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What's your Internet speed up and down, provider, and monthly cost? Actual monthly cost, not temporary promotions.
by seattle_spring 3y ago
What's your Internet speed up and down, provider, and monthly cost? Actual monthly cost, not temporary promotions.
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- throwaway35777 3y agoIt's like $50/mo for 200/50 I think. Why, what are yours?
- seattle_spring 3y agoThe GP is comparing the US to the rest of the world, and they're correct: the US (including yours) lags behind other modern countries. Singapore, for reference, offers 500/500 symmetric connections for approximately the same price as you're paying. 2gbps symmetric is less than $200/mo. You're saying your Internet is fast enough for you, and that's fine and probably correct, but you're still getting slower speeds for higher prices than you should. You're also likely better situated than much of the rest of the country.
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- throwaway35777 3y ago> but you're still getting slower speeds for higher prices than you should And what is your solution to that?
- seattle_spring 3y agoNot vote for politicians that are ardently anti-consumer and anti-infrastructure? We’re talking about what exists, not who you can call to upgrade your internet :/
- int_19h 3y agoAggressive regulation of large businesses, and local government-run non-profit ISPs to provide a sensible baseline that can be relied upon without being at the whims of private companies.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIf by "the rest of the world" you mean a cherry-picked selection of the most advanced countries, then yes, the US is behind on internet access (and everything else). It never makes sense to me when people say how the US ranks last among developed countries on a bunch of metrics. Of course, that just means the US is indeed... less developed than those countries. If it's not fair to compare the US to Somalia, it's not fair to compare it to Sweden either. It just is what it is, somewhere between the two development extremes.
- mynameisvlad 3y agoHow, exactly, are you supposed to compare if not to other countries? There’s no bar for “this is what a developed country’s internet should look like” so the only way to compare is to do it against other countries roughly in the same range as the US. It’s also entirely factual to say that in comparison to other developed countries, the US lags in internet.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoYou compare cities, since you need to include average income.
- School-Cotton 3y agoIf the US is significantly behind developed countries in practically every category, why do you consider it a developed country? What does “developed” mean? > other countries roughly in the same range as the US. The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this?
- mynameisvlad 3y agoThere are several definitions for what makes a country “developed” and the US is solidly in all of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country I’m not sure how you can possibly argue that the US is not “developed”. > The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this? Feel free to take any of those lists and compare the US to countries around them in those lists. The countries might differ slightly, but the notion of what is a “developed” country has been firmly established for a long time now.
- trimethylpurine 3y agoMy prices are much lower in the states than in my place in Italy right now. Service sucks here too. Anyway you're ignoring income. Seattle is around triple the median of France for example. You need to compare cities of similar size and income.
- Aspos 3y agoWhat is great about paying $50 for such low bandwidth?
- zer00eyz 3y agoWest coast USA. My current service is 130 a month for 200/20. Its getting replaced: 50 bucks a month for 10gig fiber. It's going to cost me 800 ish bucks to set up to take advantage of that (routing, switching, nic's)... I will still come out way ahead before the end of the year. Competition has its benefits.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoThere's actually a couple of local providers that aren't bad, for example, https://www.sonic.com/ https://www.sonic.com/. $40/month (if you don't rent a modem/eerio, which, why would you) for 10 gigs up and down, not to mention excellent customer service. But I will happily admit that they're a bit of an outlier and the offerings in much of the country are complete shit.
- teaearlgraycold 3y ago$70/month for 10Gb/10Gb Actual speeds are more like 5/7. But I’m happy!
- seattle_spring 3y agoIn the US? Can you link to the promo page showing where others can obtain such a deal? Even if you deliver, surely you know that such a connection is an extreme, extreme outlier?
- teaearlgraycold 3y agoCalifornia. I have multiple multi-gig fiber options available and they compete. https://www.sonic.com/residential/internet https://www.sonic.com/residential/internet Looks like the prices must vary by location. They don’t have a price there.
- tick_tock_tick 3y agoThat's not really that rare in the USA though? Most decently sized cities have some form of fiber offering that will at-least give you a gig for $50 a month or so.
- f1shy 3y agoIn the great Europe (Germany, Telekom) I pay 50 for 16MB/4MB… good deal!
- JumpCrisscross 3y agoI’m currently doing 6.3/9.1 with 81ms latency on AT&T. I’m seeing Europe averaging 48 Mbps [1], though my experience in Italy and the UK has been far spottier than in America. (Lot of people in this thread confusing home and mobile internet. I get 1Gb/35 for $65 at home, but that’s irrelevant.) [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/689876/average-mobile-speeds-download-and-upload-in-western-europe/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/689876/average-mobile-sp...
- ricardobeat 3y agoThat average looks outdated, and includes a lot of rural and under-developed areas. It also varies a lot per country[1]. Most people in urban areas can get deals like 300-500Mbps for < €30/month. I have symmetric 1Gbps and pay about the same, could get 8Gbps for €80 but have no use for it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_Internet_connection_speeds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_In...
- rom1v 3y agoIn France, I pay monthly 27.48€ (~$29) for 1Gbps down and 500Mbps up (in theory, in practice, it's more like 500~600Mbps down, 250~300Mbps up). This includes a TV option for 2€ (without it, it's 25.48€). My provider is SFR (the only one giving access to optical fiber in the small village where I live). EDIT: I'm talking about home internet. For mobile internet, I pay 19.99€/month for unlimited access (5G), but I haven't done a speedtest.
- int_19h 3y agoFor comparison, I live in Washington State 50km away from Seattle, and I get 1200 Mbps down and 200 Mbps up (in practice more like 900/100) for $115/month. This is just pure Internet, no TV or anything else. The ISP that I currently use - Comcast Xfinity - is also the only cable provider in this area. I can get some mobile and satellite options, but they are all more expensive for lower speed and higher latency.
- SirensOfTitan 3y agoSymmetrical 1G, Verizon, 60/month in NYC
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- tick_tock_tick 3y agoI pay $55 a month for 1gps symmetrical at&t fiber. No caps I normally hit 2TB a month and they've never complained. Somedays I only seem to get like 800mpbs of that gig but it's rare.