Well ROFL. Who would have thought that I'd have one of the best connects out of the folks on this board! Let's compare prices, guys...
In US$, I pay about $51/month for my broadband service, but I have splashed out and got the 1GB speed - really great for those big downloads. When I have house guests and they plug their laptop into my router, they're amazed at the download speed. One of my friends described it as "frighteningly fast"! I could have stuck with the 500MB connection (around $39/month) but I was doing some big downloads at the time - Linux etc. - who would have thought only 5 years ago that we could one day download an entire operating system. Back around 2001, I couldn't even download WarBirds3 because of the 2 hour connect time limit, and was having to arse around with download managers.
My three horse town didn't get the telephone exchange broadband enabled until late 2002. The modem that came packaged with my first ADSL deal was priced at £100 ($171 today). And when I first wanted to create a home network, I seem to remember that a multiport router was going for three times that. That's why I went for that %#*& network card! Now, you can pick up a broadband dial up modem brand new for as little as £7. I bought my current 4-port router just recently for around £30.
my com1 serial port has made my connection speed 115.2kbps
Suddenly, I feel young again!
