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.

[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.

[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 )

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.

[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.