What is your internet service plan?
What is your internet service plan?
How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?
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.
What??? Let me cry a bit from Norway, where I pay 829NOK (82$) for 150mbps fiber
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.That sounds awfully familiar.
Huh, didn't know that before. What is it with politicians and avoiding foresight?
Worst part about the cable is the packet loss. It's legit better to get a slow DSL connection in Germany than a faster cable internet because the packet loss makes RTC unusable
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
1000 down / 20 up for $75 from Comcast. It's getting upgraded to 1200/200.... Eventually.... 🥲
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.
I’m giving T-Mobile a try soon since it’s $50/mo vs the $200/mo I pay for Comcast internet and cable (don’t use cable but it was cheaper as a internet & cable bundle for awhile). If I get similar speeds to what you got with T-Mobile I’ll be happy.
1gbps up/down with static IPv4 and IPv6 address for 105dkk ($15). Located in Denmark.
I can reliably get the offered speeds and the connection is unmetered.
Reading this thread and learning that data caps exist... my condolences.
1000/1000
My employer pays for it
Edit: I lied. My girlfriends employer also pays for it. We technically make money from it
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.
New Zealand, 2000/2000, real world speeds generally match. $80 USD with a static IP.
$66pm for uncapped fibre 300/150 Mbps in South Africa
$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.
I pay 65 for gigabit fiber with Telus. At the end of the 2 year deal they'll give me a better deal or Shaw will, I don't care who my isp or phone provider is, whoever gives me cheaper with more gets my money. Just be assertive with them, sometimes you'll be on the phone for 4 hours, but you save money and get faster speeds.
400/400 Viettel in Vietnam. I pay 2.5m/VND a year. About $114 US.
Geez I pay more than that per month for Comcast 900/15
Yeah, however, they guy who installed it was a shoeless Vietnamese dude, smoking a cig in my bedroom. Also, with the gpon from the company, I could only hit about 180 down. I have a house in Wisconsin and I pay 89.99 for 900/30.
Small town in Finland. 1000/1000 mbps uncapped fiber. 50€/month.
Lithuania. 1000Mbps download. 500Mbps upload. 7€. No data caps.
€13/month, 300GB, theoretical speeds are 73Mbps download and 25Mbps upload, but usually a little under that.
Ok, maybe not just a little.
Image link for compatibilityThis 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.
1gb unmetered synchronous fiber in Denver for $80/mo
Same in Portland
About to move to Denver and finding a place that had this while being affordable was tricky. I'm moving from Maryland outside of DC, and FiOS gigabit is so prevalent here that I don't have to think about it.
$105 for the same speed in Lincoln, NE
$70 in KC
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.
Oh great one, teach me of your sorcerous ways!
Ok so strap in...
It started with splurging on gigabit pro, the obscure fiber service they will only sell if you call a special number, have a back and forth with a small property manager, and wait for them to check your proximity to fiber and get approval from their finance department on top of a $1000 install fee (discountable to $500). Once I had gigabit pro (6 months and several approvals later), things got started as a result of repeatedly humoring the comcast salespeople every time they called to try to upsell me to cable TV. Since none of the residential salespeople were familiar with gigabit pro, which is installed and managed by the business side "metro-e" division of comcast, they were always shocked to see I was being billed $150/mo and assured me they could get me TV bundled and reduce my price (gigabit pro is often discounted so I was getting 2 years at 50% off the standard $300/mo price, I was actually planning on cancelling as soon as that ran out because there would also be an early cancellation fee). They would spend like an hour trying and failing to get the billing system to bundle in TV because I assume the residential billing system is probably only set up to bundle TV with residential high frequency cable internet packages. Eventually they would give up and tell me they would reach back out. Sometime later, I would get another sales call from someone else offering a TV bundle and the whole thing would repeat again.
I think I spent a total of 6 hours on the phone across several occasions spanning a month or more (always multitasking of course on these calls while they went in circles) just being entertained that they couldn't figure it out when one day the salesperson got their manager to override the billing system and they re-entered my plan from scratch. Every step of the way I told them I was happy with my speed (I was hoping that way they wouldn't notice I was managed by the metro-e team) and would only agree to bundle if they also dropped the 2 year contract I was in, and they agreed. So when they re-entered my plan, they erroneously entered in regular gigabit service. Since there would be no speed change I guess they didn't even look at the modem provisioning let alone notice that my "modem" was listed as the Juniper fiber switch that is normally rented out for fiber service.
Later I cancelled the TV part of the plan and was just left with the gig pro fiber service while my internet bill went down to the normal gig price. Not being completely satisfied I later called a few more times trying to negotiate my bill even lower. When I finally succeeded at negotiating my bill a few more dollars lower over live chat support, they made the mistake of sending me an xfinity combo modem/router self install kit - maybe because I didn't have a modem attached to my account that the system understood. I decided to just try to activate it and see what would happen, surprisingly I was able to activate it on my account while the fiber service was still active. I took advantage of having an actual returnable modem and swapped it out with a purchased modem to get rid of the modem rental fee which I was originally made to pay for the fiber switch, which further lowered my bill. So to this day I have 2gig symmetric SFP+ with an additional 1gig symmetric rj45 powered by fiber as well as the standard cable modem with an additional 1gig non-symmetric connection for a total of 4 gigabit download and 3.035gig upload.
To top that all off for several years I gave 1 gig out of the 4 that I now have combined to our neighbors through a moca adapter so for a large portion of my time here I have only paid $40/mo split with 4 total roommates, so my monthly portion would be $10/mo
TL;DR: I splurged like a $500 install fee to get gigabit pro which is super obscure and took 6 months to get all the approvals, then I kept interacting with customer support and salespeople while taking advantage of their confusion and the fact that the residential folks don't interface with the business fiber / metro-e folks to reduce my bill by tricking them into billing me standard residential price with a TV bundle that the salespeople REALLY want to sell you on, then I continued haggling for a few more dollars off resulting in them sending me a normal modem, which I set up and immediately swapped out with my own modem for even more money off. I also ended up splitting this extremely haggled bill with our neighbors (in addition to roommates) so my monthly portion has ended up being $10 since these 4 gigabits are split among 9 people who combined rarely even exceed 1 gig.
I pay $64 a month for Verizon Fios in Maryland.
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'm in Australia. 250Mbps $A85 per month
Who's that with? I'm paying the same for half the speed with iiNet.
TPG
I use Starlink. $120 per month for 100<MBPS down and 15 MBPS up in Eastern Oregon.
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.
From that article:
the company said it wants to avoid “having invested in network capability and performance that will not ultimately be enjoyed by end users”
Hilarious. What do NBN Co. think the rest of the world does with the higher performance?
10Gbps for 10 euro/month with no data caps. I know it's insane and I don't need anywhere near that much but it was just 1 euro more than the 1gbps plan so I was practically forced to take it :).
where in eu?
Bucharest
Ontario, Canada $82 after taxes for 400/200 A second fiber provider is coming to my street (doing locates now) and they are $82 after tax for 1000/1000.
Edit: 82 cad is 62 usd
What are the 2 providers. I can't get anything better than 50 up in Quebec unless I go with Bell.
You could check with fizz in Québec, it owned by videotron.
They have:
100 Mbps for 49$ cad.
200 Mpbs for 55$ cad.
400 Mpbs for 59$ cad.
Vianet - a provider out of Sudbury
Lakeland networks - a provider out of Bracebridge.
Ontario has a pretty aggressive fiber/broadband roll out right now. https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-connects-making-high-speed-internet-accessible-in-every-community
My family cottage is getting Bell fiber this summer too.
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.
10 Gbps symetric no limits @ 25€ month. Spain.
1Gbps symmetrical fiber with no data cap. $75
Same here. Verizon Fios?
Nah. My local electric company offers fiber.
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
Billshark: never heard of this! I signed up. THANKS
No problem. Be aware that they take their cut of the projected savings up front. At first it might not seem like a good deal, but it is over the long haul. I've been using them for about 3 or 4 years now and it adds up. Plus it feels good sticking it to the ISP for their shady practices and constant rate raising. And you don't have to do any of the work.
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.
150 Mb FTTH for $90 in Newfoundland
93/month. 400 down/12 up. 1.2 TB data cap.
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.
£30 a month for gigabit unlimited usage. UK. Connection is rock solid.
1000 down, 1000 up for $80 (was $70 until last year) with AT&T.
East TN. $95/mo Xfinity I get about 300 mbps down 25 up usually according to speedtest.net
East TN. $95/mo Xfinity I get about 300 mbps down 25 up usually according to speedtest.net
$80 1Gbps symmetrical fiber. Speed tests are usually 800+ down/1Gb up, but usually can get 1Gb down on steam games. Portland, Or
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.
$55USD (after taxes/fees) for 50/10 (very consistent). I could get gigabit for $125, but we don't need it and I'd need to upgrade my network to support it. My city is rolling out fiber over the next couple of years, so I'll probably wait until I know more before I upgrade my network.
Rural Oregon. 1gbps up and down. $600/month. I never go below ~930mbps each way.
Is it that much due to living in the rural area and you’re paying a loan off that build the infrastructure for you to have gigabit internet in the country??!
Yeah, sorta. Nobody would provide internet to where I live, so I finally convinced a company to trench fiber to my house for me.
Unfortunately I'm paying $500/mo for like 96 months now so they can offset the cost.
Worth it though. My alternative was 512kbps DSL that would have outages daily and I'm a remote software engineer. It just didn't work.
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.
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.
1000/1000 Mbps fiber for $43 in Denmark, no data cap.
500M/250M $80/month
Seriously overpriced here. I used to pay $25 for fiber 1G/1G
In Ontario, Canada, 500/500 fibre from Bell. I pay $60/month, though this is a promotional rate for 2 years. I think I will be paying double after the 2 years.
"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!
You could look into forming a community ISP. Its often easier in rural areas because in cities the big telecom companies already own all the infrastructure needed to lay cable, in the country there's less red tape. Some guy in Michigan did it for himself and his neghbors then expanded to a few hundred people.
I heard about that one, very interesting guy. I'm not sure if I could get away with something like that in Texas. The state likes to say its pro business and free, but reality says otherwise.
We're about to get out of here permanently anyway and move west towards even less internet access in an even more rural area. I may have to start looking into IPoAC next!
1000/1000 fiber line but we sub to the 500/500 rate since that’s more than enough for the 5 of us in Colorado. We pay $60 month to month. No cap. We can move between two services, change the speed any time, and even turn it off whenever. Real world tops out at 500/500 on wired. Wireless on 6 not E is 420/250.
I only need a mobile data, no cap, 5-10 Mbps for 4$/mo in East Russia.
$135cad for 15mbps. Rural life has its downsides
25€/month for up to 1000mbps upload & 1000mbps download fiber glass in small town near Amsterdam, Netherlands.
16€ for 1000Mb down 60 up by cable in France. It's a good price here
8.75€ 100MB/s up and down - Ukraine
20€ / month, nominal speed 400/50 Mbps, usually within 5% of that, Finland.
1000/1000 Google Fiber $40/month (since I'm broke the government covers half). Utah, US
Was $65 even but centurylink reneged on the lifetime contact price so now it’s $75 for gigabit internet up/down. In WA a major city
UK here.
1000Mb/s symmetric FTTP, unlimited data for £29/mo, though I'm currently paying £1/mo as part of a promotion from YouFibre. Speeds as advertised, especially moving data to my server at work which is also on YouFibre - it's like being on-site.
I've also got an unlimited data SIM card as a backup. Speeds vary but it's usually over 800Mb/s down and 200Mb/s up. That's £15/mo from Three.
Utah, USA.
Fiber, 250 Mbit up and down. $40/mo, no contract.
Actual speeds are usually around 280 down and 230 up.
In the UK I'm paying £53/months for 1Gbps fiber
Austin, Texas, US. 2Gbps down 1Gbps up for $100 a month with Google Fiber
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.
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
25€, 50Mbps, Italy.
I'm literally <100 meters away from the fiber cabinet, yet it doesn't reach my house, so all I have is FTTC.
With the last mile covered I'd probably get 1Gbps up&down.
Sad.
Usa, FL. $120/month for AT&T gigabytes fiber. Tho best I’ve seen is like 900mbps both ways.
50/50 for 23 EUR. I used to have 500/500, but 99% of the time I didn't need that much, so I thought why should I pay more for something I don't need.
$139AUD per month, New England, NSW, Australia.
1.5k php/month in Philippines for 200 mbps no capping
UK, 900 Mbps for £35
1 GBPS with Spectrum in Western Michigan, $59/mo
1000/1000 AT&T fiber, $80/month including equipment, no contract, no data cap, in lower MI.
Exact same in SoCal.
I don't suppose you've got yours setup to bypass/ignore the ATT provided router?
Yep. Passthrough to my router with all AT&T WiFi disabled.
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 $15 extra for a block of static IPs.
50/50 from ziply fiber in Oregon. I think it is around 60-90$ a month but I don’t pay the bill. Edit: checked with my dad and we pay 60$ a month for that
$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
1000/1000 Mbps, $49 a month, Arizona
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.
$40/month at Spectrum here in Ohio for 300 down, 20 up.
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.
Scrolling for the Indians who get fiber for pennies.
$90 for 100/20 in Sydney, Australia. I have FttP, but can't come up with a legitimate need for >100mbs at the moment
100 mbps for 999 inr a month ~10 usd in india but I somehow get around 220 mpbs on the same plan :P
altough there is also a plan for 1000 mpbs for 4000 inr ~50 usd£24 for 36mb/6mb in Scotland, UK. I’m from a shitty little town so that’s the best we’ve got. About $30 or so.
$90 a month for gigabit from cox in Southern California. Shits great and I only have the occasional few minutes of downtime in the middle of the night when nobody should be on the internet anyways, biggest downside is I only get 100 upload. They’ve treated me right so far and I plan to continue their service.
Sorry about the shilling they’re just good.
$100 USD/mo for FiOS "gigabit" in NY which is actually 940mbps up/down. Pretty satisfied with got tho.
$100/month, 1200/40mbps. Wish I had fiber for better upload speed, but happy with the download. Allegedly, Xfinity is increasing upload speed sometime this year, but there was an announcement for that same thing last year
10000 ARS (~20 USD) for 200/20Mbps FTTH in Argentina. Public dinamic IPv4 only and no plans for IPv6 yet. Before that, I had a cooper pair line at 10/1Mbps for the same price.
$74usd/month for 100mbps up and down with a static ip
500 Rupees (about 6$) for 40mbps fibre connection.
Gigabit for cheap. Service provider employee plan has its perks.
Southeastern PA. I have 1000 down/1000 up fiber to the home for $90 a month. Seeing people get these speeds for under $20 makes me both envious, hopeful that things can be improved, and depressed at the state of the regional monopolies here in the US.
Here's hoping we can make municipal fiber viable going forward.
900 down 100 up. £60/month. UK
130 down 20 up. £24/month. UK
800 down 35 up, $70 1.2 tb/month cap in Portland. I tried to switch over to century link but the installer said my apartment is too old. They've got 1gbps up and down for $70.
1000/400 mbps down/up for 40€ /month. Portugal
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.
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.
CAD$80/mo for gigabit down and up.
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 £34, which is roughly $44.
Damn that's a pretty good deal, I couldn't live with a 2gb mobile data cap tho...
Best advice I can give folks is not to be afraid of haggling your contracts. When their introductory offers, and the initial contract ends, call them. Though, it would help if there is actual market competition… though from what I hear about the US… that’s non-existent, when it comes to broadband packages.
I'm on mobile data plan 27GB for $1.8 per month
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
1250/40, $90/mo, Suburb if Denver, CO. Comcast. 1TB data cap.
Fiber, 250mbps/250mbps. A speed test I just ran gave me 190mbps/160mbps, which I consider to be a fair result. For this I pay the equivalent of $12/month.