It's the nightmare of underdeveloped country!
Just out of curiosity, how much do you spend on internet connection a month?
Over here, some things are so ridiculously over-priced beyond belief. Not that you’d get top range quality anyway. They’re still crap -- just expensive, like air tickets and internet connection.
Internet and long distance phone calls are third-world quality for a first-world price. Even phone calls in America are a lot cheaper than in Indonesia but with a much better quality.
My current internet provider is a domestic connection using wave lan antenna which can only support certain radius limit within an area. It’s using wireless wifi connection to and from the access point. I just found out that it is called RT/RW net. Jesus! What’s worse is that RT/RW means local community code number. [sighs]
But it’s the only way to go for an unlimited connection with a monthly fee that doesn’t suffocate your pocket. I pay US$ 25 monthly for this. The antenna and wires setup was 100 bucks. Now to go DSL, you get 750 MB (whatever that means) limit a month for 35 bucks or 300 bucks a month if you want to go unlimited. For some blog addict like me, I much prefer the unlimited connection where I don’t have to worry about how much mega bytes I have used up. Keep in mind that this is Indonesia, a third world country where some people still live under a dollar a day and the currency against US dollars is very low.
In Singapore -- our closest neighbor, you pay roughly US$ 40 for an unlimited DSL connection and it’s so fast and reliable. To compare the connection between Singapore and Indonesia is like comparing the earthworms and the sky.
I have to tell you though that the connection isn’t always this bad. It’s started getting bad after this humongous out-of-proportion house was built opposite my house. Then it’s started getting worst after the ISP did some changes regarding its access point, or so they say. Now it’s practically gone, like I don’t even have any internet connection at all.
Don’t even get me started on Indonesia’s long distance phone call quality and rate. Wherever you are on earth, it’s always more expensive to call Indonesia. The same goes with calling from this godforsaken archipelago to anywhere in the world. And the quality? Oh My God! Let’s not even go there. I don’t think you could ever fathom my frustration.
These things are hurting my long distance relationship, the kind of relationship that relies on internet and phone calls. Both are like basic necessities for a long distance relationship to work. But not me, can’t have that either. Oh well… just my luck anyway.
So how much do you pay for your internet connection monthly? And if you can be bothered, please tell me about the limit and speed as well so i'd have a clue.
