unmetered account for like 3 hours of the minimum wage a month in the evenings! Pretty good huh! I am English though.
Do you Americans, etc, have such good fortune?

[What I mean is I pay up front every month and don't get call charges]

 

[noxipoo]

i have no idea what you are talking about unmetered minimal wage what?

 

[blurredvisionx]

lol....too funny, and i don't even understand it....i have msn, and they like to charge me $21.95 a month....i had a friend who used to work for the billing dept, though, and if you bitch enough, they will offer you a free month or two to stay with them....i'm serious, try it!!! it's their policy!!!

 

[noxipoo]

not worth it for dialup

 

[pm]

The US has had flat rate fees (one predetermined monthly fee) for local telephone calls for well over 30 years. Coupled with most US ISP's having a local access number (a telephone number that is within the "flat rate area&quot, most Americans have had flat rate Internet access from the very beginning of the Internet. For most people, Internet access costs between US$12 and US$23 per month from an ISP.

Edit: To actually answer the question... I pay $40/month to AT&T@Home for 2.2Mb/s down and 850kb/s up.

 

[ForeverSilky]

I pay $30 a month for 512k cable.

 

[Technonut]

My local ISP charges $18.00 a month for unlimited access. Solid, dependable connection at an average of 45333 bps.

 

[Spoooon]

My first ISP was AOL and Prodigy back when they were both on version 1.0 or so. Talk about suck! I had a 2400 baud modem at the time. We paid I think it was 20 dollars a month for 5-10 hours of use. When we upgraded to a 14.4 modem, I thought I was in heaven! We decided to skip 9600 and wait for super fast 14.4. Those were the days...

 

[BFG10K]

Do you Americans, etc, have such good fortune?

Well I have three totally free ISPs. No charges with unlimited access and no charges for dialing up because it's a local call.

As of yet no advertising either. I have been surfing for free of charge for nine months with no strings attached.

Beat that Mr. English.

 

[GT1999]

I get free net access - period. It's one of the perks for working for an ISP. If we implement wireless sometime in the near future I would get the unit and usage for free.

 

[NforSa]

Over here in Australia we also have flat rate ph. calls (locally)

anyway im paying $54 (thats in AU$$$) / month for 2.5mb satellite access

 

[pm]

NforSA: that's interesting... not to steal the thread, but I don't personally know anyone using satellite and have a few questions. Is it two-way satellite or one-way (D/L from the satellite, U/L through a modem)? If it's two way, what's the U/L bandwidth like? What's the latency like?

 

[Ausm]

I pay 15/month for unlimited 56K connection..


Ausm

 

[snow patrol]

I am paying 39.99 a month (UK Sterling) for unlimited access on 512k ADSL. It's a bit steep, but broadband is only just being rolled out here in good old England, so I'm sure prices will fall. Along with faster access

 

[Pretender]

I know someone who had satelite...it is 1 way (DL faster then upload, of cource). He used a 38,400 bps modem to connect (I'm not sure if this was the speed limit or not) for uploads, and downloads went fast (I'm not sure what the speed was, but I think general satelite speeds are about 400kbps (kilobits, not kilobytes). As for games, as long as most of the traffic was heading downstream I'd guess it wouldn't be too laggy, but for things that require 2 way communication there would be some latency issues.

This was about a yr. and a half ago, and since then I believe 2 way satelite service has started to become slightly popular, although the most common kind is still 1 way.

 

[RagingGuardian]

I find that dial up is a waste of $$$$$. You have to pay for the phone line, the ISP and everytime your modem connects to the web. That costs about $40 or more a month which is good enough for some broadband lovin.

 

[Rigoletto]

Can anyone tell me what the advantage of ADSL is when most servers can't supply data at anywhere near that speed? I don't know much about it I just want someone to tell me from experience, that's all.

 

[Dan]

$39.95/month: 768 Kbps/128 Kbps ADSL

 

[Aybara]

$40/month cable. (Fastest download has been 118 kbps steady for over 50 megs.) Upload is much much slower. I guess this would be 1000k/128k. Of course that speed is only available on a select few ftp sites.

Rigoletto: You didn't say what it was an advantage over. If your comparing to a dial-up, it is well worth your money to upgrade. You get a fraction of a dial-up's ping. Web sites load in 2 seconds. You don't have to dial up (I think so anyways...cable is always on...). While my computer is on, I have an internet connection.

As I said earier, I get a peak around 118 kbps. Where you would get 4 (four) kbps with a dial-up.

 

[Pretender]

<< Can anyone tell me what the advantage of ADSL is when most servers can't supply data at anywhere near that speed? >>

I dunno what decade you're still living in, but all the sites I go to load much faster then when I had dialup.

 

[Narse]

49.95/mo 1.5/256 ADSL, Love it would never go back to dial-up

 

[SSP]

I have Cable for 35 Bucks a month.

 

[glen]

<< Can anyone tell me what the advantage of ADSL is when most servers can't supply data at anywhere near that speed? >>


1. Many do supply data at that speed.
2. You can run multiple downloads.

 

[ForeverSilky]

It costs $50 a month in southern NV for cable. It goes down to $40 if you have cable tv, and $30 if you have your own modem.

 

[Paladinexe]

$39.95 for ADSL. My speeds measure 12xx Kbps at MSN's speed test. Typical downloads in the 100-140 range. Getting those 30+ meg demos is pretty convincing for the extra 20 a month. The ADSL also includes dial-up service for a backup. But...I don't even have a modem in my main system. Multiple downloads are great for saving time.