Ask HN: What do you pay for your internet connection, and where do you live?
Also a comment on the quality of service....
I'm in Australia (Melbourne).
$110/month AUD 100 megabits down 40 megabits up
More like 25 megabits up in reality.
I'm in Australia (Melbourne).
$110/month AUD 100 megabits down 40 megabits up
More like 25 megabits up in reality.
9€/month, 1 Gbit down, 450 Mbit up.
It's all fiber. You can't really get non-fiber around here. It's blazing fast and pretty stable. There are no real restrictions. They have a fair use policy, but I never heard of anyone being slapped on the wrist for using too much.
Carrier: AT&T
Technology: VHDSL
Theoretical Speed: 70mbps down, 10mbps up Practical speeds: 25-40mbps down most of the time, sometimes as much as 7mpbs up
Cost: not sure. I haven't looked at a bill recently, but I think it's like $100
Other: Note that there is just one gigabit-class carrier in this neighborhood -- Spectrum. We used them years ago, but found they were too unreliable, so switched to AT&T. It's a lot slower, but more reliable than Spectrum. AT&T has tried to sell me GigaPower on several occasions, but then they tuck their tail between their legs and run, once I point out to them on their own site that they can't actually deliver GigaPower in this neighborhood. Go two miles in any direction from this neighborhood, and GigaPower is actually available, as is another gigabit-class carrier, like Grande. Funny that.
Actual: Coaxial, 50€/month, 1Gbps/50Mbps, No IPv6
I could also get: Fiber, 75€/month, 1Gbps/100Mbps, IPv6 I guess
But no fucking way, it is already expensive and will get almost no benefits. Deutsche Telekom is a scam with no competitive pricing.
Looks expensive but for the reliability and no evening slowdowns with fantastic tech support in UK they are worth it.
Most importantly, they have a really strong stance on privacy which I respect.
During the signup, you're asked if you want a connection which is filtered. If you click yes, you are told that they don't filter connections, so if you want such a service you should sign up with another ISP or move to North Korea. :)
50USD/month, T-Mobile Home Internet (5G-based).
max speed: 130/40 down/up (Mbps)
performance definitely varies (both by time of day, and past 3 weeks as T-Mobile seems to be running an aggressive ad campaign -> more network demand), recently has been pretty poor (and it seems like the "modem" wedges and has to be power-cycled on an almost daily basis).
Around $12/mo effectively (I pay for 6 months and get 1 month free). The rated b/w is 75 Mbps. I've got other concurrent devices. On my laptop and connected over the wifi I get 17 Mbps down/16 Mbps up using speedtest from https://fast.com
2. ISP: Spectrum (only choice; apartment)
3. Speed: 1GB down, 35mbps up (up is a limitation of cable infrastructure, not artifical)
4. Price incl. taxes and addl. fees: ~$140 USD per month
5. Service quality: surprisingly good, once I got my own modem and ditched theirs!
Notes:
- I've not yet experienced any bandwidth caps or throttling. I have zero confidence it'll stay that way, but so far, so good.
- Spectrum is one of a handfull of national monopolies on internet service. It used to be two competing companies: Charter and Time Warner Cable. A few years ago, Charter bought TWC and the merger created the entity known as Spectrum. Haven't verified this, but I read somewhere on the internet (which must make it true!) that post-merger, Spectrum is the largest ISP in North America.
- I live in an apartment, and as such I'm totally barred from having any options beyond what the landlord says I can have. My account is with the ISP directly, not through the apartment management company (thank `$DIETY || $FSM`), but Texas law has no protections for consumers against monopolization of utilities in commercial/rental housing. DSL through AT&T is the only other option, but it's god awful, and there's no fiber anywhere near here, and with chronically suppressed wages, virtually zero educated population and actually zero technology industry, I doubt there will be before 2040 at the earliest.
- A while back I was having a god-awful experience with the service, and finally I just bought a new DOCSIS3.1 modem at Best Buy. Called 'em up, gave them the MAC address, plugged it in and BOOM, problems instantly disappeared. Since then the service quality has been far better than I thought it would be. Being a national monopoly, my expectations were pretty low to begin with.
- Price is after all taxes (from memory), best possible plan there is in my area. Said taxes are supposed to be paid by them, not me, but since I don't have any other options, they can literally force consumers to pay their tax bills and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Government raises taxes on company = my bill goes up, company makes even more money because they jack up the price on top of that and try to hide it/justify it by saying "increased cost of compliance". It's not at all; it's just an excuse to jack up the price on their custo-err, I mean, victims.
> ~$140 USD per month
Robbery.
20 Mb/down, up is a guest at this point
I am in Haiti, Port-au-Prince.
Yep, it is this bad. Fiber is cheaper, but the network is sparse, and I can't get it where I live.
In reality, I get about 300 down and 13 up. But if it hasn't rained for a while and isn't windy and the sun is at just the right angle and the stars align, I can get about 550 down!
Quality is excellent, extremely reliable, consistently in the 800-920 Mbps range up/down.
(Fun fact: my first modem was a 300bps in mid-80s. Clearly we've come a long way since those early days...)
What?! How does that not get punished? Please tell us more.
(Actually more like £30 right now as I’m still on the introductory offer.)
300Mbps symmetrical fiber + landline + unlimited mobile calls and 25GB mobile data
38€
I'm a bit surprised at how much more expensive Internet is in other places of the UK, including in parts of large cities without fibre optic.
The service is excellent, they have their VP of Network on Reddit who does lots of good networking content u/jwvo. Can’t complain
£26/month fibre
~40 Mbps down / ~6 Mbps up.
Pretty rock solid. I can't remember having to reboot the router once in the past 6 months.
I thought my broadband was pretty quick until I saw the figures posted by others.
I pay $70/mo for 1Gbit up/down with Google Fiber.
I also pay $135/mo for Starlink for traveling use. I usually get about 125Mbit down and 10Mbit up.
Bad random latency issues, probably going to explore switching to Fiber...
$25 for 500Mbit up/down, pretty much holds to it except peak hours. +$10 will give 1Gbit but I just don't see any use of it.
Yeah, it is pretty bad.
$63/month for 100mb/s down, ~35mb/s up.
Pretty good for a third world country.
It’s reasonably stable.
VDSL2+ 80Mbps DOWN, 30 Mbps UP.
Fair connection, stable 58€/mo
Google Fiber Webpass. Gigabit. $750/yearly.
Rock solid.
25€/month FTTH
1Gbps down, 100Mbps up
250mb down, 50mb up