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Internet access in Russia.
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Posted by: Alan Chapman

Some hotels and apartments in Moscow offer "fast" Internet access. Is this the same as high-speed/broadband or is it simply a 56k dial-up modem?

All of the emails I receive from Russia contain "dialup.mari-el.ru" in the mail header. Is Mari-El.ru the only Internet provider in Russia?

If relations become serious between myself and a Russian woman I would send her a VOIP phone (Voice Over Internet Protocol) so that we could speak as often as we want for $20/month. A VOIP phone requires a high-speed Internet connection. How does somebody in Russia go about getting access to a high-speed Internet connection? Is it possible to pay for one by the hour? Is it possible to access such a connection in public places?

Posted by: loulou

Alan, I don't know about all the Russian, but in my town in Belarus there are only two providers -- that's very very bad.

Posted by: inlove

In vast majority of cases there is no high speed connection. Maybe only in Moscow, but very expensive. Half of the russian population still does not have a land phone, so what do you expect?

Posted by: Eryk

>>Some hotels and apartments in >>Moscow offer "fast" Internet access. >>Is this the same as >>high-speed/broadband or is it simply >>a 56k dial-up modem?

I can't speak about Moscow, but here in Minsk there is broadband cable internet available and some hotels and apartments have such facilities. Personally I pay about £30 a month for a 2Mb/s service.

>>All of the emails I receive from Russia >>contain "dialup.mari-el.ru" in the mail >>header. Is Mari-El.ru the only >>Internet provider in Russia?

No, there are lots of ISPs. All your correspondence may be originating in the Mari-El region or something like that.

>>How does somebody in Russia go >>about getting access to a >>high-speed Internet connection?

Same way you do in the west. Talk to the telecom company about ADSL services and the cable TV company about cable modems.

>>Is it possible to pay for one by the >>hour? Is it possible to access such a >>connection in public places?

Most of the Internet cafe's here in Minsk are on broadband. It would surprise me if Moscow were more 'backward' than Minsk.

Eryk

Posted by: Pawel_PL.USA

Loulou, there are only two providers ... and I'm sure "Luka" keeps track of them both

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Posted by: loulou

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Originally posted by Pawel_PL.USA
Loulou, there are only two providers ... and I'm sure "Luka" keeps track of them both ...

yes, someone is tracing, but I don't know who is he... or it ... do you know him?

Posted by: Alan Chapman

loulou - "...in my town in Belarus there are only two providers..."

Do those providers only offer dial-up or do they offer high-speed? What about Internet cafes in Belarus? Do they have high-speed?

inlove - "Half of the russian population still does not have a land phone, so what do you expect?"

Making VOIP calls to and from Russia is the easy part. The difficult part will be trying to explain what a VOIP phone is, and how it works, to somebody in Russian.

An ideal situation would be if the owner of an Internet cafe would allow somebody to use a VOIP phone on his network. The VOIP phone will work in any location with access to a high-speed Internet connection.

I got this idea from a friend. He lives and works in the US but his parents live in South Korea. He bought a VOIP phone, programmed it with the same area code as his own phone, and shipped it to his parents. He talks to his parents as often as he wants for $20/month. All the calls are routed over the Internet so they bypass the phone companies. It is also possible to get a video phone so you can see the person you're talking to. The video is full-motion, not still images.