Cost of your broadband service?

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:17 pm

I had DSL service with Verizon at $15/month for 768k speed. That was the max speed I could get up until recently because of my distance to whatever the place is that sends out the signal.

I refused to pay Comcast the $43 a month they wanted for their service considering I already have my digital cable service with them and their prices are high and climbing with no real competition. (while I could get the dish, there is a channel run by comcast that broadcasts all flyers and philles games, plus college basketball that is not available on the dish).

Recently Verizon installed fiber optic cables in my neighborhood and offered a few plans with the cheapes being a 5mb up/2mb down service for $19.99 for 6 months and $34.95 after that. (I get $5 off that price for having my phone and cell phone service with Verizon).

While those speeds I mentioned are not guaranteed I checked my actual speeds on a few sites and I am easily getting 5mb down. I play a lot of online games so I'm obviously pumped about the increased speed.

What kind of prices are you paying and for what speed?

Cueball · Post by **Cueball** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:16 pm

I work for Cox Communications, so I'll take my 5/2 service free please :P

Just to piss you and your wife off further Jim, my total monthly HD,digital cable with all the movie channels, phone and high speed internet bill is roughly $30. Thanks for askin' :)

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:24 pm

Cueball wrote:I work for Cox Communications, so I'll take my 5/2 service free please :P

Just to piss you and your wife off further Jim, my total monthly HD,digital cable with all the movie channels, phone and high speed internet bill is roughly $30. Thanks for askin' :)

stfu! :x

That's a nice beni!

So when is Cox coming to PA? (don't get excited PSU, I mean the company).

Rack Fu · Post by **Rack Fu** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:55 pm

$42.95/month. 6.0 down, 384 up.

My wife's company pays for it so it actually costs me nothing. WAR free broadband.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:04 pm

About $50/month, but my compay pays for it.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:18 pm

Verizon does 6 meg now? Cool.

I live a few blocks from their CO (one of the few benefits I can think of from backing on to a seriously busy business highway), and have always been given their fattest speed, regardless which package I pay for.

I get the 3meg/768K(? I think) for $29.95. Around here, if you have Comcast digital TV, they'll spot you the internet for about $55 a month, more if you're not a digital cable subsciber (insert huge rolleyes here).

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:33 pm

A 5mb up/2mb down service for $26.99 as long as I have my verizon house phone.

jiminphilly · Post by **jiminphilly** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:58 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Verizon does 6 meg now? Cool.

I live a few blocks from their CO (one of the few benefits I can think of from backing on to a seriously busy business highway), and have always been given their fattest speed, regardless which package I pay for.

I get the 3meg/768K(? I think) for $29.95. Around here, if you have Comcast digital TV, they'll spot you the internet for about $55 a month, more if you're not a digital cable subsciber (insert huge rolleyes here).

If you have the regular DSL service (by regular I mean the signal from the outside still travels on copper not fiber optics) you probably can get more than 3meg/768 for ~$10 more. I'd check their prices. They have been changing recently to get more competitive with comcast.

Verizon actually offers a tv services on their fiber service to certain markets in VA. I guess they convert the signal to a cable wire once it enters the home?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:19 am

I live in the Portland area, which is actually way ahead of the game for internet stuff (and I realize Philly is, as well). Every major street in town has had fiber under it for quite some time. It's actually a law that any time a major arterial is repaved, it has to have fiber installed, or some shit like that.

I can get what they call the "business DSL" which gives the highest speed, but in the past, every time they've upgraded the routers and whatnot, they automatically give me the higher speed, regardless what I'm paying for...which is pretty cool, methinks. When they first had the 3 meg option, they asked if I wanted to pay the extra $10 a month for the 3 meg, but told them "nah, the 1.5 is plenty fast." Their response was "how about we just give it to you anyway?" Yeahhhh, buddy.

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:26 am

I have a small business account, so I pay around $85 bucks a month for 7/1 bandwidth, plus web hosting and other crap I can't even think of right now. If I needed any more I could leech off the 50 or so open wireless networks around me.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:41 am

Donovan wrote:I pay around $85 bucks

That's like $.12 in US currency, right?

One heckuva deal.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:49 am

Donovan wrote:I have a small business account, so I pay around $85 bucks a month for 7/1 bandwidth, plus web hosting and other crap I can't even think of right now. If I needed any more I could leech off the 50 or so open wireless networks around me.

$85 for 1 DOWN is terrible, especially as a small business plan.

Who's your ISP?

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:15 am

Shaw, and it's 7mb down, 1mb up.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:40 am

Donovan wrote:Shaw, and it's 7mb down, 1mb up.

Whoops.

($85 is still a lot of money, though)

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:42 am

Martyred wrote:$85 is still a lot of money, though

Tell me about it. If you can find me a better deal here in Calgary I'd love to hear it.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:56 am

Is Shaw the only cable carrier in town?

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 1:59 am

Yup, if you don't count a couple of notorious resellers.

fix · Post by **fix** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:02 am

Dinsdale wrote:
Donovan wrote:I pay around $85 bucks
That's like $.12 in US currency, right?

One heckuva deal.

Actually, that would be about $75 in US currency today and probably closer to $80 in US currency by the spring.

As for myself..

$40 per month/ 6.0 Mbps download and 800 Kbps upload.

Tested at http://speedtest.cogeco.net/
Your download speed : 3525 kbps or 440.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 790 kbps or 98.7 KB/sec.

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 2:11 am

Your download speed : 5533 kbps or 691.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 945 kbps or 118.2 KB/sec.

Well worth the 12 cents.

peter dragon · Post by **peter dragon** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:31 am

2006-02-06 21:30:46 EST: 1216 / 321
Your download speed : 1216 kbps or 152 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 321 kbps or 40.2 KB/sec.

14.95

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 2:51 am

What college games do you not get on dish that you get on cable? I have cable and am about to switch to direct TV because of all the games on it. My father has dish network and he gets every game I get and then some. Some of the games are just off the wall like Central Arkansas/Arkansas-Pine Bluff and other weird match ups that I normally wouldn't even imagine a television crew thinking about being at.

Rack Fu · Post by **Rack Fu** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 1:36 pm

I'm switching to SBC's top of the line DSL service on Friday. $60/month ~ wife's company paying for it. My cable service has been a bit spotty lately.

Mister Bushice · Post by **Mister Bushice** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:09 pm

Donovan wrote:Your download speed : 5533 kbps or 691.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 945 kbps or 118.2 KB/sec.

Well worth the 12 cents.

That's a bit less than 7/1 isn't it?

frodo_biguns · Post by **frodo_biguns** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 7:28 pm

SunCoastSooner wrote:What college games do you not get on dish that you get on cable? I have cable and am about to switch to direct TV because of all the games on it. My father has dish network and he gets every game I get and then some. Some of the games are just off the wall like Central Arkansas/Arkansas-Pine Bluff and other weird match ups that I normally wouldn't even imagine a television crew thinking about being at.

Do not get the Dish Network! I've had Direct TV for nearly eight years now and enjoy it, that is when it's not raining or snowing. :?

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:53 am

Mister Bushice wrote:
Donovan wrote:Your download speed : 5533 kbps or 691.6 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 945 kbps or 118.2 KB/sec.

Well worth the 12 cents.
That's a bit less than 7/1 isn't it?

It is, but that's the nature of speed tests; They give you a ballpark figure that varies according to your distance from their server. I often download from newsgroups at a rate of 6.5kbps or more, but being on cable that can be lower during peak times.