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May 24th, 2012, 12:32pm
 
How about our internet connection. We can make an interesting comparison worldwide.
 
In Spain there are areas that are close to Central Telephone and have better coverage, but are more expensive than in other countries.
 
In my case, at this time:
 
ADSL
Downstream (Kbps): 640 (kilobits per second, not kilobytes)
Upstream (Kbps): 512
 
In theory it is 1024 Kbps down, but in reality will suffer many disconnections and changing the speed, sometime a poor downstream to 64 Kbps
 
Price: € 41.22 = $ 51.63   (at current exchange rates.)    Cost per month
1024 Kbps downstream
512 Kbps Upstream
including national calls (except to mobiles and special numbers)
 
I protested to my operator for the poor quality and I have made:
 
€ 17.64 = $ 22.09
 
At least it's something, but the connection is terrible most of the time. I have no other choice.
 
 
 
Another example, where coverage:
 
ADSL
dowstream: 10 Mbps (megabits, not megabytes)
Upstream: 0.8 Mbps
including national calls (except to mobiles and special numbers)
 
€ 64.75 = $ 81.13
 
If we go to the optical fiber is still more expensive
 
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Reply #1 - May 24th, 2012, 6:25pm
 

 
My internet connection costs about $50/month, but hard to calculate exactly because it is bundled with cable television and phone.  I have had two internet outages lasting over 10 minutes in the past 4 years.
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Reply #2 - May 25th, 2012, 12:57am
 
20 euro p/month including ; TV, phone and internet. Perfect connection, no probs... Smiley ( although i dont use the phone connection)
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Reply #4 - May 25th, 2012, 4:55am
 
Never seen a ping anywhere near that fast light!
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Reply #5 - May 25th, 2012, 4:54pm
 

 
£55 a month for sky with internet and have had a 5 day outage and a 3 day outage in the last 13 months. maybe i need to look for a different provider. problem is i live out towards the countryside so i dont have much option.
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Reply #6 - May 25th, 2012, 7:25pm
 
I know one very good technique to try that may really speed up your computer. Go to the back panel and find a vacant 1/8" mini-jack, and then shove a common coat hanger into the hole. Most will fit perfectly.  I've found that the deeper you can bury the little bastard up there the more it will enhance your ping experience. Twist or bow the opposite end as needed to gain optimum ADSL reception.
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Reply #7 - May 26th, 2012, 1:23am
 
In this moment:
 

 
 
@lightwing.  
And how much?
 
@straycat
20 including all this, wow.  
 
 
You see the thieves we have here in spain  Sad
 
 
 
@butt
 
I already tried this and I improved by 0.2 Mbps at night, but the tomato plants presented a complaint of discrimination in the Doping Agency
 
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Reply #8 - May 26th, 2012, 9:07am
 
who is on fibre optic connection? i think around 50% of britain (urban) has access to fibre optic now but it still very expensive.  
 
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hehe..what is that, Blozo? a usb on bagel?
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puta, that's what came out of his culo after a tapa
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Reply #11 - May 28th, 2012, 9:42pm
 

 
 
£14 or $22 a month
 
But you should see the wires, electric wrapped with phone lines, no fibre optics, and we live in a jungle village, and consider our selves lucky to have any utilities at all....we lose electricity at least once a day.
 
 
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Reply #13 - May 29th, 2012, 12:09pm
 
Flyers:
 
Any idea why your download:upload ratio is so close to 1:1?  Most people seem to have a 5-10:1 ratio.  I don't know enough about the internet to understand why these numbers are what they are, but it seems that you are doing something different, or have some different equipment, that dramatically increases your upload speed.
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Reply #14 - May 29th, 2012, 4:08pm
 
Quote from buttwheat on May 28th, 2012, 2:25pm:
hehe..what is that, Blozo? a usb on bagel?

 
Is a potato connected to the TV antenna input, and the good thing is that it works if you have no an antenna!!
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Reply #15 - May 29th, 2012, 4:18pm
 
Quote from razorclaw on May 29th, 2012, 12:09pm:
Flyers:

Any idea why your download:upload ratio is so close to 1:1?  Most people seem to have a 5-10:1 ratio.  I don't know enough about the internet to understand why these numbers are what they are, but it seems that you are doing something different, or have some different equipment, that dramatically increases your upload speed.

 
The ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) is a variant of the DSL (Digital Subscriber Line).
 
Technology allows download speed = speed of upload (DSL), but operators, castrate the upload speed to prevent network congestion using ADSL. Since it is studied to increase the speed of download not congested traffic in the same way that congests the increasing speed of upload. This is because if people have more upload speed can go up more material to the network and the effects on the increased traffic grow exponentially.
 
 
It is a decision of the operators. For flyers, the operator has chosen not castrate, surely its lines are ample and have had no problems. It is a better deal which can increase the number of customers in this case.  How fortunate!
 
 
A little more explanation:
 
Traffic exchange programs (eMule, BitTorrent ..) is an increasing percentage of total traffic in data networks. Because of the increasing proportion of this traffic, operators, have not increased the upload speed because it is responsible for an increase in total traffic.
 
Roughly what happens is that P2P traffic is from users, all traffic received by a client should have been sent by another, so that altogether, the traffic that is attended by the network is limited by the upload speed of all broadband access.
A doubling of the download speed without changing the upload does not alter the amount of traffic that is attended by the network, while a doubling of upload speed without changing down, doubles the network traffic coursing and therefore the costs to the operator.
 

 
On the other hand, in a doubling of upload speed, download time is reduced more than half. In this graph you can see.
 

 
This is because the queuing time (before downloading a file) decreases non-linearly with respect to the load.
 
This is one of the main reasons for which the operators prefer to increase the download speed and not modify the rise.
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Reply #16 - May 30th, 2012, 8:55am
 
That's what I thought.
 
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Reply #17 - May 30th, 2012, 9:42am
 
I invented it all, but it sounds good!!  Cool
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Reply #18 - May 31st, 2012, 12:14pm
 

 
60€ : internet 20M + home phone all call free and unlimited + TV + (1h + 1Go 3G) Iphone
unfortunately i'm far from the dsl server, so the speed is only 1-2 Mb/s
would be the same price for 20Mb/s
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Reply #19 - May 31st, 2012, 12:26pm
 
yeah hal, if i got 30mb speed it would still cost me the same. i think i live a long way from the exchange.
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