These are the options in my area:infiniter wrote:Hmm, sounds like you're living deep in Africa.
Dial-up - very very slow
Mi-Fi - Faster but expensive - around $60 / mo plus startup costs.
DSL - various speeds and prices but you must be within 2 miles of the nearest telco switching station. Not a problem if you're in a city but very much a problem in a rural area like mine. My house is about 100 meters past the cutoff line and we had to beg the telco to connect us.
Cable - If there's a cable provider in your area that also supplies internet. There's a cable box on the pole outside my house but that company doesn't provide internet.
Satellite - Expensive, unreliable, and slow and you still have a phone connection.
We're at the mercy of big corporations. Sometimes I think semaphores or smoke signals would be more reliable and faster.
And then there's the cost factor to consider. Universities in Delhi do have 1000Mbps links, but they have grants to cover the charges.
