HACKER Q&A
📣 shanebellone

What's your residential Internet speed and cost?


Long story short, I had fiber installed yesterday and it's impressive for $60/m.

Download - 946 MBPS Upload - 944 MBPS

(tested with speedtest.net)


  👤 rektide Accepted Answer ✓
Verizon fios, 100mbos, $65. Major (for us) metropolis, East coast USA. They turned on IPv6 like 2 maybe 3years ago, yay.

I'd love a gratis bump to 200mbps some day.

Edit: oh snap! It was pretty hard to find plans on the website (most pages wanted me to check availability with address/email/phone... No) but I did eventually find a page that told me there's a 300mbps for $55 - $10 if I use a de it card. Called them, and done! This post saved me money & tripled my speed.

I have a very expensive grandfathered Verizon unlimited wireless plan with no softcap (but they'll drop me if I use 100GB or so repeatedly). Alas it's not qualified, otherwise I'd save another $20!


👤 vijucat
Hong Kong, similar speeds to yours up and down (9xx Mbps), but 2 lines (2x1000 Mbps). $45 USD per month. Speed to servers in NYC is ~ 100 Mbps.

     Server: HKIX - Hong Kong (id = 34555)
        ISP: Netvigator
    Latency:     2.90 ms   (0.35 ms jitter)
   Download:   949.79 Mbps (data used: 676.7 MB)
     Upload:   946.68 Mbps (data used: 460.6 MB)
Packet Loss: 0.0%

👤 popcalc
Budapest, Hungary: 1Gb/s up, 2Gb/s down => ~$14/mo

Los Angeles: 300Mb/s up/down => $60/mo


👤 lukeqsee
Switzerland, Init7

10/10 Gbps for 66CHF (~$70) / month.

Unfortunately my router can't firewall packets at 10Gbps so I get around 1Gbps effectively. :)


👤 prirun
$30/mo for 20Mbps down/1.2Mbps up

Spectrum (aka Charter) near Louisville, KY

Grandfathered Time-Warner ELP (Everyday Low Price) that was originally $15/mo for 3Mbps down/1.2Mbps up

I could get 300Mbps up/down from AT&T for $65/mo, but that is only a 1-year intro rate and puts me on the "call AT&T every year to protest price hikes" treadmill. That's the reason I switched from 50/10 service years ago with Time Warner to ELP.


👤 TacticalCoder
France: 72 EUR / month ($80) for 2 Gbit/s down // 600 Mbit/s up (router doesn't have any SFP port though and ethernet ports aren't 2.5 Gbit/s, so it's advertized as 1 Gbit/s down per machine max)

Luxemburg: 42 EUR / month ($46) for 500 MBit/s down // 250 Mbit/s up

Fiber to the home is becoming a reality in many countries... House in France is in a very remote area and yet there's fiber even there, since a few months.

Building in Luxemburg has an impressive (and beautiful) fiber optic rack in a dedicated room, next to the garages, from which all the apartments are dispatched (new building, wired with fiber for everybody from day one).


👤 Lazvon
5Gbs symmetrical AT&T Fiber residential for $170/month in metro area of southeast US.

And backup than I never have to use except middle of night maybe once a quarter when AT&T doing maintenance or something… first year we had like 5 fiber cuts and autofailover was awesome, but they finally buried deeper and no more cuts.

1.2Gbs Down/35Mbs Up Comcast Cable for $120, can’t remember Internet part of the bill, $90 or $100 I think; no TV channels, but do have Telephone service for alarm system (AT&T compresses VoIP and it doesn’t work).


👤 jmclnx
Xfinity is the only choice I have. It advertises as 5Gpbs and costs 100 USD

My real speed:

Download 14Mbps -- Upload 1 Mbps

If I had a choice of any other service, I would jump.

Note, Xfinity is really Comcast. I used Xfinity so this would show up in searches.


👤 glmeece
AT&T Fiber in Round Rock, TX (Austin metro area) 940 down; 939 up - per Speednet's macOS app via Ethernet directly to AT&T's supplied router.

Unfortunately, I'm paying $80.42/mo. as I'm well past all the offers they're willing to give. Still - overall pretty reliable, except when we have a power outage (not AT&T's fault) and it takes (on average) 15-20 minutes to get back online.


👤 IanCal
UK, would get ~15 down and <1 up wired. Have a 4/5g connection that varies from 4 down to 350 down, generally stuck at about 6 up I think - only 4g for uploads. About £30/mo.

Strongly affected by signal strength, so I sometimes open the window to "let more internet in" which can dramatically improve speeds.

Very eagerly awaiting a proper fibre connection which would be symmetric gigabit for something like £40/mo.


👤 danaris
Charter/Spectrum (upstate NY), 500Mbps down tier, $100/mo. In practice, tends to be between 80 and 100 MBps down; considering downgrading.

👤 MandieD
40 EUR/mo for 250 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. Actual down is often about 280.

Germany, Deutsche Telekom DSL in a semi-urban neighborhood with no cable service.


👤 LinuxBender
520/520 fiber $170/mo counting the static IP. Price likely due to no competition. Only alternatives are a highly congested LTE network or Starlink. very rural area I also had to pay to trench in the fiber as I was late to the party. Early subscribers trenching was paid for by the federal government.

👤 senectus1
In Australia: I'm now in the ISP hopping game, to get the best value for money (you switch ISP's every 6 months or so to get deals)

right now I pay AU$85 a month for 100/40 plus static IP on HFC (Hybrid Fiber Co-ax) I just did a speed test (lunch time on a sunday) DOWNLOAD Mbps 104.65 UPLOAD Mbps 36.54


👤 jasoncartwright
3Gbps each way fibre, with 1Gbps/50Mbps backup cable. GBP115/month from two separate providers. South London

👤 asicsp
What do you all do with such high speeds? Guessing video streaming. I don't need that as I prefer reading fantasy books instead.

I'm in India, pay slightly above $3/month to get 2GB/day (my average usage is about 400MB/day). Max speed I've seen while updating s/w from the terminal was around 2MBPS.


👤 LargoLasskhyfv
Shaped FTTH, 250/50 EUR30.

Hamburg, Germany, excellent peering and latency.

500/100 for EUR40 and 1000/250 for EUR50 would also be possible.

But I'm cheap, and the 100/40 I had from the same ISP was enough already. They just did an upgrade I couldn't avoid, price didn't change, so be it :-)


👤 mikewarot
Indiana, Chicago suburb

Comcast/Xfinity - $120/month!!!

175/11 Mbps down/up

The killer is the data cap, after 1299 Gb, it gets really expensive, really fast.

I can never download a language training set without going broke.

Or, I have to go to a friend who has ATT gigabit fiber with no limits for only $40/month.


👤 AdrianB1
1 Gbps fiber optic with unlimited traffic in 2 places, one in the capital city and one in a small village in the mountains. Another one over GPRS, ~150 Mbps down and ~ 25 Mbps up with 200 GB/month of traffic. About $10/month each. Country = Romania.

👤 lostmsu
Bellevue "rural" near Microsoft. 1Gbps symmetric from Ziply for about $90/month. With an option of up to 10Gbps for $300/m (that one's new).

I am staying on 1Gbps, but will likely upgrade within a year.

Right now I'd prefer to pay extra for IPv6 though.


👤 nknealk
I pay $70 for 1 Gb/s but I usually end up getting 800-900 mbps up/down when I run a Speedtest which is fine by me. I switched to centurylink fiber during the pandemic. Before that I was paying comcast $65 for 100 down / 10 up.

Seattle WA


👤 chenxiaolong
Symmetric gigabit on AT&T fiber (USA) on their older GPON-based network for $85USD/month. The GPON OLT for my neighborhood isn't oversubscribed (yet), so I consistently get the advertised speeds.

👤 jdpedrie
520 down, 24 up. Comcast cable near Detroit. About $100/mo. They email me occasionally to say I can get better download speeds if I upgrade my modem, but I haven't bothered yet.

👤 Fire-Dragon-DoL
1500 mbps download/1000 mbps upload at 85$/month (USD), I'm in Canada, Vancouver.

There was an option for 2500/2500 mbps, but I can't find an excuse to buy that plan for now.


👤 pansa2
Australia: 50/20 Mbps @ 79AUD (~53 USD) per month.

My speeds are actually lower than in 2019, when I was on 100/40 for the same price - but that was with a 500 GB per month data cap.


👤 porkbeer
I pay 85/mo for 1.5m dpwn amd maybe 300k up. Dsl, less than an hour from a majlr american city. Broadband beyond suburbs is still a dream. I miss online gaming.

👤 PriceDev
I pay for gigabit internet, but this is my results on Speedtest with Wi-Fi.

545mb/s down, 41.6 mb/s up. Xfinity 2 year promo $79.99.

I don’t recall what it goes up to after the promo.


👤 xpil
Contract: 1GBps down, 200 Mbps up. Actual: 850-900 Mbps down, 180-200 Mbps up Price: €50/mth Provider: Vodafone Location: Ireland, rural area.

👤 extasia
London England, 100 MBps down, 10 up.

18 GBP / month.

Does the trick for me, I don't really send / receive large files except for the occasional ml model from huggingface.


👤 didon
Advertised: 10gbit fiber symmetric - $30. Real: ~5gbit upload, 2gbit download (max); ~800mbit up & down (median) Sonic, San Francisco Bay Area

👤 brink
0.5 gigabit (down and up) fiber for $45/mo in Michigan rural village. I could get full gigabit for $60, but it's not worth it to me.

👤 mransing
In India, Mumbai, Jio Fiber

Speed - 300 MBPS 1500Rs(18.3$)/Month

Along with NetFlix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ HotStar and other subscriptions.


👤 neom
10gbps $40/mth usually get about 3.5 down.

👤 fpierfed
Amsterdam, Ziggo cable 300 Mbps down 30 mbps up for 26 Eur/mo for 12 months, then 53 Eur/mo

👤 durron
980 down/880 up $99/month. Based out of Massachusetts, it's a good deal for this area

👤 CallMeMarc
I have fiber in my apartment and I’m getting 900/700 on average.

Amsterdam, Netherlands for 35 euros per month.


👤 mgarfias
1gbps (symmetric), 110 (or so, it’s gone up and I haven’t committed the new fee to memory)

👤 skydhash
45 mbps/down, 28 mbps/up fiber. 105 USD/month. Port-au-Prince, Haiti

👤 aranchelk
95 Mbps down, 20 up, $35 USD, SF Bay Area, Monkeybrains, rooftop wireless antenna.

👤 vucetica
Richmond, VA (USA) - Verizon FIOS, 300/300Mbps - $29.99/month

👤 xnacly
Germany, 250MBPS Download, 50MBPS upload, costs around 40€ or 44$ per month.

👤 alanfranz
Italy, very small town. DSL, 200mbps down/20mbps up, 35 EUR/month.

👤 Nicksil
481.43 Mbps / 23.64 Mbps @ $99.99/mo

Spectrum

:/


👤 praving5
India - Airtel -

300 Mbps (symmetric) - INR 999 ~ US $12 / month (unlimited data)


👤 bhartzer
Starlink, $110 per month

100mb/s down and 20mb/s upload

Colorado mountains, 10,000 feet altitude.


👤 eu
I have two fiber links at approx. 300/300mbps for $45/$40.

👤 im_jerry87
India - BSNL

Down - 70 Mbps, Up - 51 Mbps and Data - 3.3TB for $8/month.


👤 DaveJorg
8gbps / 8gbps $140 CAD ($100 USD) - Toronto, Canada

👤 Macha
Just tested:

2040 down, 102 up (I pay €65/mo for 2gbit down, 100 up)


👤 Helmut10001
Cable, 100mbit down, 5mbit up, 50 EUR/month

👤 warthog
Around the same speek but I pay 30 GBP per month

👤 carapace
San Francisco, out in the sticks by the ocean.

Download 936 Mbps

Upload 24 Mbps

US$90/month


👤 simonswords82
Gigabit at 45 GBP per month (city fibre)

👤 cooloo
Israel 200up 200 dowm 120NIS (40 euro)

👤 yyyyddmm
10/10gbps 59CHF (66$)

Internet + TV


👤 coldblues
DL - 920 UP - 860

8 EUR/month

Unlimited 1GBPS fiber.


👤 Hikikomori
500/500 rj45 $12/month, building likely has 10G fiber.

👤 CSDude
1 gbps download, 20 upload (I know lol) 15$

👤 faceloss
2.83 dollars or 800 pakistani rupees,(Lahore,Pakistan)

All of us 5 family members can stream 1080p youtube at a time,

Upload speed is 1 mb something, depends on time of the day.