And how much is your monthly internet costing you?
This post was published 2 years 6 months 29 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Is anyone jealous? In Europe, for the equivalent of a paltry connection here in the US, you can enjoy a 50 megabit line. That "high speed internet connection" that Comcast just installed doesn’t seem so hot anymore does it?
Neuf Cegetel, the French competitive telecom carrier has just started selling a 50 megabits per second fiber-to-the-home connection that costs about 30 Euros (about $40) a month. In comparison, 50 Mbps costs a while lot of money in the US. Verizon, Surewest and Cablevision are three companies currently offering 50 megs at a wallet-ripping price. For $40 you get somewhere between 3-to-6 Mbps (voice and television not included) from most carriers in the US.
Roll call. What’s your connection down / up, monthly, and provider? Drop your info in the comments.
Well, over here in Portugal I Pay 60€ for a 10 Mpbs cable connection, with TV service as well as phone.
It’s not that cheap, but affordable.
40 bucks
Comcast
i can max at about 1MBps download,
my upload recently got faster though last week, to around 100KBps
wierd
UK,
BT (British Telecom, the big guys over here)
8MB with 8GB limit for £20+ a month
I moved from England to Gibraltar (bottom of Spain) last year. In England we were paying about £30 ($60) for 2Mb/s down and 256Kb up. That was last year though, now my friend in London gets 24Mb/s down and 1.3Mb/s up for £24 ($48) a month. Here in Gibraltar things are alot different. The best internet connection you can get is 2Mb/s down and 512Kb/s up costing £100 ($200) a month. I currently have 512Kb/s down and 128Kb/s up and it costs £45 ($90) a month. I also believe that Gibraltar statistically has the slowest connection speeds for the most money, in the world.
55 bucks
Comcast
6MB
SBC DSL
$50ish a month
3-4 Mbps down
1 Mbps up
30 Bucks, Canadian.
Shaw
5 Mbps down, 512 KBps up with a 60Gb transfer limit.
I pay around $200 a month for a sdsl line of 20megs up / 20 megs down.
Cox cable internet.
$40/month, because I’m a cable TV subscriber, otherwise $50.
6mbit down/512kbit up. No monthly limit that I’ve ever encountered or been contacted about.
US, NY area
Cablevision/Optimum Online Boost
30Mbps down, 5Mbps up
$40/month
Zoomtown bundle deal thru phone company
ADSL(?)
Cell phone
Home phone
$99/month
~ 40 $ for 24 Mbps ADSL2+ including voice, handware, tv, mobile and unlimited GBs
optimun online with speed boost:
http://www.optimum.com/order/boost/
advertised at 30mb down, and 5mb up
i tested it out numerous times, and i average 27,000kbps down, and 3,500kbps up over at:
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
we’re paying $40 a month i think, and thats the only optimum service we have
$65 a month in Seattle for Comcast basic plan. It’s freakin’ robbery.
upc telekabel
90 euros/month
16mbit down / 2mbit up, no limit (fair use…pffff) :)
$65 a month in Seattle for Comcast basic plan. It’s freakin’ robbery. No cable, no phone, just broadband. Qwest offers less for about the same price.
Speedtest Results
Really pleased with the ping times.
So far, I haven’t hit a limit, thank heavens. For that price, I’d better not be. Except for newsgroups. Poopy Comcast. Poopy U.S. internet.
Holland, $20 per month 7MB down 3 MB up no d/l limits
For once Europe seems to be cheaper !!!
35$ USD for 30/30 fiber, no cap.. here in sweden ;)
I’m from the UK and I’ve got: 8-10 Mbps download (depending on time of day), 300-400 kbps up, £30 a month with BT. Also, unlimited downloads and uploads :)
fios
15mbits down 2mbits up
45 dollars a month
$50 month for Optimum – Get about 35,000kbps down, and 4,500kbps up :)
-Dan
i’m assuming you’re using speedboost.
do you regurally get the 4,500kbps up? because when i was testing it out, i usually average about 3,500, not that im complaning, im just curious.
Holland, $40 p/m. 20mb down, 1 up. No limits! It takes 45 minutes to download a DVD (4,7 G).
I’m on my schools Lan
Missouri State University, Springfield Mo
It’s free
It’s odd I get only about 280kbps down but almost 2.7mbps up… what’s the deal?
I live in Iran, and I’m paying around $60 for a 256kbps connection… It sucks…
Speedtest.net results: http://www.speedtest.net/result/90062163.png
16Mb for $20, Unlimited transfer
I have Sky Broadband which is up to 16Mb, but I only get maybe about 9Mb due to distance from exchange, and this costs me I think £10 ( $20 approx.)
Insight Communications
10mbit down – 1mbit up.
$30/mo.
I am boosted and I do get the 4.5 often. I am really close to a switching station.
I have used a ton of ISP’s both domestic and abroad and OOL really seems to be the best. And every New Yorker knows how painful it is to say that.
Here in Australia, I am paying for a 24mbit down/2.5mbit up ADSL2+ connection, (that syncs at around 10mbit) and a 90GB monthly quota for AU$140/month (US$115).
The best Australia can get is 8MB/s in the city, and it costs at least a $100 a month.
Does anyone internationally get charged for how much they download? Do they have a quota?
Don’t tell me about it. I moved from France to California last year, and I hate the bill I get every month in the mail. Internet services are so much cheaper in France…
$75/mo for 1.5mbps down, 128kbps up (if I’m lucky, usually 20kbps up). Satellite is a piece of crap, but the only thing available for me, aside from dial up (which has better uptime than Wildblue). I will have a 45mbps connection for 3mos ($72) this summer though (college summer session – dorms).
RoadRunner (Time Warner)
in Los Angeles
their basic broadband, and they tell me 1.5Mbps down
$35/month
6MB down would be additional 10 dollars, but I am a college student with roommates, it is already hell trying to get them all to pitch in, lol
I’m on a local Wireless Broadband provider, AEI Wireless with horrible uptime (storms and stuff seem to take it down, as well as random slowdowns and freezes on throughput).
Theoretically, I can get T1 speeds up and down, but the speakeasy test puts me at 965/728 KB/s.
It costs $50/month on a yearly payment plan ($600/year) or $60/month on a monthly. I’m on the yearly. Wireless sucks, but it’s all I can get in semi-rural Texas.
Brisbane Australia
8mbps , 10gb peak limit, 15gb off peak limit ( 2am-10am )
AUD$99.95
Hungary
UPC
Telephone – free call inside network..
+
CableTV – 60+ channels
+
Internet – 10Mb/1Mb, no limits (massive 1,2megabytes/s download.. weeee)
cost ~$70/m
Serbia BroadBand
256kbps/128kbps
30$/mo
NO LIMITS !
This neuf/cegetel offer isn’t really revelant of the internet state in France. This offer is restricted to a couple of blocks in Paris.
Most of us can have an offer that include a 28Mbps max ADSL 2 internet connection with 100 free TV channels (and more if you want to pay for it) and free telephone (nationnal and internationnal for about 40 destinations). No bandwith restriction, no cellphone restriction. Some offers also include instant VOD services (direct streaming, no need to wait for download (about 3 euro per film)).
Those offers come with a Box that act as a wifi modem/router VOIP TV. You can connect it to your telephone and your TV set.
The most advance one is the Freebox from the ISP http://www.free.fr. This box is in to part :
- A wifi modem rooter Voip.
- A Wifi HD TV receiver with a 40GB HDD. Can act as a TV recorder, media player (on HDD (internal or external) and even on locals PCs).
It’s not as sexy as the AppleTV, but it has more functionnalities. And it’s not recent, we can have those services since 2003 ;-) I think that in France, Apple will have some difficulties to sell AppleTV…
And it only cost 29.90 euro / month !
PS : As you may notice, English is not my native language ;-)
Serbia
verat.net
256/64
15e
91$ for 1 mb down and 0,2 mb up.
Denmark….
Here in my apartment building 5x 100mbit/s fiber from (the legendary ISP) BBB is the default option. For approximatly 320 Euro a month.
I’m in Sweden by the way.
In Denmark, TDC (ex-government tele provider) is keeping the prices high.. The bastards still have the nerve to offer people a 256kb connection.. Luckily this year a few other companies have decided to do something about and offer 20MBps at about 40 euro/month..
I jumped on that and they’ve pretty much promised me, that it’d be completely up and running before the end of the month.. Right now I’m at about 5MBps, and 40euro is still about the best offer you can find unless you don’t care about service.. Many buildings here have installed a shared line, and about 2 years ago, I had a 10MBps line for 5euro through the building I lived in.. However.. The service was useless, and after being offline for god knows how long, I spoke to the CEO of the company, who – to get rid of me, and my nagging – ended up telling me “Well.. Perhaps it’s time we realize, we just aren’t able to provide you with an internet connection..”
I was shocked…!
Anywho.. Congrats to France..!
I just don’t get the allure of multi-megabits of donwload capability. Your machine can handle only so much at a time. On downloading, you are going to be limited by the sending machine. If you need to download a really large file such as a M$ service pack, you are still going to be limited by the speed of the server. You are not going to get 130 megabytes in 5 seconds!
Movie downloads can easily be accomplished while you are at work or while you are popping your popcorn.
I just don’t get it.
I’m in Denmark and pay about 10 USD for 10 mbit up and down.
$45.95/month
6Megabits/second down and 768kbps up
basic cable
speedtest.net test shows
25megabits/secodn down and 1500kbps up
niels…what r ur actual speed u get
fair enuf i guess
Tiscali
They suck
At £21.99/month for 8mb broadband and i’m only getting 2 though they said I’d be able to support about 6mb
Anytime phone as well
Upload caps out at about 200kbps.
Brisbane, Australia
AUD$69.95/month (USD$58.20/month)
Supposedly, 17 MB/s down and 1.5 MB/s up
10GB Limit (HORRID)
The central office is too far from my house for DSL so I’m stuck getting horribly buggered with Comcast. 8 down/ 768 k up sets me back $71. Yet another reason I’m mad that I moved back from New Zealand, where I had a 10 down 2 up connection for roughly 20 bucks US. *sigh*