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Posted by Thylacine on Mon Oct 24th at 2:28pm 2005

In most countries outside the USA, Cable is only marginally faster than ADSL, and even then that is only in theory.

In reality on cable you are at the mercy of traffic congestion, the more people online, the slower your connection is. ADSL doesnt have this problem.




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Posted by SpoolE on Mon Oct 24th at 3:32pm 2005

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And DSL 512kb, is about $70 per month, which is so expensive, that made them upgrade to what i mentioned earlier


Holy Moly! Thats much cheaper than the ADSLCable in our country, and that gives you about 40/kbs :O





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Posted by rs6 on Mon Oct 24th at 7:16pm 2005

My DSL is $15 a month for a 786 kbps line, $30 for a 3 mbit line.



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Posted by Gaara on Tue Oct 25th at 1:37am 2005

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And DSL 512kb, is about $70 per month, which is so expensive, that made them upgrade to what i mentioned earlier

Holy Moly! Thats much more costly than the ADSL in our country (with tpg), and that gives you about 1500kbs for $50 a month. Unfortunately I am too far out to get it and so I have to stick with dial up .




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Posted by MisterBister on Tue Oct 25th at 1:54pm 2005

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And DSL 512kb, is about $70 per month, which is so expensive, that made them upgrade to what i mentioned earlier

Holy Moly! Thats much more costly than the ADSL in our country (with tpg), and that gives you about 1500kbs for $50 a month. Unfortunately I am too far out to get it and so I have to stick with dial up .



Err, if youre talking about 1500kbit/second, that sounds pretty darn expensive compared to Sweden.

Here we pay about $50 for 8Mbit/second, which is about 1Mbyte/second at maximum.




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Posted by SpoolE on Tue Oct 25th at 2:12pm 2005

[sigh!] Why is every crappy in our country [sigh!] Well, proberly cause' I live in Africa! smiley



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Posted by Biological Component on Tue Oct 25th at 2:14pm 2005

Sweden rocks.



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Posted by Y2kBen_2000 on Tue Oct 25th at 2:24pm 2005

Before, I used to hitch-hike off one of my neighbors conection; that is until they release someone else was on there and encrypted it.

Now I'm on bluw-wireless. Seeing that I live in old-rural, hence so because there's now house everywhere for miles, there is no underground DSL and cable is never going to make it out here. My only option was to get connected to Pannaband and start recieving a 128 kbps signal.

Should've had it installed in a week, wrong. Turned out that I had signed up during the week that blue wireless took them over. I ended up waiting 2-3 months for the people to finally come out and set up my Internet. Couldn't go anywhere else, they were the only ones I could actually get access to.

As it turns out, there are several hundred different wireless Internet providers, they all exist differently based on the area. If you were to look at the bluewireless coverage map, you easily tell what general area of Texas I was in. Seriously, they're that small.

But all in all, 128kbps and due to whether conditions and constant maintenance on their end, the Internet is not always up goes down atleast once a month for a day. What can I say, at least I have some sort of high speed Internet.

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Posted by MisterBister on Tue Oct 25th at 3:29pm 2005

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Sweden rocks.


Word up!


Did i mention that you actually can get 24Mbit/second downwards for $30 if you live close enough to the telestations?




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Posted by SpoolE on Tue Oct 25th at 4:43pm 2005

I worked out that ADSL in our country costs US$ 125 a month! And that gives you +- 56kbs. So expensive, so slow, and capped at 3Gigs.



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