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Ask HN: What's your residential Internet speed and cost?

23 points by shanebellone ↗ HN
Long story short, I had fiber installed yesterday and it's impressive for $60/m.

Download - 946 MBPS Upload - 944 MBPS

(tested with speedtest.net)

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neom
10gbps $40/mth usually get about 3.5 down.
shanebellone
10 GBPS for $40/m? Where in the world do you live?
Hikikomori
Can get it for as low as $48 in Sweden.
Nicksil
481.43 Mbps / 23.64 Mbps @ $99.99/mo

Spectrum

:/

shanebellone
I came from Xfinity which was ~900mbps download and ~40mbps upload but ~$115/m.

Fiber is better and cheaper here. Something to look out for in your area too.

subpixel
150/10 @ $65/mo with Spectrum. 1GB fiber is only a few miles away and I'll jump on that at $60/mo.
LinuxBender
520/520 fiber $170/mo counting the static IP. Price likely due to no competition. Only alternatives are a highly congested LTE network or Starlink. very rural area I also had to pay to trench in the fiber as I was late to the party. Early subscribers trenching was paid for by the federal government.
shanebellone
Are symmetrical connections common? I hadn't seen that offered until they knocked on my door lol.

Was trenching expensive? Here they used the city's utility poles. They covered the neighborhood in a couple hours.

Hikikomori
Should be common with fiber (not PON) and copper Ethernet. Other technologies like cable, some DSL and PON (typically advertised as ftth) are designed to be asymmetrical, they use a single wire or pair to send data and the spectrum is divided so download gets more.
CitrusFruits
You only typically see a symmetrical connection with fiber. Traditional cable connections have to sacrifice download speed for upload speed at a neighborhood level, so they usually do a roughly 90/10 ratio.
LinuxBender
The trenching was expensive but I have a long driveway and trenched in two conduits for two fibers. The fiber is always underground here as winter is 7 to 9 months of the year and its easier than getting permission from the power company to share their poles as I am in a rural area. This is commonly reversed in cities as digging is often impossible due to overlapping electrical and sewage boundaries and other bureaucratic reasons.

Much of the power here is also underground to avoid outages from freezing lines and people hitting power poles. I'm glad I had my power traced out because the 7200 volt line goes right down the middle of my field where I might have trenched in water lines.

porkbeer
I pay 85/mo for 1.5m dpwn amd maybe 300k up. Dsl, less than an hour from a majlr american city. Broadband beyond suburbs is still a dream. I miss online gaming.
warthog
Around the same speek but I pay 30 GBP per month
simonswords82
Gigabit at 45 GBP per month (city fibre)
m348e912
After reading that my brain spent 10 seconds on two things:

1. I wonder why they have data limits on gigabit internet.

2. How much data is 45 GBP anyway?

I'm an idiot.

DaveJorg
GBP is the currency - it’s the abbreviation of British pound sterling
Hikikomori
No it's not.
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m348e912
what is it then?
Hikikomori
GBP is the iso code, stg is the abbreviation for pound sterling
popcalc
Budapest, Hungary: 1Gb/s up, 2Gb/s down => ~$14/mo

Los Angeles: 300Mb/s up/down => $60/mo

shanebellone
The disparity in service and cost is surprising.
faceloss
2.83 dollars or 800 pakistani rupees,(Lahore,Pakistan)

All of us 5 family members can stream 1080p youtube at a time,

Upload speed is 1 mb something, depends on time of the day.

eu
I have two fiber links at approx. 300/300mbps for $45/$40.
DaveJorg
8gbps / 8gbps $140 CAD ($100 USD) - Toronto, Canada
bhartzer
Starlink, $110 per month

100mb/s down and 20mb/s upload

Colorado mountains, 10,000 feet altitude.

alanfranz
Italy, very small town. DSL, 200mbps down/20mbps up, 35 EUR/month.
Macha
Just tested:

2040 down, 102 up (I pay €65/mo for 2gbit down, 100 up)

Hikikomori
500/500 rj45 $12/month, building likely has 10G fiber.
asicsp
What do you all do with such high speeds? Guessing video streaming. I don't need that as I prefer reading fantasy books instead.

I'm in India, pay slightly above $3/month to get 2GB/day (my average usage is about 400MB/day). Max speed I've seen while updating s/w from the terminal was around 2MBPS.

shanebellone
I am a web developer and researcher. I use my internet in excess of its cost. It's totally unnecessary for the typical browsing and streaming scenario.
kreetx
High speed is convenient for the occasional install (apt get/npm install/nix develop). Other than that I could probably live with 20Mbits/s for web/ssh/youtube/spotify.
skydhash
45 mbps/down, 28 mbps/up fiber. 105 USD/month. Port-au-Prince, Haiti
TacticalCoder
France: 72 EUR / month ($80) for 2 Gbit/s down // 600 Mbit/s up (router doesn't have any SFP port though and ethernet ports aren't 2.5 Gbit/s, so it's advertized as 1 Gbit/s down per machine max)

Luxemburg: 42 EUR / month ($46) for 500 MBit/s down // 250 Mbit/s up

Fiber to the home is becoming a reality in many countries... House in France is in a very remote area and yet there's fiber even there, since a few months.

Building in Luxemburg has an impressive (and beautiful) fiber optic rack in a dedicated room, next to the garages, from which all the apartments are dispatched (new building, wired with fiber for everybody from day one).

BrandoElFollito
Which provider do you use in France?

I have Free, 40€/month for 2.5 Gbps (and an SPF in the box (a Delta)). I do not have 1+ Gbps equipement so I have 1000/600 Mbps (measured).

The contract also includes TV, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Canal+ Series for a year. And a landline.

After a year the price will be I Think 50€, but I will change the provider of I do not get a good deal.

The cheaper dilution is about 20€/month for 200 Mbps IIRC.

brink
0.5 gigabit (down and up) fiber for $45/mo in Michigan rural village. I could get full gigabit for $60, but it's not worth it to me.
CSDude
1 gbps download, 20 upload (I know lol) 15$
extasia
London England, 100 MBps down, 10 up.

18 GBP / month.

Does the trick for me, I don't really send / receive large files except for the occasional ml model from huggingface.

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lukeqsee
Switzerland, Init7

10/10 Gbps for 66CHF (~$70) / month.

Unfortunately my router can't firewall packets at 10Gbps so I get around 1Gbps effectively. :)

_nalply
Same.

A friend told me to have a PC router to increase speed.

shanebellone
I have a Ubiquiti Security Gateway that seems to manage by LAN network well. However, adding an Edge Router X significantly reduces my speed.
durron
980 down/880 up $99/month. Based out of Massachusetts, it's a good deal for this area
nknealk
I pay $70 for 1 Gb/s but I usually end up getting 800-900 mbps up/down when I run a Speedtest which is fine by me. I switched to centurylink fiber during the pandemic. Before that I was paying comcast $65 for 100 down / 10 up.

Seattle WA

vijucat
Hong Kong, similar speeds to yours up and down (9xx Mbps), but 2 lines (2x1000 Mbps). $45 USD per month. Speed to servers in NYC is ~ 100 Mbps.

     Server: HKIX - Hong Kong (id = 34555)
        ISP: Netvigator
    Latency:     2.90 ms   (0.35 ms jitter)
   Download:   949.79 Mbps (data used: 676.7 MB)
     Upload:   946.68 Mbps (data used: 460.6 MB)
Packet Loss: 0.0%