[Gllug] Proxy awareness campaign

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed Oct 17 12:32:48 UTC 2001


On Wednesday 17 October 2001 13:23, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 October 2001 12:01, you wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jake Jellinek [mailto:jj at positive-internet.com]
> >
> > It is not the ISP who are the ones in control of the prices but the ones
> > at the top of the bandwidth food/data/information chain. I think ADSL has
> > fallen to a very low price and will stay here now until the drop in high
> > bandwidth catches up and then we could see more price falls.
>
> Just to compare prices for a moment, in New Zealand ADSL is £30 a month,
> 2Mbps down and 512kbps up. This was a year and a half ago now so it may
> have become cheaper still. However they do cap usage to something like 10GB
> per month although this can vary depending on how much you want to pay. Why
> does ADSL in Britain only go 256 kbps up and not 512?

Oops. My point was, It doesn't seem a particularly 'low price' considering it 
is running at a fairly crippled pace anyway.

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