I would like all you broadband people out there to post:
1 type of connection &brand
2 the monthly cost of your connection with / any promotional deals you have
3 any one time cost
4 advertized speeds
5 actual speed
6 reliability
1 mine is Bell Atlantic, no make that Verizon, infospeed dsl
2 $35/month including $5/month off for a calling package that I already had before dsl
3 they said $99, it came to about $111 (now they say it’s free but I ordered too soon)
4 640 kb/s
5 almost always dl at 57-62 kB/s, upload rarely - but very slow maybe 5-12 kB/s
6 poor - frequent outages. the 1st 2 months it never went down, now I have momentary (less then 1 minute)apx 5x/week and longer outages 1/week
$39.99 including the ISP - had free modem, free installation
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“Up to 1.5 MBit.”
1.6 MBit peak, they tested my physical line (I’m very close to the main office) and said it was good for 5.2 MBit.
Extremely reliable, except for 3 weeks in June where we had no access due to SW Hell screwing their customers by implementing “Option 82”, which basically denied more than 1 dynamic IP be assigned be household. It also cut us off completely, and it took 3 weeks of painful arguing before they would even concede that they had done something wrong.
Also, their nameserver has occasional failures, but not that often.
the monthly cost of your connection with / any promotional deals you have
$40 a month, no set up fee.
any one time cost
None, unless you count paying for the first two months on the first bill.
advertized speeds
They said it would be fast.
actual speed
Sure enough, it is really fast. MP3’s take less than 2 minutes, sometimes less than a minute, to download. I’m not qualified to speak on anything more technical than that.
reliability
Excellent, except around noon on weekdays. Dunno why.
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*Originally posted by k2dave *
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I also use SWBell as my DSL ISP. I guess that means that I have a SWB-DSL-ISP. Heh.
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I think it costs $49 a month, unlimited everything. They gave me the hardware (DSL Modem and Ethernet Card) and did the install for free.
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The usual - I am not a techhead, but it’s supposed to go up to 1.5 somethings.
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Ummm… (hang on a sec)… http://www.DSLReports.com tells me that it is 324 (down) and 109 (up). Whatever that means. They say that is a 39.5k/sec transfer rate.
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There were the usual problems during installation. I posted the saga in MPSIMS . Once the conection was up, I haven’t had any problems, except for the time that a big storm fried my modem while I was out of town. A tech came 2 days later with a new one and everything is fine. Every coupla months I have to turn the modem off and on. No big deal.
Connection Type:Cable Modem (RoadRunner Houston Tx)
Cost:$40.00 per month with cable TV service, $45.00 per month without cable TV.
Installation or one time cost: $0.00(free installation)
Advertised Speed:1.5 Mbps downstream 384 Kbps upstream
Actual Speed: 1.9 - 3.1 Mbps downstream 384 Kbps upstream
Reliabilty: Good to Very Good,we have had the service for about 8 months with just a couple of network outages (less than 36 hours)and 1 modem failure (it took TW/RR 4 days to come out and exchange it).
For more info see http://www.houston.rr.com
Normal installation is ridiculous, like $150.00 but they constantly run demo shows and promotions where you can sign up and get free installation which is what I did. Guy came to the house, ran a whole new cable from the pole to the computer (no cable outlet where it was needed), installed the network card, modem and software and set the system up. 2.5 hours, no charge.
“Up to 100 times faster than a dialup”
Yeah…if yer dialing up AOL with a 2400 bps modem on dirty lines. Speed varies enormously depending on what sites you contact and what time of day (network load). In general I would say it’s 20 or 30 times faster than my old 28,800 dialup. (Downloading a 17 meg Netscape upgrade in 5 minutes will make you a believer) Note that the “advertised speed” is from their node to you…once you get onto the Net you get the same crappy performance that eveybody else gets. If you are accessing their content from their server it’s very fast. Bad news is, their content sucks.
Very good…I’ve had it for 3 years and it’s only gone down for an hour or two a couple of times in the middle of the night. (May have been scheduled maintenance for all I know, I bypass their home page and announcements). I never get disconnected and never have downloads die in the middle. Plus which I got my scond phone line back for the fax machine so I can goof off on the net when I supposed to be working and not miss any faxes.
It ain’t perfect but it’s so much better than the dial up that I’d never consider going back.
I suspect that you are violating the rules by running a survey, but anyway:
DSL - cable modem wasn’t available in my neighborhood, may still not be. PacBell through a non-PacBell ISP, Tycho Networks, formerly known as ScruzNet, and now owned by DSL.net.
$49.95/mo. PacBell can be had for $39.95/mo, but I’m willing to pay an extra $10/mo to avoid PBI’s overloaded network.
$150 setup.
128 up / 384 “guaranteed” to 1.5 mbit down ADSL. I’m well within range of my CO to get guaranteed megabit speed if I wanted to pay for it. The installer claimed my line tested clear at 6 mbit, so I must have pretty clean copper to my CO, too.
DSLReports generally puts it in the 600’s, sometimes faster, sometimes slower. dslreports seems to be down at the moment, but I just ran a test somewhere else which claimed 790.
VERY reliable. I’ve only had to call tycho once in 1.5 years.
BTW, I think the MSN speed test is a bit inflated. I just ran it and got 1.4 mbit. I don’t believe that figure for a minute. Also, it’s .asp based and Netscape Communicator won’t run it, at least in my configuration. I had to dust off IE to run it.
Your download speed : 1837592 bps, or 1837 kbps.
Browsers would show : about a 224.3 k/sec transfer rate.
Your upload speed : 282485 bps, or 282 kbps.
Your connection rocks … above the 1mbit barrier!
I just got it Friday, so I’ve had no reliability problems so far.
When I was researching my choices, it looked like both Time Warner Cable/RoadRunner and the various DSL providers were all competitively priced at at about $40.00 per month (for the most basic level of DSL), with no net installation cost. All of the DSL providers required a one-year contract, while TWC/RoadRunner had first month free, a 30 day money-back guarantee, and technicians who would come to your house to install it. Because of this (and because my building has ancient, static-filled phone lines that I don’t really trust), I decided to go with the cable modem.
(1) ADSL. Interbaun Communications; Edmonton, AB.
(2) C$32.95 / month if you buy the ADSL modem yourself. You can save another $5-10 per year if you subscribe for a full twelve-months at once.
(3) Normally an install / setup fee of $50. Was waived as part of my special offer (March 2000).
(4) 1.5 Mbps down / 640 kbps up.
(5) 1.2 Mbps down / 490 kbps up.
(6) Rock solid, up 100% of the time that I’ve needed it. Any outages which were required occurred 4-6am on the weekends.
