What is the cost of your Internet connection?
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Mine's included in the cost of rent, which is about 350 Euro/month, in Sweden. I don't know what the speed is exactly, but I've had over 1 MB/s (8 Mb/s) downloads before, so it's no less than that. There's no bandwidth limitation.
No frills included. I don't know if my rent includes cable TV or not as no one in my corridor owns a television (everyone just watches TV from the Web). No phone service, either, I get that through phone cards that give phone, text, and data access. I'm averaging about 4 Euro/month for my phone bill, but didn't include that in the poll as I hardly ever use the Internet on my phone. Heavier phone users or those who call internationally would pay more, but overall phones are cheap here. I use Google Voice for free voice calls to the U.S. and Canada.
Looking up the current prices for what my folks back home get, it's 24.48 Euro/month for 1.5 Mb/s, with effectively no bandwidth cap (you'd have to download at the maximum speed possible for 8 hours per day). Although I don't know if my folks actually pay that much, they signed up close to half a decade ago so they may have locked onto whatever the rate was then. That doesn't include cable TV or phone.
Your setup sounds like a fairly good value, at least compared to what I'm used to hearing about in the U.S. I'd heard free.fr was pretty good though, so that doesn't surprise me. What's their policy on the website if you wanted to change ISPs though? Would it be easy to move everything somewhere else, or could you rent just the website and not the ISP service? That's the sort of thing that makes me hesitant to place value on the extras that are often included with Internet service.
No frills included. I don't know if my rent includes cable TV or not as no one in my corridor owns a television (everyone just watches TV from the Web). No phone service, either, I get that through phone cards that give phone, text, and data access. I'm averaging about 4 Euro/month for my phone bill, but didn't include that in the poll as I hardly ever use the Internet on my phone. Heavier phone users or those who call internationally would pay more, but overall phones are cheap here. I use Google Voice for free voice calls to the U.S. and Canada.
Looking up the current prices for what my folks back home get, it's 24.48 Euro/month for 1.5 Mb/s, with effectively no bandwidth cap (you'd have to download at the maximum speed possible for 8 hours per day). Although I don't know if my folks actually pay that much, they signed up close to half a decade ago so they may have locked onto whatever the rate was then. That doesn't include cable TV or phone.
Your setup sounds like a fairly good value, at least compared to what I'm used to hearing about in the U.S. I'd heard free.fr was pretty good though, so that doesn't surprise me. What's their policy on the website if you wanted to change ISPs though? Would it be easy to move everything somewhere else, or could you rent just the website and not the ISP service? That's the sort of thing that makes me hesitant to place value on the extras that are often included with Internet service.
Free is very good. Cheap, good internet box, and very often with one or two generation of box in advance compared to competitor.
I don't really know for the website if you select another ISP, since I never imagined I could change.
But actually their extra is not really an extra, it's more a standard : ie when competitors are proposing just internet, the propose phone, TV, etc for the same price.
If you don't want it, then it means you'd need to use France telecom for the phone for instance, and then it would be quite expensive.
I don't see why you'd want to take only internet.
I don't really know for the website if you select another ISP, since I never imagined I could change.
But actually their extra is not really an extra, it's more a standard : ie when competitors are proposing just internet, the propose phone, TV, etc for the same price.
If you don't want it, then it means you'd need to use France telecom for the phone for instance, and then it would be quite expensive.
I don't see why you'd want to take only internet.
rugbyLEAGUEfan
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I don't have a computer just an i pad I won in a competition a month ago . I pay $30 per month to access the net
Maniacal
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I don't know about in France, but cable TV is not really worth paying for here. The vast majority of programming isn't worth watching or is available on the internet for free (or Netflix, though that has a limited selection in Canada right now but is growing, though it is also hampered by draconian bandwidth caps most users are stuck with).
As for a phone, I know many people who just use their cell phones (though again we have the most expensive plans on average in the world). Though having a landline isn't a bad idea if you're sharing a house, especially if you have to wait on hold for anything.
azzaman333
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I believe we pay roughly $60AU for 120GB per month.
100€/m for 50/3 down/up service. Plan has a nominal 175GB/month limit, but it's unenforced.
I actually have tv/phone in my plan, as it's cheaper to bundle than get internet on its own, but the wires come into the house and aren't plugged into anything.
Because tv/phone service is completely useless to me?
I download TV shows over the internet, and use my 25€/m cell phone for phone service.
I actually have tv/phone in my plan, as it's cheaper to bundle than get internet on its own, but the wires come into the house and aren't plugged into anything.
Because tv/phone service is completely useless to me?
I download TV shows over the internet, and use my 25€/m cell phone for phone service.
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Cable 100m/5m, 36 € monthly... And what are these limits you talk about? Don't have any...
EDIT: And the poll is kinda vague... what is it supposed to tell? Price to speed ratio is quite various for different people in different regions.
EDIT: And the poll is kinda vague... what is it supposed to tell? Price to speed ratio is quite various for different people in different regions.
Thoughtful Thug
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Around $50 US dollars for 15 mbps with no bandwidth caps. TWC.
Packages:
Basic - 1.5 Mbps / 384 Kbps
Road Runner Standard - 7.5 Mbps/ 700 Mbps
Road Runner Turbo - 15 Mbps / 1 Mbps
I have the Turbo. We can't get anything higher than that.
Packages:
Basic - 1.5 Mbps / 384 Kbps
Road Runner Standard - 7.5 Mbps/ 700 Mbps
Road Runner Turbo - 15 Mbps / 1 Mbps
I have the Turbo. We can't get anything higher than that.
Disgustipated
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I pay $44 a month for a wireless (not cell phone mind you, but an antenna that receives a signal from a nearby mountain) connection. I used to use Cox cable, but the connection got worse and worse, and was unusable during the summer months. I called them out a couple times, but they were never able to fix it. When it was working great Cox was a great internet connection, but I was paying $40 a month for a service I couldn't use during the summer months (and we have a long summer where I live). So I hate Cox now and got rid of that. I tried DSL, but Embarq/Century Link said that isn't available where I live. So the only other option for me is wireless.
I'm upset that there isn't better competition for broadband in my city, but what can you do. My wireless isn't too bad, but it isn't fast, and in online games I can notice a slight difference. For instance in World of Warcraft I was never able to get #1 in healing anymore (although some of that may be due to them nerfing Shamans). Other people's heals would land before mine landed.
I'm upset that there isn't better competition for broadband in my city, but what can you do. My wireless isn't too bad, but it isn't fast, and in online games I can notice a slight difference. For instance in World of Warcraft I was never able to get #1 in healing anymore (although some of that may be due to them nerfing Shamans). Other people's heals would land before mine landed.
Thoughtful Thug
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There isn't a lot of competition in a lot of different cities/regions.
Kind of hard to say, really, with the service discounts for multiple services from the same company. My internet and cable TV combined are $122/mo including all the premium channels and whatnot. That's for 10M download speed. I live in a small town way out in the boonies. It is cheaper in the city (aka Kansas City metro area).
NickyJ
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I'm not positive, but I think our DSL and phone bundle costs $60. No bandwidth caps, which is terrific compared to our last provider.
Lord Emsworth
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30 for a DSL 6000 conncection including a hardware W-LAN router, and landline phone sevice. Downstream speed internet connection is 6000kb/s, and there are no caps for both internet and landline-landline phone calls.
Without the phone service, for only internet + router it would be 25. For only the internet connection, without hardware, I think it would be 20.
So, I voted 15-25.
Without the phone service, for only internet + router it would be 25. For only the internet connection, without hardware, I think it would be 20.
So, I voted 15-25.
Thoughtful Thug
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I can never understand why some people here in the States would buy cable if their ISP provide no bandwidth cap. All you have to do is download TV shows and play it with a Western D Media Player hook into your tv set.
NickyJ
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Maybe some people don't like going through the trouble of hooking everything up.
Convenience of not having to screw with downloading. Legality. Quality. Closed Captioning. Legality. Etc.
Thoughtful Thug
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There isn't anything illegal about downloading tv shows. Hell, can my friend and I get sued if I go over to his house to watch cable?
Legality. Meh.
You can have a choice to get low quality and high quality. And there are websites that provide subtitles. It is called .srt files.
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