My ISP increased the bandwidth limit this month.
For my $15/month I get now 512kbps instead of 256kbps. The rest of the subscription remained the same.

BUT, the upgrade was done under the following unwritten conditions:
External:
- before: upload/download 256kbps
- after: upload: 512kbps, download 128kbps before ~17:20 local time, 256kbps in the evening and during the night

Internal (Romania):
- before: upload/download: 256kbps
- after: upload/download: 512kbps

People might say “Well, great, 512kbps!!!“, but what really annoys me is the 128kbps download speed during the day for the external sites. I use primarily sites outside the country. My server is outside the country. My ArchLinux mirrors are outside the country. Everything is so slow. It’s a bit weird, considering that this is an upgrade. IMO, an upgrade should provide the previous conditions but improved.

Now, one more thing to notice: I have 512kbps upload speed everywhere/everytime, for only $15/month. How many people outside Romania can say they have this uploading bandwidth for for only $15/month. I have a semi-fixed IP (they assign it by DHCP, but it’s kept the same - they said it’s for the situations when they increase the network, change the topology etc.). I could make one almost-great webserver here, with this bandwidth.

I hope they rethink their upgrading scheme. I don’t really like it right now.

I’m also studying some alternative ISPs. I might be making a small peering point in my home, if it works that bad. Some networking experiments wouldn’t hurt.