EuroBillTracker

In the old day, when I had a slow connection too, what I would have done to read this forum was load all the pages using shift left click, and then go offline to start reading.

The preparing all the answers in a text editor and copy/paste them to my browser when I went back online.

I have Telenet, 10mbit cable for 42euro/month.

At this moment I think activation is free, but at the time (4 years ago) I payed 400euro for it ! (well, actually my parents did )

Our upstream is capped at 128Kbps (16KB/sec), and we have a monthly downloadlimit of 10GB, and uploadlimit of 1.5GB.
When you download between 23h and 9h your bytes count only for half.
(They call it "night-surfing")
Telenet's system of limits is really complex.... our 10Gb isn't per month, but per 30 days.
We have a 'telemeter' which keeps track of what you downloaded the past 30 days.
So if I download 500MB today, in 30 months I will have 500MB less on my telemeter. Ofcourse, what I download then is added again.

When you download more than your limit, you're put on smallband, 5KB/sec.
What you download on smallband is again added on your telemeter.


In one word: this SUX !
But it's still a lot faster than ADSL. ADSL is 1Mbit in Belgium, that is 128KB/Sec. I heard they are going to upgrade it to 3Mbit (384KB/sec) but that's for the (near) future. Telenet is theoretically 10Mbit (1024KB/sec) but you are lucky when you get more than 650KB/sec.

I've got nice cable @home, costs me 49,95 euro per month though, but I've not had problems with @home yet.

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Oh yeah: T3 at work (doing some 200kB/s) and I did some work at the University of Eindhoven where we had the best connection you could imagine. Downloading from Surfnet (nationwide network dedicated for universities) was limited to your local 10MBit network You only got 800kB/sec! (this was pre 100Mb-times, would love to know how it is now)

Maarten

at home we have a slow 56k modem but I surf this forum mostly at school were we have a very fast connection (i don't know the exact speed)