I thought data caps for home internet were a thing of the past…
I’ve somewhat recently moved back to a very rural area of the Midwest. Small town. No stop lights. Biggest businesses other than the bars are Casey’s, Subway, and Dollar General.
And we have one ISP (not counting DSL) — Mediacom. When we first signed up, I had to go with the second service tier. But not because of speeds, but so I could have a reasonable 1 TB/mo data cap.
Lucky me, they increased the cap to 1.5 TB. 🙄
I hope that in my lifetime I can see ISPs regulated as a public utility.
pay $180/month for 1gbit down/100mbit up and it is unlimited… It would be $130 for 1.75TB, but I wanted unlimited and that is an extra $50/month
I’m reading all the comments and I’m shocked… In France, with uncapped access and 1Gbps down/600Mbps up (theorical) I pay 40€/mo (30€ every six month when I call to complain that it’s too expensive). And it’s definitely not the cheapest provider.
That’s insane !
(30€ every six month when I call to complain that it’s too expensive)
Sounds like a Liberty Global owned telecom company… they love their annual price increases ugh, but they are usually the fastest option in most areas
Interesting that they give you more up than down. Are you on a server plan or something like that?
Edit: lol just noticed what community this is, server plan makes more sense now.
I messed up, that’s the opposite actually ^^
1Gbps down/700Mbps up here, 35€/month (another french provider), no data caps - for 5 bucks/month more I could have 5Gbps down/1Gbps up, but… well, my home network is still using 1Gbps switches - but all the cabling was built with 10Gbps in mind.
Data caps are pure robbery. We run a non-profit ISP/hosting platform and a non-profit IXP with friends in West France, the only thing you pay (and the only thing end users should have to pay) is goddamn bandwidth.
My parents in rural Washington pay $70/month for 10Mbps down. I’m not sure the ISP bothers with a cap.
I have CenturyLink 940/940 here in Seattle with no cap for $65. The alternative is Wave which has a cap and you have to deal with introductory price bullshit.
neither will give me fiber; wave offered adsl :(
stuck with comcast, which I despise.
I’m stuck with Comcast 1200/30 with a 1.2TB cap for $100/mo, it’s this or DSL
Down in Oregon, I get either 100mbps through CenturyLink for $65 or 1.2gbps down/30mbps up from Comcast for $130 (with the $30 extra to remove the data cap). I would kill for a symmettical connection even if it were only 500/500.
I have 1gbps symmetrical for €17.95 in the Netherlands.
Wow that’s a good price. I pay 64.75 Swiss Franks for that.
But at least it’s a cool little ISP serving me. they offer 10 and 25 Gbit/s for the same price, just a bit more setup fee, because the transceivers are obviously more expensive. I’ve just not taken the plunge to upgrade my router and switches.
Wow, that’s pretty terrible. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen data caps on home Internet; must’ve been early 2000s. Right now I get 600 Mbps d/400 Mbps u at home and 10 Mbps d/u cellular (no data cap) for a total of under 30 EUR/mo.
In North America, it’s overprice. I pay 50 CAD/mo for 20 giga of 4G Internet on my phone. Like we say in my country, on se fait fourrer solide (we get totally fuck)
100Mbps uncapped for £26 a month. Pretty happy with that.
Country? Just for curiosity :)
Hiya, I’m UK. Digital fibre rollout just happened in my area.
UK by the looks of it. I pay £17pm for 300mbps.
That’s good deal. What ISP? (Sounds like local ISP)
Yeah, OP is not getting a good deal.
I personally feel hard done by if my connection drops below 500 Mbps I pay £50 a month for 1Gbps Which usually has about 300Mbps upload, but I don’t really care about that
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£35 for symmetrical 1gbps. In practice, I get fairly stable ~850mbps either way but I reckon my router is the bottleneck rather than the actual line.
In Switzerland you get unlimited 10 Gbit/s for 50 bucks.
Yeah, but those are metric bits so they are a little bit smaller.
I hate you, congrats!
In Canada we have to give our firstborn to a telecommunication monopoly for somewhat OK internet.
Somewhat OK internet on the infrastructure our taxes paid for and the government handed over to Bell and Rogers, but don’t worry, they’ll stop all the other evil corporations from coming in and giving us cheaper internet.
🔫 hand over the internet bill
what the hell
And /48 IPv6 subnet included! As it should be!
A /48 is quite overkill for a home customer. Do you have 65536 LANs at home? Here in Belgium, we get a /56.
They’re just preparing for one day when you have your own personal swarm of nano bots
Is it actually 10Gbit/s or just marketing? And how’s the latency?
The latency for 1Gbit/s is amazing, and i seem to get that speed. But i really don’t have the hardware for more anyways.
And for 80$/month you can get 25Gbps!
Omg
I’m in a very small town, we only have a bar. $100/mo for 500mb/s up and down, at least I actually get that though. Rarely is it less, but they also hooked us all up with fiber when they ran the fiber thru the center of the city. Price is also largely because they are literally the only internet provider unless you go with satellite – which I was considering but with the weather here…probably not ideal.
just out of interest … somebody here on satellite? I am interested to know the prices for sat services out there?
Shit dude, I pay €20 for synchronous 1Gb/s.
God, and I pay 45€ for 250 Mbit down and 50 up… Germany is so expensive in this regard. Could get 1Gb down and I think 250 up but that would cost like 90€…
Yeah I remember having really shit speeds when I lived in Berlin (10mpbs). Not only that, but the data allowances and price on 4g were absurd.
Yeah it’s crazy, I live in a more rural area around Hamburg but have to commute to Hamburg from time to time. It’s always weird, as soon I enter the city the 4 / 5G just becomes super slow…
Scandinavia or east Asia?
internet in other parts of the world is honestly developing at astounding speed. I got offered 1gbps synchronous fiber for $75/month in Vietnam in 2019.
Neither, Spain.
Since they are paying in € it’s probably Scandinavia.
I pay more for 200/20, but no limits. That sucks!
About 63€/68$ for 100/10mbps speed and a 150GB data cap. Including a cable tv subscription.
That’s in Europe.
You get a much better deal if you didn’t include TV subscription which no one needs these days anyway because you can stream everything.
Yeah I could live without the cable subscription, but my wife cannot. Same plan with internet only would be about 36.50$
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Belgium. The company is owned and ran by Liberty Global.
My mother has been connected to fiber recently (which she doesn’t need at all…advised against it, but you know sales pushing…) She gets an eye-watering 500/500mbps no cap connection for 78$ (including tv and fixed phone)
I’m more ‘rural’ so minimum 5 years before any fiber is passing by…
Could get a speed bump to 300/20mbps and ‘no cap’ (fair use policy) for about 10$ extra.
$40 for 2 Gbps unlimited in Singapore. Caps on home broadband are frankly nonsensical.
I’m paying $40 CAD/mo for 1.5 Gbps down and 940 Mbps up here in Canada. Unlimited bandwidth, of course.
No fiber available to my house, so I’m stuck with paying ~$85 for 50/2. Or switching ISPs and briefly getting a chair rate for faster speeds, but adding in a data cap and less reliability.
$70? In Australia I pay $85 for 75/20 unlimited.
In Sweden I pay $23 for 100/100 unlimited. My phone even has 100 down unlimited for $30/month
Fellow Swede here; may I please ask what mobile operator you use? I pay around $25 for 16 gigabytes from Vimla
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