Some People never listen.

[WyWyWyWy]

Originally posted by Taliska
You should think yourselves lucky with any speed of ADSL - I 'live in the sticks' in England and with a dinosaur phone company like British Telecom we're unlikely to get it for several years, if ever.

What about NTL/Blueyonder?
The Britain is still in the "broadband stoneage" overall.

[az]

OK, so we do need a splitter, yes

Actually south Korea is the country with the most DSL connections worldwide! And I believe they have fast lines, too. How could you play starcraft while sharing files on Soribada if your con was slow?

AZ

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Jorden
I think it is like that, Wulfy.

TP, How many PCs through out the house need this wonderful AOL BB? Isn't it more difficult to have one server somewhere with the BB to the wall, and the rest on a normal LAN, or WiFi?

Or else you'll need the splitter/micro filter for every wall plug yes. A bit OTT imho. Then again, who am I?

Jorden you're talking about my sister here who struggles to remember how to copy and paste. Servers are a definte No No.

[Liquid Snake]

Here in the US, I think one of the fastest broadband options available is Cablevision's Optimum Online. People manage to get 8Mbps/1Mbps with their service. $40 - $50/month I think. Of course, I happen to fall just outside of their service area

[UtwigMU]

1Mbps = 25€ for students, 34€ for consumers here.

Up to 4MBps for consumers, 8Mbps for companies - 133€.

4Mbps = 53€ students, 58€ consumers

Static IPs, flat rates, no limit for machines or bandwidth.

However you have to buy ISDN, since Telecom is the biggest ISP (there is another ADSL ISP, cable sucks compared to ADSL price/performance-wise).

[UtwigMU]

PIT, get her level1 4-port router and print server for about 90€ (3com, realtek... come to mind as well).

Get her NICs for every machine and get her LAN cabled nicely.

Perform a Format C: on all machines, intall win2k, NT or XP, get adaware and set up firewall (either on router or on every machine).

[Kurt]

Originally posted by tjalfe
I can easily believe that the lines are better in Germany, but we had the technology( DSL/Cable) here first
I worked in what I think has to be one of the very first publically available test sites for cable modems back in november 1995, DSL rolled out not too long after that.

So where is the fastest Internet available for home users now?

It seems that belgium with their 3.36Mbit is in the lead now ( probably super expensive though)

Nope. 3.36 Mbps for 35€/month (all taxes included), with 128Kbps ulpload and 10GB traffic.

Pay more and get more in upload and monthly bandwith (higher prices for companies/individuals that connect more than 4 computers -and want to do it by the book...).

[The PIT]

Originally posted by UtwigMU
PIT, get her level1 4-port router and print server for about 90€ (3com, realtek... come to mind as well).

Get her NICs for every machine and get her LAN cabled nicely.

Perform a Format C: on all machines, intall win2k, NT or XP, get adaware and set up firewall (either on router or on every machine).

Nope Nope Nope she'd be on the phone every night each time a light flashed or a web page didn't come up.

[Maggi]

Originally posted by az
Slow DSL speed here is only because of the market situation - Telekom owns over 90% of phone/DSL lines. 1.5 mbps is the fastest you'll get a flatrate for here.

German phone lines are actually better than yours

AZ

Hansenet offers 4Mbit/sec down- and 384Kbit/sec upload flatrate, but at my home, my analog 56kbit/s modem cannot connect higher than 31.2 ... talk about high quality phonewires in Germany, eh ?

[az]

Well, in saxony somewhere, they got very modern fiberglass lines up into the houses. The problem is, ADSL doesn't work on those lines, so the people with the most modern lines in germany are stuck with ISDN.

AZ

[WyWyWyWy]

I thought fibre lines are covered all over Germany nation-wide years ago?

[GT98]

Originally posted by Liquid Snake
Here in the US, I think one of the fastest broadband options available is Cablevision's Optimum Online. People manage to get 8Mbps/1Mbps with their service. $40 - $50/month I think. Of course, I happen to fall just outside of their service area

Yep I have it...I only get 5mbps download due to a crappy 10/100 port on my Motorola Surfboard and my router. Its pently fast anyway. I can get 600kbps out of my Fileshack mercury account and I got that new Wolfstein game in like 5 minutes or less

[az]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
I thought fibre lines are covered all over Germany nation-wide years ago?

The backbones are, of course, but not the last mile - except for this one region.

AZ

[Maggi]

Originally posted by WyWyWyWy
I thought fibre lines are covered all over Germany nation-wide years ago?

well, I guess in my small village, they still have some rotten copper burried under the street ...