How much does your internet cost?

My stats:
Speed: 50Mbps
Bandwidth: Unlimited with no FUP
Yearly: $67.16
Monthly: $5.59
Downtime: Almost never

Note: This is for home internet plan and NOT mobile plan

Let's make this an equal Playing field and assume $1 = USD

Speed: 50/20 Mbps
Bandwidth: Unlimited with Fair Use
Yearly: $617.56
Monthly: $51.46
Downtime: once a month
Country: Australia

Some more facts:
$1 = USD
Country: India

@C0D4, 50 up and 20 down? Or is it after FUP?
And that's fucking expensive with once a month downtime.

@Floydimus that's 50up, 20down, maximum achievable speed.

I can pay more to go faster.... yea the irony in that, but I can't justify $90/month for 100/40mbps or again more for 250/50.

FUP doesn't affect speed, it's more a means suspend or terminate your account if you decide to download 10TB in a month kind of thing 😅

Oh and no, I'm not on an expensive ISP - relatively speaking, actually one of the cheaper ones, they are all fucked though with the government setting the cost and resale pricing so there's only so much room for profit for the providers.

Bandwidth: 500/30 Mbps
Country: Czechia
Cost: ~60 USD / month
Downtime: very rarely / almost never
FUP: none

Not what I'd call cheap in terms of local economy, but reliable and fast. So I have no issue with the costs

200 Down/100 Up
Not heard of bandwidth limits since the late 2000s.
Downtime: once in the last 6 years

€68/month including 2 interactive TV receivers.

Fastest I can get here in NL without paying for them to lay FttH.

Speed: 16Mbps
Limit: 300GB / month
Price: $7 / month
Downtime: Almost every week + random black-outs
"My" country can rot in hell for all I care!

Speed: 1000/30 mbps
Cost: $90/month
Downtime: once in 5 years
No caps/restrictions
Country: US

I do not live close enough to a big city to get better than that, regardless of cost.

100mb (100/100) unlimited for around 8.5 bucks monthly with no cap (with mild torrenting I've had up to 2.5 TB total bandwidth usage a month)

@C0D4 I have heard of this earlier. Why is government interfering in private sector?

@Aldar nice. But why is there such a significant gap between up and down stream?

@angga2oioi My ISP had that scheme for last two years. Pay for entire year and get 3 months free. So 15 months at the cost of 12. Though downtimes are not cool.

@kwilliams freaking expensive.

@hamido-san which country? That sounds cheap though.

@atrabilious 1Gbps? Fucking hell. When was the last time anything buffered for you. How's the experience? $90 seems to be worth is it is flawless.

@iiii that's super cheap but how about downtime?

@Floydimus It's due to the infrastructure we get the internet over - DOCSISv3. Basicly, we're using a cable TV network to supply internet.

Per spec, DOCSISv3 is able to provide up to 200 Mbps of uplink, but I have no idea how the network looks like upstream from us (As I live in an apartment building, we all have one central uplink that is shared across everyone).

My guess is the topology wouldn't be able to provide the full 200 Mbps to everyone. So the ISP limits us to 30.

@Floydimus once upon a time the government was the national telco, and sold it and the infrastructure off.

Many a years later the government tried again with the "NBN" and severely fucked it in the ass like it was a donkey on heat fucking a rabbit.

It was supposed to be high speed fibre nation wide 🥳, instead its fibre to your house (if your lucky), fibre to your street, fibre to some box in the suburb, the old tv cable that's been repurposed, or some expensive satellite connection, depending where you unfortunately live.

@C0D4 so basically how every normal government works. Sounds legit.

@Aldar we also have kinds of similar setup where tv cable vendor sources the internet.

Germany:
Technology: VDSL
Down: 50 Mbit
Up: 12 MBit
Fup: none
Downtime: it depends some major construction work seems to cause downtimes, but apart from it: almost never
Price: 50€/58,85 USD with taxes

@Floydimus what’s buffering? 😬

I upgraded when I went to wfh due to covid. I decided that it’s cheaper than my commute costs. It would be better if I could get faster upload speed, but it does the job. Over wifi I hit about 700mbps

Connection 1, Fiber: Down: 1 Gbit/s - Up: 100 Mbit/s, Latency: 2-5ms, Cost: €40, No caps/metering, 4 hour courier SLA if modem breaks.

Connection 2, DSL: Down: 240 Mbit/s - Up: 24 Mbit/s, Latency: ~10ms, Cost: €25, No caps/metering

Connection 3, 4G: Down: 100 Mbit/s - Up: 10 Mbit/s, Latency: ~20ms, Cost: €10, Hard-capped at 10 GB/month

Connection 4, Starlink, will be arriving a bit later this year: Down: ?, Up: ?, Latency: ?, Cost: €99

Why 4 connections? Same reason my home is powered by both on-grid and off-grid geothermal & solar. If a flood & power outage hits my house, I can trip the downstairs breakers and still watch Netflix in the attic 🤷‍♀️

800mbs. Should be 1gb but it's never that high.
Around $50.
Can't remember up speed.

@stop seems a little expensive.

@atrabilious that's a good reasoning and a way to look at it. Many companies reimbursement this cost as well. So kind of win-win.
One question though, do you really utilise this to its maximum capacity? And what are the use cases where you need such high speed?

@bittersweet hahah wow! You never fail to amaze me. Though for one off scenario of outage, you are paying for four connections?

@Floydimus Also for QoS: There's a Linux Squid proxy acting as the brain, so competitive gaming & work zoom calls get routed over Fiber for the low latency, windows/steam/apt updates, downloads and most mobile WiFi traffic over DSL.

My work subsidizes €75/m for internet connectivity, and since the fiber is relatively cheap in my area, I thought "well, let's go for redundancy then".

Can we please differentiate between planed downtime with a notification from the ISP 1-2 weeks earlier and unplanned downtime?

I had 2 or 3 planed downtimes in the last 6 years, i got a notification 2 weeks before that and it was in the middle of the night, 2:00 or something, i didn't check if it was really down. I never notice any unplanned downtime.

Speed: 940Mbps/940Mbps (wired) 600Mbps/ 600Mbps (wifi)

Bandwidth: Unlimited, I think

Monthly: $65

Downtime: Almost never

@bittersweet haha that's awesome.

@happygimp0 downtime is downtime :P

@Demolishun why is it varying over cable and WiFi?

Speed: 1000/100 Mbps
Bandwidth: unlimited
Monthly : $79.99
Downtime: never

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@Floydimus That is as fast as my wifi card goes. My old laptop could only do 300Mbps up/down on the same router. Wired is always faster.

@Demolishun I always saw 300Mbps mark on routers and wondered, whoa! That's a lot.. who'd have that kind of speed.

And now.. here we are.. folks are facing capping issues already.

What a time to be alive.

54 Mbps down, 76 mbps up
5$ / month
Location: Russia
Never noticed any limits to speed
Downtime: never noticed.

Small downside, the government likes to block some websites, so you need to use Tor to visit Linkedin for example.

Torrents have maximum speed though, so a lot of content is always available.

@darkwind Russian government doing a good job blocking lickden :P

@Floydimus funny enough.
India and Russia I guess have the closest internet quality I guess.

That's already second the same thing.
Russian Rouble is converted to Indian Rupee as almost 1 to 1 too

@darkwind yes. We folks are close.

Currency is near about same and both the nations have been long allies.

In India it is often said, Hindi Russi bhai bhai..
Meaning, India and Russia are like brothers.

@Floydimus I could get similar speed much cheaper from a B brand provider but then I lose my two HD interactive TV receivers. 🤷‍♂️

@kwilliams what's so special about those TVs?

Brazil, 300Mbit/s download, 150Mbit/s upload, 5ms latency to most cdn's, telefonica sao paulo, 50 USD (converted from local currency)

@Floydimus almost no downtime as well.

Speed: 4Mbps/1Mbps (fastest ADSL plan)
ADSL
Country: Syria
Bandwith: 140GB
You can get extra 50GB Data for $1
Cost: $2 USD Monthly
Downtime: Everyday

And there is 4G
Country: Syria

Speed: Up to 100Mbps (Avg. 50Mbps)

Cost: $12 USD/month

Bandwith: 100GB
Downtime: rarely

100Mb/100Mb
R1085
No fair usage policy
Almost zero down time
South Africa (RSAWeb for anyone interested)

100Mbps up and down. Unlimited with no FUP.

$7 per month. (When you pay for 15 months all to gether).

Rarely dow time.

°200mbs down, 20mbs up
°Optical fibre outside -/cable inside apartment building
°29€ monthly
°Downtime: Just moved, no idea yet
°Finland

Speed: 10 mbps (4g but it's home internet)
FUP: 100 Gb/month, after that it's 2 mbps, after 150 gb used its 0.5 mbps
Cost: 20 usd/month
Downtime: never, but sometimes signal weakens

I live in Mexico in a zone where no other service is available (newly built neighborhood), overall too primitive speed, limited data, and too expensive…

Download: 200Mb/s (practically up to 120 because of lack of optic fiber)
Upload: Around 20
Bandwidth: Unlimited
Monthly: 24€ for the first two years, 20€ afterwards
Downtime: Once in a blue moon
Country: Spaghettiland

@hamido-san I feel you with the blackouts

@zedtush wow! I didn't know we had folks from Syria here. Super glad to have met you. I'd like to know more about your country, the situation there (is it same like what media portraits), and how does that affect your life/living conditions?

@TheBeardedOne how much is that in USD?

@marcus5914 damn cheap. Which country?

@Cheros3 neat.

@999pingGG that's robbery.

@besnn do you actually have the spaghetti monster in the spaghetti land?

@Floydimus

Its much worse than what the media shows.
We have 10 hours of electricity a day.
-not continuous-
because 70% of our power stations are destroyed.

I'm supposed to learn/try new things in these 10 hours

and trying to maintain good mental health during electricity blackouts.💔

@zedtush how does the economy function then?

Can a local business thrive? What about education and job opportunities?

@Floydimus

the economy is dying slowly.
You can hardly open a local business and don't expect high profit.
the biggest challenge for the businesses is the electricity. Most of the stores/factories/hotels rely on diesel generators, which is very expensive (1 litre = 1$ USD)

education is not bad, but won't make you job ready. regardless its very hard.

there are plenty of job opportunities but the problem is that meduim wage is $80 USD/month, which is not enough at all.

there is no way of living a normal life without having a running business or working 18 hours/day or having foreign money transfers or being a dirty gov employee 😂

most of us here are living off of the money transfers from family members working abroad (Europe, KSA, UAE..etc)

thats why our only goal is to get the hell out of this country.

@Floydimus not anymore, I ate it by mistake and now everyone is godless

@Floydimus they... show TV?

With live pause/rewind and recordings.

Speed: 100 mbps down / 5 mbps up
Bandwidth: "Unlimited". There is a threshold of 3 TB/month during peak hours (5 PM - 12 AM). If you pass that, your internet speed will get throttled to 20 down / 2 up during those peak hours.
Yearly: $482.40
Monthly: $40.20
Downtime: Almost never
Country: Belgium

@Floydimus India

@marcus5914 Jio dhan dhana dhan...

Germany:
50/10; ~ 30 Euro; blackouts every single day

It is 1und1 for my fellow German dRanters btw.