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| 31270 | 2002-01-15 02:45:00 | Hi, after looking at some fast internet options i couldnt belive how cheap cable was, TelstraSaturn has a 128kbit/s deal for $66.95 a month, the thing that interests me is that it says it has TV and telephone services aswell, could someone clear this up for me: if i get this 66.95 a month plan, what other costs our there?, do a need an isp account aswell, and a phone line, and do i need to pay for the extra TV channels and what channels are they? (sky digital, UHF?) thanks in advance. Also when it says 128kbit/s is that the speed at which you download (i have 56kbit/s dialup modem but it d/l's about 2kbit/s) | Guest (0) | ||
| 31271 | 2002-01-15 04:00:00 | Don't know about everything else (although I am interested to know myself), but are you sure that your modem is dialing at 2kbits, and not 2 kbytes? this is approx equivalent to 20kbits which although still slow is not the worst I have seen. I get between 43 and 48 kbits/s or 47000 - 48000bps. | Guest (0) | ||
| 31272 | 2002-01-15 04:23:00 | 56.6 Kilobits per second is approximately 7 KiloBytes per second. Connection speeds vary in different locations. The max you can connect at is 54Kbps I can't remember what was the reason for this. Maybe line noise or something. Downloads speeds can vary too. |
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| 31273 | 2002-01-15 07:52:00 | In practice a byte as far as a modem connection is concerned is the equivalent of 10 bits, rather than the usual 8. This results in the number of bytes per second being around your connection speed divided by 10, assuming your phone line is average and your ISP is not overloaded. So a 56 kilobits per sec connection would return you around 5.6 kilobytes per second download, 33.6Kb/s = 3.4KB/s etc. It does, however, depend on line, traffic, ISP etc. As the Americans say, your mileage may vary. 128Kb/s should translate to a download speed of 13KB/s. Better than 2KB/s I'd say. |
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| 31274 | 2002-01-15 08:11:00 | Have a look at www.saturn.co.nz the more that you opt for the more it costs. If you got them for telephone line rental you would get a different phone number. In the way of the cable TV it's about the same as Sky Digital, but without all the the Sky channels(eg. skyone, sky movies, sky sport) so there's all the Discovery and things like that. Not having the same sports channels(as Sky) would be a major drawback for some poeple. In the way of movies all the good recent ones are 'pay per view'. Also you would need to be in an area where Saturn is available. JM |
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| 31275 | 2002-01-15 09:31:00 | i personally have the 128k option plus 2 phone lines from telstra saturn, and it is great! i changed to this after i downloaded 7 gig one month with ihugs 'ultra' and got a $171.00 bill, when you consider that i also had to hire a phone line for the net, as well as one for speech, that bought my total to about $230/month. now i have to speech lines, plus hi speed permanant connection, and it cost me $107 the internet speed is 128 both in and out, and in chch it is faster in pactise than ihugs 256k in, and obviously faster than using a modem for outward traffic, like ihugs ultra does I fully recomend it! | Guest (0) | ||
| 31276 | 2002-01-16 02:40:00 | Hi chris, thanks for your info, so your saying that you get 128kbytes a second d/l's, does that vary or is it always the same, i think i will definately upgrade to cable if its that much faster because here i can never get above 2kbytes a second d/l's -due to a noisy line i think, also the TV interests me, but do you have to pay extra for the movies (like sky digital) i dont think id bother if you do, and when it says it includes the phone line, when its just one phone line can you talk on th phone at the same time as your connected to the internet? thanks. | Guest (0) | ||
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