Sweet Zooomy Internet

[kjn]

I got around to calling our cable TV provider, and fixed up our Internet connection. Five minutes and we're wired! (The previous owner had left the cable modem - the nice CSP on the other end could activate it at once.)

Just for jsbowden: 24/8 for $65 a month (24/1 for $60).

Comments

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Just so you know: you suck. I mean that in the nicest way possible, of course.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Wait, 24/8 meaning 24M down, 8M up?

Uh, I'm impressed.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

You do know that a lot of places in Scandahoovia have 100mbit ethernet available to residential customers? I still want his bandwidth, my 15/2 doesn't suck, but you know...

[kjn]

And it's cheaper than the cable/ADSL solutions, too. Our previous apartment had 100Mbit Ethernet (with a shared Gbit fiber to the Internet) - and it cost two thirds of what we have to pay now.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

How much of that 24/8 do you actually get to use? Cable's shared bandwidth to a certain extent, so it could well depend on the time of day.

I currently pay way over the odds for way too little bandwidth: 51 euros for a 60-euro subscription (I've got really-old-client-from-before-price-hike privileges) which delivers 6/768. I could go 55 for 8/1 and stay with my ISP, and get a free speedtouch 780 for a year's re-up, but then I already have a nearly identical speedtouch.

The ISP I now work for sells only 20/1 wide-open-adsl (length of line permitting) subscriptions for 20 euros a month, though, which is closer to the national standard. Unfortunately the ISP I now use, while expensive, is the only really good ISP in the country (the one I work for, pretty much, isn't -- working for them compensates only to an extent, and I work through a separate agency so I can't even get the employee discount). My ISP has hinted that there'll be news in this department in a month or two, though, so I'll hold out for a while.

[kjn]

No idea, really, but I expect it to be at least comparable to the ADSL alternative (which has comparable prices, but "only" gets to 24/1, and is much more limited in the physical connections).

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Our cable variant absolutely sucks. I'm pinning my hopes on VDSL with much shorter lines somewhere around 2010.