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The New Zealand Commerce Commission got grumpy when ISPs started selling gigabit plans as 1000mbit, as it's not realistically possible for consumers to reach those speeds. So, instead of gigabit, we get "up to 900/400Mbps" or more realistically about 800/400, which, you know what, I can live with.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/87071149/spark-wa...

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Are internet packages better in NZ than in Australia? I'm assuming the connection is heavily metered?

I have an unlimited gigabit connection that I pay $120NZD per month for. And for content on good CDNs or hosted in the country I do get near the advertised speed. It took me just under 4 minutes to download the Star Wars Battlefront 2 beta from Origin which had a size of 23.78GB, averaging 90+ MB/s.

I probably use around 5TB of data per month as well.

Damn, that's not bad at all! For comparison, I pay 40 USD for a 20 Mbit connection with Xfinity here in the US. Oh, and I only get 1 TB of data per month.

I am so glad I moved out of Comcast territory.

Nice, do you have also uplink with gigabit?

In Poland I ave 300/30 Mbit (they connected fiber to my house recently) for 50 PLN (it is about 19 NZD, or 13 USD) per month. They offer 600/60 in some cities (where there is more competition), but I don't know the price, I think is is more in 80PLN range. And plan to start also 1 gbit plan (probably with 100 Mbit uplink).

In Switzerland I have gbit up and down and pay like 90 CHF (92 USD) in a month.

I use the G Suite Google Drive and get nearly full gbit while up and downloading.

I’m about to get symmetric 1gbit from Sonic in SF for the initial price of $40/Mo... after a while it goes up to $60.

Not the guy you asked, but here the speeds are set by the fibre infrastructure holders, not the ISP. So on residential connections the fastest you'll get is 900/500. I pay $129 NZD (~335 PLN). Not symmetrical, but damn impressive nonetheless.

The NZ Ultra Fast Broadband project is delivering a lot more FTTP, whereas the Australian National Broadband Network started out delivering FTTP and switched to a primarily FTTN network after an election caused a change of government, much to the annoyance of anyone who was hoping to finally get decent network infrastructure in this country...

Our government has invested a lot more into broadband infrastructure than Australia has. We rolled out FTTN (Fibre to the Node) for improved ADSL/VDSL years ago, and now FTTH is deployed in a lot of places so far. Australia proposed FTTH, then rolled back on that. So yes, we're generally much better for Internet than Australia.

Nope, 100% unlimited. Metered connections were a thing here 5 years ago, nowdays you generally get 80GB or so to start with and can upgrade to unlimited for a little extra. I pay $129 NZD ($91 USD~) per month for my unlimited almost-gigabit connection which is the most expensive residential tier available, and I can pick from any number of ISPs (there's like 5 major ones and plenty of tiny players) as the infrastructure is shared, unlike what you see in the U.S. with the cable companies.

I pay 45€ for 500/250 in France. I get 950/230.

The move to fiber (it ends on my box) was awesome.

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