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in Romania you can't even get lower than 100Mbs at the largest internet providers (even 100Mbs in some cases) https://www.digi.ro/servicii/internet https://www.

in Romania you can't even get lower than 100Mbs at the largest internet providers (even 100Mbs in some cases) https://www.digi.ro/servicii/internet https://www.digi.ro/servicii/internet

ed25519FUUU 6y ago
I'm I reading that right that a "940/450 Mbps" fiber plan is ~$10 a month??
- Medox 6y ago
  Yes. And very good coverage too. Even my parents in a small village have fiber at those prices, since 5 years now. We are basically a giant Lan party since the 2000's and should get a Netflix special/documentary with this script: https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_internet_speed_in_eu_by_country/cjiyt5n/?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_inter...
- nybble41 6y ago
  It looks that way to me (40 LEI ~= $9.81 USD). Personally I'm more impressed that they advertise a 200/100 Mbps minimum speed. I'm not sure I've ever seen a minimum speed listed by a US residential ISP. If you're very lucky they'll tell you the average speed to expect and not a theoretical maximum. They also didn't say anything about data caps, though there could be something in the contracts. I don't read Romanian myself and the PDFs of the contracts are time-consuming to manually reformat and feed into Google Translate. (Text selection goes across the page, not down each column, so it interleaves the columns.) But those minimum speeds—which BTW are guaranteed in the contracts—and no data caps would imply an oversubscription rate of only 4-5x. One question to ask would be whether they are getting a subsidy to provide service at those rates. The subscriber might not be paying the full cost, or at least not up front.
  - NullPrefix 6y ago
    >They also didn't say anything about data caps I doubt they have any.
  - Medox 6y ago
    No data caps. No subsidy either. Or who knows, maybe sometimes in some remote villages (?) Main reasons for such a good network and low prices: low income and piracy, which fueled a giant "duct-taped" Lan infrastructure some 20 years ago, with ISP's at every corner, which were then bought because the infrastructure was already there. See the link in my other comment here for a better explanation.
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- simfree 6y ago
  Gigabit network ports are cheap, and the cost of serving a MDU is low when your input costs (labor, hardware, obtaining right of way) is low.
- closeparen 6y ago
  US average wages are about 6x Romania's. My Gigabit Webpass is $60/mo. Seems about right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

in Romania you can't even get lower than 100Mbs at the largest internet providers (even 100Mbs in some cases) https://www.digi.ro/servicii/internet https://www.digi.ro/servicii/internet

ed25519FUUU 6y ago

I'm I reading that right that a "940/450 Mbps" fiber plan is ~$10 a month??

Medox 6y ago
Yes. And very good coverage too. Even my parents in a small village have fiber at those prices, since 5 years now. We are basically a giant Lan party since the 2000's and should get a Netflix special/documentary with this script: https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_internet_speed_in_eu_by_country/cjiyt5n/?context=3 https://np.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/2ct58s/average_inter...
nybble41 6y ago
It looks that way to me (40 LEI ~= $9.81 USD). Personally I'm more impressed that they advertise a 200/100 Mbps minimum speed. I'm not sure I've ever seen a minimum speed listed by a US residential ISP. If you're very lucky they'll tell you the average speed to expect and not a theoretical maximum. They also didn't say anything about data caps, though there could be something in the contracts. I don't read Romanian myself and the PDFs of the contracts are time-consuming to manually reformat and feed into Google Translate. (Text selection goes across the page, not down each column, so it interleaves the columns.) But those minimum speeds—which BTW are guaranteed in the contracts—and no data caps would imply an oversubscription rate of only 4-5x. One question to ask would be whether they are getting a subsidy to provide service at those rates. The subscriber might not be paying the full cost, or at least not up front.
- NullPrefix 6y ago
  >They also didn't say anything about data caps I doubt they have any.
- Medox 6y ago
  No data caps. No subsidy either. Or who knows, maybe sometimes in some remote villages (?) Main reasons for such a good network and low prices: low income and piracy, which fueled a giant "duct-taped" Lan infrastructure some 20 years ago, with ISP's at every corner, which were then bought because the infrastructure was already there. See the link in my other comment here for a better explanation.
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simfree 6y ago
Gigabit network ports are cheap, and the cost of serving a MDU is low when your input costs (labor, hardware, obtaining right of way) is low.
closeparen 6y ago
US average wages are about 6x Romania's. My Gigabit Webpass is $60/mo. Seems about right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_wage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...