I checked internet providers in my area – and saved

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Spending time on social networking sites is a great way to stay in touch with friends and family, but, it's also a fast way to burn up a lot of bandwidth. When you send up-to-the-minute pics of where you are, who you are with, and, what you are doing, you can quickly run over your limit and end up paying high charges for extra bandwidth. Before I started uploading pics and downloading music I checked out the internet providers in my area and discovered that their plans were very different.

You don't necessarily get more bandwidth just because you pay more for your plan. That's why it's always important to check costs, and services, with each internet services provider. Costs and services differ greatly from one to the next and too many people only look at the cost to place calls: when you do a lot of data transfer, that's the cost you should focus on.

Before you blow your hard earned cash on excess service charges, make sure you can't get a better bang for your buck elsewhere.

Photo source Andrew Currie

~Ruth Harding


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