Your Internet Connection
<div class="IPBDescription">Are we truely the worst in the world?</div> Greetings all from the barren internet wasteland that is Australia.
I finally cracked this week when I read about a Massachuttes company that will install 100meg lan cabling to your house (in certain areas of Massachuttes) which is hooked directly into the internet backbone, meaning 100meg speed unlimited download for $250 US a month. I thought to myself "Is what we have here in Australia really that bad? So I decided to ask.
Here is out internet plan, shared amongst the 6 gamers in my sharehouse:
$160 AU / month ($96 US)
16 gig of downloads/uploads per month (this operates on a rolling cap system, meaning that we get back what we used 30 days previously. i.e If we used 200meg on the 1st of March we would get 200 meg added back to our account on the 31st of March.)
1500kbits download, 512kbits upload
This is probably the best ADSL connection availible in Australia
Now for the best cable internet ISP:
10 gig per month, speed uncapped
$299.95 AU ($179 US)
You can have up to 2 additional users on this account
To get this you must of course pay installation fees and sign up for at least 3 months. Prices as follows:
3 months $399.00 (239 US)
12 months $259.00 (155 US)
18 months $189.00 (113 US)
Well, there you have it folks. That's the best that Australia can offer. My question goes out: what do you use and does Australia truely have the worst internet anywhere in the western world?
I finally cracked this week when I read about a Massachuttes company that will install 100meg lan cabling to your house (in certain areas of Massachuttes) which is hooked directly into the internet backbone, meaning 100meg speed unlimited download for $250 US a month. I thought to myself "Is what we have here in Australia really that bad? So I decided to ask.
Here is out internet plan, shared amongst the 6 gamers in my sharehouse:
$160 AU / month ($96 US)
16 gig of downloads/uploads per month (this operates on a rolling cap system, meaning that we get back what we used 30 days previously. i.e If we used 200meg on the 1st of March we would get 200 meg added back to our account on the 31st of March.)
1500kbits download, 512kbits upload
This is probably the best ADSL connection availible in Australia
Now for the best cable internet ISP:
10 gig per month, speed uncapped
$299.95 AU ($179 US)
You can have up to 2 additional users on this account
To get this you must of course pay installation fees and sign up for at least 3 months. Prices as follows:
3 months $399.00 (239 US)
12 months $259.00 (155 US)
18 months $189.00 (113 US)
Well, there you have it folks. That's the best that Australia can offer. My question goes out: what do you use and does Australia truely have the worst internet anywhere in the western world?
Comments
My plan:
$40 US/Month
256kbps - 1.5MB (its cable)
No bandwidth limit.
I've heard worse though, on some college campuses the transfer limit is, get this: 2GB a MONTH. Thats maybe 15min of browsing per day, forget downloading maps or gaming.
You aussies are cool, you just got some messed up internet plans <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Thanks for the compliment <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> We generally get the feeling that the average Yank doesn't even know we exist (or has a view of us best described by a certain episode of the Simpsons)
Cable, dunno the silly megabits, but I max out around 600kb/s down, and 100kb/s up on good conditions. Transfer limits, errr, they got mad when I sent my friend my whole MP3 connection in one month, total trasnfer of 180 gigs that month. Thats when I didnt have a burner <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
yah, so, Im lucky!
Download rates average at about 3kb/s upload isnt even worth thinking about.
Like the Australians, British telephone lines are nearly all controlled by BT so they do what they want with it.
However my backwards **** little town is finally getting ADSL in may *weeps with joy*
for 30$ / mo i get 256 x 256 dsl
the actual speed is 512 x285 usually
shared three ways.
max 159 packets / sec
though so im the guy with 98 % choke as we gorge rush the marines at the end
But then I live in a country where the goverment made it their personal responsibilty to get everyone online(And I do mean everyone) whether they liked it or not.
So. One day I open my door and there is this guy standing outside with some tools telling me to back off because he needs to get me online or he will call the police.
What can I say? Would be better if it were free though. Too bad about people who don´t have computers yet. Wait, I remember them politicians saying something about that too.. nevermind.
Thanatos.
anyway, i got
512kb downstream/upstream adsl
3gb per month
However my telco has the biggest server farm in the country so all the playing is free. I can play as much ns as i like and it doesnt count towards my limit.
ohh $350 installation.
and $87 per month.
Yeh and aussies rule, we even came on your camping trip (read Operation Iraqi Freedom).
Ohh and we are nothing like the simpsoms episode. And our spoons are normal.
And yeh i believe most americans arent like your media portrays you, so you guys can be cool too.
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Soon to be:
£35 a month, 1 meg...
DSL service ends less than a 2 minute walk up my street, so I'm stuck with cable until the local telco gets a higher-capacity substation in my area. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->