HACKER Q&A
📣 andrewstuart

What do you pay for your internet connection, and where do you live?


Also a comment on the quality of service....

I'm in Australia (Melbourne).

$110/month AUD 100 megabits down 40 megabits up

More like 25 megabits up in reality.


  👤 photonios Accepted Answer ✓
Romania, Cluj-Napoca by Digi.

9€/month, 1 Gbit down, 450 Mbit up.

It's all fiber. You can't really get non-fiber around here. It's blazing fast and pretty stable. There are no real restrictions. They have a fair use policy, but I never heard of anyone being slapped on the wrist for using too much.


👤 bradknowles
Location: Austin, TX

Carrier: AT&T

Technology: VHDSL

Theoretical Speed: 70mbps down, 10mbps up Practical speeds: 25-40mbps down most of the time, sometimes as much as 7mpbs up

Cost: not sure. I haven't looked at a bill recently, but I think it's like $100

Other: Note that there is just one gigabit-class carrier in this neighborhood -- Spectrum. We used them years ago, but found they were too unreliable, so switched to AT&T. It's a lot slower, but more reliable than Spectrum. AT&T has tried to sell me GigaPower on several occasions, but then they tuck their tail between their legs and run, once I point out to them on their own site that they can't actually deliver GigaPower in this neighborhood. Go two miles in any direction from this neighborhood, and GigaPower is actually available, as is another gigabit-class carrier, like Grande. Funny that.


👤 eimrine
3€ per month (I use the cheapest) 20mbps, Ukrainian rural area. optic to my street, ethenet to my house. Also I have 5GB of 4G + free calls inside my operator + enough for me minutes to other operators for 4€ (vodafon). Btw nowadays all internets works super unstable, yesterday my bank was not accessible via wire and today vodafon signal in my area is missing. Also much of Russian resources are blocked even those who are not about war like websites about databases, science, electrical engineering. Imagine using tor for reading nplus1.ru or commenting tech news on habr.ru or hanging on vk.com. Torrents are working great on both directions - that is what I will miss most of all when my country joins EU with its Incvisition of so-called intellectual property.

👤 xigurat
Berlin, Germany

Actual: Coaxial, 50€/month, 1Gbps/50Mbps, No IPv6

I could also get: Fiber, 75€/month, 1Gbps/100Mbps, IPv6 I guess

But no fucking way, it is already expensive and will get almost no benefits. Deutsche Telekom is a scam with no competitive pricing.


👤 oumua_don17
UK - 55£ per month, 80 Mbps/20Mbps

Looks expensive but for the reliability and no evening slowdowns with fantastic tech support in UK they are worth it.

Most importantly, they have a really strong stance on privacy which I respect.

During the signup, you're asked if you want a connection which is filtered. If you click yes, you are told that they don't filter connections, so if you want such a service you should sign up with another ISP or move to North Korea. :)


👤 cagey
Southeastern AZ (USA) semi-rural

50USD/month, T-Mobile Home Internet (5G-based).

max speed: 130/40 down/up (Mbps)

performance definitely varies (both by time of day, and past 3 weeks as T-Mobile seems to be running an aggressive ad campaign -> more network demand), recently has been pretty poor (and it seems like the "modem" wedges and has to be power-cycled on an almost daily basis).


👤 vivegi
India.

Around $12/mo effectively (I pay for 6 months and get 1 month free). The rated b/w is 75 Mbps. I've got other concurrent devices. On my laptop and connected over the wifi I get 17 Mbps down/16 Mbps up using speedtest from https://fast.com


👤 skocznymroczny
Rural Poland, $25/month for 40Mbit download/4Mbit upload. The price is pretty much static, and the bandwidth is limited by the copper wires. Started with 128kbit connection back in the day. They are laying fiber in my village, so some day I can expect to have 100Mbit+ connection for the same price.

👤 MrWiffles
1. El Paso, Texas (USA).

2. ISP: Spectrum (only choice; apartment)

3. Speed: 1GB down, 35mbps up (up is a limitation of cable infrastructure, not artifical)

4. Price incl. taxes and addl. fees: ~$140 USD per month

5. Service quality: surprisingly good, once I got my own modem and ditched theirs!

Notes:

- I've not yet experienced any bandwidth caps or throttling. I have zero confidence it'll stay that way, but so far, so good.

- Spectrum is one of a handfull of national monopolies on internet service. It used to be two competing companies: Charter and Time Warner Cable. A few years ago, Charter bought TWC and the merger created the entity known as Spectrum. Haven't verified this, but I read somewhere on the internet (which must make it true!) that post-merger, Spectrum is the largest ISP in North America.

- I live in an apartment, and as such I'm totally barred from having any options beyond what the landlord says I can have. My account is with the ISP directly, not through the apartment management company (thank `$DIETY || $FSM`), but Texas law has no protections for consumers against monopolization of utilities in commercial/rental housing. DSL through AT&T is the only other option, but it's god awful, and there's no fiber anywhere near here, and with chronically suppressed wages, virtually zero educated population and actually zero technology industry, I doubt there will be before 2040 at the earliest.

- A while back I was having a god-awful experience with the service, and finally I just bought a new DOCSIS3.1 modem at Best Buy. Called 'em up, gave them the MAC address, plugged it in and BOOM, problems instantly disappeared. Since then the service quality has been far better than I thought it would be. Being a national monopoly, my expectations were pretty low to begin with.

- Price is after all taxes (from memory), best possible plan there is in my area. Said taxes are supposed to be paid by them, not me, but since I don't have any other options, they can literally force consumers to pay their tax bills and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Government raises taxes on company = my bill goes up, company makes even more money because they jack up the price on top of that and try to hide it/justify it by saying "increased cost of compliance". It's not at all; it's just an excuse to jack up the price on their custo-err, I mean, victims.


👤 skydhash
Around $80/month, but that's with a 50% discount because my SO is an employee of the ISP. Real price is close to $170

20 Mb/down, up is a guest at this point

I am in Haiti, Port-au-Prince.

Yep, it is this bad. Fiber is cheaper, but the network is sparse, and I can't get it where I live.


👤 filchermcurr
Middle of Nowhere US: I pay $110 a month for "up to" 940 down and 15 up.

In reality, I get about 300 down and 13 up. But if it hasn't rained for a while and isn't windy and the sun is at just the right angle and the stars align, I can get about 550 down!


👤 stop50
Germany 45€/month 50/12 Mbit over VDSL fluktuates between 40 and 50 in the download only with unregular connection interruptions (from 0 to 40 interuptions a day with an median of 4 and an downtime for each interupt of 2 minutes)

👤 matthewmacleod
London, UK – £50 ($60USD) per month for 1Gbit symmetric fibre from https://www.communityfibre.co.uk with no outages or downtime that I've seen.

👤 guiambros
New York, $85, 1Gb/1GB over fiber (Verizon FiOS).

Quality is excellent, extremely reliable, consistently in the 800-920 Mbps range up/down.

(Fun fact: my first modem was a 300bps in mid-80s. Clearly we've come a long way since those early days...)


👤 user261
Bangalore,India $12/month for 100MbPS I do get the stated speed. I've seen steam downloads reach 11 to 12 MBPS regularly. Pretty low downtime too. Sometimes the downtime is due to rivals cutting off the fiber

👤 Doctor_Fegg
£59/month for 600 Mbps up or down. I’m in rural England using https://gigaclear.com.

(Actually more like £30 right now as I’m still on the introductory offer.)


👤 awelxtr
Barcelona, Spain

300Mbps symmetrical fiber + landline + unlimited mobile calls and 25GB mobile data

38€


👤 mFixman
London, UK: £38/m for 750mbps symmetrical.

I'm a bit surprised at how much more expensive Internet is in other places of the UK, including in parts of large cities without fibre optic.


👤 noodlesUK
80USD/mo gigabit symmetric Portland OR (ziply fiber)

The service is excellent, they have their VP of Network on Reddit who does lots of good networking content u/jwvo. Can’t complain


👤 Normille
Rural UK

£26/month fibre

~40 Mbps down / ~6 Mbps up.

Pretty rock solid. I can't remember having to reboot the router once in the past 6 months.

I thought my broadband was pretty quick until I saw the figures posted by others.


👤 leros
I'm in a large US city.

I pay $70/mo for 1Gbit up/down with Google Fiber.

I also pay $135/mo for Starlink for traveling use. I usually get about 125Mbit down and 10Mbit up.


👤 blakblakarak
France 29EUR a month (which includes TV, unlimited national and international phone calls to most countries) - ~700mbs down / ~500mbs up.

👤 wh0car3s
Philippines (in the Metro Manila area), $50 for 300mbps (and I think 50mbps up). Service is ok but some slow-downs do occur during evenings.

👤 winrid
"Up to" 400mbps down, 10 up, $30/mo, Xfinity. Redwood City USA

Bad random latency issues, probably going to explore switching to Fiber...


👤 rulur817
India, $6.5 per month, 300 mbps up-down symmetrical. Next to zero downtime. Great support response. Only downside, no IPv6, I guess.

👤 jesterson
Singapore.

$25 for 500Mbit up/down, pretty much holds to it except peak hours. +$10 will give 1Gbit but I just don't see any use of it.


👤 ottobonn
Oakland CA USA, symmetric 1 Gbps fiber for $35/mo (but actual speed is usually a bit lower than that) from Monkeybrains

👤 fomine3
$45 1Gbps symmetric Japan (for house everywhere except very rural), effectively like 250-800Mbps

👤 ptm
India, 8usd/month, 3Mbps down, 0.4Mbps up. (Numbers from Google internet speed test)

Yeah, it is pretty bad.


👤 srvmshr
Tokyo. 300 Mbps for $30 from J:COM. Bandwidth under actual use hovers around 100-120 Mbps.

👤 ID1452319
UK (not London) £35.50 per month for 75/25Mbps Sky "fibre"

👤 e-pelaza
Madagascar.

$63/month for 100mb/s down, ~35mb/s up.

Pretty good for a third world country.


👤 Grimburger
$50 USD per month / 1 Gbps symmetrical / Penang, Malaysia

👤 derkades
Netherlands, 300 down 30 up, €53/mo (internet only).

👤 efortis
Puerto Rico $88/mo 300/30Mbps coax QoS 9.5/10

👤 idontwantthis
$40/mo 40mbps up/down. Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

It’s reasonably stable.


👤 sebsky
I'm in Belgium.

VDSL2+ 80Mbps DOWN, 30 Mbps UP.

Fair connection, stable 58€/mo


👤 catonmylap
The Netherlands, 35€, fiber with 1 Gbit up/down

👤 mcwh
$40 SGD for 1Gbps fiber connection in Singapore

👤 busterarm
Miami, FL. USA.

Google Fiber Webpass. Gigabit. $750/yearly.

Rock solid.


👤 cutthegrass2
UK - £24.99 per month for 50/20mbps

👤 reboot81
500/500 45USD, small town Sweden.

👤 rajasimon
12$, India - 150 MBPS - Jio Fiber

👤 mattrighetti
Milan, Italy

25€/month FTTH

1Gbps down, 100Mbps up


👤 theGeatZhopa
35€, Germany.

250mb down, 50mb up


👤 xzcvczx
nz $80/month 950/950mbps