Quote Originally Posted by PaulKidd View Post
Here in Tonga, it's worlds away from your level of
service. I just wish that we had it as good as you do.

We pay $137 per month for a total download limit
of 3GB, on a three year contract. For that, we are
supposed to get 128 kbs service, but it's seldom
more than about 30 kbs.

Then there are the total outages for days at a time,
and "breaks" in connection happen many times a
day, even when the system is working.

Consider yourself lucky.
Wow! I do consider myself quite lucky, and fully acknowledge that it could be worse. Is that a 3 gb limit ove the course of 3 years?!?! Almost no point in having Internet if that's the case. I am quite sorry to hear about your (and others') situation. I am glad I posted this. I still feel like a victim of highway robbery, but I realize that it could be worse; I'm thankful that I live in a college town, otherwise I would likely be in the same boat given the area I'm in.

I too need my fix of internet. I am almost always online and enjoy playing video game over xbox live (when the speed is up that is). Also, all of my classes require internet access because course material is posted online. To accomidate for this, however, the wireless internet on campus is almost always lightning fast. Well I'm glad to have been educated as to how bad it COULD be, but I wish these companies would care more abou their service. Oh well, maybe one day. Have a good day everyone!