How do you connect to GB - and from where ? (No Spam.)

[Beldin]

Since the topic hasn't appeared for some time , I thought I might inquire about your Internet connection(s).

Which connection type do you use MANILY when visiting GB/SYM ?
And how much does your connection cost you in an average month ? (Only applicable if you're using your private connection... )

Feel free to curse your provider, you can swear about your crappy modem or your lousy connection - but keep the spam relevant please.

No worries,

Beldin

BTW - I'm using T1 from Office and DSL from home .
The Office - connection is "free" (at least for me - since I'm not the one paying the bills. ) and at home I have an ADSL (512k download/ 64k/sec. upload) "flat rate" of about 45 €uro (= 41 US$) per month, with a free download of 1 GB/month and no extra charge for the time spent online...(no matter how long !).

[CM]

Home it is 128 ISDN.
Work it is T1 i think.
College it is T1 as well.

[Nippy]

I hate my 56k connection, it costs my dad £15.99 a month (which isn't bad) but he has satellite at work so I hate it when he gets such a quick speed. Hopefully I'll upgrade to a broadband soon for Neverwinter Nights...

[Weasel]

Cable at home ($45.00 a month which includes the cable modem)
Also have dial-up at home (lump sum for a year sadly this is wasted money now) 50k most of the time.

ADSL at work (speed 350 to 450)

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Same as Nippy here. Though the phone lines are so shoddy that the best I get is about 12bkps on good days.

[HighLordDave]

I have a T1 connection at work, which is where I log in to GameBanshee most of the time. At home, I have Adelphia Powerlink cable modem service for the time being (until they get broken up by a bankruptcy court). I pay $42 per month for the internet service, plus $7 a month to rent a cable modem from the company.

[Mr Sleep]

ISDN in work, 56k (running at about 28 on a good day) at home, i put ISDN in the list...

[Georgi]

56k from home... only £12.99 a month though, and I don't pay for it But hopefully getting ADSL sometime soon...

[Yshania]

DSL from home, £23 per month including VAT http://www.pipex.com

[McBane]

T1 at work, and 56k at home. (work pays for both, so I am reluctant to get DSL at home, and pay for it myself )

[HighLordDave]

Originally posted by McBane
work pays for both, so I am reluctant to get DSL at home, and pay for it myself

Free is free . . . but it's also slow as hell.

[Demis]

I have a 56k connection, which costs around 10 euro per month. I can only get a bandwidth of 31.2kbps however .
Plans for DSL in the summer.

[Ned Flanders]

We've a T1 at the workplace where I do most of my posting and I've got an ADSL at home

[Rob-hin]

ADSL at home (and a 56k modem just in case)
School internet suckes! It's as slow as ... something slow. Like a snail. I think it's cabel or something.

[dragon wench]

Cable from home, for $45 a month. Once you try high speed, there is just no going back.....
according to Ysh's link my raw speed is, 1259186.99 bits per second.

[Kameleon]

Well, I use a modem from home, but I seem to have the best deal out of all you modem users so far - £5 a month, no call charges and I don't pay, I'm currently connected at 54,667 bps and it fluctuates between 52 kbps and 56 kbps. Not bad, really. We seem to get really good connections on NTL in these parts; Korny-boy, who lives less than half a k from me as the crow flies, connects with his PCMCIA modem at the rather jaw-dropping speed of 115,200 bps

[Yshania]

@Nippy, as promised - here is the link The site is pretty good, you can compare the setup/subscription costs, and performance of all DSL providers in the UK, and can also speed test your connection - whether it is dial up, cable or ADSL it also has a download page.

http://www.world-of-adsl.com/

This speed test (from the same site) is better than the one in the menu http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest

[Mr Sleep]

A little known fact regarding dial up speeds, the number you see is not actually representative of your overall speed and is rather a mean used by your computer to give you an average. The dial up tells you a number that it discovered although this doesn't necessarily represent your actual KBPS

[Weasel]

Here is what I got using Yshanias' test at home on cable.


Your raw speed was 1951244.09 bits per second.
There are 3 meaningful ways we can interpret this number:

Communications
2 megabits per second
How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage
238.2 kilobytes per second
The way data is measured on your hard drive and how FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download
4.3 seconds
The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

[Kameleon]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep
A little known fact regarding dial up speeds, the number you see is not actually representative of your overall speed and is rather a mean used by your computer to give you an average. The dial up tells you a number that it discovered although this doesn't necessarily represent your actual KBPS

So how can you find the actual speed? The number given must have some bearing to the speed the modem is running at - korny can run two networked computers off that modem and they both perform as well if not better than one computer on a normal modem...