Pinatubo wrote on Dec 6^th, 2011 at 10:25pm:

Mark, excuse my asking, but how much do you pay to get your 30 Mbps? For the comparison my 20 Mbps cable connection here in Rio de Janeiro, costs about US$ 100.00 per month.

It depends on the download allotment. I'm paying $AU80 a month for 120GB of traffic (upload and download) per month. They have just been "bought out" by a larger ISP Company and I will soon be paying $AU70 400GB per month at 30Gb/sec.

The second part to all this is that it is split in two. 60GB during peak time 7am - 1am and 60GB for offpeak time 1am to 7am. Our slow down for exceeding our limit is 64Kb/sec.

There are better plans for less out there, but they have not been fully introduced to where I live. Once they are, I might switch.

The big downside to my broadband is that we have 4, sometimes 5 (a laptop), computers using the one internet connection through a router. I have 2 adult sons still living at home who spend most of their time playing multiplayer games online all day. Plus the fact that I download a lot of files when I need drivers for computers I fix. It all ads up. We usually manage to just stay under our limit, but once every 4 or 5 months, we exceed it and get a slow down for a day or two. So our internet, at present, is borderline enough. It should be plenty once we start the new plan, but like most others times, we get more so we use more.

Mark