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How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1000 down / 20 up for $75 from Comcast. It's getting upgraded to 1200/200.... Eventually.... πŸ₯²

If they take too long I might just hop back to TMobile 5g home internet. It would peak at like 500 down / 120 up for $50 which I was super happy with.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I pay $120/mo for 150mbps service. I live in Cambridge MA and have only zero choices for ISP other than this one, Comcast.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Outside of Washington, DC; About $90/mo for what’s-sold-as 1200 down, 40 up on Comcast. Realistically I max out at 800-1100mbit down and usually get 42mbit up.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

$24.99/month for 300 mbps up and down, Verizon Fiber. Northeast US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

1Gbps symmetrical fiber with no data cap. $75

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Southern California

$54.99 for 500Mbps down and 25Mbps up

That's with Spectrum being my only option. I use BillShark to renegotiate every year, so I'm not sure what it would be normally

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

500/500 fiber for $54.99 in a small town on the edge of the Dallas, TX metroplex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I use Starlink. $120 per month for 100<MBPS down and 15 MBPS up in Eastern Oregon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

East Bay Area, California, US; Sonic.net.
$65/month for 1Gbps fiber to the premises.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

T-mobile home internet in northern Virginia, just across the river from Washington DC.

50 USD a month for about 400Mbps down/20Mbps up. For me it was a much better deal FIOS or Comcast and the service is generally pretty good, but in my location it meant dealing with with latency that spikes up to 80+ ms every now and again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm in Australia. 250Mbps $A85 per month

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Who's that with? I'm paying the same for half the speed with iiNet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

1gb unmetered synchronous fiber in Denver for $80/mo

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$105 for the same speed in Lincoln, NE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the same for $45/month in rural Oklahoma.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading this thread and learning that data caps exist... my condolences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's because you live in a civilized country.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Utah, USA.

Fiber, 250 Mbit up and down. $40/mo, no contract.

Actual speeds are usually around 280 down and 230 up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Β£30 a month for gigabit unlimited usage. UK. Connection is rock solid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

CAD$80/mo for gigabit down and up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

ATT fiber just rolled out to my neighborhood so we're switching to that from Comcast.

Our bill had apparently gone up so we were paying $110 / month for I believe 600 or 800 down but we get significantly less than that.

With ATT it's 1Gig down for $80

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

$66pm for uncapped fibre 300/150 Mbps in South Africa

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

93/month. 400 down/12 up. 1.2 TB data cap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

$99 for gigabit (is a special for 6 months, then goes up to $129 a month for gigabit). My speed is about 600Mbps on a good day. Australia

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1Gbps down/150Mbps up. Speeds are almost always consistently at rated speed

Business plan in Alberta with Shaw(now Rogers) $85/month with 1 static IP

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My internet is shit but it's cheap. 19 usd a month for 40mbps down and 5 up. It's cheap enough that I can't complain really.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

40 is fine. You can stream HD content with that. Unless you're downloading a lot of big files, speed is highly over rated. It's more important to be reliable. I'd rather pay $19 for 40 than $70 for 500.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

150 Mb FTTH for $90 in Newfoundland

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Usa, FL. $120/month for AT&T gigabytes fiber. Tho best I’ve seen is like 900mbps both ways.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Verizon 5G, $35/month for the 300 mbps / 20 up plan (my needs are not huge, this does the TV streaming and the zoom meetings just fine).

Somerville MA. Was previously paying 3x that for crappy Astound service at half the speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Austin, Texas, U.S. I pay $100 a month for AT&T Fiber, which provides symmetrical gigabit. Real life is around 950-1000 MBPS both ways.

My plan would normally be $85, but I pay $15 extra for a block of static IPs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It costs about $27.52 for about 185Mbps download and 84.1Mbps upload of fiber internet, Philippines. My parents are paying for it, and they chose the cheapest plan.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In the UK I'm paying Β£53/months for 1Gbps fiber

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

$40/month at Spectrum here in Ohio for 300 down, 20 up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I pay for 500Mbps down and 50Mbps up, with no caps. Though, I often get a little more than that. I’m in the UK, with Virgin. My plan also comes with a SIM card with unlimited calls, SMS, and capped 2GB data (5G capable). All told I pay about Β£34, which is roughly $44.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1000/1000 Mbps fiber for $43 in Denmark, no data cap.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

1000/1000

My employer pays for it

Edit: I lied. My girlfriends employer also pays for it. We technically make money from it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

1000 down, 1000 up for $80 (was $70 until last year) with AT&T.

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