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Let me give you an example of expensive. At home in Texas I pay $70 for 1gbps internet. It actually performs at around 890-920mbps both up and down. Perhaps

Let me give you an example of expensive. At home in Texas I pay $70 for 1gbps internet. It actually performs at around 890-920mbps both up and down. Perhaps that is expensive compared to other countries, but I am happy with the price and the customer service/response is fantastic. I am currently in Kuwait (modern first-world nation) where the pricing tiers in my location are $30 for 1.5mbps, $50 for 3mbps, or $90 for 6mbps.

ab_goat 6y ago
Let me give you an example of expensive. I live in MA USA where my only option is Verizon DSL 3mbps down and 0.8mbps up for $74.57
- ti_ranger 6y ago
  That's impossible. In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH guidance mandated by the government) is quite commonly available at < $20-$25/month, and where it isn't, 10/1Mbps ADSL is available for $25-$30/month (including POTS voice service). Thus, it is impossible that you, in the country of ~$20 1Gbps service, have worse and more expensive service. </sarcasm>
- briffle 6y ago
  Until I moved west in 2017, I lived 4 miles from Madison, WI (one exit south of the beltline) and the best I could do was a WISP that was $62/month for 2 Mbps down and 250Kbps up
- sukilot 6y ago
  Is this a rental building, or why is there no cable offering? Rural?
cptskippy 6y ago
I moved from suburban GA to suburban CA recently and my plan/price stayed the same but my service went from 75/25Mbps to 1/1Gbps.
ViViDboarder 6y ago
A year ago I was paying $60/mo for 20/3 “broadband” from AT&T. This was with a two year contract and a discount that eventually expired. The kicker is that I wasn’t in some remote hard to access location, I was in the middle of San Francisco.
hinkley 6y ago
And in some cases it costs more to get the premium package from the same provider than it does to get the base package from a competitor. I recall a few years ago I was trying to figure out how to balance our home traffic across dsl, cable, and wireless, and it just proved way too hard to get all of the plates spinning. It shouldn't be this hard these days, and it would give more leverage to competition (after all, I can downgrade you and upgrade my other provider)

ab_goat 6y ago

Let me give you an example of expensive. I live in MA USA where my only option is Verizon DSL 3mbps down and 0.8mbps up for $74.57

ti_ranger 6y ago
That's impossible. In my country, our anti-ISP media claims that we have the most expensive internet in the world, but 10/5Mbps FTTH (in most cases with free upgrades to 20/2Mbps for the duration of COVID-19 WFH guidance mandated by the government) is quite commonly available at < $20-$25/month, and where it isn't, 10/1Mbps ADSL is available for $25-$30/month (including POTS voice service). Thus, it is impossible that you, in the country of ~$20 1Gbps service, have worse and more expensive service. </sarcasm>
briffle 6y ago
Until I moved west in 2017, I lived 4 miles from Madison, WI (one exit south of the beltline) and the best I could do was a WISP that was $62/month for 2 Mbps down and 250Kbps up
sukilot 6y ago
Is this a rental building, or why is there no cable offering? Rural?

cptskippy 6y ago

I moved from suburban GA to suburban CA recently and my plan/price stayed the same but my service went from 75/25Mbps to 1/1Gbps.

ViViDboarder 6y ago

A year ago I was paying $60/mo for 20/3 “broadband” from AT&T. This was with a two year contract and a discount that eventually expired. The kicker is that I wasn’t in some remote hard to access location, I was in the middle of San Francisco.

hinkley 6y ago

And in some cases it costs more to get the premium package from the same provider than it does to get the base package from a competitor. I recall a few years ago I was trying to figure out how to balance our home traffic across dsl, cable, and wireless, and it just proved way too hard to get all of the plates spinning. It shouldn't be this hard these days, and it would give more leverage to competition (after all, I can downgrade you and upgrade my other provider)