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Offline bounder

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How much does your DSL cost?
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2003, 03:56:59 PM »
£25 a month with 512 down and 128 up with blueyonder. Not an outage yet (11 months so far).

Some probs with contention ratio during peak times, but not a problem.
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Offline DA98

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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2003, 04:35:54 PM »
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In Holland I'm paying €55 ($59) and get a 2048/256 conx. How come DSL is so expensive in the US?


:eek:  Paying 45€ here in Spain for 256/128. Considering that wages are higher in Holland... I feel ripped! :mad:
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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2003, 04:50:16 PM »
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Originally posted by hblair
I'm still on dialup, was considering going DSL seeings how my new home only has a 26,000 bps (:mad: ) connection. But its 50 clams a month. Is that too much? Sounds like too much too me. Of course I am just a simple redneck country boy..


$50 bucks a month??!! for a dialup connection? I'm from Birmingham, originally (in Houston now), so I'm pretty familiar with Gadsden..didn't think th town was that far back in th woods;)
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Offline mason22

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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2003, 05:03:17 PM »
i think SBC DSL has two options for the home users

39.95 for 128up/768dn

49.95 for 128up/1.5dn

er sumthing like that. (and that's the regular price, they usually have discounts or promotions for signing on for a year).

ps. my ping to HT arenas run 60-70
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Offline Gman

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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2003, 05:13:48 PM »
2.5 mbegabit down, 640 kilobit up for 28.48 USD.

The one true advantage of Canada....cheap adsl.
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« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2003, 05:17:47 PM »
I once used SBCglobal DSL and payed $50 a month, but my residence was at the limit from the closest hub, therefore my connect wasn't as reliable as I would want for the type of money.

I am now paying $40 dollars a month for roadrunner cable and I am quite pleased with it. It has much more bandwidth than the SBC DSL connect.  Very reliable too.

edit, missed that "0", $50 a month for the DSL
« Last Edit: January 31, 2003, 05:51:00 PM by -ammo- »
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« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2003, 06:22:09 PM »
$35 for 384x128kbps (burstable to 1.5Mbps downstream) and 8 static IP addresses.  That's using Hosting.com DSL (ex jump.net) with an IP.net DSL line.  I recently also added RoadRunner to compare with my DSL.  I'm afraid my bargain basement DSL will be going away sometime soon, so I need to find out which will be better to keep in the long run.

Downloading from Giganews, I can pull down files at about 250 KB/sec versus 150 KB/sec with DSL.  But I get 20-30ms faster ping and a noticeably steadier connection to Aces High server.  The DSL almost always has a flatline netstatus, while RoadRunner occasionally has some spikes.

Right now I have a static route set up to AH though the DSL line's NIC and everything else through RoadRunner.  And I have scripts to 'chroute' ;) in case one of the connections go down.  Gotta keep my mission critical surfing and gaming connection up.   :D
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Offline takeda

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« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2003, 06:26:42 PM »
DA, you are forgetting the real kick in the groin: the other 20€ you pay just for the honor of being a client of our beloved still-monopolistic Telefonica, so in fact just 256/128 DSL ends up more like 65€/mo. phone calls not included.

And thats about 5% of my net income which is about the average here.
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2003, 07:42:35 PM »
Hblair,

I have built a few houses in my time, I would check the interior phone wiring in your new house.  If it is the junk phone wiring(7 strand) that most contractors use, you will only get 26,400 bps, because it's not meant for data.  Outside your house is the phone connection box, connect some good data/phone wire(usually 4 strand) to the connection at the box, and connect it to your modem, and try your connection.  The last 2 houses I have we have bought have had the junk phone wiring.  I ran a data/phone wire, and the connection went to 52000 bps.  But now I have cable now and only use the dial-up as a backup.    ;)

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« Reply #24 on: January 31, 2003, 07:45:38 PM »
Rural Earthlink: Two tin cans and string with a transfer rate of 28.8 max (low of 26.6) at $21/month (Wish I had DSL, grumble grumble...)
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« Reply #25 on: January 31, 2003, 10:40:51 PM »
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Originally posted by Gman
2.5 mbegabit down, 640 kilobit up for 28.48 USD.

The one true advantage of Canada....cheap adsl.


thats all you can think of....time to leave Bud...
Ill have to send you out a case of Pipers Pale Ale...all the reason required to be Canadian.
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