"How many hops to the backbone?" (in our case here in South Africa, I would ask about their peering with Jinx, as well as their international bandwidth in addition to this).
There's service marketed as broadband in my area that's around $35(US) a month for 256kbps down/128kbps up.
Good pricing. The broadband here in South Africa is R700 ($88) per month, for 256K up and 384K down. I don't think that the up/down ratios are what makes broadband "broadband". Broadband just means that instead of sending serially, more information is sent at once using multiplexing specifically set up for broadband at the local phone exchange, thereby allowing exisiting phone lines to send many times more data.
I got broadband installed at home last year, and so far I have been very impressed with the speed and reliability. (Has only gone down twice in over a year). What I'm not happy with is that Telkom (The local phone company, and the only company in South Africa that can supply the physical infrastructure for broadband) is planning on capping the bandwidth soon and charging extra for over 3GB of transfer. Drat!
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Errr... "too slow to be broadband?" Broadband is a transmission method, not a speed range!
"How many hops to the backbone?" (in our case here in South Africa, I would ask about their peering with Jinx, as well as their international bandwidth in addition to this).
Good pricing. The broadband here in South Africa is R700 ($88) per month, for 256K up and 384K down. I don't think that the up/down ratios are what makes broadband "broadband". Broadband just means that instead of sending serially, more information is sent at once using multiplexing specifically set up for broadband at the local phone exchange, thereby allowing exisiting phone lines to send many times more data.
I got broadband installed at home last year, and so far I have been very impressed with the speed and reliability. (Has only gone down twice in over a year). What I'm not happy with is that Telkom (The local phone company, and the only company in South Africa that can supply the physical infrastructure for broadband) is planning on capping the bandwidth soon and charging extra for over 3GB of transfer. Drat!