10 Gbps symmetrical for 40 bucks a month TV included. It’s absolutely mind boggling for me how expensive internet is in North America.
Jesus, 10Gbps!? I’m paying $90 for “gigaspeed” AT&T fiber. But, I’m luckier than most, I have AT&T fiber and Metronet as fiber providers, as well as Spectrum and T-Mobile (but yuck to using 5G as my primary source of internet).
I know, it kinda sounds crazy, but at the same time it makes sense because after infrastructure the cost for the ISP is minimal. I mean upgrading to 25 Gbps is possible for just 70 bucks, so what can I say. Although my country is comparably small and I do live in the city. So it’s not universally like that.
Spectrum near me charges me $79 a month for 400mbit down, and… Get ready… 10mbit up.
I’m in southern San Diego and they have non-compete agreements with the other companies. I can’t get anything else.
3 download 0.9 upload
:)
That’s awful, I’m sorry :(
Is your ISP’s infrastructure based on RFC 1149?
17mbps (Neighbour’s Wifi).
🏴☠️based🏴☠️
1000 up and down. Fiber is great. Actually having competition instead of a Comcast monopoly in my area is amazing.
The one downside when I bought was only Comcast in the area. 6 months in, Att fiber got dropped in. Now I’m with you!
1000mbps symmetric, $500/mo (yeah I know…)
Bro what.
I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.
I’m in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was…okay…but not fast enough for my needs.
I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.
I’ll be paying for it for 10 years…but honestly, worth it.
Holy shit ! you’ll be paying 500$/month for ten years ? Yea, I imagine I would do that too, given the dough
Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don’t anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it’s quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we’ll see where life takes me.
60K in 10 years is not very expensive if you didn’t have to pay for the digging itself. That could easily be as expensive without any service. Now I don’t know what happens after your current contract though, whether it will be reduced or if you have options to switch providers…
Supposedly it drops to something like $60/mo (in today’s dollars). The rest is actually me having agreed to subsidize the digging itself. I just looked again it’s actually 8 years, so on the whole I still feel like it was worth it.
In fact, I remember them telling me they went way over budget on the project so I’m actually underpaying (we signed agreements prior to them breaking ground). So I guess that aligns.
Good one. And your commune wouldn’t pay for any of it ?
2000/1000
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It was a long road, getting from there to here.
Those are some pretty round numbers. What your isp tells you or what your router pulls?
My router actually can’t keep up Even with deep packet inspection and all the security features turned off I can’t crack 1700. If I connect directly to their provided router I get the full 2K. (I have a first version unifi dream machine pro, the SE supposedly handles it just fine).
Not sure about router not keeping up. I pull 1800s on the down but often break 2000 on the up. I believe it’s legit not any ceiling on my hardware.
He just said if he takes the router out of the picture he gets the full 2Mbps, that’s a pretty solid data point.
I believe it. The Unifi routers aren’t the most powerful. And they’ve had their share of bugs. I had a couple firmware updates where my USGs couldn’t even keep up with the 300Mbps I had at the time.
3.6mbps/3.4mbps unlimited, $50 a month. At least, that’s what speedtest.net says it is at the moment. I think it’s supposed to be 6, but such is the life of the countryside.
10 GBit symmetrical. Which is a bit useless, since my motherboard only supports 1 GBit, but it’s good to be ready for the future, I suppose.
You could get a 10 Gbps network card for under $100
And ensure the router and the ethernet cable support that. But yeah.
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I could, but in reality, I barely ever max out even the 1 GBit. Steam is probably the only service that comes to mind. And whether I download a new game in 10 minutes or 1 minute doesn’t really matter…
You just need 9 more PCs with the same motherboard on em!
I absolutely have to do that. This is the kind of valuable insight I can only get in a place like Lemmy!
“250 symmetrical”, but my router usually reports around 270ish each way. Recently moved somewhere with fiber to the home.
Previously the cable co I was with kept sending notifications that they had “upgraded” my service. I went from like 100mbps down to like 300 down with them, but they never changed the 10mbps up…
In a relatively small US city, 600/600 mbps fiber and I actually get it 24/7. I could get 1200, 2400 or even 5000 but I don’t see any point. Heck I can get 700/35 on my iPhone (overnight).
1200/35 for $120 US/month. I also own my own modem and router. Otherwise it would be another $15-$20/month.
Anything cheaper knocks my upload down to 20 and saves me very little. Viewing my options now hides upload rates but I checked a few months ago when my promotional rate expired and the price jumped $40.
1000/20 is $115, 800 is $110, 500 is $105, 300 is $90, 150 is $68
Any competitors don’t qualify as broadband anymore. Maybe 35/5? I didn’t even bother checking the price.
At least it’s fairly stable and “unlimited” but I’m fairly sure they can say that and still cap it at 200GB/month or something. Oh, and I can connect their surveillance device… I mean “free streaming box”… and get Peacock at no extra cost!
'murica?
300 mbps, symmetrical, ~30 usd/mo.
40down, 6up, 50USD/mo go USA! Only other option is Starlink which already had and was too unreliable.
960mbps up/down for $75usd/m
1000/1000. Usually testing will show between 800-960 in both directions.
