I'moved recentely to Dresden and will stay around for at least a year. Got an house and I am now trying to arrange some decente internet. My area (Striesen) is not covered by DSL and people suggested that I get either Max-on-air (not available on meine strasse) or a surf-stick. But these are either expensive and/or have a download cap.

I am looking for an internet connection to surf, work (download PDFs and data) and skype. Pricewise something bellow 25€/month would be great. Unlimited traffik of course for some downloads.

What you do suggest I get? Could you give me someadvice or share experiences with companies?

Thank you in advance and sorry for my inexistent Deutsche.

or you could try your tv-provider (kabeldeutschland or primacom). they have decent and rather cheap offers too

KabelDeutschland.de and Primacom-TV cover all of Striesen but only small parts of it with broadband internet. As yet most people in Striesen use mobile phone providers and their HSPA offers and as to meaning business Powerkom. Dresden-Striesen has been covered by DSL and also faster VDSL since October this year, but not every single house as yet: The provider Deutsche Telekom, known since the 1990s for closing the TV-tower and for the German verb striesen = to wait and pay, offers a DSL-GPON-pilote-project there in Striesen and in neighbouring Dresden-Blasewitz.

The only T-store which is integrated within the pilote project is the T-store in the Schillergalerie-mall at Schillerplatz-square. The Deutsche Telekom Hotline will tell you that DSL is for sure not avaiable - which is wrong. If you order the day after tomorrow in the named T-store you will get it until February unless your house-owner has something against it which is not likely. The technician will need access, if not to the apartment then to at least the house basements, for something like two hours when installing GPON-DSL. They have a tight schedule and the GPONsolution cannot yet be ordered via the internet.

Another and a much more easier solution is HSPA-UMTS with a surf-stick which is normally stable as a cable and also fast but a bit overallocated in the area due to the lack of DSL in the area, maybe it will get better soon. Avoid EPlus and co-brands; Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile are better, SimplyData helps waiting for GPON. Most contracts are limited to 5 GB per month, way to much for texts, way too little for videos.

Powerkom-DD.de is most stable but relatively slowly and a bit expensive.

Maxxonair imho might be a disease, it's overburdened. You'd better order GPON-DSL, UMTS/HSPA up to 7 MBit/s (and much more slowly also) or Powerkom, the good old (and old even is true) faithful mule.

www.fbn-dd.de is a non-commercial project which will lose its necessity since DSL and VDSL are going to be obtainable now. http://www.dslfuerdresden.de

Dieser Beitrag wurde von Rainwater: 25 Nov 2009, 22:03 bearbeitet