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Posted August 08, 2019
300Mbps unlimited, $50 a month, which is pretty normal for the suburbs of a major city in the U.S.
Posted August 08, 2019
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Hooyaah: I have unlimited data at 400 Mbps. I had a Gbps but I didn't need that much bandwidth, so I down-scaled.
WTF? Where do you live in the US to get such great bandwidth? o.0

I am a US citizen and the best we get is like 100 Mb/s for commercial clients.
Posted August 08, 2019
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DreamedArtist: 750mbs down / 50mbps up. unlimited GB usage 79.99 monthly no contract. Here in Canada we have 1gb speeds but man they cost like 119 a month... brutal shit prices if you ask me. the Romanian guy that posted on top of me pays 8 dollars a month for 100mbps and can get 300 in speeds which is AMAZING btw.. I would take that any day to my package.
Yup! Also 500 Mbps down/ 250 Mbps up for $9 and 940 Mbps down/ 450 Mbps up for $10, unlimited ofc. But I have no need for such speeds, that's why I didn't bother to upgrade yet.
Posted August 08, 2019
I have 100mb/s no caps.


EDIT: As far as I can tell, no soft caps either. So it's not too bad. I gould upgrade to Gb. But why? 100Mb/s is all I've ever needed.
Post edited August 08, 2019 by paladin181
Posted August 08, 2019
I live in a rural area, so, I have a total of one ISP to choose from. Supposed to be 12Mbps down, 6Mbps up. Its fixed wireless, and I live pretty far from the tower, so its more like 5/2, and very weather dependent. 300GB cap, which is way better than the 60 it used to be. Costs Mme $95 a month.
Posted August 08, 2019
50 Mbit/s down, 13 Mbit/s up, ~$45 per month (A$59), no caps.

I could go up to 250 down / 100 up for ~$62 (A$82) but I don't want to fork over that kind of money at the moment.
Post edited August 08, 2019 by Randalator
Posted August 08, 2019
I think I technically have a baud of 11Mbps, but I've never seen the needle over 1.4MBps, and that was only once; mostly it tops out at 1.3MBps. I could also upgrade unlimited data (with the phone line) for $60, or to 42Mbps ($70). I think Telstra (the national Telecom) has a similar package to mine @ $80 per month.
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GameRager: … A bit of advice … using plain [E]nglish one doesn't have to look up helps a bit.
Sapere aude!
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CMOT70: Not quite true, certain limited areas don't have to change over to the NBN, as they already had a fibre to the home network. Those areas got exemptions from having to go on NBN plans. I believe iiNet had to win a battle in court for this. They even send me an email every few months to make sure I know that I don't need to look for NBN plans. But yes most people do need to change to NBN plans.
I was not aware of iiNet's escape clause. Are they in Sydney / Melbourne, I assume?

A friend of mine has had a cable modem forever, but had to switch to the NBN, recently, and has consequently had to wear a baud penalty. (Though they have three simultaneous streaming entertainment users, so I can imagine 7pm peak-hour would be rife with stuttering.) Very unhappy bunny.
Posted August 08, 2019
My current internet connection is the same mobile broadband one I've had since about 10-11 years back.
I can't remember the stated download speed, but the effective/measured one is 750kpbs.
That is for 20gb per month. After that I get a soft-cap limit of 24kpbs down.
The price for the connection has stayed the same since the beginning, at $20.
The price for sending out the analog paper bill has increased exponentially though, and is now at $5.

I will soon be switching over the fiber-optic however. As soon as they (if ever) lay it in the ground.
I could then choose 1gbps unlimited for $50 a month, plus added cost for VPN of $5.

All $ prices hastily converted at 10 SEK to 1$. APPROX.
Posted August 08, 2019
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CMOT70: Not quite true, certain limited areas don't have to change over to the NBN, as they already had a fibre to the home network. Those areas got exemptions from having to go on NBN plans. I believe iiNet had to win a battle in court for this. They even send me an email every few months to make sure I know that I don't need to look for NBN plans. But yes most people do need to change to NBN plans.
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scientiae: I was not aware of iiNet's escape clause. Are they in Sydney / Melbourne, I assume?

A friend of mine has had a cable modem forever, but had to switch to the NBN, recently, and has consequently had to wear a baud penalty. (Though they have three simultaneous streaming entertainment users, so I can imagine 7pm peak-hour would be rife with stuttering.) Very unhappy bunny.
Possibly the network your friend was on simply got bought and absorbed into the NBN infrastructure. The cable system where I live was installed by a small private company for a few Victorian rural areas (Mildura, Ballarat and Geelong- where I am), that was then bought by iiNet 10 years ago and continued to upgrade it's specifications- so they entirely own all the cables. So people in streets serviced by the system can change to the NBN with their choice of ISP or stay on the iiNet cable plan. There may well be similar pockets around Australia too, but the cable system in the 3 towns above are the only ones I know of for sure.
Post edited August 08, 2019 by CMOT70
Posted August 08, 2019
Before i moved i had 150Mbit (and usually it was even 10Mbit above that). Now the only speed available is 16 down/ 1 up. In theory - its more like 12 really. Feels medieval.
Posted August 08, 2019
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scientiae:
1.4MB = 11.2Mb, so unless you made a typo, you are getting what you pay for.


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For ten years there have been no landline available where I live.

Cable 100Mb/s down 10Mb/s up, 10ms ping to several fast servers within 100km. Speeds may be cut down by up to 30% at busy hours. Charged €20 a month. I should look into getting something cheaper but the ISP wants to sell me something much faster for only a liiiitle more (€5-10 more). I think they are losing private customers to mobile internet at a rapid pace. Mobile 5G is ridiculously fast but the low response time and stability of cable is nice too.
Posted August 08, 2019
For my business, 40Mbps with data caps, throttled down when reached, with phone line and limited channels cable-TV service for ~$61/month. And similar subscription, with 3 Mbps for ~$25/month at my hometown house.
HSDPA for my cellphone at ~$10/month.
Posted August 08, 2019
I mentioned these already in the earlier discussion, but:

10 Mbit/s cable modem
- Cost is included in the housing costs, so all apartments have this basic "broadband"; no extra fee.
- No data caps.
- Not quite sure what the upload speed is, maybe 2-5 Mbit/s.
- There is an option to bump this 100 or 200 Mbps, I don't recall the exact prices but probably something like 10€/month and 20€/month for those speeds. I haven't felt an urge to pay extra for the update, for my normal use 10MBps is more than enough. Downloading gigabytes of GOG games just means longer waiting. There might also be an option to upgrade it to 1Gbps, but I think that is far beyond what I want to pay for internet (50€/month or more).

max 125Mbit/s or so mobile 4G/LTE internet, with my phone
- No data caps. Yes I have even download about 100GB of my GOG games (to an external USB HDD) with this in one case.
- I think it costs little over 20€/month (including mobile phone calls, SMS, data etc.), but since it is also my work phone, my employer pays the bill.
- Real life speed at my home is around 10-50Mbps, depending how congested the network is (time of day), but the highest I have seen with it was about 120Mbps or so, tested with the Speedtest.net application on the phone. That was one or two years ago in Espoo/Otaniemi area, at noon during a weekday. Damn I wish I'd live there (it is around 10km from where I actually live).

I normally use the cable modem over wifi on my home gaming laptop, but if I am going to play an online game (Team Fortress 2), I tend to switch off the wifi connection and use my mobile internet on the PC (the phone connected to PC over USB). Oddly, the mobile connection seems to offer a bit lower latency and more reliable connection for online games (maybe this is because the cable modem wifi router is in another room than the PC, maybe 7 meters away with a couple of walls in between).

I think I could be totally fine using only the mobile internet on my PC, but since the cable modem is there for no extra cost, I use it too. The only advantage of the fixed line cable modem internet over the mobile one seems to be that I can do port forwarding on the cable modem router, meaning that e.g. peer-to-peer software might work better with it (like the old eMule client, possibly also bittorrent), but I use those p2p software like never nowadays, no need...
Post edited August 08, 2019 by timppu
Posted August 08, 2019
500/30 no cap, for about 15€
Posted August 08, 2019
100 Mbit down 20 Mbit up. Unlimited data with Wifi router included for about 30 USD a month.
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