How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?
These threads always just reinforce how much of a cunt Helmut Kohl was, god damn
Edit:
Bit of context in case people who come across this comment don’t know, Helmut Kohl was the german chancellor from 1982-1998.
He completely trashed his predecessors plans for nationwide fiber in order to advance TV instead. Now it’s 2023 and a staggering 19% of all households are connected via fiber.
That sounds awfully familiar.
Huh, didn’t know that before. What is it with politicians and avoiding foresight?
Worst part about the cable is the packet loss. It’s legit better to get a slow DSL connection in Germany than a faster cable internet because the packet loss makes RTC unusable
I live in Sweden and pay around 12 dollars a month for fiber 1000/1000 Mbps without data traffic restrictions.
Seeing the fees you pay makes me feel sad.
What??? Let me cry a bit from Norway, where I pay 829NOK (82$) for 150mbps fiber
I pay 15€ per month for 1000/100 cable plan in Finland. It’s a discounted price though, I believe the “real” price is like 40€/month, but it doesn’t look like I’ll have to pay that any time soon.
600 down / 20 up for $95 in western PA. My area only has one option, Comcast. So they can basically make the price whatever that want. The other side of town also has FiOS and of course the same Comcast plan is $60 there. I hate it so much
Reading this thread and learning that data caps exist… my condolences.
That’s because you live in a civilized country.
I’m located in a van in New Zealand so I only use mobile data. I pay NZ$40 (US$25) per month for “unlimited” data, which is all I can eat but capped at 1Mbps. I can stream 720p barely, but I mostly torrent. I typically use about 60-80GB a month.
$24.99/month for 300 mbps up and down, Verizon Fiber. Northeast US.
€13/month, 300GB, theoretical speeds are 73Mbps download and 25Mbps upload, but usually a little under that.
Ok, maybe not just a little.
Image link for compatibilityThis was the most worth-it way to access internet. Probably explains why I am the only one who thinks school internet is fast while others do quite the opposite.
Welp, I feel very poor now. UK VDSL 50/10mbps for the most part, about £30/mo I think.
Don’t feel too bad, at least you have some bandwith. ADSL (10/1 mbps) is the only thing available in my part of rural Texas, besides satellite 🤮, and I’m paying $65/month
Isn’t Starlink supposed to be ok?
If you can get it, I hear starlink ok. When looking into it there was a waitlist/downpayment that was many months out. I also don’t trust Musk not to destroy starlink.
We tried HughesNet and it was so bad I happily paid the early termination fee to get rid of their trash.
The DSL connection was a big improvement, even better than a cellular hot spot in the area.
thanks, wait you pay $65 for 10/1? WOW
Yeah it’s nuts. Where i came from we had a couple of broadband options but in this place its like an information desert. The house didn’t even have the connection when we first arrived, it cost about $400 for the DSL install.
400/400 Viettel in Vietnam. I pay 2.5m/VND a year. About $114 US.
Geez I pay more than that per month for Comcast 900/15
Yeah, however, they guy who installed it was a shoeless Vietnamese dude, smoking a cig in my bedroom. Also, with the gpon from the company, I could only hit about 180 down. I have a house in Wisconsin and I pay 89.99 for 900/30.
54USD (80AUD) per month for 50/20 in Sydney, Australia. From a provider called Aussie Broadband
44USD (65AUD) per month for 25/5 in Sydney, Australia. Ditto AussieBB.
From what I hear the NBN (evil monopoly that owns infrastructure for your internet connection in Australia) wants to increase wholesale pricing so that the 25/5 tier costs as much to ISPs as the 50/x tier.
From that article:
the company said it wants to avoid “having invested in network capability and performance that will not ultimately be enjoyed by end users”
Hilarious. What do NBN Co. think the rest of the world does with the higher performance?
Scrolling for the Indians who get fiber for pennies.
1gb unmetered synchronous fiber in Denver for $80/mo
$105 for the same speed in Lincoln, NE
I get the same for $45/month in rural Oklahoma.
I’m jealous, but not jealous enough to live in OK.
About to move to Denver and finding a place that had this while being affordable was tricky. I’m moving from Maryland outside of DC, and FiOS gigabit is so prevalent here that I don’t have to think about it.
Small town in Finland. 1000/1000 mbps uncapped fiber. 50€/month.
10mbps 4G router for 20€/month in Finland
I have fibre too but it’s more expensive so I don’t see a reason to pay more when my current one works just fine too.
500/500 fiber for $54.99 in a small town on the edge of the Dallas, TX metroplex.