How Fast is Your Internet and How Much is it?

[Vausch]

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I max everything and eventually cough up 279.99 a month.

So... US

I've got 200/10Mbps and I pay 250Swedish kr(30euro) a month for it and I do not have caps on it.

VS Sweden.

F*cking US infrastructure.

 

[SirDeadly]

Location Australia

[http://www.speedtest.net]
It's sad that it says it's faster than 84% of Australia, we must have really bad internet...

 

[aelreth]

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I max everything and eventually cough up 279.99 a month.

So... US

I've got 200/10Mbps and I pay 250Swedish kr(30euro) a month for it and I do not have caps on it.

VS Sweden.

F*cking US infrastructure.

Congrats you beat Alaska. What an amazing victory! You sure showed us!

You have things like, another town down the road. And if you drive a different direction on the road, a different town!

Hopefully the Federal government stops taxing me to transfer money to someone down south so they can surf the internet for free rather than lay another 12000 miles of fiber. So I can actually join the rest of the planet.

Also note the distance from the server. Mine is actually the furthest listed thus far.

 

[Vausch]

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I max everything and eventually cough up 279.99 a month.

So... US

I've got 200/10Mbps and I pay 250Swedish kr(30euro) a month for it and I do not have caps on it.

VS Sweden.

F*cking US infrastructure.

Congrats you beat Alaska. What an amazing victory! You sure showed us!

You have things like, another town down the road. And if you drive a different direction on the road, a different town!

Hopefully the Federal government stops taxing me to transfer money to someone down south so they can surf the internet for free rather than lay another 12000 miles of fiber. So I can actually join the rest of the planet.

Also note the distance from the server. Mine is actually the furthest listed thus far.

Yeah, that's also kinda what I mean with the infrastructure deal. You're so far away and have to pay through the nose like that? That's just wrong.

 

[aelreth]

Yeah, that's also kinda what I mean with the infrastructure deal. You're so far away and have to pay through the nose like that? That's just wrong.

The plan is as follows,
22 Mbps 2 Mbps 200,000 MB $0.001 per MB $109.99 per month

Somehow though I find myself hitting the limit at 279 I have no idea why, I won't question it I just hit the same price 5 months in a row.

Up here we have a cartel operation between ACS and GCI, ACS is phone, GCI is Cable. ACS does infinite DSL but only goes up to 10 Mbps. There are no other options. They only recently added the 10 option about a month after I switched from them (of course they don't mention to me that they upgraded the service). It's not a monopoly we are simply a caged customer base. They RUN the entire state. I'm not even sure if AT&T even has it's own broadcast towers.

Sadly note that the ISP is actually doing that much better than over 60% of the US. That's what's sad.

On second thought since you mentioned that you are in Sweden, I think that we should run fiber to Sweden rather than San Francisco. Either way we are going through another country. Probably get better bandwith.

Edit- I apologize for the unwarranted venom in my sarcastic response. I should have been more diplomatic.

 

[Vausch]

Yeah, that's also kinda what I mean with the infrastructure deal. You're so far away and have to pay through the nose like that? That's just wrong.

The plan is as follows,
22 Mbps 2 Mbps 200,000 MB $0.001 per MB $109.99 per month

Somehow though I find myself hitting the limit at 279 I have no idea why, I won't question it I just hit the same price 5 months in a row.

Up here we have a cartel operation between ACS and GCI, ACS is phone, GCI is Cable. ACS does infinite DSL but only goes up to 10 Mbps. There are no other options. They only recently added the 10 option about a month after I switched from them (of course they don't mention to me that they upgraded the service). It's not a monopoly we are simply a caged customer base. They RUN the entire state. I'm not even sure if AT&T even has it's own broadcast towers.

Sadly note that the ISP is actually doing that much better than over 60% of the US. That's what's sad.

On second thought since you mentioned that you are in Sweden, I think that we should run fiber to Sweden rather than San Francisco. Either way we are going through another country. Probably get better bandwith.

Edit- I apologize for the unwarranted venom in my sarcastic response. I should have been more diplomatic.

I kinda know what you mean. I used to live in a rural area that was just out of the cable/DSL line reach (my next door neighbour could get cable but not me). We pretty much only had satellite internet as an option, and whenever someone tried to put more options out there they were sued for trying to create competition. I am not kidding. Worst part is they must've been winning because we called the companies that would have been providers dozens of times and they kept saying the new lines kept getting pushed back.

 

[MrTub]

Virgin Media, England.

It was 20mbps, it got upgraded free to 40mbps.

Speed test claims to see about 30mbps, but downloads realistically are about 2-3mbps and about 4mbps on Steam.

I have no idea on the price though, it's bundled with phone and TV.

However at Uni, it's diabolical and speedtest.net tells me that the download is about 1.8mbps D= realistically it's usually < 200kbps.

Edit: Also no download limits, I would guess for about £35 maybe.

Steam shows MBps(MegaByte per second) and your ISP is showing Mbps(Megabit per second) one byte is 8 bits

 

[BlackMageBob]

I've been hearing a lot of people say that the US has rather shitty internet compared to other first world nations and after looking it up I think they were right. Most places outside the US seem to have much higher speeds at much lower prices.

So I got curious. Escapist is a gaming community, internet connection is often important for games nowadays, and I've just been wondering how it varies between states and countries.

For me in Idaho, USA: Time Warner Cable

Claimed Speed: 15mbps

Actual Speed: Never went faster than 3.1mbps on a download and that was a very brief spike. Averages around 1.5 to 2 for a steam game.

Price: Was $39.99 a month, likely to become $56.99 in a month or two.

Care to share yours?

Uh-huh. You are SURE that its 15Mbps and 1.5-2Mbps, not 15Mbps and 1.5MBps? Because most downloads are measured in MBps, not Mbps, but companies advertise in Mbps. For instance, I have Verizon Fios, with an advertised DL of 50Mbps, which is about 8MBps. Which is roughly my actual download rate.

 

[MrTub]

I've been hearing a lot of people say that the US has rather shitty internet compared to other first world nations and after looking it up I think they were right. Most places outside the US seem to have much higher speeds at much lower prices.

So I got curious. Escapist is a gaming community, internet connection is often important for games nowadays, and I've just been wondering how it varies between states and countries.

For me in Idaho, USA: Time Warner Cable

Claimed Speed: 15mbps

Actual Speed: Never went faster than 3.1mbps on a download and that was a very brief spike. Averages around 1.5 to 2 for a steam game.

Price: Was $39.99 a month, likely to become $56.99 in a month or two.

Care to share yours?

Uh-huh. You are SURE that its 15Mbps and 1.5-2Mbps, not 15Mbps and 1.5MBps? Because most downloads are measured in MBps, not Mbps, but companies advertise in Mbps. For instance, I have Verizon Fios, with an advertised DL of 50Mbps, which is about 8MBps. Which is roughly my actual download rate.

50/8 is more like 6,4MBps

 

[Vausch]

I've been hearing a lot of people say that the US has rather shitty internet compared to other first world nations and after looking it up I think they were right. Most places outside the US seem to have much higher speeds at much lower prices.

So I got curious. Escapist is a gaming community, internet connection is often important for games nowadays, and I've just been wondering how it varies between states and countries.

For me in Idaho, USA: Time Warner Cable

Claimed Speed: 15mbps

Actual Speed: Never went faster than 3.1mbps on a download and that was a very brief spike. Averages around 1.5 to 2 for a steam game.

Price: Was $39.99 a month, likely to become $56.99 in a month or two.

Care to share yours?

Uh-huh. You are SURE that its 15Mbps and 1.5-2Mbps, not 15Mbps and 1.5MBps? Because most downloads are measured in MBps, not Mbps, but companies advertise in Mbps. For instance, I have Verizon Fios, with an advertised DL of 50Mbps, which is about 8MBps. Which is roughly my actual download rate.

Curse you capitalisation-dependant acronyms. Quick google search says that means my actual speed is closer to 12mbps or so.

 

[Zeema]

Mine is terrible

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I'm in Wales on TALKTALK, and I pay £30 a month with no download limits.

Come at me bro

i use netcomm in NSW Austrailia

 

[RyoScar]

Mine is terrible

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I'm in Wales on TALKTALK, and I pay £30 a month with no download limits.

Come at me bro

i use netcomm in NSW Austrailia

I shall poke your internet provider until they make it better

 

[MrTub]

Mine is terrible

[http://www.speedtest.net]

I'm in Wales on TALKTALK, and I pay £30 a month with no download limits.

Come at me bro

i use netcomm in NSW Austrailia

May I ask what you guys are paying for that?

Considering I get faster speeds and better ping with 3g from my phone :<

 

[Nietz]

Location: Sweden
Price: "Free". It comes with the apartment. When they installed it, they raised the rent with about 2%(about 4 Euro).

[edit]
Also, no download/usage limit.

 

[Karhukonna]

I'm paying 40? a month for a connection with advertised 24 Mbps and a realistic expectation of about 10.

A friend pays 19,90? for a 100 Mbps fibre, just 'cos he lives in Helsinki (capital w/ 75x my hometowns population meaning cheap, cheap internet).

 

[Agayek]

I'm with comcast. I pay ~$115 a month for internet + TV, and I get right around 15-18 Mb/s down and 3-5 up, with no limits.

 

[sindreberg]

For me : Mo I Rana, Norway: Canal Digital Kabel

Claimed down speed: 70 mbps

Claimed up speed: 10 mbps

Actual Speed: The download connection can go from 60 to 71 mbps sometimes though rarely.

Price: The subscription for a year costs 6 683 NOK (1 161 dollars). Quite happy. Used to have a 5/1 connection, I could'nt stream 1080p without it buffering. It's worth it for me atleast.

 

[JLML]

Paying for 8/1 or something like that. Think it costs roughly 150 Swedish kr (23USD) but that includes phone. Think. Not the one paying the bills. As you can see that's basically the lower limit of Sweden (sort of). Note that the internet here still goes through the old telephone lines (the only place in this entire municipality to not have access to 100mbps or higher, basically) because this area last got improvements to its infrastructure in the 80s or so. Yay for upper-middle class semi-suburban area near the border of municipalities.

But alas, this area won't get any higher speeds any time soon because nobody wants to pay for upgrading the infrastructure in this particular area even though they (the municipality officials that is) say that their goal is to have 100% of the municipality have access to 100mbps or better. Yeah, they forgot about the 2% over here. That's right, 98% of the municipality has had 100mbps or better for a few years now, this area being the only one left.

/rant. I guess.

 

[Midnight Crossroads]

5.65Mb/s at 50 euro a month, but that's including cable and a phone bill. I'm not too happy with it. I'd like to switch to something faster, but there aren't many options in the area. I don't watch TV and I use my cellphone for anything except calls back to the States which I can easily do with Skype.

 

[Sleepy Sol]

...Welp, I ain't paying for it, so I can't really complain. Seeing all these stupidly fast internet speeds (in comparison to mine) is still making me pretty jealous.