What are you paying for internet?

[kc7jty]

IP Time Warner Road Runner light is costing me $30/mo. Was doing well till a few months ago, now is getting slower by the week. First it was youtube stopping to catch up, now the picture downloads are looking more like dial up than cable broadband.
Talked to them today and was told "basic" is $40/mo.
How much is DSL? Is it faster than download .74 mbps, upload .12 mbps?

[W3WN]

Depends on your local telephone company. And DSL has it's limitations as well.

But I've been quite happy since we switched to FiOS a few years back. Initially it cost about $10 a month less than DSL. With the phone / internet / TV bundle we have now, I'm paying about half of what we used to. (Adding TV to the bundle once it became available in the area was less than half of what we were paying per month to DirecTV)

[kc7jty]

Tnx Ron. Verizon always told me DSL was not available here for over 8 years now. The company name is now Frontier, I'll have to call them and see what's up.
I think TV is a waste of money since almost all I watch is PBS which I have 7 channels here on the air antenna.
Having to ante up $40 or higher for decent internet is a rip.

[K7SGJ]

We just changed from earthlink, who uses qwest facilities out here. EL was about $40 p/m for a 1mbps dn and .8xx up. Qwest is about the same for 12 dn and .8xx up/ However, qwest has a special for 6 months. You can order up to 40 dn and 20 up for 19.99 + the regular monthly dialup that runs 13 or so. We had the 20 dn 10 up for awhile, but couldn't get much better than 14 dn and 7 up at our house. Ended up up just having it changed to the 12 dn .8xx up. Works well enough for streaming video. We had 5 and 7 for awhile and they seemed to do okay with a little halting while buffering from time to time. We will stay with the 12 since that does the video glitch free even with a few boxes others online as well. As I said, we are in a rural area, and outside of Hughes, Sky Net, or some other earth station, everything else out here has to use qwest infastructure.

[NA4BH]

Around 39.00 for 5 mbps down. Cable.

[kc7jty]

Rural here too. That's why no DSL available. Will have to ask how fast the $40 Road Runner is.

[PA5COR]

ADSL2 20 Mb up 1 Mb down, stable and fast for 30 Euro's a month including phone costs.
We can get the 100 Mb up/20 Mb down for 50 Euro's, ( glass fiber) but this is fast enough for us.

[W3MIV]

I have FiOS here. I get a single bill from Verizon that includes everything but a daily dishwashing fee (internet, TV with three HD boxes, three cell phones, high-speed cell modem with 6GB monthly bandwidth, hard-line fax and God-only-knows-what-else they may be burying in the bill's dozen or so pages). I think the internet portion is $50 or $60 for 32 down and 3 up. The actual performance varies -- I have gotten as high as forty down, and sometimes less than twenty.

Hard-and-Fast Internet Provider Rule Numero Uno -------------> The lower the density of potential clients on any particular line, the poorer the service and higher the cost will be. You are paying the "Idaho Premium" -- the FCC has been howling at the moon about rural broadband for quite some time (remember the BPL brouhaha?), but unless and until providers see some real profit potential (read density) you guys out there in ex-urban and rural locations are going to continue to suffer hind tit.

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

I agree on the density thing.
Out in the country we had a single line phone that was $70 a month.
There was a tube type amplifier in a box under the counter that made things work.
Now that the land has become developed things have changed.
We have city water and sewer and phone and electricity and roads, the whole bit.
They have a HOA that we are excluded from but are in the gated area.
Internet is free along with some other services.

[kf0rt]

ADSL2 20 Mb up 1 Mb down, stable and fast for 30 Euro's a month including phone costs.
We can get the 100 Mb up/20 Mb down for 50 Euro's, ( glass fiber) but this is fast enough for us.

Shouldn't that be 20 down and 1 up?

On Comcast here. It's a bundle deal, so they don't split it out on the bill, but it's probably about $50 for 20 down and 3 up, cable. Bill is about $185 for Inet, VOIP telephone (free LD with all the bells & whistles) and HDTV with one DVR.

[N2CHX]

Time Warner here and we pay I think $40 for 15 down and 1.5 up.

[PA5COR]

Ummm, Yes...
:)

Was just ogling my new tuner, MFJ intellituner 998 1.5 kW

Got mixed up in between doing 2 things..

( Must remember, i cannot multitask :wall: )


Shouldn't that be 20 down and 1 up?

On Comcast here. It's a bundle deal, so they don't split it out on the bill, but it's probably about $50 for 20 down and 3 up, cable. Bill is about $185 for Inet, VOIP telephone (free LD with all the bells & whistles) and HDTV with one DVR.

[w3bny]

I have to do hughesnet...I get boned and didnt even get din-din a bottle of wine or the reach around

[NQ6U]

I'm not paying jack. I tapped into my next door neighbor's lines.

[w3bny]

I'm not paying jack. I tapped into my next door neighbor's lines.

Yeah...there are a few open/non secure G/N ports in my hood... Havent done it yet.

[ka8ncr]

I have a TV/internet bundle for $89 a month from Charter. 16/2 megabits internet, and expanded basic cable with HD.

I was paying $165 a month for DirecTV and the same level of cable internet. Bundling has worked out well, and the internet service has always been very good. The TV service hasn't been too bad either.

[kc7jty]

Just snared an upgrade special for $40/mo.
"Standard with Power Boost - 7 Mbit/s/512 kbit/s (bursts: 10 Mbit/s/512 kbit/s)"
Still a rip, but I hope I can play poker now without getting disconnected from the game.

[NQ6U]

Yeah...there are a few open/non secure G/N ports in my hood... Havent done it yet.

No, I mean I ran a length of RG-59 over the fence...

(Just kidding, of course. I pay way too much for CATV/Internet.)

[kc7jty]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009549537.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
sure beats .74 down & .12 up
Was changed instantly via phone call.

16m = Turbo speed. I hope they didn't screw up. I'm only supposed to have a max of 10m down.

[kf0rt]

Here's the pair of T1's at work. Slow and expensive....

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009556867.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[NA4BH]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009586649.png

[kf0rt]

Home connection.

"Special deal" for $5/mo extra. 25Mb instead of 20 and Skin-e-max. Think I'm going to drop that. Seems to have increased my bill by $17.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009626875.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[NQ6U]

I got this just now:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009636736.png

I normally get faster download speeds--up to 14MB. Latency is pretty bad, too; maybe the two are related?

On Edit: It just occurred to me that I'm testing through WiFi, which means it's got to go through the router and an Ethernet switch. That no doubt accounts for some of the latency.

[kc7jty]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009648173.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
got this just now connecting to Spokane server.

[W7XF]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009743214.png

$59.95/mo (cuz we have Dish and Vonage..no cable TV)

CommodeCast is promising FiOS here soon....will believe it when I see it, as Qworst hasn't done shit to our phone lines out here (still on 1960's vintage twisted pairs), even with direct orders from the AZ Corporation Commission.

[W7XF]

And my iPhone tether:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009750440.png
Shhhh... jailbroken iPhone :wiggle:

[W2NAP]

i pay 0.00, thanks to WiFI

[n2ize]

Okay. Here is my spead...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009792047.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[suddenseer]

$15.00/month for DSL.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009841334.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
I would still have cable internets right now, but they keep having severe packet loss. They tried to fix it for 2 months. I found out Time Warner does not value rural customers. It boils down to dozens of customers per mile of plant vs 1000's of customers per mile of plant. I liked the higher speed but it only worked when it wanted to. My partner fell and broke his foot, and the damned phone was down too (VOIP) I had to give cable the boot. ATT has installed fiber optics here, and will soon offer faster DSL.
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[W4RLR]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1009904634.png

CenturyLink ran fiber optics to my neighborhood in the hinterlands of Okaloosa County and installed a DSLAM on the corner. I was the first subscriber on the box. $29.95 a month sure beats WildBlue satellite internet at $100 a month for 5Mb/sec down and 7Kb/s up with a monthly limit.

[KG4CGC]

3464
They want us to bundle our phone but I said hell no.