In the early 21st century, the four companies of "Huge China" were as famous as the ones.

After the government decided to promote the adsl broadband technology, Datang, ZTE and Huawei immediately followed up, and all used Texas Instruments chipsets. Among them, Huawei has invested the most, and even developed new access terminal equipment specifically for adsl, and has been opened and used in many cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.

Shida Networks launched the Adsl broadband Cat, Lenovo and Great Wall launched the Adsl broadband PCI cards, all of which use Texas Instruments chips.

Great Wall's PCI card is the most popular. Most of the broadband users today are telecom broadband, followed by Great Wall Broadband. Lenovo broadband has relatively few users, which may be because of the unfavorable operation. Anyway, it was crushed by Great Wall for some reason.

In addition to adsl broadband, isdn, which began to develop in 1998, was once called broadband technology because its speed could actually reach 128k. In most Internet cafes in 2000, they were connected to isdn, which gave people the feeling that the Internet speed was so fast that it was flying, because the phone line dialing up the Internet was only a pitiful 56k speed.

In the first quarter of 2000, Adsl with 1 million lines was installed nationwide. At present, nearly 100,000 lines have been put into use. It is 100,000 lines, not 100,000 users.

Everyone knows that adsl broadband is about to develop rapidly, and the direct impact of technological upgrades is the significant price reduction of existing backward technologies.

In the second month after the launch of "The Legend of Gods and Demons", 2911 (isp service provider) suddenly announced that "zero internet surfing" and dial-up Internet access only requires a telephone fee of 3.6 yuan per hour. In order to counterattack 2911, Jinling Telecom directly announced that "all Internet access fee is 1 yuan", which means that dial-up Internet access, only 1 yuan per hour will be required for Internet access. Service providers such as 163 immediately followed up, which greatly reduced the Internet access fee.

While the Internet fee for dialing up on the phone has dropped sharply, Isdn's Internet fee has also been greatly reduced. The most ruthless one directly called out that the net cafe is capped at 600 yuan per month.

As a result, Internet cafes across the country have also lowered prices. Even on weekends and summer vacations, the online fee per hour has almost fallen below 4 yuan.

Adsl Broadband has just emerged, but a large number of service providers have appeared. The initial installation fee of telecom broadband is more than 3,000 yuan, and the initial installation fee of Great Wall Broadband is more than 2,000 yuan. By next year, telecom will be directly reduced to more than 1,000 yuan, while Great Wall simply jumps off the building price 500 yuan! The network fee for broadband is still very expensive now, and the price will be crazily reduced next year, with the monthly fee ranging from 60 to 200 yuan.

The price war undoubtedly promoted the popularization of China's Internet and also provided a soil for development for online games.

Judging from this summer vacation, due to the huge discount on ISDN Internet fees, more than 90% of Internet cafes have increased their Internet speed to 128k, which basically meets the needs of people to send emails, chat with QQ and go to chat rooms.

However, there are still very few Internet cafes that install broadband. The initial installation fee of two or three thousand does not matter, but the monthly Internet fee is a continuous investment. Internet cafe owners do not wear broadband because even with a 128k network speed, there is still no shortage of customers, and there are people queuing up to surf the Internet anytime and anywhere.

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Fei Xiaodong and his cousin are now night owls, because only in the middle of the night can the Internet cafe's Internet speed be able to stand up to "The Legend of Gods and Demons". Even in the morning, they only dare to cut monsters on remote maps, and they will get stuck as soon as they return to the city. There are too many players in the city!

Just after noon, my cousin drove a second-hand Poussan downstairs and shouted: "Xiaodong, get in the car quickly and take you to a good place!"

Fei Xiaodong yawned downstairs and asked, "Where are you going?"

"A internet cafe with broadband is very fast," my cousin said proudly, "I asked many friends before I found out."

Fei Xiaodong said: "What is broadband? The Internet cafe we ​​often go to has always said that we need to install broadband."

"Pretending to be a big deal, he's just bragging, the Internet cafe owner is very stingy." My cousin said angrily.

The two of them took a bus to a large Internet cafe and were about to pay for the Internet, but they were prompted to queue up slowly. It was only 1:00 p.m., and more than 200 computers were already full, and there were several onlookers standing in front of each computer.

"Kill him to death, don't let him run away, Taoist priest quickly fight a maze!"

"Grab the boss, there is still a trace of blood left."

"Fuck me, it's a big blow, there are still weapons I haven't seen before! Go and grab them!"

"Snatch a bullshit, I'm stuck."

"I'm stuck, what's going on?"

"All of them are stuck, there are too many people, and the Internet speed cannot be delayed!"

"Damn it, didn't you talk about broadband? Broadband is also so stuck!"

"Network administrator, come out quickly. Others have an online fee of 4 yuan per hour. You need 5 yuan here, so why are you still stuck?"

“…”

The Internet cafe was shouting, and Fei Xiaodong and his cousin looked at each other, both shocked by this scene.

Perhaps because of broadband, players from far away come here to play games. Two-thirds of the more than 200 computers in the entire Internet cafe are playing "The Legend of Gods and Demons". The collaborative atmosphere of shouting and fighting makes people feel extremely excited at this time.

Unfortunately, even if there are too many people, it will still be blocked.

The boss seemed to be here, and he suddenly shouted: "Don't worry, now it's 512k broadband. I can upgrade to 1m, but after the upgrade, it will take 7 yuan to go online for an hour. You can choose for yourself, should you want 512k for 5 yuan or 7 yuan 1m broadband?"

"7 yuan, upgrade quickly, don't talk nonsense!"

"I'm here to play games specifically, and the round-trip fee is 2 yuan."

"Easy to upgrade the internet speed, it's stuck!"

"Damn it, I won't play anymore. I'll just talk about QQ when I'm not playing online."

“…”

The Internet cafe owner called the service provider with a smile. He was very willing to upgrade the Internet speed. Although he didn't use broadband and didn't lack customers, with broadband, he could attract players within a radius of ten miles. Even if the Internet is more expensive, he would not scare these players. He would always be full of machines in the middle of the night and in the morning. Moreover, "The Legend of Gods and Demons" also gave the Internet cafe 10% point card commission, which actually made more money.

By the way, there are only two online games in China. "The King of Kings" only sells monthly cards, not point cards, each monthly card costs 15 yuan, and you have to buy character cards to build a small account.

The monthly card of "The Legend of Gods and Demons" is 45 yuan per month, and the card is 50 cents per hour, and the small account can be built at will.

In general, "The Legend of Gods and Demons" is even darker. But looking at the Internet fee at this time, it is really not bad. The Internet fee is much more expensive than the point card fee, and operators including telecommunications are the big devils.

By early September, both games started charging, and the number of registered players exceeded 500,000. Based on the bad network environment, the large-scale team battles of these two games were aborted. Players only chose places with fewer people. The more people displayed on the screen, the basically no operation could be done.

Making money is definitely something you can make, but trying to get rich from this is a dream.

Take "The Legend of Gods and Demons" as an example. In major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, there are only a few Internet cafes in each city that have broadband installed. Only these Internet cafes can barely play, while other Internet cafes can only fight jungle monsters in the middle of the night. In addition, some home computer players, the number of online users can reach 15,000 at the same time is the limit, and 80% of registered players are stuck.

Kingsoft just wants to recover the cost and make some more money by the way. However, I also have some expectations, hoping that broadband will become more popular and that the game will be detonated by that time.

Even if China's Internet speed is not suitable for online games, even if "The Legend of Gods and Demons" and "The King of Kings" don't make much money, it still attracts countless Internet companies. People have found that electronic games can still operate like this, and this is an emerging market waiting to be developed.

So, "The Three Kingdoms of the Internet" will be launched on the mainland soon, followed by "Dark Light" at the end of the year. By next year, games such as "Stone Age", "Millennium", "Dragon Clan", and "Red Moon" will also be introduced to China, and the Chinese online game market will explode.
Chapter completed!