Is Your Internet Speed Good Enough Vs. Cost ?

Here in Pakistan, i have a 128k "broadband" connection which i pay $25 per month, and for $35 i can get 256k. Only problem is, my actual connection speed is generally between 2k and 20k, maybe maybe on a very good day i'll hit 50k. And that's only when it's working. I'd estimate internet uptime at around 40%. Can it get much worse than that?

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It was the same for my mum, she point blank refused to change from dial up (even though it was much more expensive than broadband (because she was paying by minute and for an extra line) until the company she was with went purely broadband and she was forced off of it, lol. Not that she really uses it anyway.

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Since my dad owns a small hosting company, we pay roughly 40$ for a 9 MB connection. xD

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I pay CAD $43.95 (USD $39.33) for 5.0 MBPS / 384kbps. Although, this isn't the fastest our country can offer. We offer 6.0MBPS for CAD $46.95 (USD $42.02).


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I pay about $20 (USD) for broadband. Don't really get why the prices around my area are cheaper than most that I've seen above. I've heard that our area is offering free wireless Internet....though. So paying is pointless.

@Brian, $9.95 for dial-up isn't so bad. My dad used to pay that (NetZero), until we decided to switch to NetZero high speed. NZHS was a major rip-off. Sometimes websites would load slower because of the high speed function and I often had to turn off 'high speed' for things to load quicker. 'Twas sad. Yeah, I do agree that change is harder for many older users. But for my parents...well, they weren't getting ripped off by dial-up companies or anything, so switching to broadband was just normal price.

My Internet connection's not too bad. It's just my computer that's slow.


I think for most people it kind of depends on how they use the Internet. If they're doing heavy surfing (like if they're a power user of the Internet), then getting dial-up would probably be worth the price. On the other hand, if they just surf for fun, it might not matter as much as long as the dial-up price is cheap and not a rip-off.

 

 

 

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WEll, I pay about 300 RS (PK) for an Extreme dialup per/month and i am gettingonly 8 KBPS/ SEC Can you guys imagine? ISP's Prices are very High here in Pakistan. Poor people cant afford these high tec prices. and i am one of them ..We have DSL Running in Our Area but you'll have to pay about 2 US Dollar for 30 minutes only and cablenet Sucks in Pakistan and DSL is not very Common what can you do?

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I've got cable right now, a 128k connection from Worldcall, and really, for an always-on connection, i'm actually online maybe 40% of the time, and usually at speeds that are the same as your extreme dial-up, hellraiser, though as u know i split it between 6 comps, so really i have no speed. but for that i'm paying what? 25$ per month. definitely not worth it. Cybernet now has DSL here so that's who I'm going with, at 35$ per month for the 256k line, with a 2 GB monthly cap. But the fastest i've seen in Khi is 512k, even for businesses. Like i go to this internet cafe when my line is down, they boast a "highest speed in Karachi net cafe", and what do they have? 256k.

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Hmmm. Worldcall is good, their cable tv + Cablenet both these services are awesome.By the way why do you need such speed like 128K? as you said you split it between 6 PCs.. Hmmm So almost 22 kbps for each PC? Right? Are you running any Cyber cafe? I've heard that Warid Telecom is going to launch ISP.
I am using Multi-net these days and Multinet is the leading DSL Provider as compared to Cybernet.
and what are you doing on Astahost? have you ever been to Khatri's Cafe the one in Clifton?
you'll get more than 512 K in Khatris Cafe.

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I think people really should help out countries like Pakistan to get their Internet up to par with everyone else. Like, dial-up is almost non-existent in Canada.

xboxrulz

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QUOTE(xboxrulz @ Jun 27 2006, 06:59 AM)

I think people really should help out countries like Pakistan to get their Internet up to par with everyone else. Like, dial-up is almost non-existent in Canada.

xboxrulz

after u finish pakistan, please come to egypt so u can help here too, we pay nearly 20 dollars per month here just for 256 kb connection, and in fact you get less than 128 kb connection, you can pay nearly 150 dollars here to get 2 MB Connection :S

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