In this day and age internet speeds should be a selling point but frankly it's more ridiculous that it needs to be. Unless you truly live in bumfuck nowhere then there's no reason why ISPs shouldn't be working on providing faster speeds.
I always check the internet speeds in the area before moving, it's a necessity since my family literally uses streaming as background noise to fall asleep to. 2tb data used on average is no joke :/
I feel like the use of abundant here is really subjective. If I have like 3 devices I could get away with 30Mbps but to me thatās not abundance. Instead I have 750Mbps for 3 devices, that is an abundanceā¦for now. Ample on the other hand, that is not right by any definition or interpretation.
You know that moment when you're 10-12 and realize you're the less fortunate friend of the group..............that's how I feel because those looks customary AF in my neck of the woods.
My parents just got on Starlink. Favorite thing of it was the call they got to do to the satellite providers they had and tell them to shove it after almost a decade of bad service on an oversaturated satellite that would often go down around 8 to 9 pm.
We have HughesNet at our cabin which is the absolute worst. Been on Starlink wait list over a year (was supposed to be ready Mid 2021), finally says āMay 2022ā so hopefully will finally have something usable soonā¦
Also try T-Mobiles at home net. Itās a big hotspot with unlimited data. But on a good note it seems Internet providers are having to go all fiber cause copper canāt keep up anymore.
Starlink didn't work for me. I live in one of the older parts of town but in other places it might work. For me starlink had too big of a range. 500kb to 20mb
Third world here paying ~$16 a month for 50/5 fiber includes TV and landline, it's the lowest and cheapest plan I think, but I don't want to touch it because it's stable.
From what I understand, that's not uncommon. US infrastructure is antiquated and there are local monopolies. So there is not incentive for companies to upgrade. Third world countries get newer infrastructure put in that works better.
I live in India and pay 16$ for 150/150 unlimited, includes free router, an android tv box (kinda like Amazon fire TV stick), Amazon prime, Disney+, bunch of other local streaming services. And you can increase speed by paying a few dollars more.
Thought the USO kicked in by now. Contact BT Openreach (or KCOM if you live in Hull), they will legally have to help you upgrade your connection and cover costs of up to Ā£3,400.
Right? Online gaming and discord is how I keep in touch with distant friends and those who have moved away. I wouldnāt even consider a place with internet THAT terrible.
I work for a fixed wireless provider. Do you have any decent views from your property? The best way to get free fast intermet from a WISP is to offer to host a relay so they can serve other people. We do this all the time and besides having the fastest internet in the county, the relay hosts always get the best response time because their issues affect other people too.
If you live in a rural area (Canada) this is normal. I pay just over $100 for 25/5 and only 350GB of traffic. Once you hit 350GB they throttle you down to 10/2.
I pay $100 for 100GB of 8MB/S down then $25 per 10GB over 100 and I work from home as a developer so I'm often over the limit and get crazy $300 bills.
This is why fiber internet access is a requirement for any place I consider moving to lol. I don't care what the reason is for moving to a new area. I make sure I find out who the ISPs are for that location and confirm what speeds they have available.
Shit, seeing the reactions here really brings into focus how utterly fucked telecom is up here in Canada. Most rural options this way are substantially worse
Eh, that's pretty crappy for large downloads or game streaming, but we had that for a while and it easily handled 3 HD streaming devices at once, or multiplayer gaming and a couple of devices... But we only paid $25 for it. That's robbery what they're charging you...
Welcome to America! Where everything is for a profit and we support only monopolies! We invented the internet and now have the worst service in the world! Whoo hoo!
Pfffft that's nothing. Where my girlfriend's dad lives he pays $40/mo for 2 down and like .2 up or something similar. And it's odd because I went to every website trying to find a working internet connection, but even the original ISP claims they don't support his house. Very confusing. I'm thinking he called and they came and installed the weakest cables possible.
This is the dark ages? I was finally able to upgrade to 15M down / 1M up and am ecstatic with this speed. But, then again, I chose to move to rural NW Arizona.
Bro i literraly pay 60 pln ( around 15$) for 200 mbps internet. What is that, do they connect you with coathangers straight to the central powered by hamsters?
This is relatable. There are 0 internet options where I live. AT&T used to offer 10mbps down 1mbps up for $150 here, though...no surprise no one went with that.
I live in bumbfuck nowhere and my internet is waaaaaaay cheaper than that, but at the same time I have 10 down 5 up, with phone packaged with it. It is our local internet provider so it sucks since it is an ass company.
That's basically what I'm paying for the 25 down....... Living in the country sucks especially when they have a fiber line a fraction of a mile down the road from me and refuse to come my way down the road.
I live in Delhi and I have a fiber connection that provides me with 100 MBps upload and download. It's also unlimited data with no fup capping. All this for 800 Rs that is approximately 10.45 us dollars.
I feel for you. Not sure where you live, but I bought a house in a rural area years ago. I loved the location - it was quiet, not much traffic, no neighbors, etc. Soy bean fields, horses, and cows.
Bro, move again
I need an advisor like you in my life
In this day and age internet speeds should be a selling point but frankly it's more ridiculous that it needs to be. Unless you truly live in bumfuck nowhere then there's no reason why ISPs shouldn't be working on providing faster speeds.
Also close your 90 tabs man š
I always check the internet speeds in the area before moving, it's a necessity since my family literally uses streaming as background noise to fall asleep to. 2tb data used on average is no joke :/
"Abundant bandwidth for multi-user households" š
Can support up to 11 pagers and 2 fax machines!
I feel like the use of abundant here is really subjective. If I have like 3 devices I could get away with 30Mbps but to me thatās not abundance. Instead I have 750Mbps for 3 devices, that is an abundanceā¦for now. Ample on the other hand, that is not right by any definition or interpretation.
You know that moment when you're 10-12 and realize you're the less fortunate friend of the group..............that's how I feel because those looks customary AF in my neck of the woods.
Rip
Yeah the fastest my parents can get is 7 down and .6 up.
Welcome to rural life. Time to get on the Starlink waiting list
Same problem here, rural life = crap internet.
Posts like this make me appreciate that I live in a rural area but can get 500mbps download speeds.
My parents just got on Starlink. Favorite thing of it was the call they got to do to the satellite providers they had and tell them to shove it after almost a decade of bad service on an oversaturated satellite that would often go down around 8 to 9 pm.
We have HughesNet at our cabin which is the absolute worst. Been on Starlink wait list over a year (was supposed to be ready Mid 2021), finally says āMay 2022ā so hopefully will finally have something usable soonā¦
Starlink is turning out to be not so great. Already well oversold in a lot of areas.
Just got it and it is fucking awesome
Rural? I had that kind of shit at my last apartment in the middle of a major US city.
Also try T-Mobiles at home net. Itās a big hotspot with unlimited data. But on a good note it seems Internet providers are having to go all fiber cause copper canāt keep up anymore.
Starlink didn't work for me. I live in one of the older parts of town but in other places it might work. For me starlink had too big of a range. 500kb to 20mb
I'm on Starlink now (thank god). But before that, I used a service like Ubifi to give me internet from the local cell tower. Worked surprisingly well.
No one is gonna mention the 90 open tabs on OP's phone? O.o
I used to have so many open that chrome stopped counting them
Thank you I thought I was alone here
Fun fact. If you go above 99 it becomes :D.
I dont close mine on my phone too, I have around 50 I think
i had over 100 and when it reaches 100 it just shows ":D"
Because 90 is rookie numbers.
That's pretty easy to get when just using the google search bar on the home screen. I never manually closed any tab.
I have closed 1000+ Tabs at a time multiple times in the past year.
Wait that isn't normal?
I can't tell if people use their phones to know how pointless it is to keep track of tabs.
OP has to be a boomer.
Jokes on you, canāt see that number with my iPhone 12
I donāt know anything about androids so thatās not something Iād notice
I live in the third world country and pay 40$ for 500/50, which includes TV and landline phone
Youāre lucky.
2nd world, 1gbps, TV and a phone, 30-35 ā¬
Third world here paying ~$16 a month for 50/5 fiber includes TV and landline, it's the lowest and cheapest plan I think, but I don't want to touch it because it's stable.
Damn im in Florida US and pay $100 for 400mbps
From what I understand, that's not uncommon. US infrastructure is antiquated and there are local monopolies. So there is not incentive for companies to upgrade. Third world countries get newer infrastructure put in that works better.
I live in India and pay 16$ for 150/150 unlimited, includes free router, an android tv box (kinda like Amazon fire TV stick), Amazon prime, Disney+, bunch of other local streaming services. And you can increase speed by paying a few dollars more.
$100 for 1200 down, 40 up. America best at nothing š„²
third world country here (as claimed by westerners idk), 20$ for 300/300 ez(tv, landline, Amazon prime, Netflix sub included)
SBB crnja ;)
This is bad. I get fiber from my local city-owned gas and electric utility, 1000/1000 for $69.95. Actual speeds are in the 950/950 range.
950Mbits is normal, thanks to overhead in the Ethernet protocol. Nothing todo with your isp, most likely.
Wtf I pay 28 euros for 1000/200
I might move out of america after hearing this
Telia in Lithuania does 1000/800 for 22ā¬, 12ā¬ if you have a 2 year plan. I shiver when looking into NA internet situation and their monopoly.
Romania? Or Finland?
I pay less than 10ā¬ for 1000/1000 lol
Fuck you guys, I have 1.2mb download speed and I live in the UK.
Thought the USO kicked in by now. Contact BT Openreach (or KCOM if you live in Hull), they will legally have to help you upgrade your connection and cover costs of up to Ā£3,400.
Same half the village has got fibre. But Im in the half that doesn't so stuck at 2mb down/ 0.5mb up.
TIL the UK is still in the dark ages.
80Mb/s in poland ez
"I'll fuck you until you love me"
I've had 15D/5U for years, with an 800GB cap. $80/month.
Try 15D/1.5U ugh
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15 down. 1 up. $170 a month. Fuck Viasat.
You have a cap?! Sue those scammers
Really sucks that to prevent retaliation for exploitation they made it domestic terrorism to mess with ISP businesses.
Damn, where do you live? I pay 40$ for 250/250
Dont gotta flex on OP like that damn
35 euro for 1000/1000 in Netherlands
I pay 60 for 600mbits
I live in rural Texas and there's 1 ISP around here and the prices/speeds match OP's pretty well.
$60 for gig/gig here
is it fiber? because ive heard that with regular internet the uploads are always low
1000/1000 for $9. The only good thing in Hungary.
For real like dude I pay 69 dollars for 1gig fiber...
We need to get it so that 100/100 is like the bare minimum they can provide.
100d is the maximum in australia
Oof, I pay ā¬20 for 1 gbit fiber ā¦
Which ISP?
Can you beat 7ā¬ for 1gbit fiber?
Same. 3/Wind-Infostrada (Italian ISP) i pay 27 euro/month for 1gbit FTTH with landline included
Same. I moved last year and went from an 8 megabit download to a gigabit one whilst saving some money. I do no longer live in fear of big updates.
Tell me about it. Paying 130 for 100 smh
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This is something I would always consider as a part of moving. But that effects my job too so I guess that tracks lol
Right? Online gaming and discord is how I keep in touch with distant friends and those who have moved away. I wouldnāt even consider a place with internet THAT terrible.
"Up to" is exactly how they screw you over.
I'm from Ukraine currently pay around 4$/mo for 100 Mbps
From Ukraine too. Currently pay 3$/mo for 40mbps but i can upgrade to a gbps plan for an extra 2$ a month. Crazy how expensive internet in America is.
Oh, it's like living in Germany!
you Americans get fucked by telcos. Europeans: sending thoughts and prayers.
Must be Suddenlink
Fucking hell, that's highway robbery. I pay like 30ā¬ for 300/100.
I work for a fixed wireless provider. Do you have any decent views from your property? The best way to get free fast intermet from a WISP is to offer to host a relay so they can serve other people. We do this all the time and besides having the fastest internet in the county, the relay hosts always get the best response time because their issues affect other people too.
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Which provider is that?
That tabs amount though
All of them are searches for other Internet service providers š
After you cross 100, chrome has an Easter egg. It shows :D instead of the number. Found it on my mom's phone she had almost 200 tabs open.
In Canada 70$ for 650kbps bell internet. I received my Starlink kit on Monday and the dark age is finally over.
Telecom cartel gonna cartel.
Welcome to America. Where ISPs donāt actually compete against each other,government granted monopolies, and overcharge for shit tier bandwidth.
Looks like you need a bit of star link
Could have been worse - you could have also had data caps on top of it š
If you live in a rural area (Canada) this is normal. I pay just over $100 for 25/5 and only 350GB of traffic. Once you hit 350GB they throttle you down to 10/2.
Checkout starlink. Neighbour got it and itās basically city speeds in a rural area for the same price.
I pay $100 for 100GB of 8MB/S down then $25 per 10GB over 100 and I work from home as a developer so I'm often over the limit and get crazy $300 bills.
Canada?
This is why fiber internet access is a requirement for any place I consider moving to lol. I don't care what the reason is for moving to a new area. I make sure I find out who the ISPs are for that location and confirm what speeds they have available.
Bruh, we pay like 10$/month for 1 gigabit and we didnt need to pay for the router (the only good thing about hungary btw)
What are the bad things about living there?
Are you in some desolate remote area that no one has heard of or can find on any map?!
Holy shit. I pay around $35 for 100/100 and I think that's expensive.
jesus christ i can get 1 gig for 75 bucks a month where i live, where the hell are you lmao
What is this man? I am paying 10 dollars for 100mbs download/ 8 mbs upload. Where do you live?
I pay 80 dollars for fiber optics. 800 down and up.
Damn I thought 40ā¬ for 100mbit/s down and 40 mbit/s up is too expensive
Shit, seeing the reactions here really brings into focus how utterly fucked telecom is up here in Canada. Most rural options this way are substantially worse
NINETY FUCKIN TABS OPEN??!
The (up to) reminds me of my dial up ISP in the 90's that offered "unlimited interactive access"
This has to be a country town in Ohio.
So check isp offerings before considering the home purchase.
"Optional router lease for 5$ per month" i am very confident every cheap ass router could easily handle such crazy high bandwidths
I have 100 mbps fiber optic. Costs me 90$ for 6 months.
Eh, that's pretty crappy for large downloads or game streaming, but we had that for a while and it easily handled 3 HD streaming devices at once, or multiplayer gaming and a couple of devices... But we only paid $25 for it. That's robbery what they're charging you...
Looks like you moved to AUS
rural internet
Yup. Looks just like my parents' options.
Bruh try for starlink
Not only the speed is from the dark ages... The prices are as well. I got a gigabit connection for 45 bucks o.O
Iām Romanian, if itās not 10GBPS, itās not good.
i pay 5ā¬ for 1Gb speed...
I live in rural Portugal and get 1000 download 500 upload poor op
Stares at my 400mbps connection and complains it's too slow
https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/#/
Gigabit fiber, or the dwelling is not suitable for habitation.
Welcome to America! Where everything is for a profit and we support only monopolies! We invented the internet and now have the worst service in the world! Whoo hoo!
This is an issue in almost every first world country, expect in major cities.
nothing to do with america, it's a basic engineering issue.
I'm lucky to pay 65 dollars and get 1000 down and 1000 up. It took years though to get to that.
Welcome to canada
Welcome to rural America where the companies wont build shit unless the tax payers pay for it... Your welcome chip makers and battery producers!
That seems bullshit.
Bro what the fuck is this?
I hope you were forced to move there and not by choice cause that looks awful
How does that make it better?
Where is this? Australia? Canada? What 3rd world commonwealth shithole ?
What the f are these prices!? I pay 40ā¬ for 200mbps!
W U T.
Fucking hell man I pay 49.95 for 1000/1000
1st question for realtor. What internet is available here? How fast? What provider? If they're smart, theyll have looked it up and they'll know.
Realtors are not smart. They are greedy pigs who do a job that is not needed.
I pay Ā£33 ($41) for 350/35.
That's a scam. Here in Romania I get 25-40 MB/s and we pay ~20$. Hopefully we'll get faster networking soon.
Jesus christ that gross. With a shit pride and a shit speed š¤ I pay less than that in Ā£ for 1gbps
Welcome to most of rural America.
RIP your data plan, OP.
Damn thats big
I pay around 25$ for 1Gbps. Business plan tho, static IP too.
Wtfā¦ we get 600 down for 89 where Iām at.
That hurts my soul. Iām doing the exact same thing and Iāve come to terms with my downgrade. Itās not as bad as this, butā¦still not good.
I get 5mb.....
Same š¢
I thought my $60/month for 50mbit was bad...yikes!
Weāre getting 500 for $50 what is this nonsense
Wtf? I pay Ā£45 a month for 500mb down/ 35mb up? Youāre being scammed but itās legal
Pfffft that's nothing. Where my girlfriend's dad lives he pays $40/mo for 2 down and like .2 up or something similar. And it's odd because I went to every website trying to find a working internet connection, but even the original ISP claims they don't support his house. Very confusing. I'm thinking he called and they came and installed the weakest cables possible.
Jeez! I pay 70$ for 1gb down/20mb up
Hereās me getting Gigabyte download and around 700-900mb upload for like 45 usd, and I live in the countryside.
This is the dark ages? I was finally able to upgrade to 15M down / 1M up and am ecstatic with this speed. But, then again, I chose to move to rural NW Arizona.
Man US prices are whack. I am restricted to 16-20 and it costs Ā£18.99 @ month. For less than 89.99 I could get a 5G router and unlimited data...
3 Mbps upload? My condolences
Why u complaining? I got 7 year old router and 20 mbps.
It would be cheaper if you moved again than if you stayed and paid for the Wi-Fi
Bro i literraly pay 60 pln ( around 15$) for 200 mbps internet. What is that, do they connect you with coathangers straight to the central powered by hamsters?
So, you moved to Germany.
Rural US here....Our maxes out at 0.8 mbps...luckily, no data limit, as if it matters.
2500/2500 $105
jesus christ, I pay 40ā¬ for 500 down and 250 up, unlimited.
i get 3 download on a good day
You in Alaska?
This is relatable. There are 0 internet options where I live. AT&T used to offer 10mbps down 1mbps up for $150 here, though...no surprise no one went with that.
I thought I was in the dark ages with 44Mbps at 25ā¬/mo... Damn...
$30/month for 30mbit in the Midwest USA for reference
I get gigabit speeds for less than that price...
For those prices i could get 1000 down (it sadly only does 50 up) and that includes a big tv package.
I live in bumbfuck nowhere and my internet is waaaaaaay cheaper than that, but at the same time I have 10 down 5 up, with phone packaged with it. It is our local internet provider so it sucks since it is an ass company.
That's basically what I'm paying for the 25 down....... Living in the country sucks especially when they have a fiber line a fraction of a mile down the road from me and refuse to come my way down the road.
Got the same here. Neighbour just got there starlink satellite. Same price, 30x the speed and no loss of signal.
Damn I would just not get internet at this price. Im paying roughly $9 for 300/300.
I live in Delhi and I have a fiber connection that provides me with 100 MBps upload and download. It's also unlimited data with no fup capping. All this for 800 Rs that is approximately 10.45 us dollars.
I pay less than your cheapest option for 300 up and down.
Holy shit and I thought it's expensive in germany. I pay like 40ā¬/Month for 250k mbit/s.
Holy fuck, we pay that for 600mb and 4 phones with unlimited data and calls (granted, not in the US). How tf do they even try to justify those prices?
I feel for you. Not sure where you live, but I bought a house in a rural area years ago. I loved the location - it was quiet, not much traffic, no neighbors, etc. Soy bean fields, horses, and cows.