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Ask HN: What do you pay for your internet connection, and where do you live?
Also a comment on the quality of service....
I'm in Australia (Melbourne).
$110/month AUD
100 megabits down
40 megabits up
More like 25 megabits up in reality.
- Grimburger 4y ago$50 USD per month / 1 Gbps symmetrical / Penang, Malaysia
- skydhash 4y agoAround $80/month, but that's with a 50% discount because my SO is an employee of the ISP. Real price is close to $170 20 Mb/down, up is a guest at this point I am in Haiti, Port-au-Prince. Yep, it is this bad. Fiber is cheaper, but the network is sparse, and I can't get it where I live.
- bradknowles 4y agoLocation: Austin, TX Carrier: AT&T Technology: VHDSL Theoretical Speed: 70mbps down, 10mbps up Practical speeds: 25-40mbps down most of the time, sometimes as much as 7mpbs up Cost: not sure. I haven't looked at a bill recently, but I think it's like $100 Other: Note that there is just one gigabit-class carrier in this neighborhood -- Spectrum. We used them years ago, but found they were too unreliable, so switched to AT&T. It's a lot slower, but more reliable than Spectrum. AT&T has tried to sell me GigaPower on several occasions, but then they tuck their tail between their legs and run, once I point out to them on their own site that they can't actually deliver GigaPower in this neighborhood. Go two miles in any direction from this neighborhood, and GigaPower is actually available, as is another gigabit-class carrier, like Grande. Funny that.
- reboot81 4y ago500/500 45USD, small town Sweden.
- 2rsf 4y agoISP and infrastructure? I got a quote from Telia for 479 SEK (48$) for only 100/100 over Fiber
- ptm 4y agoIndia, 8usd/month, 3Mbps down, 0.4Mbps up. (Numbers from Google internet speed test) Yeah, it is pretty bad.
- mcwh 4y ago$40 SGD for 1Gbps fiber connection in Singapore
- stop50 4y agoGermany 45€/month 50/12 Mbit over VDSL fluktuates between 40 and 50 in the download only with unregular connection interruptions (from 0 to 40 interuptions a day with an median of 4 and an downtime for each interupt of 2 minutes)
- rulur817 4y agoIndia, $6.5 per month, 300 mbps up-down symmetrical. Next to zero downtime. Great support response. Only downside, no IPv6, I guess.
- guiambros 4y agoNew York, $85, 1Gb/1GB over fiber (Verizon FiOS). Quality is excellent, extremely reliable, consistently in the 800-920 Mbps range up/down. (Fun fact: my first modem was a 300bps in mid-80s. Clearly we've come a long way since those early days...)
- theGeatZhopa 4y ago35€, Germany. 250mb down, 50mb up
- eimrine 4y ago3€ per month (I use the cheapest) 20mbps, Ukrainian rural area. optic to my street, ethenet to my house. Also I have 5GB of 4G + free calls inside my operator + enough for me minutes to other operators for 4€ (vodafon). Btw nowadays all internets works super unstable, yesterday my bank was not accessible via wire and today vodafon signal in my area is missing. Also much of Russian resources are blocked even those who are not about war like websites about databases, science, electrical engineering. Imagine using tor for reading nplus1.ru or commenting tech news on habr.ru or hanging on vk.com. Torrents are working great on both directions - that is what I will miss most of all when my country joins EU with its Incvisition of so-called intellectual property.
- rajasimon 4y ago12$, India - 150 MBPS - Jio Fiber
- xzcvczx 4y agonz $80/month 950/950mbps
- user261 4y agoBangalore,India $12/month for 100MbPS I do get the stated speed. I've seen steam downloads reach 11 to 12 MBPS regularly. Pretty low downtime too. Sometimes the downtime is due to rivals cutting off the fiber
- srvmshr 4y ago> Sometimes the downtime is due to rivals cutting off the fiber What?! How does that not get punished? Please tell us more.
- photonios 4y agoRomania, Cluj-Napoca by Digi. 9€/month, 1 Gbit down, 450 Mbit up. It's all fiber. You can't really get non-fiber around here. It's blazing fast and pretty stable. There are no real restrictions. They have a fair use policy, but I never heard of anyone being slapped on the wrist for using too much.
- idontwantthis 4y ago$40/mo 40mbps up/down. Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It’s reasonably stable.
- Normille 4y agoRural UK £26/month fibre ~40 Mbps down / ~6 Mbps up. Pretty rock solid. I can't remember having to reboot the router once in the past 6 months. I thought my broadband was pretty quick until I saw the figures posted by others.
- efortis 4y agoPuerto Rico $88/mo 300/30Mbps coax QoS 9.5/10
- catonmylap 4y agoThe Netherlands, 35€, fiber with 1 Gbit up/down
- blakblakarak 4y agoFrance 29EUR a month (which includes TV, unlimited national and international phone calls to most countries) - ~700mbs down / ~500mbs up.
- filchermcurr 4y agoMiddle of Nowhere US: I pay $110 a month for "up to" 940 down and 15 up. In reality, I get about 300 down and 13 up. But if it hasn't rained for a while and isn't windy and the sun is at just the right angle and the stars align, I can get about 550 down!
- ottobonn 4y agoOakland CA USA, symmetric 1 Gbps fiber for $35/mo (but actual speed is usually a bit lower than that) from Monkeybrains
- fomine3 4y ago$45 1Gbps symmetric Japan (for house everywhere except very rural), effectively like 250-800Mbps
- Doctor_Fegg 4y ago£59/month for 600 Mbps up or down. I’m in rural England using https://gigaclear.com https://gigaclear.com. (Actually more like £30 right now as I’m still on the introductory offer.)
- wh0car3s 4y agoPhilippines (in the Metro Manila area), $50 for 300mbps (and I think 50mbps up). Service is ok but some slow-downs do occur during evenings.
- WheelsAtLarge 4y agoInternet service seems pretty expensive relative to other costs for the Philippines. Is it? Or is it just my wrong thinking?
- wh0car3s 4y agoYou are correct, on cost/mb, my country is one of the highest in asia.
- noodlesUK 4y ago80USD/mo gigabit symmetric Portland OR (ziply fiber) The service is excellent, they have their VP of Network on Reddit who does lots of good networking content u/jwvo. Can’t complain
- skocznymroczny 4y agoRural Poland, $25/month for 40Mbit download/4Mbit upload. The price is pretty much static, and the bandwidth is limited by the copper wires. Started with 128kbit connection back in the day. They are laying fiber in my village, so some day I can expect to have 100Mbit+ connection for the same price.
- winrid 4y ago"Up to" 400mbps down, 10 up, $30/mo, Xfinity. Redwood City USA Bad random latency issues, probably going to explore switching to Fiber...
- MrWiffles 4y ago1. El Paso, Texas (USA). 2. ISP: Spectrum (only choice; apartment) 3. Speed: 1GB down, 35mbps up (up is a limitation of cable infrastructure, not artifical) 4. Price incl. taxes and addl. fees: ~$140 USD per month 5. Service quality: surprisingly good, once I got my own modem and ditched theirs! Notes: - I've not yet experienced any bandwidth caps or throttling. I have zero confidence it'll stay that way, but so far, so good. - Spectrum is one of a handfull of national monopolies on internet service. It used to be two competing companies: Charter and Time Warner Cable. A few years ago, Charter bought TWC and the merger created the entity known as Spectrum. Haven't verified this, but I read somewhere on the internet (which must make it true!) that post-merger, Spectrum is the largest ISP in North America. - I live in an apartment, and as such I'm totally barred from having any options beyond what the landlord says I can have. My account is with the ISP directly, not through the apartment management company (thank `$DIETY || $FSM`), but Texas law has no protections for consumers against monopolization of utilities in commercial/rental housing. DSL through AT&T is the only other option, but it's god awful, and there's no fiber anywhere near here, and with chronically suppressed wages, virtually zero educated population and actually zero technology industry, I doubt there will be before 2040 at the earliest. - A while back I was having a god-awful experience with the service, and finally I just bought a new DOCSIS3.1 modem at Best Buy. Called 'em up, gave them the MAC address, plugged it in and BOOM, problems instantly disappeared. Since then the service quality has been far better than I thought it would be. Being a national monopoly, my expectations were pretty low to begin with. - Price is after all taxes (from memory), best possible plan there is in my area. Said taxes are supposed to be paid by them, not me, but since I don't have any other options, they can literally force consumers to pay their tax bills and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Government raises taxes on company = my bill goes up, company makes even more money because they jack up the price on top of that and try to hide it/justify it by saying "increased cost of compliance". It's not at all; it's just an excuse to jack up the price on their custo-err, I mean, victims.
- gaws 4y ago> Speed: 1GB down > ~$140 USD per month Robbery.
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- busterarm 4y agoMiami, FL. USA. Google Fiber Webpass. Gigabit. $750/yearly. Rock solid.
- sebsky 4y agoI'm in Belgium. VDSL2+ 80Mbps DOWN, 30 Mbps UP. Fair connection, stable 58€/mo
- cutthegrass2 4y agoUK - £24.99 per month for 50/20mbps
- matthewmacleod 4y agoLondon, UK – £50 ($60USD) per month for 1Gbit symmetric fibre from https://www.communityfibre.co.uk https://www.communityfibre.co.uk with no outages or downtime that I've seen.
- e-pelaza 4y agoMadagascar. $63/month for 100mb/s down, ~35mb/s up. Pretty good for a third world country.
- oumua_don17 4y agoUK - 55£ per month, 80 Mbps/20Mbps Looks expensive but for the reliability and no evening slowdowns with fantastic tech support in UK they are worth it. Most importantly, they have a really strong stance on privacy which I respect. During the signup, you're asked if you want a connection which is filtered. If you click yes, you are told that they don't filter connections, so if you want such a service you should sign up with another ISP or move to North Korea. :)
- gidorah 4y agoSounds like we use the same provider!
- vivegi 4y agoIndia. Around $12/mo effectively (I pay for 6 months and get 1 month free). The rated b/w is 75 Mbps. I've got other concurrent devices. On my laptop and connected over the wifi I get 17 Mbps down/16 Mbps up using speedtest from https://fast.com https://fast.com
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- xigurat 4y agoBerlin, Germany Actual: Coaxial, 50€/month, 1Gbps/50Mbps, No IPv6 I could also get: Fiber, 75€/month, 1Gbps/100Mbps, IPv6 I guess But no fucking way, it is already expensive and will get almost no benefits. Deutsche Telekom is a scam with no competitive pricing.
- mFixman 4y agoLondon, UK: £38/m for 750mbps symmetrical. I'm a bit surprised at how much more expensive Internet is in other places of the UK, including in parts of large cities without fibre optic.
- jesterson 4y agoSingapore. $25 for 500Mbit up/down, pretty much holds to it except peak hours. +$10 will give 1Gbit but I just don't see any use of it.
- ID1452319 4y agoUK (not London) £35.50 per month for 75/25Mbps Sky "fibre"
- srvmshr 4y agoTokyo. 300 Mbps for $30 from J:COM. Bandwidth under actual use hovers around 100-120 Mbps.
- mattrighetti 4y agoMilan, Italy 25€/month FTTH 1Gbps down, 100Mbps up
- cagey 4y agoSoutheastern AZ (USA) semi-rural 50USD/month, T-Mobile Home Internet (5G-based). max speed: 130/40 down/up (Mbps) performance definitely varies (both by time of day, and past 3 weeks as T-Mobile seems to be running an aggressive ad campaign -> more network demand), recently has been pretty poor (and it seems like the "modem" wedges and has to be power-cycled on an almost daily basis).
- leros 4y agoI'm in a large US city. I pay $70/mo for 1Gbit up/down with Google Fiber. I also pay $135/mo for Starlink for traveling use. I usually get about 125Mbit down and 10Mbit up.
- awelxtr 4y agoBarcelona, Spain 300Mbps symmetrical fiber + landline + unlimited mobile calls and 25GB mobile data 38€
- derkades 4y agoNetherlands, 300 down 30 up, €53/mo (internet only).