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How much do you pay for Internet connection where you live?

Asked by jazzjeppe (2598points) September 6th, 2009

I am still in a minor shock after hooking up my PC to the newly installed Fibre LAN in my appartment. Shocked in a good way :) Now I have 86 mb/s down and 68 mb/s up and paying $35 a month. I believe that’s quite a good deal. (Stockholm, Sweden, ISP Telia)

What about you and where you live? What options do you have and what would the avarage cost and speed on your Internet connection look like?

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teh_kvlt_liberal's avatar

None because I “share” with my neighbors

patg7590's avatar

Those speeds are insane. I pay 30$ a month for 3 mb down and 768k up. Props to sweeden

Sarcasm's avatar

That’s an amazing deal.
The only FiOs I know of here in the US is Verizon, which is $145 for speeds “up to” (rarely reaching) 50 download, 20 upload.

When I lived with my parents, we paid $60/mo for Wireless which rarely reached 2mbps download rate. (We lived out in the middle of nowhere)
Now that I’m in the suburbs, I believe we pay about $40/mo for Cox (With which I generally get 5–6mbps download, 3mbps upload)

From what I’ve read in quite a few places, Japan as well as most of Europe are ages ahead of the US in broadband.

RareDenver's avatar

I pay £12.50 line rental for the phone line and £24.45 for broadband (unlimited usage) so that totals £36.95 a month. My download speeds vary but usually sit in the 6–8mbs region and upload at around 4mbs. We also get thrown in a mobile broadband USB stick for the laptop for when we are out and about. That gives us 1GB download a month, if we go over we have to pay extra. The speed on this varies greatly on where we are when using it.

That looks like a good deal you are getting there in Sweden. I’m thinking of going fibre optic when we move.

rebbel's avatar

I pay 20 euro (28,6 dollar) for 3Mb/s down and 0.5Mb/s up, but in reality i have 10 down and 1.5 up.

ragingloli's avatar

45 quid for 6 mbit flatrate including telephone connection.

kibaxcheza's avatar

129.00 usd between 3 people for cable (including HBO) and cable internet i the highest i get from my wireless is like1 mb from my 802.11 n router

drdoombot's avatar

I’m with TWC’s Roadrunner service. They claim 14mbps down and 0.5mbps up, but the best speeds I’ve had are 1.5mbps down (only happened once) and 0.07mbps up (which is really painful as a bittorrent user). All this for a whopping $45/month.

I’m getting fleeced.

Darbio16's avatar

I know I’m getting raped here. My isp is Atlantic Broadband (Northeast U.S.).
Its like $130 for Internet, Phone and television. 3mbs cable internet. Verizon has a 700k service for like $20 but that’s too slow for me. I wonder what it would take to just be your own ISP? Seems like an unnecessary monopoly on information.

casheroo's avatar

Whatever Comcast is raping us for. I’m thinking it might be 29.99/month, but I am not the bill payer.

kibaxcheza's avatar

i have a feeling it would be totally not worth is to be your own isp, maybe if you do it for you block and charge less than other companies… but i dont think personal isp would be feasible

Fernspider's avatar

NZ are a bit behind the technology for internet speed. I believe our government is looking at amending this but may be a few years off.

I live in the capital – Wellington – and am with Telecom. I pay $99.00 per month which provides me with phone line rental, internet (10GB total downloads) and unlimited national calls. Before this package, I was paying $40.00 per month for 10GB total downloads.

My top internet speed has reached 42 kbps. I shit you not.

mattbrowne's avatar

I pay 40 euros for 6 MBit/s Internet and phone (incl. unlimited fixed line calls in Germany).

RareDenver's avatar

Here is a good alternative to slow internet

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Markyjean's avatar

am paying 35 euros…

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