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>I would venture the guess that the price you pay per megabit has decreased. For me personally or on average? I'm a heavy usage user, but most my neighbors pay

by gph 12y ago

>I would venture the guess that the price you pay per megabit has decreased. For me personally or on average? I'm a heavy usage user, but most my neighbors pay the same as me for using a lot less. My grandparents have basically the same service as me and all they use it for is email, some web games, and the occasional VOIP call and video. Considering that nowadays almost everyone has high-speed unlimited plans for the same price I might question whether the net per megabit price for ISPs has really gone up. At the very least I'd gamble to say that it hasn't been anywhere close to exponential or unsustainable for them to keep up with.

runeks 12y ago
I can't speak for you, of course, but 10 years ago my parents paid more for a 256kbit/256kbit DSL connection than I pay now for a 35mbit/5mbit connection now. My (parents') connection back in 2003 (256/256 Kbit/s for 395 DKK per month): http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100538/http://www.cybercity.dk/privat/produkter/adsl/priser_og_produkter/ http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100538/http://www.cyberci... My connection now (35/5 Mbit for 279 DKK per month): http://www.fullrate.dk/privat/bredbaand/priser http://www.fullrate.dk/privat/bredbaand/priser That's 7.97 DKK per downstream megabit in 2014 versus 1580 DKK per downstream megabit in 2004. I very much doubt it has become 200 times cheaper per megabit/s in Denmark and actually more expensive in the US (or wherever you live).
- gph 12y ago
  That's all bandwidth, not total data usage. I'm talking about price per actual megabit transmitted by the ISPs. It's not like you actually do 35/5 mbps every second of the day for the entire month. I'm in an east coast city in the US. I remember having had maybe 5/1 mbps 10 years ago. I wasn't paying the bills but I'm pretty sure it was like $50 per month from the TV commercials. Now I've got 25/10 for closer to $70 per month. Bandwidth wise it's risen a bit, but not really that much. Course I'm pulling down a lot more megabits per month in streaming content (though I was big into Napster/Torrents back then). But my point was that most people have upgraded to broadband from dial-up even if they don't really use it that much. Only the ISPs would really have the data, but I'd be surprised if the cost per megabit transmitted for them has gone up dramatically.

by gph 12y ago

runeks 12y ago

I can't speak for you, of course, but 10 years ago my parents paid more for a 256kbit/256kbit DSL connection than I pay now for a 35mbit/5mbit connection now. My (parents') connection back in 2003 (256/256 Kbit/s for 395 DKK per month): http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100538/http://www.cybercity.dk/privat/produkter/adsl/priser_og_produkter/ http://web.archive.org/web/20040604100538/http://www.cyberci... My connection now (35/5 Mbit for 279 DKK per month): http://www.fullrate.dk/privat/bredbaand/priser http://www.fullrate.dk/privat/bredbaand/priser That's 7.97 DKK per downstream megabit in 2014 versus 1580 DKK per downstream megabit in 2004. I very much doubt it has become 200 times cheaper per megabit/s in Denmark and actually more expensive in the US (or wherever you live).

gph 12y ago
That's all bandwidth, not total data usage. I'm talking about price per actual megabit transmitted by the ISPs. It's not like you actually do 35/5 mbps every second of the day for the entire month. I'm in an east coast city in the US. I remember having had maybe 5/1 mbps 10 years ago. I wasn't paying the bills but I'm pretty sure it was like $50 per month from the TV commercials. Now I've got 25/10 for closer to $70 per month. Bandwidth wise it's risen a bit, but not really that much. Course I'm pulling down a lot more megabits per month in streaming content (though I was big into Napster/Torrents back then). But my point was that most people have upgraded to broadband from dial-up even if they don't really use it that much. Only the ISPs would really have the data, but I'd be surprised if the cost per megabit transmitted for them has gone up dramatically.