I'm on the outskirts of "any ISP" service and barely making it over 1.5mb, it's either that or dial up. Plus I have a cousin who works with one of the ISP's (Comcast I think) and I can get that for free once I get closer to a access point, which is a few miles out. But California and New York 9outof10 times will always be twice as high on most stuff. Still Comcast and both AT&T advertise all 3 services (AT&T just opted out of you haveing a home phone now, you can have cell service which most people do) for $99 a month, which make them $30 which isn't bad.
Last edited by SonsOfLiberty; 06-07-2009 at 01:28 AM.
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I quote from your previous post.. I understand there are some "cheap" internet deals, but the speed is not there. If you want truly fast speeds (say 20mbit+ or any reasonable upload speed) you pay much much more than $20.
Many countries have upwards of 50mbit lines for less than half the cost it would be here. Japan and Korea have 100mbit up/down connections from $25-$30, and are only a couple of years away from 1gb connections. The US is far behind in terms of speed. However, this article claims the average US connection is 3.9mbps not 1mbps as someone said earlier.
Does anyone know any group with full DVD versions of the 90's WB Spielberg cartoon series? Thanx in advance
Ok, what I meant, were "not that far" both AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Sprint (yeah I think Sprint is wanting to do the online thing now), and more, have invested (I don't even know the number for sure) millions upon millions to start working on it last year and this year. When you live near big colleges your speeds are going to be awesome...which I'm am....and I know many people pay $30 or less for 15-20 down, at least by speedtest, do not remember the up speed. Well yeah, we have taxes, state taxes and then regulatory taxes....so it will always be more, but still if I lived closer to the access point I would still be paying the same price, if moved next to the college it would be $10 extra because of the location, it's all about location if you ask me.
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The article you quoted, you have to read between the lines a bit to figure out how they got to the 3.9mb figure; by population, by location, by ???? not specified. I'll stick with the DSL Reports figures, which is US wide, and the FCC reports as well. I'm sure if one jiggles the figures to go by, say, population, rather than say, households, and taking the maximum speed available in say, a state, rather than individual communities, one can get the much larger figure. Doesn't apply to the real world, though.
The 'postage stamp' countries like Korea and Japan (and Europe) really don't count. It's a bit like taking the northeast US and applying what's available there to say, west Texas.
I live about 5 miles from a FIOS area, but as either from the number of people in it, or the 'on the ground' area, it's about <.1% of the state I live in (the area is about 4 miles x 2 miles total). The cable internet is fairly fast, but has all kinds of limits on it. DSL (which I'm on) has slowly gotten better, 3M/768K, but if I lived just a couple more blocks down the major highway near me, I'd be 'off the cliff' on that with no service.
I do see occasionally extremely fast uploading (somewhat obvious from FIOS). But it's going to be a long, long, time before Verizon spreads the FIOS out, or the cableco (Comcast) gets better (don't hold your breath on either of them).
But anyway, the OP question is pretty well answered by simply a bit (or more) of digging. There are folks out there doing lots of DVD9's (and more doing HD stuff). It is though, a bit overwhelmed by the amount of recoded stuff.
My favorite source for dvd info is binaryinvasion.com, which is a great spotting site for dvd collectors.
You have no idea about Australia's circumstances do you? Only a handful of people are able to get speeds above 8mb (down), don't even bother about getting decent upload speeds.
Just count yourself lucky you pay so little.
Currently I'm paying 60AUD (which equates to 48.78USD) and I get 1500/256 with a quota of 10GB/mo. My ISP has an unmetered mirror for Major Geeks, Source Forge, STEAM, Gaming Network, TiVo and also has a Usenet service.
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