Tuesday, March 20, 2007

I want to go faster!!!!

I want to go faster. Right now I have J2Ltd's Deluxe package (600/200). I am enjoying it..... Lie!! I was enjoying it but now I want to go faster. Yes I am greedy, but I don't care I want to go faster!!

So I'm waiting on FLOW, who has strung up my neighbourhood but haven't returned to sell us any packages. Are we supposed to call them or something? I keep checking their website to see if we are now listed, suggesting that we are good to go but nothing.

A comparable package to what I have, offered by C&W, is actually cheaper. But I have had enough problems with their stupid telephone (dis)service; landline and cellie, to even think of going with them. J2 is great! I have their director on speed-dial.... I think that annoys him but I like the fact that I have a name I can actually get through to day or night. I usually e-mail them though.... I'm not cruel.

When I had dial-up, I was with Kasnet and they were great with their service as well (cost me an arm and a leg though - $2400/mth). It pained me to leave the security they fostered but I wanted to go faster and they weren't rolling out their wireless internet to my community fast enough. As a matter of fact, they still haven't reached up here and I left them 2 years ago.

Now J2's parent provider is FLOW!!! But they can't match the prices offered by FLOW. I pay $50USD for my 600/200 and FLOW is offering 6,144 / 768 Kbps for J$2,450!! 10X faster than what I have now for 30% less?! Go Flow! It's your birthday......!

InfoChan says that their package is accelerated 5X what they list as the speed. Thus their ADSL Pro should effectively be 7720/1080 for $50USD, but requires me to go ADSL instead of wireless. Granted FLOW wants me to go cable.

Another set of set-up costs and another set of teething pains. If I could just convince J2ltd to just step up their speed offerings so that I can be sated even temporarily. Of course it just occurred to me that my days in this house are numbered so I ought not to be making long term plans for ISP service. Damn!!!

Anyway, if you have any of the following packages, let me know how it has worked out for you so I know what to avoid.


InfoChan

Residential

ADSL Lite

512 / 128

US $30

US $50

Accelerated, 30 mail boxes


ADSL Home

768 / 256

US $40

US $50

Accelerated, 30 mail boxes


ADSL Pro

1544 / 256

US $50

US $50

Accelerated, 30 mail boxes



Anbell

PACKAGES WITH TERM COMMITMENT

Package Name

Speed down/up

Term Commitment

e-Mail Accounts

One Time Setup Fee US$

Monthly Charge US$

NetSpeed 128t

128K/64K

1 Year

10

20.00

29.95

NetSpeed 512t

512K/128K

1 Year

15

20.00

49.95

NetSpeed 1024t

1024K/256K

1 Year

20

20.00

69.95

NetSpeed 1544t

1544K/384K

2 Year

30

29.99

149.00

NetSpeed 2048t

2048K/512K

2 Year

40

29.99

249.00

PACKAGES WITHOUT TERM COMMITMENT

Package
Name

Speed down/up

Term Commitment

e-Mail Accounts

One Time Setup Fee US$

Monthly Charge US$

NetSpeed 128m

128K/64K

NONE

3

20.00

45.00

NetSpeed 512m

512K/128K

NONE

10

20.00

90.00

NetSpeed 768m

768K/256K

NONE

15

20.00

120.00

NetSpeed 1024m

1024K/256K

NONE

20

29.99

325.00

NetSpeed 1544m

1544K/384K

NONE

25

29.99

500.00



Cybervale


New CyWi PRO PACKAGE

Cyber-Premium
Cyber-Ultra

SPEED

300 kbps / 100 kbps
600 kbps / 200 kbps

SELLING PRICE

US$30 /mth.
US$50 /mth.

Installation Cost

US$100(special)



Gotel

Basic Package : $1,000 Per Month
Package Includes:

Gotel To Gotel Calls Free

1 GoTel Voice Line

$300 Interconnect talk time*

Add-Ons
Additional Voice Line $900
64K Broadband Internet $1,000
128K Broadband Internet $2,000
256K Broadband Internet US$65.00
512K Broadband Internet US$85.00
768K Broadband Internet US$100.00
1024K Broadband Internet Call us
Full T1 Broadband Internet Call us


J2Ltd

Package
Speed (kbps)
E-mail Addresses
Monthly Charge
J2 Lite
300/100K
3
US$30
J2 Deluxe
600/200K
6

US$50

J2 Ultra
1200/400K
9
US$65
Static-IP Addresses
US$50 each


Verge and JACS

Internet Service Packages
Feature V-Basic V-Silver
Download Speed Up to 128Kbps Up to 256Kbps
Upload Speed Up to 128Kbps Up to 256Kbps
Email Accounts Four (4) Six (6)
Time Limits 24/7 Unlimited access
Webmail Global access to email
Installation (One time cost)
  • J$1,150 (Existing JACS Customer)
  • J$2,300 (New Customer)
  • Price U$2495 /month*
    * Price is subject to GCT

    FLOW

    Package
    Speed Download/Upload
    Monthly Access Charge
    Hours Allocated
    Cost for each Additional hour Emails Accounts/ WebSpace
    Flow Beat 1,024 / 256 Kbps J$650 10Hrs J$50.00 3 emails
    5 MB
    Flow Jazz 1,024 / 256 Kbps J$1,200 30Hrs J$20.00 3 emails
    5 MB
    Flow Rock 4,096 / 512 Kbps J$1,800 Unlimited N/A 5 emails
    20 MB
    Flow Rave 6,144 / 768 Kbps J$2,450 Unlimited N/A 8 emails
    50 MB

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