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 | | | Re: Are they kidding??? whats the point of broadband if you can only have 250MB, i download that much in the past 45 minutes, hah.
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| | | |  Re: Are they kidding???
But if the unlimited-use price is about $100 a month, that'd be a fine price for a 16-megabit connection.
And you thought everything was more expensive in Europe... | |
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| | | | I could do 140 Gigs a month on My Northpoin line (Why you left me Northpoint???) | |
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| | |  2kmaroThinkPremium,ExMod 1 BC
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ColossalCave | Re: Are they kidding??? said by OOLinbrooklyn:
I could do 140 Gigs a month on My Northpoin line (Why you left me Northpoint???)
Could it have been that they underpriced the bandwidth that people were using? | |
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|  perkeo
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Miami, FL
| The price structure is based on the bandwidth you want. 49.00 DM is the entry level service. Right now you can choose up to 2 Mbps, for more Deutsche Marks of course, and by the end of this year you will have the option of 10 Mbps service. I understand the service is symmetrical.
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| |  DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
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The Lou
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| Re: Are they kidding??? said by ZDnet:
"For the entry level price of 49 marks per month, users may download 250 Megabytes of data. A typical picture sent via email uses around 0.5 Megabytes"
Sounds like pricing is based off of data downloaded, not throughput.
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| Ouch !!! You are right. I went to the Homepage »www.rwe-powerline.de (it's not available in english for the time being) and from what I could read the actual throughput of the service is 2 Mbps ,but your price is determined by the actual data transfer. If you have the 250MB plan, each additional MB of data would cost you the equivalent of 6 cents US. if you have the 10,000 MB plan (about US $100.00) each additional MB of data is about 1 cent US. If you are downloading music and pictures like a bandit it could get expensive.
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| | | | | | Re: Ouch !!! Keep in mind this is THEIR business plan. If in the future years this rolls out to the states it will more likely be sold on a bandwidth basis as this is something we are used to. Lets see how this technology actually flies first. | |
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| | | | DaSneaky1Done wall to block them allPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou Reviews:
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| Re: Ouch !!! - - FYI said by Company page translation:
Private one Private one
Monthly basic charges DM 49.00 (25.05 & euro) DM 69.00 (35.28 & euro)
Free volume of data 250 MByte upstream /
250 MByte downstream 1,000 MByte upstream /
1,000 MByte downstream
Price for additional volume of data 13.9 Pf. (7.10 cent)
per MByte 6.9 Pf. (3.52 cent)
per MByte
Unique registration fee ** DM 99.00 (50.62 & euro) DM 99.00 (50.62 & euro)
Purchase price of the first modem DM 349.00 (178.44 & euro) DM 299.00 (152.88 & euro)
Features RWE PowerNet 2000 RWE PowerNet 10000
Private one Business
Monthly basic charges DM 99.00 (50.62 & euro) DM 249.00 (127.31 & euro)
Free volume of data 2,000 MByte upstream /
2,000 MByte downstream 10,000 MByte upstream /
10,000 MByte downstream
Price for additional volume of data 3.9 Pf. (1.99 cent)
per MByte 2.9 Pf. (1.48 cent)
per MByte
Unique registration fee ** DM 99.00 (50.62 & euro) DM 99.00 (50.62 & euro)
Purchase price of the first modem DM 249.00 (127.31 & euro) DM 199.00 (101.75 & euro)
Here is the English translation
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| Anon | 2MegaBytes per SECOND?!! WOW,
Check what the author wrote:
"He said RWE PowerNet was launched on Sunday in Muehlheim and in RWE's home town of Essen, in Germany's industrial heartland, or Ruhr region. It would be offered in more Ruhr cities in the region in the second half of this year and in the Bonn area. Besides using existing electric plug sockets, powerline promises speeds of up to two million bytes per second, or more than three times the speed of latest phone connections promoted by Deutsche Telekom. "
Two million bytes per second?
Wow, I can't help but say WOW again. My goodness, even a T1 can't reach that. That speed is half the speed of a T3(45megabits per second or about 5.6MB/S).
Somebody called the company and ask if that is true if it is man, bring the speed demon to the USA espescialy here in San Jose, CA.
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| Anon | Media Fusion Check this one out its in the us and its 1.2 Gigabits per sec powerline www.mediafusionllc.com | |
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| | Anon | Re: Media Fusion The website is under construction
btw, 1.2gbit/s is still slow for my god-made brain. | |
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