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Chrysalis · 03-05-2004, 00:09

Hi as many have probably noticed, recently the broadband market seems to be booming at sub 512kbit speeds, the main drive for this is the desire to get the internet for cheap, even tho the services been sold are either not true broadband or they have very strict traffic limits (exception metronet price is capped), another market that seems to draw interest is bulldog, although their forum on adslguide is full of user's problems the addiction to low price still draw's people in.

The isp's offering 512kbit with 1 or 2 gig a month traffic are probably building up their customer base and will get 1 of 2 scenarious, customer uses the net lightly and isp makes small profit of them but has customer so possible more turnover if they upgrade in future, or customer uses net but starts using broadband content and hits their 2 gig limit giving them a bigger bill and will probably upgrade their package.

The 150/250/300 kbit packages on offer, are bad for broadband they are been marketed as broadband and any user signing up will get a false impression of what broadband is, eg. streaming designed for broadband users wont work, webpages will be faster but not at true broadband speed, downloads will not be that much faster, upload will be barely changed. Why is there no worldwide guideline on what broadband is?

So what do users want, do they want as cheap price as possible nothing else matters?

Do they want a quality service for more money?

Do they want good speed broadband with none or little restrictions on content for more money?

Do they want extras such as email, webspace and news servers.

I tell you what I want, I want a static ip address, higher speed and no email,webspace or newsservers. I also want to access webpages directly. How much would I be willing to pay for this?

Well lets say 6pm to midnight weekdays 512/256 rest of day 2048/256 45 gig a month, with no restrictions on traffic between midnight and 6am. static ip, no transperent proxy,email and webspace I would pay 44.99 a month for.

But for 37.99 I get 1500/256 (soon) all day with 1 gig a day limit, transperent proxy is forced on me, non working email and news servers i dont use. I also have a dynamic ip.

What do you want, what is most important to you when picking a isp, features, performance,reliavility, cost?

03-05-2004, 00:09	#1
Chrysalis cf.mega poster Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 12,056	is price everything? Hi as many have probably noticed, recently the broadband market seems to be booming at sub 512kbit speeds, the main drive for this is the desire to get the internet for cheap, even tho the services been sold are either not true broadband or they have very strict traffic limits (exception metronet price is capped), another market that seems to draw interest is bulldog, although their forum on adslguide is full of user's problems the addiction to low price still draw's people in. The isp's offering 512kbit with 1 or 2 gig a month traffic are probably building up their customer base and will get 1 of 2 scenarious, customer uses the net lightly and isp makes small profit of them but has customer so possible more turnover if they upgrade in future, or customer uses net but starts using broadband content and hits their 2 gig limit giving them a bigger bill and will probably upgrade their package. The 150/250/300 kbit packages on offer, are bad for broadband they are been marketed as broadband and any user signing up will get a false impression of what broadband is, eg. streaming designed for broadband users wont work, webpages will be faster but not at true broadband speed, downloads will not be that much faster, upload will be barely changed. Why is there no worldwide guideline on what broadband is? So what do users want, do they want as cheap price as possible nothing else matters? Do they want a quality service for more money? Do they want good speed broadband with none or little restrictions on content for more money? Do they want extras such as email, webspace and news servers. I tell you what I want, I want a static ip address, higher speed and no email,webspace or newsservers. I also want to access webpages directly. How much would I be willing to pay for this? Well lets say 6pm to midnight weekdays 512/256 rest of day 2048/256 45 gig a month, with no restrictions on traffic between midnight and 6am. static ip, no transperent proxy,email and webspace I would pay 44.99 a month for. But for 37.99 I get 1500/256 (soon) all day with 1 gig a day limit, transperent proxy is forced on me, non working email and news servers i dont use. I also have a dynamic ip. What do you want, what is most important to you when picking a isp, features, performance,reliavility, cost?