Ask HN: What do you pay for your internet connection, and where do you live?

Germany 45€/month 50/12 Mbit over VDSL fluktuates between 40 and 50 in the download only with unregular connection interruptions (from 0 to 40 interuptions a day with an median of 4 and an downtime for each interupt of 2 minutes)

New York, $85, 1Gb/1GB over fiber (Verizon FiOS).

Quality is excellent, extremely reliable, consistently in the 800-920 Mbps range up/down.

(Fun fact: my first modem was a 300bps in mid-80s. Clearly we've come a long way since those early days...)

35€, Germany.

250mb down, 50mb up

3€ per month (I use the cheapest) 20mbps, Ukrainian rural area. optic to my street, ethenet to my house. Also I have 5GB of 4G + free calls inside my operator + enough for me minutes to other operators for 4€ (vodafon). Btw nowadays all internets works super unstable, yesterday my bank was not accessible via wire and today vodafon signal in my area is missing. Also much of Russian resources are blocked even those who are not about war like websites about databases, science, electrical engineering. Imagine using tor for reading nplus1.ru or commenting tech news on habr.ru or hanging on vk.com. Torrents are working great on both directions - that is what I will miss most of all when my country joins EU with its Incvisition of so-called intellectual property.

12$, India - 150 MBPS - Jio Fiber

nz $80/month 950/950mbps

Bangalore,India $12/month for 100MbPS I do get the stated speed. I've seen steam downloads reach 11 to 12 MBPS regularly. Pretty low downtime too. Sometimes the downtime is due to rivals cutting off the fiber

Romania, Cluj-Napoca by Digi.

9€/month, 1 Gbit down, 450 Mbit up.

It's all fiber. You can't really get non-fiber around here. It's blazing fast and pretty stable. There are no real restrictions. They have a fair use policy, but I never heard of anyone being slapped on the wrist for using too much.

$40/mo 40mbps up/down. Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

It’s reasonably stable.

Rural UK

£26/month fibre

~40 Mbps down / ~6 Mbps up.

Pretty rock solid. I can't remember having to reboot the router once in the past 6 months.

I thought my broadband was pretty quick until I saw the figures posted by others.

Puerto Rico $88/mo 300/30Mbps coax QoS 9.5/10

The Netherlands, 35€, fiber with 1 Gbit up/down

France 29EUR a month (which includes TV, unlimited national and international phone calls to most countries) - ~700mbs down / ~500mbs up.

Middle of Nowhere US: I pay $110 a month for "up to" 940 down and 15 up.

In reality, I get about 300 down and 13 up. But if it hasn't rained for a while and isn't windy and the sun is at just the right angle and the stars align, I can get about 550 down!

Oakland CA USA, symmetric 1 Gbps fiber for $35/mo (but actual speed is usually a bit lower than that) from Monkeybrains

$45 1Gbps symmetric Japan (for house everywhere except very rural), effectively like 250-800Mbps

£59/month for 600 Mbps up or down. I’m in rural England using https://gigaclear.com.

(Actually more like £30 right now as I’m still on the introductory offer.)

Philippines (in the Metro Manila area), $50 for 300mbps (and I think 50mbps up). Service is ok but some slow-downs do occur during evenings.

80USD/mo gigabit symmetric Portland OR (ziply fiber)

The service is excellent, they have their VP of Network on Reddit who does lots of good networking content u/jwvo. Can’t complain

500/500 45USD, small town Sweden.

India, 8usd/month, 3Mbps down, 0.4Mbps up. (Numbers from Google internet speed test)

Yeah, it is pretty bad.

Rural Poland, $25/month for 40Mbit download/4Mbit upload. The price is pretty much static, and the bandwidth is limited by the copper wires. Started with 128kbit connection back in the day. They are laying fiber in my village, so some day I can expect to have 100Mbit+ connection for the same price.

"Up to" 400mbps down, 10 up, $30/mo, Xfinity. Redwood City USA

Bad random latency issues, probably going to explore switching to Fiber...

1. El Paso, Texas (USA).

2. ISP: Spectrum (only choice; apartment)

3. Speed: 1GB down, 35mbps up (up is a limitation of cable infrastructure, not artifical)

4. Price incl. taxes and addl. fees: ~$140 USD per month

5. Service quality: surprisingly good, once I got my own modem and ditched theirs!

Notes:

- I've not yet experienced any bandwidth caps or throttling. I have zero confidence it'll stay that way, but so far, so good.

- Spectrum is one of a handfull of national monopolies on internet service. It used to be two competing companies: Charter and Time Warner Cable. A few years ago, Charter bought TWC and the merger created the entity known as Spectrum. Haven't verified this, but I read somewhere on the internet (which must make it true!) that post-merger, Spectrum is the largest ISP in North America.

- I live in an apartment, and as such I'm totally barred from having any options beyond what the landlord says I can have. My account is with the ISP directly, not through the apartment management company (thank `$DIETY || $FSM`), but Texas law has no protections for consumers against monopolization of utilities in commercial/rental housing. DSL through AT&T is the only other option, but it's god awful, and there's no fiber anywhere near here, and with chronically suppressed wages, virtually zero educated population and actually zero technology industry, I doubt there will be before 2040 at the earliest.

- A while back I was having a god-awful experience with the service, and finally I just bought a new DOCSIS3.1 modem at Best Buy. Called 'em up, gave them the MAC address, plugged it in and BOOM, problems instantly disappeared. Since then the service quality has been far better than I thought it would be. Being a national monopoly, my expectations were pretty low to begin with.

- Price is after all taxes (from memory), best possible plan there is in my area. Said taxes are supposed to be paid by them, not me, but since I don't have any other options, they can literally force consumers to pay their tax bills and there's not a damn thing I can do about it. Government raises taxes on company = my bill goes up, company makes even more money because they jack up the price on top of that and try to hide it/justify it by saying "increased cost of compliance". It's not at all; it's just an excuse to jack up the price on their custo-err, I mean, victims.

$50 USD per month / 1 Gbps symmetrical / Penang, Malaysia