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Oh wow that is expensive. In The Netherlands the big ADSL/Cable providers are 20/30 euro p/m + whatever you pay for TV and phone. The fiber operators charge 40-
by tinco 11y ago
Oh wow that is expensive. In The Netherlands the big ADSL/Cable providers are 20/30 euro p/m + whatever you pay for TV and phone. The fiber operators charge 40-50 euro. I didn't expect it to be that much more expensive in the US.
- adventured 11y agoCable is certainly cheaper in the Netherlands, but not fiber. In Utrecht, Online.nl is ~$54 for 50mbps fiber. Fiber.nl is ~$44 euro for 50mbps fiber. Per https://www.internetten.nl https://www.internetten.nl and online.nl $70 for 1gbps rather beats that by a drastic margin. Many cities in the US are seeing gigabit consumer fiber deployments at that price range.
- mseebach 11y ago> $70 for 1gbps rather beats that by a drastic margin. You need to factor in the marginal utility of added bandwidth. Few people can meaningfully utilise 20-50mbps (a full HD stream is <10mbps), much less 1gbps, so you're looking at paying $20-30 for, essentially, nothing. For the record, I count myself in the group of people who can't utilise such a connection, although I'm squarely in the group of people who'd pay for the faster connection in a heartbeat regardless.