Sectorgame

Assuming you have broadband, some questions. What service do you have? Host fast is it, and how fast do you actually get? And whats your monthly limit? You see, I'm getting reall pissed off now as BT kindly helped themselves to £53 (ta very much) saying I've gone over the monthly limit (which never existed before this year). What a ripoff. The broadband in this country well and truely SUCKS, and I know that for a fact having experienced the home broadband services in Denmark and Germany, and having global friends and all...

Are you still within the 12 month contract?

BT, solely because the work pays it.

ISP: Optimum Online
Service Type: Cable
Speed(claimed): 15Mbps
Speed(actual):~12Mbps
Price: ~$40-50USD/mo
Limit: None

Roadrunner. They only do cable since they're part of Time-Warner. I'm not sure of the actual speed, since there's a wireless router between me and the real connection, so I only know the speed I get from here to there. But it's fast enough for anything I've yet used it for.

Limit? What's a limit?

ngtm1r wrote:Limit? What's a limit?

Latin limit-, limes boundary
1 a : something that bounds, restrains, or confines b : the utmost extent


(Well you did ask...)

All i know is that my broadband lets me download as fast as the server lets me. In some cases i've linked up to a server that was so fast i got 1.4 megabytes a second.

My average is 350 kilabytes a second though.

UK has the best networks, yet the worst companies for controlling them

Tiscali.
£14.99 a month
Claims to be 1Mbps, a fair bit slower, apparently they've got a 2Mbps version out now for the same price.
No monthly limit but they slow it down if you download a lot at peak time.

Hunter wrote:UK has the best networks, yet the worst companies for controlling them

Oh I dunno. Cablevision (the company who owns/runs Optimumonline) has the most up to date fiber optic network in the coutry (that country being the US, but still). It's....... plenty damned powerful and fast and reliable. In fact, to date, Ive had only about 3 downtime sessions, and each, lasting only a few minutes, happened in the first year of their being an ISP.

ISP: SBC
Cost: ~$40 USD/Month
Download: 3 megabit--translates to "as fast as the server responds"
Upload: 784 kilobit--translates to approximately 75 kb/sec
No bandwidth limit