how do you pay for your internet connection?

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What do you have

  • broadband.

    Votes: 34 94.4%
  • dialup.

    Votes: 2 5.6%

  • Total voters
    36

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how do you pay for your internet connection. I have standard dial up so it costs me 1cent a minute or 19.99 for 25 hours after six. that sucks ass. how do you pay.
 
Broadband.

I don't technically pay for it, my parents do, but I do know the pricing. Right now it's $30 a month for unlimited usage, then after 6 months it's changing to $45 a month for unlimited usage.
 
Well the poll says what do you have and if you would have taken time out of your not so busy schedule you would have noticed that there is a sticky in this area! PLEASE THINK BEFORE YOU SAY ANYTHING! I know your response is gonna be something like "this thread is asking how you pay" Well then why is the poll asking what we have?
 
Because he thought it would be worthwhile having a poll that also asked on different connections.

We originally had 150kb, but according to NTL they pushed it up to 300kb free of charge. My parents pay, I think, about £15. Unlimited.

Anyone know how I can test the speed of my connection?
 
ExigeExcel
Because he thought it would be worthwhile having a poll that also asked on different connections.

We originally had 150kb, but according to NTL they pushed it up to 300kb free of charge. My parents pay, I think, about £15.

Anyone know how I can test the speed of my connection?
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They're upgrading it to 5/384 free of charge in January.
 
I've got Telewest broadband. Just upgraded (free) to 2Mb. £35 per month, no download limit.
 
Broadband. 150kb/s download, 40kb/s upload
Parents pay $26.95/mo. but it will go up to $55/mo, which is still less than what we were paying for AOL dialup.
 
10mbit, about 15-20$ / month, no limits. (included in apartment fee and obligatory, a student housing collective deal)
 
€47/month for 512/128 DSL from Ireland Online (owned by British Telecom).

Apart from that I use the internet at college. Before 9am and after 5pm I can get some seriously fast downloads, sometimes 2Mbytes/sec or more. It's great for downloadling huge files and stuff and burning them to disc on campus and taking it home with me. I downloaded OpenOffice (60Mb) in less than 1 minutes one morning.

gt drifter
how do you pay for your internet connection. I have standard dial up so it costs me 1cent a minute or 19.99 for 25 hours after six. that sucks ass. how do you pay.
Before I got broadband, I had a account with Ireland On Line that was €30 a month for unlimited dialup usage. You should check it out. I think you can get at least unlimited offpeak for €20 a month from some ISPs in Ireland. You should shop around for a far better deal than that. I think that UTV are charging €30 a month for a 256kb DSL connection. But you might not have DSL coverage in Enniscorthy, I don't know.


KM.
 
$36.99 per month unlimited access anytime and I see around 2.6Mps connxn speed. I expense my internet connxn to my company as I'm required to replicate large Lotus notes ( :yuck: ) databases on a daily basis for work purposes, so to all intents and purposes its free! 👍 :)
 
GilesGuthrie
I've got Telewest broadband. Just upgraded (free) to 2Mb. £35 per month, no download limit.
HOLY SHI7 thats 3 times faster that bt broadband and bt broadband is 10 times faster than the best dialup which is what I have so you must be the best surfer where you are and its 3MB and im getting broad band in about 2 months so I get da best broadband in ireland which sucks &ss compared to all your broadband providers except for shannons.
 
KieranMurphy
€47/month for 512/128 DSL from Ireland Online (owned by British Telecom).

Apart from that I use the internet at college. Before 9am and after 5pm I can get some seriously fast downloads, sometimes 2Mbytes/sec or more. It's great for downloadling huge files and stuff and burning them to disc on campus and taking it home with me. I downloaded OpenOffice (60Mb) in less than 1 minutes one morning.

Before I got broadband, I had a account with Ireland On Line that was €30 a month for unlimited dialup usage. You should check it out. I think you can get at least unlimited offpeak for €20 a month from some ISPs in Ireland. You should shop around for a far better deal than that. I think that UTV are charging €30 a month for a 256kb DSL connection. But you might not have DSL coverage in Enniscorthy, I don't know.


KM.
we do and its 19.99 a month (not bad but mum wont trust e'm coz there a tv station) and what colege do you go to?
 
$59 USD a month. Includes digital cable service from Comcast.

3Mb down, 128K up. Unlimited transfer.

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We pay $39.99 as part of some package for having 3 cell phones. I've got a good upload speed compared to others.
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We're currently paying about $40.00/month for our cable connection. Unlimited use and all that good stuff.

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I win. :) ... My uncle works for cablevison (provides optimum online) So we don't have to pay a penny! (not to mention free paperview for TV) :p So beat that...
Thats right, 9mb. 👍
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Cable, 4mbit down and 192 kb up. The upload won't go any faster than 192 kb, but I've experienced download speeds over the 4mbit mark.

It is € 41,95 per month and there is a 10 GB data transfer limit over a 30 day period (includes 1.5 GB for the upload). I'm not happy with the data transfer limit, but the company is paying ...
 
I just have standard Tiscali 512k Broadband here in the UK. I'm looking to go to 1mb in about 2 weeks. It's an extra £15 a month with no limits.
 

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The upload won't go any faster than 192 kb, but I've experienced download speeds over the 4mbit mark.
That might be an artificial reflection of how download speeds are calculated by your browser or FTP software. When I click on a file download link I'm asked where I want to save it. When I find the location and click OK, I find that for a few seconds, I seem to get a download rate faster than my line should be capable of. That's been true for both my old dialup connection and my current DSL connection. I think that browsers start downloading files to a temporary file as soon as you either click on a link or start to browse for a local folder to store them in.

That way when you finally choose a download location and click OK, it's already been downloading for a few seconds before the timer to calculate the speed has started. That way you can either get unrealisitcally high download speeds for small downloads or you'll notice that you've got a very high download rate for a small while until it drops steadily to reflect your true bandwidth. Sometimes you'll notice that your download rate seems to start at something daft like 10Mb/sec before shrinking to something close to your actual bandwidth within a few seconds or minutes.


KM.
 
That is indeed one sweet upload :scared:

Perhaps the download speed was affected by a lot of other incomming traffic into your office.

@ KieranMurphy, I'm sure that you're right, it always slows down and stabilzes . On a connection where the speed is only limited by my cable, it usually starts at 900kB/s and levels out at 700kB/s. But that still is above the 4mbit mark.
 

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