10 Gbps symmetrical for 40 bucks a month TV included. It’s absolutely mind boggling for me how expensive internet is in North America.
Jesus, 10Gbps!? I’m paying $90 for “gigaspeed” AT&T fiber. But, I’m luckier than most, I have AT&T fiber and Metronet as fiber providers, as well as Spectrum and T-Mobile (but yuck to using 5G as my primary source of internet).
North America is insane with their internet costs.
Here in VN, I can get unlimited 4G for 40$ a year, and 100mbps symmetrical fiber for about 50$ a year. The biggest provider is the Army. Their customer service is actually pretty fast and good too!
The country is fucking huge to be fair, but it’s also the capitalism capital of the world.
Which country? Some of the countries in North America aren’t huge.
Country (noun):
an area of land considered in relation to a particular featureNorth America country.
Would have great internet too if the telecommunication companies didn’t just pocket the money for installing fiber infrastructure. Twice.
The country can be huge but most people live in urban areas now, it’s not like they’ve gotta waste time and money running fiber all over north dakota. We’re talking cities with populations that rival some countries.
500/500 but average 530+ both ways for $50/month. Up to 5 gigabit is available in my area.
EDIT - In the US the FCC just upped what is considered “broadband” to 100/20 , which still seems sad for upload, but at least moving in the right direction. It was an awful 25/3 before.
it’s supposed to be 100mb/s but in reality it’s about 0.5mb/s, I’ve seen it drop as low as 5kb/s (my landlord is a cheapscate and won’t replace the busted wifi extender in my uni dorm block)
380/260, for “gigabit fiber”
1000 down and 100 up for ca 40 euro a month
Damn, I pay something like £65 for that speed in the UK.
1000/35
Comcast
I’m surprised your upload is so low. They recently did some massive speed boosts in many places, 100 for most users and 200 for gigabit or higher.
1gb symmetrical $70 a month…
1-5Mbps during the day.
It is what it is.But! If I had smartphone with MediaTek SoC (or root access), I could get 30-40Mbps. Currently I get this by using a VPN 24/7.
Lemmy explain:
My carrier (Swan) only has cell towers in 1800MHz band. They partnered with other carrier (Orange) to extend their coverage. Originally, this was done using so called “National roaming” in 2G and 3G. For purposes of internet connectivity, 2G is irrelevant. This was awesome as I could just manually choose Orange and get faster speeds. Unfortunately, Orange shut down their 3G network, and the license was updated so they now provide Swan with 4G except in 800MHz band.
What’s different? It’s not done via “National roaming” anymore, but the phone signs into Orange’s network natively as Swan, without roaming, and it is not possible to manually select Orange anymore.
So, how would MediaTek help me?
They have “Engineer mode”*#*#3646633#*#*with “Band mode” selection where you can allow specific bands manually.
Remember that Swan only has towers in 1800MHz band? Yep, I could disallow that, and stick to Orange towers (also limiting myself from their B3 towers, but whatever).I have tested that with my old MediaTek phone, and it works. So it’s a functional concept.
(Same thing can be achieved on rooted Qualcomm and app like NSG)I found one more workaround (no, not using a jammer which would be illegal). I found out that I won’t get switched away from Orange as long as there is a continuous connection. So, I can take a bus into area without Swan coverage and connect to a VPN using OpenVPN TCP (didn’t help with UDP), and then head back. Important thing is to never disconnect, not even for a second.
That’s how I am currently on 2100MHz from Orange. I must stay connected 24/7.We do not have internet at home, so this is all I have. Overnight downloads go brrr…
~90/30 (paying for 100/40).
That’s considered pretty good for our shit Aussie FTTN (VDSL) network.
Fibre upgrades are happening.
48/16 here. Something like that with almost 80 a month.
“Pfft on a good day” mbps
1000Gbps each direction. No caps. There’s options for faster but it’s almost unheard of that I can saturate the link as it is (and nearly all of my hope network doesn’t go faster)
I got pretty lucky, there’s actually 3 carriers in the area that I can choose from which is probably partly why the options are good. Although I’m paying I think $80/month. I should switch carriers again or try to cancel my current one to try to get a deal, I guess.
1 Tbps ??? Or did you mean to say 1 Gbps / 1000 Mbps ?
Oof. I had fixed a typo but fixed it wrong. Sorry, I’ma dope.
Fixed the fix, thanks.
1Gbit fibre, they offer up to 3Gbit but I really don’t see the need right now and don’t have the hardware to take advantage of it right now.
75/70 at 23 euros a month. It’s cheap and enough for our family to simultaneously stream HD content. Gigabit internet is available but I’m not really sure it’s necessary. My son has 14 ping while gaming. That’s satisfactory.
1000/1000. Usually testing will show between 800-960 in both directions.
… mbps could mean both but one should differ between Mbps and MBps.
100 Mbit (Mbps) enables a max download speed of: 12.5 MBps…
I’ve never seen transfer rates given in MBps in the wild. It’s always Mbps.
Serial network connections give no care to byte alignment, they operate either bit by bit or symbol by symbol (which are rarely byte aligned).
I mean we are throwing accuracy out the window by using milli anyway so who the hell cares , at this point I’m afraid people are using “m” to mean JEDEC mega , ie per IEC mebi (“Mi”) , not even mentioning how stupid using the “p” infix looks when surrounded by SI or SI adjacent units
we are throwing accuracy out the window by using milli anyway so who the hell cares
It’s a factor of 8 we’re talking about. That’s not far off from a factor of 10. If a factor of 10 difference is important enough to get its own prefix in SI, I think a factor of 8 difference is plenty enough to care about having clarified notation. This isn’t like the mega/mebi thing where the drift is only on the order of 3%.
