Americans, just so you know, your ISPs do not offer tremendous value, as claimed by USTelecom. If you could see what less than $30 per month gets you in the European Union, you would be furious. Seriously, please get out the guillotines
Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.
Yikes. I thought america was bad… we usually have 1-2 options for internet and they take advantage. I suspect even when there are more options, collusion is happening.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I’m Aussie but I live in the USA now. I’ve heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren’t symmetric? Crazy for a network that’s supposed to be “modern”.
I had ADSL2+ “up to 24Mbps” in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was… an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
You can only squeeze every penny out of your population for so long before the majority don’t have any pennies left… With more and more people in the US living paycheck to paycheck and the increase of credit card debt on the raise… We are nearing that point… Trump will probably send this country into the biggest recession in history but it will be ok because they won’t call it one like the last time he was president…
Americans, just so you know, your ISPs do not offer tremendous value, as claimed by USTelecom. If you could see what less than $30 per month gets you in the European Union, you would be furious. Seriously, please get out the guillotines
Not just the EU, but Europe in general really
Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.
Elsewhere in the US, even in cities, you are lucky to get 250 mbit asymmetric for $60
I’m in Canada getting 100mbit down 30 up for $70/month.
Our telecom industry is awful. They have full regulatory capture.
Yikes. I thought america was bad… we usually have 1-2 options for internet and they take advantage. I suspect even when there are more options, collusion is happening.
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Holy shit they have speeds that fast for residential??? I’m over here thinking I’m living like a king with 1Gbps symmetric for $80 in south Texas.
sonic is pretty good 10gps. it appears only on the west coast though. and its 40$, we switched like 10yo ago, when sonic was just new.
we have sonic, we left Xfinity of thier outrageous tiered pricing BS with bundling.
cries in $60 for 50/20 D:
australia.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I’m Aussie but I live in the USA now. I’ve heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren’t symmetric? Crazy for a network that’s supposed to be “modern”.
I had ADSL2+ “up to 24Mbps” in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was… an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
Bruh, I get 50 Mbps for less than 10 USD.
Part of our problem is sprawl…but in a metro there’s no excuse.
You can only squeeze every penny out of your population for so long before the majority don’t have any pennies left… With more and more people in the US living paycheck to paycheck and the increase of credit card debt on the raise… We are nearing that point… Trump will probably send this country into the biggest recession in history but it will be ok because they won’t call it one like the last time he was president…
While living in Spain I had access to better and cheaper internet through my mobile phone.
Now I’m back I’m Canada and I could cry. Rogers asks 40$ for 15GB of slow as ass interwebs.