Verizon fios, 100mbos, $65. Major (for us) metropolis, East coast USA. They turned on IPv6 like 2 maybe 3years ago, yay.
I'd love a gratis bump to 200mbps some day.
Edit: oh snap! It was pretty hard to find plans on the website (most pages wanted me to check availability with address/email/phone... No) but I did eventually find a page that told me there's a 300mbps for $55 - $10 if I use a de it card. Called them, and done! This post saved me money & tripled my speed.
I have a very expensive grandfathered Verizon unlimited wireless plan with no softcap (but they'll drop me if I use 100GB or so repeatedly). Alas it's not qualified, otherwise I'd save another $20!
Verizon I'm sorry but the website experience trying to do this was awful. I called & we changed my plan in like 5 minutes, done.
The person on the phone told me I could save money by switching to debit/bank-number autopay. I said, yeah, let me just go on the website & i'll do that after we chat, thanks.
Well, that took a while. Of course the vzw & fios accounts are basically separate, great, right. Eventually I got on, and then things really got bad. It showed the new plan, but instead of being charged $64.99 I was now being charged $66.66/mo, not $59.99 (-$10 for the autopay i was going to try to set up). I couldn't get the website to let me change my billing. Eventually I called & hand gave my debit card number to the agent. Then asked them to confirm what price I was going to pay, which they confirmed as $49.99. They sent me a confirmation email... and it was almost right: $59.99, the confirmation email not showing the $10 debit-autopay discount. Fine, it'll work out, whatever. Still the only thing I can find on the website to tell me what my charge will be is "Change plans" which still shows I'm paying $66.66/mo for my 300mbps plan though.
The agent also mentioned a discount for having a VZW plan. I demured that I think my grandfathered unlimited plan probably doesn't qualify, but said I was interested. They sent me an email with a link an offer. The first time I clicked it I got a huge yellow page with a tiny 320x240 sized "Server has encountered an error processing your response" in the upper left. I tried in incognito & went through some sign in flows & eventually to a spinner where it seemed like it might go,... then it threw a huge 'Exception has been encountered error, try again' in the middle of the page.
There's been a bunch of other small tatters along the way. A bunch of the flows took multiple times to go. The "Change Plans" page just didn't load a couple of times. If you use the app, like 1/3rd of the buttons on the app just open a page where you have to sign in again. There's clearly like 50 different systems held together with duck tape & shoestring, & my heavens, what a clusterfuck this pretty simple exercise was. I still can't get reliable up to date information on what to expect from the website, but the agents all say it's good & the email they sent me was only partially wrong (no autopay) but they say it'll work. My heavens Verizon, please.
I'm not sure how they would have contacted me (sms would have worked well), but also, how long ago was the new plan introduced? A courtesy notice I could get a better upgrade would have been nice.
End of the day though, this post was still a win. But I did want to share some of the travails that surrounded this.
My guess is you'll be very lucky to get the $49.99 rate, considering all the times they have sent you the wrong rate. I went through this nightmare with Time-Warner before the Charter/Spectrum buyout: they raised my rate from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called, they said they had fixed it and credited my account. The next month they did credit $10, but still charged $65. I called again, same story, next bill, same story. On the 3rd call I told them they can change my rate to $45/mo or I'm switching to $15/mo ELP. They said they couldn't give me $45/mo, so I did switch to ELP. And I'm still on it with Spectrum. The funny thing is, right after I did that, TW started sending me all kinds of offers for less than $45/mo! These cable companies are so screwed up and frustrating.
My neighbor recently went on a trip to Ireland and added international texting and calling to her Verizon phone plan for 10 days for $100. But the continued to bill her $100 extra every month for several months. Every time she called, they said they had taken care of it, but it was still screwed up the next month.
Grandfathered Time-Warner ELP (Everyday Low Price) that was originally $15/mo for 3Mbps down/1.2Mbps up
I could get 300Mbps up/down from AT&T for $65/mo, but that is only a 1-year intro rate and puts me on the "call AT&T every year to protest price hikes" treadmill. That's the reason I switched from 50/10 service years ago with Time Warner to ELP.
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).
5Gbs symmetrical AT&T Fiber residential for $170/month in metro area of southeast US.
And backup than I never have to use except middle of night maybe once a quarter when AT&T doing maintenance or something… first year we had like 5 fiber cuts and autofailover was awesome, but they finally buried deeper and no more cuts.
1.2Gbs Down/35Mbs Up Comcast Cable for $120, can’t remember Internet part of the bill, $90 or $100 I think; no TV channels, but do have Telephone service for alarm system (AT&T compresses VoIP and it doesn’t work).
AT&T Fiber in Round Rock, TX (Austin metro area)
940 down; 939 up - per Speednet's macOS app via Ethernet directly to AT&T's supplied router.
Unfortunately, I'm paying $80.42/mo. as I'm well past all the offers they're willing to give. Still - overall pretty reliable, except when we have a power outage (not AT&T's fault) and it takes (on average) 15-20 minutes to get back online.
UK, would get ~15 down and <1 up wired. Have a 4/5g connection that varies from 4 down to 350 down, generally stuck at about 6 up I think - only 4g for uploads. About £30/mo.
Strongly affected by signal strength, so I sometimes open the window to "let more internet in" which can dramatically improve speeds.
Very eagerly awaiting a proper fibre connection which would be symmetric gigabit for something like £40/mo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In Australia:
I'm now in the ISP hopping game, to get the best value for money (you switch ISP's every 6 months or so to get deals)
right now I pay AU$85 a month for 100/40 plus static IP on HFC (Hybrid Fiber Co-ax)
I just did a speed test (lunch time on a sunday)
DOWNLOAD Mbps
104.65
UPLOAD Mbps
36.54
1 Gbps fiber optic with unlimited traffic in 2 places, one in the capital city and one in a small village in the mountains. Another one over GPRS, ~150 Mbps down and ~ 25 Mbps up with 200 GB/month of traffic. About $10/month each. Country = Romania.
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.
Symmetric gigabit on AT&T fiber (USA) on their older GPON-based network for $85USD/month. The GPON OLT for my neighborhood isn't oversubscribed (yet), so I consistently get the advertised speeds.
520 down, 24 up. Comcast cable near Detroit. About $100/mo. They email me occasionally to say I can get better download speeds if I upgrade my modem, but I haven't bothered yet.
Getting 790/50 Mbps for ~USD$100 (paying for 1000/50).
Our 'NBN' is luck of the draw with which type of connection your street has, and then dependent on what state your 30+ year old underground copper is in.
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.
I attribute it to the speed test I server which is picked up - it is not the ISP provided one, so I assume there will be some variation of the measured bandwidth. Manual tests against the ISP provided instance is much closer to 10gbit, but I haven't bothered to automate it yet to graph it.
On other hand, my understanding is that fiber is not immune from congestion problems - the only difference is at what point it happens.
I'd love a gratis bump to 200mbps some day.
Edit: oh snap! It was pretty hard to find plans on the website (most pages wanted me to check availability with address/email/phone... No) but I did eventually find a page that told me there's a 300mbps for $55 - $10 if I use a de it card. Called them, and done! This post saved me money & tripled my speed.
I have a very expensive grandfathered Verizon unlimited wireless plan with no softcap (but they'll drop me if I use 100GB or so repeatedly). Alas it's not qualified, otherwise I'd save another $20!