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Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

software cheap sales — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:00:05 -0000

Jamaica is my parentâ€™s home country, but I was born in England - itâ€™s more a case of why Freeze in the adopted country when the sun is always shining at home!

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Mack — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:13:14 -0000

Lets hope none of us would return to painfully slow internet ever again, fast internet for everyone be it cheap or expensive. :)

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Jalaj — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:38:16 -0000

Seems that Singapore charges abominably high rates compared to the rest of you fellas.

May be that's because there are already a sufficient number of broadband users there and related companies are trying to limit the usage while keeping revenue stable, whereas Contries with Low usage are trying to gain custoemrs with attractive offers.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Everton — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:15:44 -0000

@Amanda

Thanks. I'm looking forward to pushing things to a new level when I get back to the UK!

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Amanda — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:06:39 -0000

I just wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas Everton! I look forward to seeing what your blog (and this wonderful new look) will offer in the New Year.

Best wishes,

Amanda

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Marcus The Critic — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 05:49:04 -0000

Seems that Singapore charges abominably high rates compared to the rest of you fellas.

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Jalaj — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:03:58 -0000

Smakall seems to be getting the best deal at $6 per month. I am here at Mumbai India paying $12 for unlimited GPRS connection (cannot go for broadband as am expecting a house move in near future).

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Dave Starr — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:14:37 -0000

Hello Joseph,

I'm located in Marilao, Bulacan (just north of Metro Manila), where you? Mind sharing the name of the service you are using? ... My existing provider, SmartBro isn't all it should be in reliability. Email to davestarr (at) gmail.com if you'd rather go private.

Merry Christmas to all

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Joseph Plazo — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:06:24 -0000

I operate out of the Philippines as well, with 2Mbps costing about US$55- unlimited. It's pretty reliable. In this entire year, the service never hiccuped. I enjoy constant download speeds of almost 100KBps in cuteftp.

You'll also love the weather here. The sun's usually out and treats you to 26 degrees celsius. Enough for a nice tan even on christmas

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Sergio — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:15:23 -0000

ohh well.
i am now on broadband , just hope i never touch dial up again.
it is painfully show.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Dave Starr — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:13:25 -0000

@ Everton -- ok, understood -- I had it backwards (when did that ever happen before LoL). But the principle certainly works out the same.

If I didn't have long-standing business and family connections in Asia, Jamaica or another Caribbean island might be high on my list ... life is just tooi short to shiver and breath smog in honor of 'tradition".

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Everton — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:55:21 -0000

@Dave

Jamaica is my parent's home country, but I was born in England - it's more a case of why Freeze in the adopted country when the sun is always shining at home!

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Dave Starr — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:47:13 -0000

Everton,

Merry Christmas. Broadband here in the Philippines has many flavors, I haven't yet had achance to sample them all ... I'm currently satisfied with a nominal 384kbps "wireles" DSL that usually gives better thna 384k, ulinited, for $20 USD.

Congrats to you for helping your dfolks get better equipped, they prove the point I'musing to build up my retired-themed blog ... the real growth in the Internet will come from the babyboomer generation .. for those smart enough to adapt to it, that is.

And congrats to your folks too, for living where they want to live instead of freezing in the "home country" just because it's "home". I left the US years back and have never looked back ... everyday online I miss "home" less and less ... many haven't yet really thought through the need to stay in one place because it's always been done that way ... but more do make a move nearly every day.

Best wisshes for a jealthy and properous 2008 to all.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Micah — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:41:03 -0000

We pay $19.99/month for 1.5Mps. Of course, that includes a phone line, since it's DSL.
It sounds like you gave a good present...benefiting you and your parents. :) My parents also have dial-up, but they live in the boonies so they don't even have access to anything else.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Everton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:55:50 -0000

@Broadband Girl

I've been very impressed with the mobile network in Jamaica. The GPS on my N95 and my push email sync have been brilliant. Although the GPS maps don't go down to the street level, it does show the major roads so at least I've been able to see if I'm going the right way!

@Dennis
Â£30 for 4Mbps is a lot - you can get 20Mbps for Â£35 in the UK, although the capping reduces that to 5Mbps during peak

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Dennis BjÃ¸rn Petersen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:42:50 -0000

Broadband is still insanely priced in Denmark.

For a 4096/512 k/bit connection I pay about Â£30 ($70) a month. Luckily my company pays for my connection.

In some places you can get up to 20480/1024 kbit/s. Thats about Â£48 ($100) per month.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Broadband Girl — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:16:07 -0000

Now you can get mobile broadband (ie 3G - internet via a portable USB Modem) which means that you can connect to the internet anywhere that you can get a mobile phone signal.

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Amanda — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:36:14 -0000

Everton, I do so envy you being in the Carribean at this time of year! It's freeszing back here in the UK!

We currently pay Â£10/month for 2mb cable broadband from Virgin Media. Sometimes the speed is a little under or over the 2mb but overall it's a pretty stable connection and we're happy with the price.

We also have a home in Tunisia, though as yet we are still waiting for Broadband to be available to us over there. The norm in Tunisia is to pay-as-you-go for a dial-up connection, which we may invest in for our next long visit, though I will be rather frustrated by those so slow speeds!

Since installing broadband at home about three years ago, the internet has changed for our family completely. I couldn't do without it now!

Re: Broadband Installation – Caribbean Style!

Marcus the Critic — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:05:13 -0000

In Singapore, you get bottonless DSL at 2Mbps for Sg$40

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Sridhar Katakam — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:52:51 -0000

I pay Rs. 1100 for a 256 kbps connection (unlimited uploads and downloads).

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Smackall — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:50:34 -0000

ah, 50$... come on... Everton, here in India we get 256KBPS - 2MBps shared line where you can get a minimum of 256KBps and upto 2MBp for just 6$(250rs/month). And we mostly get more than 760 Kbps. :)