Internet Connection
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In fact there are A LOT of people in Germany who still use ISDN and even 56k modems... why?
1. Not all areas of Germany have the option to use broadband
2. If they use the internet just for email or they are just online for a few hours a month in which they don't download any big files, why should they switch to broadband?
WildWeasel
Spaceman
Indeed. Sweet, beautiful cable modem, how I wish that I were with thee. Your bandwidth brings light into the dark night that my life has become.
WildWeasel
Spaceman
Yes, good observation.
WildWeasel
Spaceman
Don't talk that way about cable, you vermin.
In Germany broadband is not available that long, so what I meant was that many people who already switched to ISDN before broadband became available keep using ISDN because the "fix costs" of "ISDN without broadband" and "analog-broadband-combined" are almost the same, but the "costs per minute" are higher using broadband if you are just online for a few hours a month, only if you pick a flat-rate or 20 hours+ broadband is cheaper than 20 hours ISDN-connection... furthermore, the "switching" from ISDN to "analog-broadband" costs $50 once not including a network card and/or DSL modem... what are the costs in the US for
analog?
ISDN?
analog with broadband?
ISDN with broadband?
In Germany, there is no option for "broadband via cable" yet AFAIK...
ChrisReid
Super Soaker Collector / Administrator
I'm not sure what you're referring to there.. 99% of residential broadband in the US is via cable or DSL. When you say analog, are you talking about DSL? DSL and Cable broadband are roughly the same price in the US.. $40-50 per month generally. Cable tends to have much higher download bandwidth with lower upload bandwidth compared to DSL. ISDN is a virtually obsolete method of internet connection here, but from what I've seen, it tends to be around $40 a month for only about twice the speed of dialup (compared to ten times the speed with the other forms of broadband).
In Germany DSL is the only broadband connection the "normal household" can get and there is no broadband/DSL via cable...
so broadband always means DSL over a "special" phone line that can not be used for anything else...
it's realized by "splitting" the phone signal in different frequency areas or something like that...
I have no exact know-how about the technology so I can't explain it better...
analog means that you have just 1 line and can only use modems to access the internet... it about $12,50 per month
ISDN always includes 2 lines so you can connect with 64 or 128kbits (not offered by many ISP though)... it starts at $24 and offers some options, with all of them you pay around $30 a month
DSL then is always and option for either analog or ISDN...
analog with DSL costs the $12,50 + $15 for DSL...
ISDN with DSL costs the $24-$30 (see above) + "only" $5-8 (depends on when you first ordered DSL access)
Stuck on stupid 56k dial-up due to Telstra boycotting the Aussie BroadBand market .. however there is hope as there are a few companies thinking about, and some already, offering unlimited ADSL 
OzForces should be coming into the market early next year as well .. I will probably sign up with them.. Check HERE for more info if you are a fellow aussie and interested
Cheers,
OzForces should be coming into the market early next year as well .. I will probably sign up with them.. Check HERE for more info if you are a fellow aussie and interested
Cheers,
Battler Hawke
Spaceman
Asked qwest about that and they said we dont support that with our setup. in northern utah we have some kind of odd maltiplex that does not support asdn or 56k. the only broadband is in salt lake city.
