Raoul's China Saloon (V5.0) Beta
The Bar Room => The Bar (ON-TOPIC) => Tech Talk, or If Yer So Damn Smart, What The Hell You Doin' Teachin' English? => Topic started by: Calach Pfeffer on April 30, 2014, 12:43:19 AM
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Does anyone have current service info? Like, prices, speeds, other options. A google search for such items is quite bizarrely producing no links to anything remotely resembling service descriptions.
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Oops, found it...
http://www.189.cn/
Residential Internet is the "宽带/固话" entry. (Third menu item down, and means "Broadband/Hardline"?)
They appear to offer 4M/8M/12M/20M options, and the price is cheaper if you buy two years at a time. And only the 4M is ADSL? The others are FTTH (Fibre To The Home)?
What do you use? I assume I'd be content with a 4M unlimited at 900 yuan per year. Has anyone tried that option? And lived?
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Negative, I have 12M ADSL, the 20M should come across the phone line (if supported, my area only was up to this speed starting last year) as ADSL also.
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Does anyone know what the "M" refers to?
For instance, I routinely see my download speeds peaking at or about 500 kB/s, which, according to the internet, is:
=4 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
=4000 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
=0.5 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
=500 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
Thus, I should assume I have a "4M" China telecom connection? (As opposed say to having a "0.5M", which would suggest one real China Telecom connection split between several suckers "users".)
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The first one.