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These threads always just reinforce how much of a cunt Helmut Kohl was, god damn
Edit:
Bit of context in case people who come across this comment don't know, Helmut Kohl was the german chancellor from 1982-1998.
He completely trashed his predecessors plans for nationwide fiber in order to advance TV instead. Now it's 2023 and a staggering 19% of all households are connected via fiber.
I live in Sweden and pay around 12 dollars a month for fiber 1000/1000 Mbps without data traffic restrictions.
Seeing the fees you pay makes me feel sad.
600 down / 20 up for $95 in western PA. My area only has one option, Comcast. So they can basically make the price whatever that want. The other side of town also has FiOS and of course the same Comcast plan is $60 there. I hate it so much
Reading this thread and learning that data caps exist... my condolences.
That's because you live in a civilized country.
I'm located in a van in New Zealand so I only use mobile data. I pay NZ$40 (US$25) per month for "unlimited" data, which is all I can eat but capped at 1Mbps. I can stream 720p barely, but I mostly torrent. I typically use about 60-80GB a month.
$24.99/month for 300 mbps up and down, Verizon Fiber. Northeast US.
Welp, I feel very poor now. UK VDSL 50/10mbps for the most part, about £30/mo I think.
€13/month, 300GB, theoretical speeds are 73Mbps download and 25Mbps upload, but usually a little under that.
Ok, maybe not just a little.
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This was the most worth-it way to access internet. Probably explains why I am the only one who thinks school internet is fast while others do quite the opposite.
400/400 Viettel in Vietnam. I pay 2.5m/VND a year. About $114 US.
500/500 fiber for $54.99 in a small town on the edge of the Dallas, TX metroplex.
10mbps 4G router for 20€/month in Finland
I have fibre too but it's more expensive so I don't see a reason to pay more when my current one works just fine too.
Scrolling for the Indians who get fiber for pennies.
$66pm for uncapped fibre 300/150 Mbps in South Africa
Small town in Finland. 1000/1000 mbps uncapped fiber. 50€/month.
New Zealand, 2000/2000, real world speeds generally match. $80 USD with a static IP.
54USD (80AUD) per month for 50/20 in Sydney, Australia. From a provider called Aussie Broadband
44USD (65AUD) per month for 25/5 in Sydney, Australia. Ditto AussieBB.
From what I hear the NBN (evil monopoly that owns infrastructure for your internet connection in Australia) wants to increase wholesale pricing so that the 25/5 tier costs as much to ISPs as the 50/x tier.
If you're in the states, the FCC has a tool to look this info up. It's really useful when you move to a new area: https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home
edit: not cost, but just like availability. Still good info though.
1000 down, 1000 up for $80 (was $70 until last year) with AT&T.
I use Starlink. $120 per month for 100<MBPS down and 15 MBPS up in Eastern Oregon.
100Mbps download of fiber optic network for 11.50 €/mo. I'm from Lithuania, which has always had a good internet coverage. The supplier is Cgates. They offer cheaper alternatives if you agree for a 1-year or 2-year plan.
$135cad for 15mbps. Rural life has its downsides
$100CAD for 60/6 copper which works fine but the price sucks. The only wired alternative is $70 for 3/0.3mbps DSL
Fuck Canadian ISPs and their government enablement.
Until a couple of weeks ago, in Brunswick GA, sad down and pitiful up through AT&T, along with easy-to-exceed bandwidth caps (for wired internet!) that twice hit us with large overage fees. That was about 80 or 90 before extra fees, although phone service was included too. Now we're going with a regional fiber optic outfit that offers about 500 down and up, for about $50/mo.
Lithuania. 1000Mbps download. 500Mbps upload. 7€. No data caps.
Michigan USA.
Stayed with ATT when I moved to this house I’m the hopes that they would be rolling out fiber and I should have it by end of summer.
Currently pay $65/mo for 100 Mbps service that usually gets me speeds of 80-90.
I only need a mobile data, no cap, 5-10 Mbps for 4$/mo in East Russia.
East TN. $95/mo Xfinity I get about 300 mbps down 25 up usually according to speedtest.net
"Rural" Texas (about an hour from a big city) and the only thing we have available is ADSL at 10/1 mbps on a good day. I'm paying $65 and as long as we don't stram 2 things at once it works!
Ontario, Canada $82 after taxes for 400/200 A second fiber provider is coming to my street (doing locates now) and they are $82 after tax for 1000/1000.
Edit: 82 cad is 62 usd
I pay $120/mo for 150mbps service. I live in Cambridge MA and have only zero choices for ISP other than this one, Comcast.
Australia, 1000 down but only 50 up, AUD$140 per month, there are slightly cheaper plans available but the guys i'm with are super good to deal with.
Considering switching to 250/100 for the better upload but its $200 per month which is just silly.
16€ for 1000Mb down 60 up by cable in France. It's a good price here
I'm about to move away but currently I cheat Comcast out of gig pro in the Boston area for the price of regular gig service, $90/mo for fiber to the basement, 2gig symmetric sfp+ and a separate 1gig symmetric rj45. Highly recommend if you can avoid paying the full $300/mo price (not sure if the full price has changed in 5 years but that's what it would have been if I didn't confuse the fuck out of customer support to get them to incorrectly bill me). I've tested both lines simultaneously and was able to max out both at a combined 3gig up/down using 2 simultaneous speed tests.
Santiago, Chile. 900/900 Synmetrical fiber, I pay around $25 USD per month. No caps, no static IP, I can manage my own ports and I use my own Mikrotik Hex S.
£30 a month for gigabit unlimited usage. UK. Connection is rock solid.
93/month. 400 down/12 up. 1.2 TB data cap.
100/20 mbps for $75 AUD a month for the first year. Amazing quality and service from Leaptel on FTTP. I wish our internet was cheaper.
Utah, USA.
Fiber, 250 Mbit up and down. $40/mo, no contract.
Actual speeds are usually around 280 down and 230 up.