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I'm so glad to be living in Europe.

Germany's third biggest city, I can only get 50/10 Mbit, maybe 100/20 - no fiber in sight. No static IP and no guarantees anyone will accept mail from this dialup subnet.

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In Germany, with Unitymedia Buisness, I get symmetric 100Mbit/sec over coax (even in mid-size cities), a static IPv4 adresse and excellent customer service. Price tag: 35EUR/month.

In US, I have access to the same plan at same price point. But I have a semetric 1000Mbps for 85 USD. I can get a static IP but I see no need with DNS. Not sure how the customer service is, I haven't called in 2.5 years that I've had the link.

Seems like a similar price I saw on AT&T FTTP plans and Comcast’s cable internet plans for 100mbit.

Static IP might cost extra.

I pay AT&T $80 a month for symmetrical 1Gb FTTP with no data cap.

Italy (Milan): 1Gbps/200Mbps FTTH. About 30€/month.

I just checked, it's not available :P

From my experience, at least in Munich it's hit or miss which of the 2 cable company services your building - it's not even on the street level.

Also I'm not really complaining. Say what you will about Deutsche Telekom, but I've been a happy customer since 1998. Everytime I had a different ISP (mainly M-Net) I had more problems than uptime. This is more expensive, but I'm having less than one noticeable downtime every 2 years...

Canada. 100$/month for 150down/12 up residential. Never seen more than 50 down. Regular outages (for 30min every few days). If the US is third-world in terms of service, canada is an uncontacted amazon tribe.

In Canada. 100 CAD/month. 150 both up and down.

If you are in a major city, it might be time to check the other ISP in town. I'm glad I did.

I'm on Vancouver island. The provincial capital. There is only the one cable provider (shaw). No other landline options in my neighborhood.

Vermont. 60/6 for $100/mo. And I’m a lucky one. I have friends with 3mbit dsl and there are pockets of dialup

Not available, in Berlin.

No static IP is a good default for private customers, I think, due to privacy concerns. Static IP opt-in would be nice.

I guess, you are glad leaving in Germany. A country with a bad state in terms of Internet.

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