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Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: hblair on January 31, 2003, 02:34:04 PM: 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..
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: K98k on January 31, 2003, 02:38:10 PM: I heard BellSouth was offering DSL at 24.00 a month for a year contract, but never looked into it. got comcast cable and recently started thinking about going back to dial-up. cable cost just too much for the amount of DL's I do.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Curval on January 31, 2003, 02:42:26 PM: I'm the wrong person to be answering this question...but it will at least give you an idea as to how lucky you are in the US/Europe with respect to DSL servive.

I pay $99 a month for unlimited use of a 256k (up and down) DSL line. BUT...this is because I get the bandwidth as a perk in the office. If I was a regular "Joe off the street" user I would have to pay another $99 a month for the bandwidth which would only be 128 up and down. $198 per month:eek:

(the $99/month I pay includes the monthly telephone line fee and all local telephone calls)
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: capt. apathy on January 31, 2003, 02:45:42 PM: it was 49.oo when I was on msn. tech support sucked, and it would go out often (usually you would just have to re-configure your conection every couple weeks. sometimes it was out for a couple days though).

now I'm paying 49.99 for cable. no problems, have had it for 4 months, never needed to call support. much faster than the DSL was too (benchmark sites show it to be slightly better than expected t1 speeds)
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Russian on January 31, 2003, 02:47:04 PM: 50$/month with SBCGLOBAL (150kb down/15up (poor phone lines in area))
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: miko2d on January 31, 2003, 02:48:54 PM: Its $50 or about so. Had some trouble for a few months before they balanced the line to make it work reliably.
Why don't you share a single line with some neighbour(s) via wireless access?

miko
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: midnight Target on January 31, 2003, 02:53:13 PM: $49 Verizon. Great service so far and almost never been down.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: hblair on January 31, 2003, 03:00:08 PM: Looks like 50 bucks a month is about average huh. Great idea miko, haven't thought of that.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Mox on January 31, 2003, 03:00:15 PM: About $70 a month with all the taxes etc.
768 down 256 up
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Swoop on January 31, 2003, 03:11:04 PM: Wow.

In Holland I'm paying €55 ($59) and get a 2048/256 conx. How come DSL is so expensive in the US?

Seems like Curv's $99 for 1/8th the download bandwidth I get is superhighway robbery.

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Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Vulcan on January 31, 2003, 03:20:15 PM: NZ works out at around US$25 a month for 128/128k with a capped usage of 10Gb. You can hook up a second account for $12 and get another 10Gb if you're a leecher.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: hazed- on January 31, 2003, 03:20:16 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Swoop
Wow.

In Holland I'm paying €55 ($59) and get a 2048/256 conx. How come DSL is so expensive in the US?

Seems like Curv's $99 for 1/8th the download bandwidth I get is superhighway robbery.

(http://image1ex.villagephotos.com/extern/640697.jpg)

Im in UK and pay £29.99 which id guess is around $50 but i do not get free local calls or telephone equipment.The modem was compulsery and cost £150 (instalation cost not to pay for ownership of the modem!) and its rental is included in the monthly fee.

BT are a bunch of bastards :D

maybe the cost in the US is due to the distances involved?
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: ramzey on January 31, 2003, 03:23:19 PM: 18$ for 128 Kb, but its only thery, 10-20 % package lost, somtimes work , somtimes not.
Ping to AH 230- 500 at day, 150-180 after midnight.
Somtimes 900 ms jump at first gate

ramzey
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Heater on January 31, 2003, 03:36:59 PM: I pay 120 € per month for 8 Mbit down Stream and 512K bit up stream. to date not a single problem with it and pings to HTC are 120-130 ms over 10 hops
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Makofan on January 31, 2003, 03:48:40 PM: $39.95/month Cdn Dollar (about $25 US)
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: bounder 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.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: DA98 on January 31, 2003, 04:35:54 PM: Quote
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:
Title: Re: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: slimm50 on January 31, 2003, 04:50:16 PM: Quote
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;)
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: mason22 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
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Gman 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.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: -ammo- 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
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Sancho 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
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: takeda 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.
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Thorns 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. ;)

Thorns
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Ripsnort 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...)
Title: How much does your DSL cost?
Post by: Pongo on January 31, 2003, 10:40:51 PM: Quote
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.