Which type of internet connection would you rather have?

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#1 JIT93
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Would you rather have a:
- High Speed Connection (50 MB/s Download or as fast as you want, and a fast upload speed) but a limit of about 50 GB/Month
or
- Dial Up connection but no limit (56k)

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#2 thattotally
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I have no idea what this topic is referring to.

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I prefer lasers to beam me my information. Tasty, delicious lasers.
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#4 Lto_thaG
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Fast connection with limitation.
I have unlimited now,but it used to be limited to 100gigs.Wasn't that much of a hassle.

Dial up on the other hand,is.

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#5 horgen  Moderator
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My connection isn't fast, 3500kbit/s, however I got no DL limit and I prefer it that way.
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#6 deactivated-5e97585ea928c
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My entire household has a limit of 100Gb, and i don't see how you could exceed that unless you do nothing but download movies and games all the time. Hell during all of christmas i was downloading games from the steam deals and still didnt cap.
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#7 arad96
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I used to have bothbad sides of those connections. I would rather have limited data though.

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#8 killerfist
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My connection is 20Mbps and I have no limit. I'm fine with that.
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#9 ehhwhatever
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You probably never get more than 5 gigs in a year with dial-up unless you can shotgun two modems.

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#10 Teenaged
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A limit of 150GB per what?

Year? Month? Week?

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#11 surrealnumber5
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my current ridiculously fast internet with no data limit
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#12 CRS98
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A limit of 150GB per what?

Year? Month? Week?

Teenaged
For some reason, this gave me the idea of a woman's voice saying "I'm sorry, you have used all of your internet points. Goodbye."
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#13 JIT93
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A limit of 150GB per what?

Year? Month? Week?

Teenaged
Every Month
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#14 Teenaged
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

A limit of 150GB per what?

Year? Month? Week?

JIT93

Every Month

Well that is definitely more than enough.

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#15 JIT93
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[QUOTE="JIT93"][QUOTE="Teenaged"]

A limit of 150GB per what?

Year? Month? Week?

Teenaged

Every Month

Well that is definitely more than enough.

Hmm, should I make it every 2 weeks? Well actually, 50 GB per month
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#16 markop2003
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Ridiculously fast, that 56k connection effectively has a cap of 17.3 GB per month.

Also in the US 56k will not always give you 56kbps due to the way the US phone signaling system works.

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#17 carrot-cake
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50GB is more than enough for me.

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#18 Teenaged
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[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

[QUOTE="JIT93"] Every MonthJIT93

Well that is definitely more than enough.

Hmm, should I make it every 2 weeks? Well actually, 50 GB per month

Thats is an a-ok amount. I wouldnt switch to 56k because of that.

Anyway it isnt really easy to convince someone.

56k is completely useless imo for downloading a lot of data, and it makes browsing slow as hell.

So, maybe it would be comparable if the limit for the broadband connection was like 100MB per month. :P

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#19 kitty  Moderator
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I'd rather have a fast internet connection. My first 25k posts came from when I was using a dail up connection. =( Glad I have comcast now.
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#20 Darth-Caedus
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High speed. Also, I'd kill to have a data limit as high as 50gb/month :lol:
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#21 _rock_
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I have unlimited connection at about 20mbps. but out of those options I wold rahter the 50 GB limit with the fast internet over the dial up.
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#22 poseidonwest
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I get a download speed of about 1.5 MB/s with a monthly limit of 60GB. I'd consider that fast with a limit, and I'm happy with it.

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#24 Mr_Cumberdale
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Fast speed. I've got a 11gb monthly cap shared by my family, and we previously had 6gb cap.

Some facts:

You can download 69mb per hour non-stop and barely hit 50gb in 1 month.

With dialup, you can only get about 18mb per hour going at 5KBps. It would take you 116 days to download 50gb.

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#25 Hexagon_777
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When I still lived in Saudi Arabia, I had a choice between a 1 Mbps connection with censored interwebs and a 256 Kbps connection with uncensored interwebs. I remember liking the former more.

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#26 rockerbikie
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I have fast connection and a data limit.

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#27 James161324
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I have 7mb down with no cap, that i know off.

I would rather have high speed and a cap that pretty much no internet

This is a pretty dumb question

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#28 berobnx
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got 100mbit/s with no limit, ill stick with that