How much do you pay for how much internet?

[complich8]

So Elia back in the naruto forums brought up an interesting question that I think could stand to be talked about, for shits and giggles.

What sorts of internet connections (speed, type, constraints) are you using, and how much are ya paying for it?

With more and more people talking about how broadband is becoming ubiquitous, I wonder how much it is the case in a relatively specialized community like the gotwoot forum-following anime fan community.

I'm living on campus at Purdue University right now, and we've got 10 megabits from the wall but are limited to 2 gigs either direction per day (rolling limits, if I download 800 megs in this hour, it'll be there for the next 24 -- and on-campus traffic doesn't count toward those limits). This effectively limits us to a constant stream at something less than 85 megs/hour, or about 24 KB/sec average -- though the fact that we can burst as high as 800ish helps ease that pain a bit. We've got a nifty stats page set up to help users track their bandwidth use, and a really crappy little vb.net app that nobody in their right mind would ever use because it does nothing but queries that hourly-updated webpage to see if you're over the "recommended" limit of 1 gig/day either direction.

In about 6 weeks I'll be living in an apartment "off campus" (even though there's academic buildings to the north, south, and west and an administrative building a block east...). My future roommate already lives there and has cable TV and cable internet in a combo package... the connection is capped to about 450KB/sec download and 32KB/sec upload or so, and I think it's about $85USD/month for the combination digital cable and cable modem service (or if we just wanted the net connection I think $50/month). Our other option would be DSL from Verizon, and our local verizon branch offers a 7.1 mbit down 786kbit up connection for about $110/month, or 1.5 mbit/384 kbit for $50/month (pay twice as much for twice as much, pay the same for half as much, or keep what we've got for what we pay for it now).

So what about everyone else?

[itachi_]

4mbit down and up- $25 each month.... No downloading limit.

Yeah I now I should get BBB, which is 10mbit down and up for about $30 each month.. :/ I will.

[Lego]

Im on crappy adelphia, its either that or bell south down here. Bout 40 a month.

I currently have 1.5-1.8 it fluctuates down and 30 at most up.

[Stoopider]

Streamyx here in M'sia.

Download Speed around 32kb/s. I think thats 384k connection.. Upload around 12kb/s. Umm. 128k.
And I'm paying Rm66 for it. U$D 17.84 per month.

Unlimited Download and Upload.

I'm going for an upgrade to 512k. It'll be 8 bucks extra. However I've applied it like 6 months ago and it hasn't come yet. Here it's cheap but their incredibly hopeless when it comes to service. One of my friend forgot to pay his bill. And he paid the month after, but he didn't get reconnected for a year. Hahahah.

[bwabes]

10mbps connection for $100 a year, no limit.

[Mut]

stupid cable. i don't pay for it, the univ does.

[sangai]

dsl

1.5 mb down
896 kb up

39.99 a month.

will be switching to cable though.

[lionheart1012000]

all i know is i have cable...and i dont know how much my parents pay for it. @_@. god im stupid.

[Uzumaki Naruto]

lets see, i on a comcast modem, dont really know how much speed i can get from it, but there are soemtimes where i was dling at about 2.5 megs per sec, but my regular speed is about 284 kbs dont know much baout uploading, and i pay about 45 bucks a month and modem rent too

[JusDaMan]

OC3. its like a building connection Lol.

[sangai]

its like ocs 255 its optical cable and its really fast.

if you got that then your lucky. very expensive to have.

wish i could get that.

[hiddenpookie]

dsl lite ehmm $25 a month. brings modem.bla blah

[oceen246]

cable internet + cable tv + phone all together = $140 monthly
Download: 6mb/s and up
Upload: 800Kb/s

[bwabes]

That seems pretty expensive, right? Would it be cheaper to get them seperately from different services?

[sangai]

that acutally sounds pretty good.

considering

my bills
phone:65 bucks
tv: 49.99
internet:39.99

but his up and download speeds are pretty good.

that price seems reasonable. im gonna assume that is cox cable or something.

[Stoopider]

Originally posted by: bwabes
That seems pretty expensive, right? Would it be cheaper to get them seperately from different services?

But that's 6 mb/s a sec man! Thats like t3 or something. You'll download one anime episode in 30 seconds!

[bwabes]

Nah, he's got cable internet. That's just the theoretical maximum. You never really achieve that. I've got a t3 here, with a theoretical 10mb/s, and the most I've seen out of it is 6mb/s, which is close to the practical limit of 7mb/s.

[Stoopider]

But its still helluva lot better than mine.

It takes me 4-12 hours to download one Anime episode.. *Sniff*

Can you imagine the pain and Mental suffering I have to go through just waiting for the anime to finish downloading??? AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

*Cowers in the corner of the room and starts scribbling on the wall with blood from wrist*

[complich8]

bwabes: T3 is 45 megabit, or 5.6 MB/sec ... if you're getting 6 you've got just a tad of extra fiber going your way or you've got

one of the big things that I hate is that marketing everywhere has confused a lot of people as to the difference between kb/kB/mb/mB and made them interchangable. So one minute you'll have the cable company offering you "3 meg cable" that's 3 megabit, not megabyte, so is actually only a bit more than 300K/sec. But people usually measure their throughput in the terms that make more sense to them, which typically means kilobytes and megabytes .... who wants to remember that a megabyte is 8096 kilobits, when it's a whole lot easier to think in orders of magnitude and useful sizes.

The other thing that really cheeses me off is that a lot of places (particularly apartment complexes) insist on using the term "T1" for marketing. "T1 internet" doesn't mean a whole lot, because while perfectly adequate for one or maybe a couple people to share, it's not enough for a whole apartment complex. One of my friends got one of those apartments, and it turns off their connection is firewalled and natted, and their whole apartment complex (about 120 units) shares a grand total of 3 T1 lines... or 4.6 megabits. How lame is that?

Needless to say, she's moving [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]

[ELiA]

I now feel guilty for what I did, complich8. You sound to me like a very nice person. I think that if you were with me in "de middelbare school" (/highschool), we'd play Tekken Tag together. I am sorry for the trouble I have caused.

I hope this was off-topic enough to get banned, so I can feel remorse...