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> My broadband service is terrible My business gets 10mbps down, 2mbps up, for $90/month in Los Angeles. It also goes down frequently (5-6 times a year). I thi

> My broadband service is terrible My business gets 10mbps down, 2mbps up, for $90/month in Los Angeles. It also goes down frequently (5-6 times a year). I think the next best upload rate (5mbps) was $400/month or so with some bullshit "enterprise" plan. It takes way too long to do simple file transfers from my office to a remote machine. I fucking hate it and our culture of monopolies can go to hell.

gonzo 13y ago
My business has a redundant 10Gbps connection to our cabinet at zColo. We lease the dark fiber (but it doesn't run very far, so it's not very expensive.) The cabinet has a 1Gbps uplink for Internet. Home is 50Mbps FTTH right now. Google should start to deploy in ATX during 2014, and when they come to my neighborhood, I plan to switch to Google Fiber. I also have a Time Warner fiber service on premise, mainly for one of my employees who lives just outside Elgin, TX. (but also because we get a redundant 100Mbps connection. While I spent an order of magnitude more than you, I also have much better service. :-)
- Moru 13y ago
  I have lived in a number of places in northern Sweden. All had fiber to the house. New houses doesn't even have copper-lines for phones any more, they all go fiber. Some houses don't even have phone-outlets, only a 100 Mbit/s RJ45. A town with 2500 people (100 Mbit/s the last 20 years, Between $60 and $30 per month) Smaller town with 250 people (100 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $30 per month) Small city with 100 000 people (100-1000 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $35 per month including IP-phone box and phone-account) Been wondering how long it would take for you guys to do something about your internet connections. You keep blaming the big distances and so on but everyone I know is living in big cities and still has realy bad DSL...
  - MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
    Oh Sweden, is there anything you can't do? I'm impressed by this country, especially considering what they manage to pull off with such a small population.
- dijit 13y ago
  I live in the UK, in London actually. I don't get the choice you get, what I have currently (2Mb/s:d 80Kb/s:u and incredible latency) is the only thing you can buy as a consumer. leasing a line would cost #1,200 (gbp) a month, which combined with my exorbitant rent would leave me literally penniless. I would say you're a lucky case.
sachingulaya 13y ago
I have Comcast at my business in Los Angeles. It's $65/mo for what I measure at 50mbps down and 10mbps up. When I tried the small, local cable ISP they were offering me 10/2 for 200 per month. There's definitely no rhyme or reason to it.

gonzo 13y ago

My business has a redundant 10Gbps connection to our cabinet at zColo. We lease the dark fiber (but it doesn't run very far, so it's not very expensive.) The cabinet has a 1Gbps uplink for Internet. Home is 50Mbps FTTH right now. Google should start to deploy in ATX during 2014, and when they come to my neighborhood, I plan to switch to Google Fiber. I also have a Time Warner fiber service on premise, mainly for one of my employees who lives just outside Elgin, TX. (but also because we get a redundant 100Mbps connection. While I spent an order of magnitude more than you, I also have much better service. :-)

Moru 13y ago
I have lived in a number of places in northern Sweden. All had fiber to the house. New houses doesn't even have copper-lines for phones any more, they all go fiber. Some houses don't even have phone-outlets, only a 100 Mbit/s RJ45. A town with 2500 people (100 Mbit/s the last 20 years, Between $60 and $30 per month) Smaller town with 250 people (100 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $30 per month) Small city with 100 000 people (100-1000 Mbit/s the last 15 years, $35 per month including IP-phone box and phone-account) Been wondering how long it would take for you guys to do something about your internet connections. You keep blaming the big distances and so on but everyone I know is living in big cities and still has realy bad DSL...
- MrBuddyCasino 13y ago
  Oh Sweden, is there anything you can't do? I'm impressed by this country, especially considering what they manage to pull off with such a small population.
dijit 13y ago
I live in the UK, in London actually. I don't get the choice you get, what I have currently (2Mb/s:d 80Kb/s:u and incredible latency) is the only thing you can buy as a consumer. leasing a line would cost #1,200 (gbp) a month, which combined with my exorbitant rent would leave me literally penniless. I would say you're a lucky case.

sachingulaya 13y ago

I have Comcast at my business in Los Angeles. It's $65/mo for what I measure at 50mbps down and 10mbps up. When I tried the small, local cable ISP they were offering me 10/2 for 200 per month. There's definitely no rhyme or reason to it.