My business gets 10mbps down, 2mbps up, for $90/month in Los Angeles. It also goes down frequently (5-6 times a year). I think the next best upload rate (5mbps) was $400/month or so with some bullshit "enterprise" plan.
It takes way too long to do simple file transfers from my office to a remote machine. I fucking hate it and our culture of monopolies can go to hell.
Home is 50Mbps FTTH right now. Google should start to deploy in ATX during 2014, and when they come to my neighborhood, I plan to switch to Google Fiber.
I also have a Time Warner fiber service on premise, mainly for one of my employees who lives just outside Elgin, TX. (but also because we get a redundant 100Mbps connection.
While I spent an order of magnitude more than you, I also have much better service. :-)
A town with 2500 people (100 Mbit/s the last 20 years, Between $60 and $30 per month)
Smaller town with 250 people (100 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $30 per month)
Small city with 100 000 people (100-1000 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $35 per month including IP-phone box and phone-account)
Been wondering how long it would take for you guys to do something about your internet connections. You keep blaming the big distances and so on but everyone I know is living in big cities and still has realy bad DSL...
I don't get the choice you get, what I have currently (2Mb/s:d 80Kb/s:u and incredible latency) is the only thing you can buy as a consumer.
leasing a line would cost #1,200 (gbp) a month, which combined with my exorbitant rent would leave me literally penniless.
I would say you're a lucky case.
When I tried the small, local cable ISP they were offering me 10/2 for 200 per month.
There's definitely no rhyme or reason to it.