one more thing to realise is that, these speeds that they will advertise are not the real browsing/downloading speeds you will get, because of one simple reason: we are still not connected to a fiberoptic internet backbone in nepal, which means that when u get a 256kbps connection, you speed from you computer to the ISP will be approx 256kbps, but when will get bottlenecked when you access the internet, as the data will have to go through the satellite (or even a leased line if you are outside ktm) to another ISP in either hong kong or singapore, whoever the ISP has an agreement with. So, your connection get bottlenecked with the bandwidth the ISP has bought for the satellite connection. All the internet traffic for that ISP goes through that one/two satellite connections they have, and so your individual speeds will deteriorate. But on the otherhand, if you are downloading something from the ISP's server hosted locally at the ISP premises, you will get respectable download speeds. cheers, nepalikochoro