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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.

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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.

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.

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