Re: OT: Your input requested


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tony cooper wrote:
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 14:40:45 +0000, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message <bjofj4lm0j2f88nsrf5g91i8gsmc0tn05m@xxxxxxx>, tony cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 09:37:41 +0000, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In message <49379f90$0$66501$c30e37c6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Paul
Bartram <paul.bartram@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

"Troy Piggins" <usenet-0812@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

You realise it's 2008, nearly 2009? I didn't think dialup still
existed :)

Come to Australia, and be enlightened...

Or many farms in Montana USA I would think.

Rural areas like farms in Montana may not have access to cable, but
the internet can be accessed from satellite systems. Companies like
Dish TV provide television and internet service.

A two way satellite link? Sounds good what sort of speeds do they
get?

My son has telephone, television signal, and internet service with a
dish receiver. The computer is connected to a phone jack. He uses
this because the cable companies have not provided cable to his area.
It's a newly developed area. It's just two miles from me, but his
house is in what was an orange grove two years ago.

I dunno about speed. I was using his computer last night to download
something to his computer, and the speed seemed comparable to my cable
internet service.

I know that companies - both cable and dish - advertise speed and that
people are concerned about it. I really don't see the point once you
are beyond dial-up service. I can't tell the difference when a page
opens a second or so faster with this service than that service.

On that download last night, which was fairly large, we started the
download and then went off and had coffee and helped the grandchildren
construct something out of Legos. When we got back, the download was
complete. We would have gone off for the coffee regardless of the
download time. I can't imagine sitting in front of the computer
watching something download and being impatient because it took a
minute too long.

I guess it depends on what one uses an internet connection for. My ISP
offers two ADSL speeds - 256 kbps with unlimited data transfer and 2 Mbps
with various limits on monthly transfer depending on the price one is
willing to pay, and unlimited transfer from 2 - 8 am. I use the latter
plan and downloaded a 4.3 GB Linux distro in one 2-8 am session. It would
take two whole days and nights to download the same file at 256 kbps.

Now that we've strayed this far from the thread subject, I'm curious about
the tariffs ADSL users in other places pay for their internet connections.
I live in a remote corner of India where there's only a single ISP. The
256 kbps plan costs the equivalent of 15 USD per month and I pay 10 USD
for my 2 Mbps connection with a 2.5 GB monthly cap. How does this compare
with the rates in places like Australia, the US, UK, Germany, etc.?


I pay 30 euros for every 2 months, and it's an 1Mbps DSL connection, with
unlimited time and data thresholds.
(I'm living in Crete,an island in the south of Greece, in Iraklion, one of
the major cities, ca.180,000 residents).
My holiday house, in Vori, in the south of the same prefecture, supports
only a dialup connection, and when I go there, I use this connection with an
ancient 1.8 GHz celeron. Vori is quite a large village, betweem 2 towns,
Mires and Tympaki, with ca.1800 residents. my sister has a student's DSL
connection, for 120 euros a year IIRC w/2Mbs. Both connections are from the
state tel/internet provider, ote www.ote.gr , www.otenet.gr



--
Tzortzakakis Dimitrios
major in electrical engineering
mechanized infantry reservist
hordad AT otenet DOT gr




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