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Broadband Pricing Across The World?
Freedom_Canadian writes "I was wondering if it would be possible to put up a world map with broadband internet pricing. The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable. I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones." What are the best and worst prices in your own area? Perhaps someone handy with graphics can collect some good data points from your comments and create such a beast.
Ah, the benefits of a free market. When your access is partially or fully government subsidized, it can be plenty cheaper. We aren't getting screwed necessarily; we are paying for choice (even if it doesn't exist in your area).
For my area, I get DSL for $40 (Verizon or the one Verizon reseller), dial-up for $15, or I can go for my own leased line. At work We could get Business Cable ($150+), dial-up $15, or (the chosen option) a fractional T1 from our telco. It's $300-something for 384k.
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We pay 45 for a cable modem, dsl is 35... which i find completely absurd.
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I pay about $35/mo (CDN) for my 1.53mbps/640kbps ADSL in British Columbia with great upstream, low pings, and it's not even PPPoE.. which is just great.
I guess it depends what part of the world you live in, the cable here is great too.. capped at 8mbps/512kbps if you want Shaw, but it's a bit more pricy at around $45/mo unless you get the cable/TV bundle.
Free means no restrictions, ironic the FSF's GPL forces restrictions, isn't it? What's your definition of free?
Don't forget, location matters. Everyone always talks about how cheap (compared to the United States) broadband is in Japan, for example. Well, of course it is! In Japan, everything is closer together, meaning less line required to get broadband into the home, meaning less costs for the company, meaning lower prices.
The same goes from state-to-state, and area-to-area. Areas with higher population density will generally have less expessive broadband than areas where the population is spread out.
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Its $60 here for a cable modem. Probably has something to do with DSL not being available? :-P
Telus Basic residential DSL. 150K down, 50K up. $34.95 Canadian per month. (Plus basic phone line, $22 Cdn per month)
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Isle of Man, DSL is about 15 pounds per month including VAT. I guess that works out about 27USD. I think that's 512/256 kbps
$58 for 112 kbit up/2.6 Mbit cable down near Winchester, VA.
A monthly Internet access bill for cable runs $44.95 here in Poughkeepsie, New York. That includes a discount for having a cable TV subscription. Being 90 minutes from NYC certainly doesn't drive our costs down... From talking to people at work, the average DSL price is around $39 per month.
$44 a month for Road-Runner and $48 for DSL from Citizens Telecom.... I'd say that aren't even using vaseline.
I pay $40/month CAD for 3MB down / 500kbps up cable connection. (In reality, its more like 2.4MB down). We get business DSL at work from Advantage Internet (www.aibn.com) for something like $80 per month, but it is bundled with some other services. This connection is 1MB down (I'm not sure what the upload bandwidth is). Alex
In the UK there are basically two options:
NTL (cable)
150kbits; 18GBP/month = 33USD/month
600kbits; 25GBP/month = 46USD/month
1000kbits; 35GBP/month = 64USB/month
BT (ADSL)
500kbits; 23GBP/month = 42USD/month
In all cases upstream is worse than downstream; on NTL it's only 120kbits on the 600kbits option, I'm not sure about the others. With BT you get 250kbits upstream.
BT also supply office connections, you can look up the numbers for those if you're interested ;-)
http://www.broadbandreports.com/ It has prices and speed statistics from people who test their machines.
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Around here, as in most major canadian centres, there is good competition between the phone company (DSL) and cable. I'm paying 35$cdn/month for DSL without any monthly limits. (You can pay more if you want the faster connection, which some of my gamers tend to use.) Cable is equally cheap, but only if you also buy cable TV from the company - otherwise you pay a bit more.
How much does it cost in the US?
...for instance, I pay much more than most people, as I require SDSL for hosting. In fact, on the occasions that I tell people what I pay, the shock on their face is priceless. However, when I explain to them that their cable upload speed is 96k, and that mine is 8.5 times that, it makes a little more sense to them.
Cable around here (NY suburbs) runs about $40-$50 per month, and ADSL is about the same. SDSL can run from that to $399, and a T1 costs about $500 a month.
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i manage an office in toronto, ontario that pays $385/mo for adsl (4.1mbps down). what provider are _you_ using??
Broadband is pretty new to Ireland, and is naturally quite expensive, although, where I live, in a small town, a local person has provided a cable internet service, until recently I was paying around 60euro per month for a service varying between 256k and 512k.
It's now up to 70euro a month, but my provider upgraded my link to nearly 3mbit/s.
I think i'm getting my moneys worth now.
-Rob
The rural mountainous states in the US are less populated and tougher to cover with access. An analog to the Tennessee Valley Authority (rural electrification in the US) is needed to spread the cost for the public benefit of universal access. And before *that* can happen the political culture in the US probably needs to . . . er, change some.
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I just got my bill today, how timely.
I'm paying $44.95/month for internet access for 1 IP addy. But what Time Warner doesn't know about my network can't hurt me yet.
If I was still in school (UAkron), Time Warner has some deal where students get it for $20/month.
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Cox Cable
3mbps
$50
Here my 256k ADSL costs R$ 70/per month, something like US$ 23 per month.
Is it like this everywhere? Anyway to get around this requirement? Like many folks, I use cellular exclusively, so it sucks to have to pay for a landline every month just to get broadband.
In my area I pay $40 for 1.5/128. Lots of people get DSL for $25/month on promotional deals ($25 for 1 year on a 2 year contract).
128Kbit ADSL, limited to 10GB international and usually unlimited national is around $60 NZ / month. Thats about $90 USD I believe.
The question really should be are you getting what you pay for? I have friends who are getting inexpensive introductory rates with SBC, and who kept having outages for the longest time.
I just switched to SBC/Yahoo (for about $30/month) and I haven't had issues, myself. Knock on w NO CARRIER
I'm in San Francisco.
The amount I actually pay is hard to determine becuase it is mixed in with 2 phone lines and cable tv. But I figure it's about $40 for a 5mbps/2mbps connection.
22 pcm (about $35 US)for DSL with Force9/Plusnet. This includes hosting as many domains as I want, web space (inc PHP, MySQL) a fax->email number and some other bits and bobs.
I pay $31.95 for fast cable, 128k up, but usually 3-4 mpbs down.
I have a friend who pays 69.99 for the same thing, but a "business" account, they have a static IP, but my IP hasnt changed for over a year, so I practically do as well
We have local dial up for 9.95
plus all the bigger companies
juno, aol, msn, etc.
DSL would be an option for me, as I am really close to a telco switch office, but that costs upwards of 49.95 in my area, for a connection that is slower than my cable
I have Suscom cable modem if interested
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Here in Central Ohio, it's around 40 bucks a month with Road Runner for hi-speed cable. Another thing to consider is monopolies. With only one company, they can drive the rate up and know no one can do a thing about it. It's happenened in many places, and still is.
Cable service in Ontario from @Rogers is ~CAD$49/month. That gets me about 200-250k/s downloads and 45k/s uploads.. Not to mention an awesome news server with excellent retention.
I've heard that the quality of service does depend on where in the province you are though..
Here in Central Canada (Manitoba), Cable and DSL is $39.95-45.95 CDN. Which converted is around $30 or so US. However, if one wanted to sign up, it's approximately $29.99 CDN for the first 6-8 months. I know in the states, Comcast and other providers are offering broadband at $45.95 to 60.95 US for cable internet. Might be why we have a high ratio of broadband customers here in Canada versus in the states.
The two most popular broadband providers in my area are:
Shaw Cable
MTS DSL
Broadband pricing is no exception. I should expect Afghanistan and Ethiopia to top the charts. When i lived in Finland, a rather poor country, I found broadband to be impressively cheap compared to my native France.
Capitalism ensures that the wealthy people of the West pay through the nose for commodities. that wealth filtering down, via a sort of global reaganomics, to the people of Delhi and Addis Ababa.
The problem is that global trade raises prices in the third world, because it levels prices. Sure, it makes things cheaper in the west, but it makes things more expensive in the third world. This is why it is our duty to allow the free exchange of ideas, but not of goods and cash.
I expect, in any such map, that the third world will come first and the first world will come last, in terms of prices. But the more free trade linked third world countries will be more expensive than the more protectionist ones, like Singapore.
I suppose this will be a bit silly thread, but here goes:
I live in Sweden and I'm on a 1Mb/8Mb DSL (no bandwidth limits and 1 static IP) and I'm paying 398 SEK ($55) a month.
DSL's ridiculously expensive here in NZ. It's about US$40 per month for a 128/128 connection. The next step up is "full speed" - up to 8 Mb/s. This costs $35 per month I think, with a 500 MB data transfer limit. Go over that limit and it's around $0.14 per MB! See www.jetstream.co.nz for the full story. 1 NZD ~ 0.68 USD.
which is why no one has done such a thing, because quality is very difficult to measure.
I pay about $10 a month more than the average DSL customer in my area, $20 a month more than the people who sign up with special promotions at cheap providers. I also get a static IP, zero guff about AUP, clean Ethernet rather than PPPoE, and direct access to the engineer who built and maintains the network (including after-hours). I wouldn't change and I recommend mom-n-pops to anyone who asks.
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The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable.
I guess ridiculous depends on your point of view. It costs $60 get in on the ground floor of dsl/cable in the SouthEast U.S., at least from an ISP with a decent AUP.
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Here in New Zealand, being subject to the monopoly of the incumbant Telco (www.telecom.co.nz), broadband pricing is ridiculously expensive. Currently paying $70NZ/month for 256Kbps (up and downstream) with a data cap of 2GB/month.
How I long for the uncapped service provided in Canada.
You're not being shafted, in New Zealand our ADSL cost NZ$70 a month, for 10gig of traffic, oh, and thats only 128kbps, or 256kbps cable for the same price, after that its 20cents a meg...
NZ$70 is about 35->40 USD
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For rip off UK, I pay: 27.99 UKP for DL/512Kbps and UL/256Kps.
2mbit costs around $55 with the ISP mentioned above, dunno about the other ISPs though.
0.5mbit comes in at around $41.
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Most importantly, there are no caps and they don't seem to care about running servers.
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50$ a month for 1mbit up 10mbit down, cable in new york and what's with that guy a few posts up who acutally found a way to tie in rural broadband with a negative american political comment. He prolly couldn't have waited for a post about the iraq war again.
I live in Jefferson County, Ohio (USA). In my particular area, SBC is the provider for phone and DSL services, and Comcast (or "CommieCrap" as it's so hatefully known here) is the cable provider. SBC has various prices for DSL, but currently I could get 384k DSL for $27/month for 12 months by signing a contract. The representatives on the phone tell me I can keep renewing this contract indefinitely (if you don't renew, the price jumps to $40/month). CommieCrap wants $45/month for 3.0Mbps downstream, 128kbps upstream cable IF you're a cable TV subscriber. If you're not a CATV subscriber, they want $55/month. That includes $3/month modem rental. Friends and neighbors tell me the CommieCrap cable internet is prone to periods of up to 2 hours without service as much as 3 days a week in the area, too.
100BZ (50US) for 64k up 64k down You can get higher but the cost goes up quick. Dialup .05 us a min plus phone line charge (same company there is a monopoly here)
I pay 65 for cable modem 3mb. They are the only game in town so i know i am getting screwed.
I will pay that rather than use dial up
In Northern VA you can get Cox Communication for $39 for 3Mbit downstream and 720K upstream cable. If you are not a Cox Cable customer then you get to pay $49 a month. If you want 4MBytes then you will fork out $79 or $99 depending on the upload package you want. You are limited to 30G down a month and 300MB up a month. So for the most part is a great connection. I have been able to download like a freaking fool and have never hit my 30G per month -- since I am not doing file sharing. But I have gathered quite a few ISO's.
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I pay $9/month for DSL access that sometimes gets up to 1.5Mb/sec. Have to put up with the Great Firewall of China though. Still last February, most of the sites they used to block were suddenly accessable.
I guess you're looking for the cheapest available prices, right?
OK:
500kBit/s: 45 CHF, $36.79
1MBit/s: 60 CHF, $49.06
2MBit/s: 75 CHF, $61.32
Source, Currency conversion.
ADSL (512 down 128 up) in South Africa costs are $50 give or take a few at current exchange rates. Just having a 64k line from point a to b no internet costs is about $10 here (it's called diginet, not sure whats it's called elsewhere)
I'm sure that beats you're worst pricing hands down
Sanity is a majority vote.
$55 here in Iowa for 1500/128 cable modem. :(
Nothing disturbs me more than blind loyalism towards some unrealistic and over-idealistic notion of one's nationality.
Plenty of choice here. Dial-up can be had for free :)
Consumer ADSL ranges from 19 Euro/month for 384/128 kb/s (down/up), to 80 Euro/month for 8Mb/1Mb on a 100GB/month limit (I've actually exceeded it a few times).
There are many, many providers, each offering varying rates, download limits, policies, quality, and facilities (web hosting, usenet, etc.). Even better: they are engaged in a price war at the moment.
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My comcast cable internet service is about $45 a month. DSL was $40 when I had it around two years ago. You can get DSL for around $35 these days although I think it's capped at 256k down, 128k up.
I'm using the Danish ADSL provider CyberCity, i have 3072 kb/s downstream / 768 kb/s upstream for about 150$/mo.
I think the smallest ADSL package is 256/128 and costs about 50$/mo.
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49 euros a month for DSL at 512/512 kbps, ~120 to open it in the first place. That's about average in Finland. I'm actually pretty lucky, as it's higher in areas where the only broadband provider is the local telephone company.
The differences areally in Finland can be big. In a small town you might get 256/256 for 69 euros a month, if you'll get any DSL at all. On the other hand, a student in Oulu can get a nice 8M/8M VDSL pipe for less than 40 euros.
Local telcos are what are keeping prices up in the first place. For the last few miles they own the lines and have a de facto monopoly, and they can charge an arm and a leg for it. No other ISP will want to offer me broadband, although I should feel lucky for having it in a town of 7000 - pretty small even by Finnish standards - in the first place. The situation in big cities is much better with multiple ISPs, but you might get in trouble in your flat if you'd have to pull wires there and the apartment council consists of mostly elderly people... One solution would be WLAN of course, but it hasn't really caught on.
The government has been trying to get it in control, with the aim being getting cable for 36 euros a month, but the only real solution I can see is the government subsidising cablework like has been done in Sweden and owning the infrastructure. But instead we're throwing money at digital television, which could be done through a fat pipe anyway.
A significant plus is that in Finland there aren't any transfer costs at all, just a monthly fee.
E60 for high quality 8mbits downstream and 1mbit upstream ADSL (250GB/month datalimit)
:)
Cheapest is 512/512 kbit for around E20 per month.
I'm not complaining
The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
It's $45 per month here and $10 for another dynamic ip. This is using RoadRunner.
A couple years ago, when broadband access in the United States was typically $30-50 per month for DSL or cable broadband -- about what it is today -- getting a 256kbps DSL or satellite connection in Accra, capital of Ghana, cost about $2500 per month, with a $5000 equipment fee up front.
Massive price gouging. I suspect the prices are still quite high today. Can anyone provide more recent information?
Speakeasy.net: 1500 Down/256 Up. 2 Static IPs.
I pay 99NIS for a 500kbps DSL line, to the
government owned monopoly running the phone
lines. and 55 NIS for my ISP. a tottal of 154NIS
a month which is aproxematly 34$ us.(without
looking up exchange rates)
I think some people get better deals(mainly people
get 750kbps lines for something similar)
But the cheapest around here is probably cables
when you do a combo deal of cable tv+broadband.
(you don't deal with the monopoly on phone+dsl lines)
Me
I pay about $45/month. That's for cable access. When I lived in a different part of town, getting 600kps down was pretty trivial, and I occasionally saw speeds touching 10MBit/s down. Where I am now, I 'only' get around 400kps down on a good day. I seem to be able to transfer about 80kps up.
Im a customer, and loyal one at that, of Wide Open West. They have the fastest and most stable cable internet in all of the state...and possibly midwest! My price is 80 per month for 3mbit/s down/500kbit/s up
if you can read this, good, because i sure cant
$58 per month in central New York through Adelphia. That's what I get for having a small bankrupt provider. :(
In most of New Zealand the only broadband option is Telecom DSL, which has only one viable plan, that being $NZ29.95 (per month) for a 128k/128k connection to an ISP, which you then bay for bandwidth (maybe $NZ29.95 for 10GB international traffic, free national). If you want to go faster than 128k, you have to pay Telecom for traffic (for example, 256k, $NZ39.95 to Telecom for 500MB traffic (including national) plus at least $NZ10 to an ISP (administrative, email, etc).
The most commom provider here in Denmark, TDC, charges about 100 US$ / month (599 DKR) for 2Mbit/256Kbit ADSL.
The most common line here AFAIK is the less expensive 512Kbit/128Kbit which can be had for about 60US$ / month (359 DKR)
Cable internet is available in my area as well. Prices range from 10EUR(12$) for 64/64 to 120EUR(150$) for 4096/1024.
I'm paying $90/mo for 512 Kbps up / 512 Kbps down. The speed is generally quite solid. I believe the normal consumer packages are cheaper, but I wanted the decent upload speed. I believe $90/mo will get you 1.5Mbps/128Kbps. Sprint offers DSL in the area, but good luck finding out what the speed is.
$40.00/mo.
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Ok, so it seems /. won't display the UK pound sign.
All the numbers in that post without a $ in front of them are in GBP.
Currently you can get about $1.60 per pound.
If Bush keeps fucking with the economy, we might get $2 to the pound, which will be good for me since it would make my Apple purchases even cheaper. Well, the ones I can bring back on the plane that is.
10Mbps up/down. No transfer limit.
Stockholm, Sweden.
~43 USD/month.
Here at RIT, I have dual OC-3's plus a T3 backup, for the low low price of $30k a year
Actually, its quite nice
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Prices are pretty steep. its about 39 /month (about say $65) for a 1mbits cable modem; its cheaper tho for adsl = its about 27/month for 512k.
I(actually, my parents) pay about 37 euro for cable. Limits are 10Gb/30 days 1Gb upstream.
In Croatia there is only one DSL provider (the national network). The cheapest package is 40$/month (265$ setup) and that's 384/64 with 1GB of monthly bandwidth (yeah, one gig!), each additional MB is 10 cents. The most expensive is 580$/month (350$ setup) 1,5M/256k, 12GB of bandwidth, each additional MB is 8 cents.
Remember that the next time you bitch about your connection being expensive.
This site: http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/
Shows price comparisons for a lot of Australian ISPs.
I'm with Optus cable and currently have a 6Gb data cap for $69.95 (Australian) per month.
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I'm paying $45/month for 1.5mps down/128kps up for my cable connection. If I could get DSL where I live(I can't) than it would be about the same or more. We do have a new broadband wireless ISP here in town but it's more expensive. I always thought $45/month was to expensive, now I'm sure...
$42 for cable, 3Mbit down/256k up. It's not bad. I wish Comcast was slightly more reliable, though.
10 Mbit/sec Ethernet through Bredbandsbolaget AB: SEK 320/month (~USD 45)
Hate to tell you bud, but your not paying too much for your highspeed connection. In Ottawa i'm paying 37$ a month. (I'm too lazy to look up the exchange rate but 24$US is probably closer to 32$)
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Over here, it's about 40 euro for both ADSL and Cable (128 kbps up/4 Mbps down) - 10GB limit.
Comcast cable is available in selected sillicon valley for $59/month 1800Kbps down 256Kbps up. If you're lucky and live near a CO office, you can get SBC DSL for $26.95 with 1.5Mbps down and 128Kbps up - or paying $26.95 for under 350Kbps.
Yep - living in middle of sillicon valley and getting crappy speed, and I'm just next door to HP. What bandwith glut??
Verizon DSL:
$32 goes to verizon for a 768/128 line, or 10$ more gets you 1400/128.
Then you can Pay $2.99 to verizon to provide you internet access that is alwasy on at 56k modem speed, or pay $20-$30 for a ISP that gan give you full speed. $20 includes static ip, ports 80, 25, and the windows ports blocked. $30 gets you a static and raw internet. All these prices are for 768/128 service, as im about 250ft too far for the 1400/128 service and have never bothered to get prices.
SBC just ran fiber right through the middle of the city so we may get service from SBC soon, and from what I hear is a godsend compaired to verizon.
Comcast cable runs $49.99 including the modem rental fee, if you buy your own its $46.99 + $2.99 bs fee for having your own modem.
was Starpower - they have a bundle of Local phone line, basic cable and a cable modem for 90$ a month.
I am a customer of Comcast and have internet as well as cable TV. 3MB downstream for $45/month (includes cable modem). Not bad, but could be better if cable companies were allowed to compete with each other. Comcast has a monopoly on this area.
$45 per month for consistent 3meg up and 500k down. To put this in context, I pay about $4,850 per month for rent and $525 per month for one parking space.
Well, the price here has gone up from $40 to $52 for new subscribers in the last few years and after a bankruptcy and acquisition. The problem is that Comcast has such a monopoly on the local market that they can charge whatever they want.
Comcast wants $56 / month in my area, and they force their basic cable service on you with their broadband. If you don't want their illegally bundled product package, you can get just broadband for around $75/mo., which is totally idiotic. I filed a complaint w/ the FCC, which was followed up on by the FCC and Comcast, and in the end completely ignored by both parties. Comcast is allowed to illegally bundle their products according to the FCC. Yea FCC.
So, I took my complaint to one of Comcast's phone reps, who lowered my monthly broadband/cable charge to about $34/mo. Not quite sure how I talked her into doing that, but whatever a discount is a discount.
Prices range from $29 for DSL Lite (capped, dynamic IP) to about $79 at the top end of the home offering (multiple users, static IP, better downloads, multiple emails). I use the $59 offering which is the cheapest one with static IP that I found at the time. Nothing prevents the $29 offering from being shared, but this service seems to be targeted at mostly non-technical folks.
There's none.
TV cables are all pirated from satellites and no data link is available through them.
You can't use satellite internet connections too, the government think this is a "security matter" to transmit data over a satellite link (you get arrested by doing so).
You end paying something like USD $70 per month to use a few hours of dialup per day.
Feel better now?
I pay $23.50 per month for the ISP (256 down, 64 up for the first 350mb then its neutred to 78 down, 64 up unlimited)
and $59.50 for access to the Transact network which includes phone, digital TV and network access.
I have a 2048/512 kbit/s ADSL connection with TDC in Denmark. It costs me roughly $135 pr month.
;-)).
This probably sounds insane to an american, but the upside is that I actually have 2048/512 at all hours of the day, next to no downtime, a static IP, and unlimited trafic. How unlimited? Well, I average a couple of hundred GB pr month without complaint (only linux ISO's, I swear!
I'm pretty happy with the connection, especially since I have no problem getting full connection speed to practically any server that can keep up.
From Comcast, Woodridge, Illinois (Suburb of Chicago. Mapquest it if you want a map). I also get regular cable included.
In Southern California, Adelphia charges $59/mo for broadband cable (2Mbps down/256K up). If I ordered cable TV from them it would be a bit cheaper. It's way better than the DSL connection I had before. I was getting unicast traffic on my DSL, which irritated me since there was no good reason to send unicast traffic that wasn't meant for my home network to me. Especially when I'm paying for the bandwidth.
Even though the cable is a shared connection, I still get more bandwidth for my money. I only see a slow-down occasionally and I can't be sure it's Adelphia's fault.
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Here in Northern (Bay Area) California, I pay $39.00 to Sonic.net for a 1.5mps down / 128k up with 4 static IPs, 5 email accounts (with SpamAssassin), and 80gb server space. They're extremely reliable (near-zero downtime of any kind since I joined in 1996 as a dialup member, and none since I got their DSL in 2002) and their customer support is amazing.
3 Mbps up and 384 Kbps down in theory, though I think my modem or local node are messed up in recent months as the bandwidth fluctuates a lot. However, the potential to go that fast for what I pay ($45 Canadian a month for Rogers Hi-Speed) would make most American geeks cry.
For reference: I'm located in Ottawa, Canada
VDSL 26Mbit/s (symmetric) is 400sek (~$56 at the moment) a month here in sweden. You need to be within 300m from the station though. Within 1000m you get 13Mbit/s, and longer than that gets you ADSL 832kbit/s uplink / 8Mbit/s downlink. :( Shouldn't complain though. 8/1 is ok in my opinion. All I really would want is a faster uplink. 4Mbit/s symmetric would be fine, and could be done at my current distance. But it seems that the lineoperator here in Sweden will not allow it because they are scared of lines starting interfering with eachother. (that seems like bs to me though) We used to have a monopoly on telephone here you know. :P
Sadly I live 1400m from my station, even though I live in central Stockholm.
A mid sized and relatively poor post communist country in central europe: :)
~25$ for cable capped @ 128kb/s (256kb/s at night and 512kb/s from a local mirror including debian
The connection is pretty poor but the price if affordable, those out of range get a state monoply dialup ~1$ per 6 minutes.
Earthlink/Time Warner. $50/mo. inc tier 2 cable TV. Free cable modem, unlimited number of end points. Speed is rock solid 1Mbps in either direction.
You're leaving out quite a few options:
For instance, I have Telewest Blueyonder Cable and get 512/128kbs for 25GBP/month.
There's a lot of ADSL companies and if you shop around you can get some quite good deals - I've seen 512kbs from as low as 19GBP/month, and 2Mb/s fo 29GBP/month.
Once you've done the GBP-$ conversion, a lot of these will look quite expensive, but that's quite a recent thing - a result of the dollar's fall in value. For instance, although I am paying the equivalent of $46/month now, back in september it was worth $38. These figures include our 17.5% VAT.
By the way, why the hell won't Slashdot display the symbol for Pounds Sterling? Grr.
Standard dial-up connection is actually much more expensive because you have to pay per minute, there is no flat per-month tariff. If you want to be connected several hours each day, you'll easily pay over $400 (yes, four hundred) per month. The speed is 4 kB/s.
The cheapest DSL is about $40 a month. The speed less than 16 kb/s (the actual line speed is higher but there is 1:50 overbooking, which, according to Czech Telecom, is "normal") and you pay additional $15 for each 3 GB over the first 10 GB of traffic. Not very cool.
If you want real UNLIMITED ADSL connection and guaranteed speed of at least 16 kb/s, it will cost you about $800 a month.
Thank you very much. BTW, Bill Gates is coming over here this month to tell us how great it is to be on the Information Superhighway.
--- Frantisek Fuka (Yes, that's my real name and you have no idea how it's pronounced)
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Fast internet was quite expensive here in Switzerland a moment ago but since copetition is picking up, it's gotten much cheaper.
The propably fastest an cheapest way now is Cable:
500/100 for 45 CHF = 36.17 USD
1000/200 for 60 CHF = 48.23 USD
2000/400 for 75 CHF = 60.29 USD
3000/800 for 150 CHF = 120.58 USD
The downside to this is that cable is not yet available everywhere. You have to be rather lucky to be able to get cable.
The leader for ADSL sells:
300/50 for 49 CHF = 39.39 USD
600/100 for 79 CHF = 63.50 USD
-> This ISP announced to double the speed in early 2004 (300 to 600 and 600 to 1200).
Though you can go cheaper with other ISPs.
There's multiple options to choose from in The Nethherlands. Cable has two or three major suppliers, prices range from E22.95 for a 400Kb/s down / 64Kb/s uplink to E79.95 for 3Mb/s down / 384 up.
There's also a huge number of ADSL/SDSL suppliers ranging from E14.95 for 256/64Kb/s connections to E99.95 for 8Mb/1024Kb. The cheap ones employ huge overcommit rates (20:1 or so). You get what you pay for..
If you have real money to spend you can also opt for SDSL, about E250 for 2Mb/s both ways.
Any of the above are available in about 90% of the country.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
On the foreign front, in Australia we're getting 256/128 for AUS$70/month (something in the order of US$40-50, I think), which is *cheap* for us, especially given the unlimited bandwidth.
We used to get 400Mb/month dialup from BigPond for a *mere* $24.95/month.
--- Egads, I glow in the dark!
Cable at 640/256 for ~50 USD (at 7,17 SEK/USD). Switching soon.
$75 (59 Euro) for a dedicated DSL line (1024/256) flat, no disconnect, fastpath
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there are cheaper offers in combination with a ISDN line together, but i dont like the company
This is my 2nd DSL line, i switched after the 1st provider killed the Flatrate. It had the same price, but with ISDN togeter.
Expensive? Yes, but i remeber times when i paid $700 for the phoneline to use internet with a modem, flatrates for phones are not available (afaik) in
I pay 40 dollers a month for 2 mbit down 256k up from charter. only other option is 256k dsl for around the same price... might actualy be a better deal since i have to [as the bastards say]powercycle my modem about 2x a day.
sucks like fucking shit dumb fucking monopolising muther fucker cunts... WE HATES THEM MY PRECIOUS
3Mbps down, 300kbps up. $45/mo.
This is Comcast cable. It's $2-3/mo cheaper if you provide your modem, and about $12 more if you're not a cable TV subscriber with them. Service is pretty good.
DSL is similarly priced.
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You have to pay two separate entities:
:-(
:-(), but if you are a little bit more clever you can e.g. get 5GB transfer volume for 9.90 Euro / Month.
:-(
1) Your DSL provider. Which is usually the pseudo-monopolistic Deutsche Telekom, because they own the wires. T-DSL with 768 kbit/s
If you have ISDN: 12.99 Euro/Month
If you have Analog phone: 19.99 Euro/Month
(the higher price if you already have an analoge phone is a ripp-off, it is the same physical wire independent if you already have ISDN or analog).
In both cases you have to pay a one-time fee of 99,95 EUR in addition for, well, for having to buy from them
2) An ISP.
If you again choose Deutsche Telecom, you can e.g. pay 29.95 Euro/Month for a flat rate, or 24.95 for 5GB transfer volume (they have other traifs, too).
Other ISPs also charge around 28 - 29 Euro / Mouth for a flat rate (they have to buy connectivity from Deutsche Telekom
So e.g. ADSL with 5GB / Month if you have an analog phone can be as "cheap" as 29.89 Euro / Month
in south western pennsylvania....
pay something like 40 USD / month for 3mb down, 256k up...
i am fairly happy with the service...no downtime in 6 months, and in fact, I have had the same IP for the past 6 months...
Very happy with the speed too. Multiple tests at dslreports.com confirm the advertised speeds.
My only complaint is that their DNS servers are slow as balls. However, that is remedied by using a seperate set of dns servers (considering setting up one in house)
Also, they report on their site that their is supposedly a 1GB limit per month downstream...I easily surpass that each month between my roomate and myself, and have heard no complaints as of yet...
Its all about what the market will bear. My cable modem cost %0.0167 what my rent does. My dad's is %0.0934 of his mortgage. He pays less than 1/2 what I pay because he lives in a small community that as a whole could not support a service that cost as much per month as a weeks groceries. I can swallow $60 a month becuase that's less that dinner for two at a local resturant.
Go read Wealth of Nations and come back tommorrow. As for you socialists out there, sorry about the taxes.
Home package: $35.00 CDN (plus GST/PST) ($27.50 USD) (21.50 EUR)
Package includes:
- 1.5 Mbit downstream
- 512 Kbit upstream
- 2 dynamic IPs
- 3 e-mail addresses
They don't care about the usage of broadband NAT setups either, and they're also pretty relaxed on broadband.
Here in the UK, most of us don't get a chance to use anything over 2Mbps :(. I pay 65/mo (~$110 USD) for 2Mbps, but I can't get any faster than that.
My 256kbps cable costs about U$20 , but you also have to pay an ISP (government bullshit) so add another 10 bucks. So in Sao Paulo (Brazil) it's around U$30 for 256kbps cable.
Cable $44 per month with a 1 year contract. Add $10 per month if you don't want a 1 year commitment. Claimed speeds are 512 kbps maximum download rate and a 256 kbps maximum upload rate, which is pretty close to reality (for me, at least). Southwestern-Bell "Yahoo" DSL is also available here if you live within 2 miles of the college campus and is priced about the same.
A strange time to ask such a question when the value of the dollar is way below average.
Conversions of broadband prices from any currency into dollars with the current exchange rate will probably make Americans think that everybody else is paying absurdly high prices (although Canada still seems very cheap).
As an example, 1GBP is currently worth a massive 1.83USD whereas it usually hovers around 1.6USD. 1EUR is now worth 1.27USD where it's generally been about 1.15USD
It's about we had martial law in this country.
I've had both US and NZ broadband. Nothing to really whine about in the US. Here in NZ it runs in the US hundreds of dollars for speeds in the mbps range. Once you go over the small monthly limit it escalates. I've had US $400 bills for one month.
Here in Brazil the prices are high. I pay R$120,00 reals (the brazilian currency, equivalent to US$40) for a 256k/256k cable modem service with several ports (http, ftp, telnet, ssh) closed for serving.
The 300k/300k DSL service arround the country are about that price too, and they are pretty restrictive (3gb down / mo.).
Looking at the minimum salary of Brazil (about US$90) you can conclude that this is really a high price: more than 50% of the paycheck that more than 70% of the Brazilians get.
the cheapest and fastes here is Chello (internet thru TV cable)
512kbs download 128kbs upload for 45USD/month
or
756/256 for 60USD/month
but is only avaiable in the capital city
DSL are 50% more expensive, is avaiable in more cities, not everywhere
dialup is very expensive 1-2USD/hour
About 4 years ago, JENS signed a contract with AAFES to provide service to military stations in Japan. I live in Northwest Tokyo and paid, for 3 years, $40/month for 90 hours of dialup service. Going over that limit was very expensive. A lot of 'power users' had several accounts and switched between them every two weeks.
Finally, after twy years of bitching, JENS upgraded to DSL. We now pay $60/month for 1.5mbps down and who knows how much up. Actually, the upstream doesn't matter at all. Why? No global IP addresses. Without a publicly addressable IP, any intention of sharing is crushed.
We cannot host any type of server. No games, no VoIP, no MSN or Yahoo voice/video chat, no filesharing at all. Funny thing is, even though I can't get something like TeamSpeak or NeverWinter Nights to create a server avalible to the internet, BitTorrent still works both ways flawlessly.
Anyway, long story short: I pay $60 for 1.5mbps via a US government-granted monopoly while my Japanese neighbor pays $30/month for 100mbps fiber-to-the-desktop.
On a side note, if anyone has any neat tricks to allow serving a game or VoIP server behind a NAT, I'd be interested in hearing them. The DSL network assigns 255.255.255.252 subnet masks, so even other people on the network cannot see me without going outside the NAT gateway.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
I'm 4 miles outside of Boston, MA, USA in Revere (02151) and have Comcast "Broadband" cable. I got it in 1996 when it first came out with 1.5mbit/512kbit - now I'm reduced to 512kbit/128kbt - yet their commercials keep claiming to have "doubled the speed for free". Hrmph. Anyway, you won't believe this, but our city SUCKS with negotiating - I'm paying $60/mo for the connection plus $10/mo for renting the modem PLUS $15/mo for "home networking" - 2 extra IP addresses (worthless dynamic IPs, I might add). Connection is highly intermittent, has high latency, and clearly is overcrowded with clients as the speed fluctuates wildly (sometimes max. download is as low as 20k/s).
I share 3Mbit DSL with my room-mate. We pay CAN$70 + $10 for fixed IP. I get 360KB (kiloBYTE)downloads regularly, say from Apple. It's fantastic. We get 40GB up and 40GB down per month plus unlimited data transfer from 12am-8am. Needless to say this more than meets our needs. With the selection of stuff on the 'net, we totally cancelled cable. Stick it, Rogers.
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Surprisingly enough, we have GREAT (~3Mbit) DSL from Frontier out here in the sticks (Statesboro, Georgia).
We pay them $79 a month, total, the DSL and our phone service. AFAIK there are no usage caps and they don't care that I have my router set up to give free wireless to anybody who wants it.
Mediacom spans IL, eastern IA, and parts of MO and WI. Their cable internet access rates are actually some of the highest in the country for the service they offer. $55/month for 1.5Mb down/128Kb up. If you get other cable service from them it's something like $45/month + the rest of the bill. If you're a business, you'll pay $100 minimum for the exact same service and bandwidth.
In western IL/eastern IA there is also DSL available from McLeodUSA and Qwest. Rates and speeds are pretty comparable: About $40/month for 384Kb/256Kb. One thing that's actually starting to take off around here is wireless broadcast access. The pricing is pretty comparable to DSL, but you don't have to be in a certain location to get it, as long as you have line of site on the broadcast tower. I believe the main provider of this is Dynamic Broadband, formerly Web Unwired.
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well you would expect prices to behigher in Canada because their economy isnt doing as well as the US. Also prices in Canada tend to be more expensive than in the US and their aren't as many intenet providers.
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I was paying $69 (AUD) for 256/64 ADSL, but my ISP has just brought in a plan that doubles that for less per month :-)
So it will be $59 (AUD) for 512/128. I'm after speed, not volume. So thats 3 GB per month, then slowed down to dial up.
$59 AUD is about $59 CAN or $45 USD.
To put that into perspective, $59 AUD would get you 2 CDs or about 1.5 new release DVDs. Roughly.
- David
"There's a bear in there" (your turn)
$58/month (NOK 399) for a 1000/384 kbps ADSL line (yes, 1000, they're all into using good looking base10 numbers here nowadays).
It might be a stiff price compared to the US, but at least there are no restrictions on the line. That is to say, there are no transfer limits, no rules against running servers, etc.
The best prices we have is AU$50/month (~US$39) for 256/64 adsl (PPPoE), BUT you have to sign up for at least 6 months as well as pay in advance, and that's only if you can actually get it where you live. Also that only very recently (the past month or so) became unlimited - before it was bandwidth throttled for that price.
Cable is around $70/month but it's bandwidth capped or limited and the contracts are even longer (24 months in some cases!!)
I'm a perfectionist but I'm trying to cut back.
roughly $70 U.S. for cable 512 down, 128 up. Anyone out there in South Korea? I'm curious if the prices are lower since they are so wired.
"The prohibition will be strongest when the group is nervous." - Paul Graham
I just cancelled my cable modem and cable t.v. and I'm going back to dialup [shudder]. Time Warner raised our monthly rates $20/mo. for cable t.v and modem for a total of over $120/mo. I'm talking what they call basic cable (no movie channels) and consumer level broadband. They're the only game in town, they've got a monopoly and I can no longer justify supporting it. The real kick in the pants is that my parents, 50 miles away, have 2 companies in their area that offer cable t.v. and broadband. They get both t.v. and modem (basically, what I had) for a little over $40/mo.
Now I've got $6.95/mo. dialup and rabbit ears on the t.v.'s but I think my kids and I (not to mention my wallet) will be better off without the distraction. Books are of so much more value than t.v. anyway and I'll be spending less time in front of the computer and more time with my family or a good book.
Didn't I read on Slashdot a while back that Time Warner ultimately wanted to charge customers like $240/mo. or some nonesense like that for their services?
I am paying $100 monthly for a 1Mbit ADSL with 2Gb of traffic included. Each megabyte above the limit costs $0.10
Company - Tochka.Ru
Well where i live, portugal as you have 1 single company that controls all the phone lines, and 1 single company responsible for Cable (and they both belong to the same group) we are pretty much being robbed, you get 512/128 (cable and ADSL) for around $45, with 20Gb of national traffic and 2 GB of international. If you want something without limits, well you pay between $80 and $100, all this for a 512/128. If you want something a bit faster like 1Mbit down 256 up you can get ready to pay $250 a month, and for 1Mbit up, get $500 per month and if they like you, you can have it since they dont provide it for the general public...
I live near Detroit, MI, and Comcast is the only broadband provider in this area***, and I'm paying $50 USD/month for a 3.0mpbs/348kbps connection that goes out several times a week.
What I want to know is how the Norweigans and Swedish get such awesome speed. Every single one I've met seems to have a symmetric 22mbps (or faster) connection for less than I'm paying. And if I'm not mistaken, they certainly don't have population density like Korea and Japan...
***We do have DSL around here, but, long story short, I had Speakeasy, and they tried to charge me $300 after SBC changed my circuit for no apparent reason. Had to get the BBB involved... was a big ugly mess, and the service was $90USD/month, anyways, plus the cost of the land line - not exactly what you'd call competetive.
Here's a list that I believe is complete. It contains both broadband, DSL and dial-up prices. The first column is the ISP and subscription type, then there's the one-time connection fee, the next is the monthly fee, then there's a billing fee, start fee, running fee (per minute) and then there's a fee for getting nessecary equipment (mostly for ISDN.) All prices are in NOK. (1U$D ~ 6.8NOK)
The list's from the Norwegian Post and Telecommunication Authority which all norwegian telecom operators are required to submitt prices to.
(bredband = broadband)
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54.95 / mo for 3mb/192k for cox, w/o cox cable tv
39.95 w/ cable tv
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I just saw that Bredbandsbolaget is going to offer 100Mbit/s (max 300 GB/month) to their customers this spring. Wonder what that is going to cost... :-)
We pay about $32/month here in Faifax, VA (just outside of DC). That is only because we have our local, long distance, and internet service rolled into one package, though; as an earlier poster noted, Verizon (our provider) typically charges $40/month. We get 768/128 down/up. I am not sure what pricing is for more, other than "more." Also, I have heard a lot of people complain about Verizon's service, but our experience has been quite good. We typically get near 768kbps downstream (on the order of 720-740knps), and our upstream seems to exceed the 128kbps limit, but that may be my imagination. I have not actually done any testing for that.
Comcast.
God spoke to me
In the UP, they are it.
My employer was quoted, a nonprofit:
$45 for basic cable
$35 for internet (includes $10 discount)
$30 per month for firewall (they control passwords and access)
$10 allowance charge to recieve email (bandwidth charge)
$20 per computer on network (15 computers)
$25 http or other server
Hey bunky, add that up, that's the per month charge for a 2 year contract. Break the contract, you go year to year at +30%, and you still owe two years.
Sweet.
Here's a complete list with prices of Swedish Broadband. Highlights: 26 mbit/s for 499 SEK/month (US$60) http://internetworld.idg.se/tjanster/bredband/
Verizon sells 768/128 for $36/mo with a dynamic IP that never changes -- this is pretty good given the prices in Hawaii (gas sells for over $2). Businesses can speeds up to 1.5M/1.5M for higher rates.
Verizon also allows for networked computers to be connected (no extra charge), running servers, and no ports are blocked. Speed is almost always running at 768Kbps on my connection.
The drawback is that you need to keep phone service to get DSL.
The alternative is cable RoadRunner, which is more expensive and fails occasionally, yet offers higher speeds. Their Hawaii web site is also terrible and malfunctioning -- one would believe they don't want our business.
If I lived TWO BLOCKS closer to downtown Seattle, I could get Comcast which is 250KB/s for about $10 - $15 more.
DSL with Qwest isn't even an option that I care to investigate. I've been through that experience.
I called Comcast to find out why I couldn't get service through them... they were apologetic but told me that the city regulations prevented them from selling me service as the city of Seattle has a contract with Millennium for that part of town.
I have no great love for Comcast, but it's disheartening to keep bumping up against government regulations that protect substandard service and reward mediocrity.
"Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you and you sold me."
Personal solutions plan: ($39.75/mo.)
call waiting, caller id etc. plus two "premium" features (voice mail, line guard etc)
adding dsl costs an additional $30/mo.
long distance: per usage 7cents/min (no fee if no use)
total w/dsl: $69.74/mo.
Home solutions plan: ($28.90/mo.)
call waiting, caller id and some other stuff plus line guard
adding dsl costs an additional $35/mo.
long distance: per usage 10 cents/min
total w/dsl: $63.90/mo.
A la carte ($21.90/mo.)
breaks down to $11 for basic, $6 for call waiting, $6 for line guard
adding dsl costs an additional $40/mo.
long distance: 30 min free for a month or two. after that it's 15 cents/min. there is also a 40 cent/min option.
total w/dsl: $62.90
Keep in mind that all of these rates are for 512Kb/s DSL. They probably charge $10 or 15/mo. more for 1.5 MB/s. All DSL options have a one year minimum subscription.
Comcast also has tiered prices, which depend on whether you have cable or not. Unfortunately I don't remember them too well, or have them on file. I believe they wanted $63/mo. just for broadband if you don't have cable, and somewhere around $50/mo. if you did have cable.
In case you need GPS coordinates for Tallahassee for your project, they are W84.3, N30.4.
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Well, you wanted worldwide data so here's a point for you. In Mexico you can get ADSL service from Telmex (phone company) under the Prodigy Infinitum brand; they charge $499 pesos a month for 256 kbps speed, 899 a month for 512 kbps speed, and $4599 a month for 2 mbps. Translated to US dollars (about $10.25 pesos per dollar) that comes to about 49, 88 and 449 dollars per month respectively.
You can also get broadband via the cable TV company, this costs about 249 pesos for the company I know of (Cablevision), this is about 24.50 bucks a month.
Keep in mind you already need to have the "basic" service, either a phone line (for the phone company option) or cable for your tv (for cable modem access). These basics cost about the same, about 20 bucks a month.
$54.95 per month, 3 mbps down/384 kbps up. In this town DSL *starts* at $49.95 for 768 kbps down/128 kbps up.
Get off my virtual lawn, you damned virtual kids!
Keeping in mind here 1u$s = $3 pesos (our currency), which practically means it's three times harder for us to buy things, my current broadband cable (512 down, 128 up) connection costs around 40u$s.
I currently pay 80$ per month for 512 down, 128 up (DSL) and get 20gb per month download allocation (this is actually one of the better deals out there)
I beleive this high price may have something to do with telstra charging the isp's a large amount to run the ports or some such.
The 50$ plans (40$ US?) have around 4gb download allocation (per month) and it's 256/64 - excess data is either at capped speeds (5k a second) or 5$ a gb.
For more information on ALL Australian BBand check this link http://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc-plan.cfm
i pay 50$ a month for 1.5 down and .256 up via earthlink. i would go with another provider but for some reason no other dsl company will service my residence (im just south of denver, co). hell, even earthlink doesn't think i get dsl and they service me! well, when i put my number in their website they show that I can't get dsl... even though i pay them 50$ and am obviously using it now... sigh.
"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams"
Here in Denmark I pay around 100USD for 2mbit/256k DSL.
Pretty expensive, but it does have impressive uptime and stable bandwidth + true unlimited quota, so I guess it's not too bad.
About 50 bucks a month in Portland with Qwest for a 640k up and down with no limitations and unlimited bandwidth per month and 5 static IPs.
There is only one ADSL provider in South Africa.
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Entry level pricing is R680 p/m, which equals about $104, per month!
There's who is getting screwed the hardest.
http://www.telkom.co.za/pricing/content/adsl.js
My ISP (BoStream) has just made a new service available, here's the current prices (american dollars per month).
- iStream, 0.5 Mb, $42
- xStream, 2.5 Mb, $63
- Scream, 26 (!) Mb, $56
Yes, you read that right. More than ten times the performance for less money. Since I'm a xStream customer I am switching right now!Note to USAians: if those prices seem high it's only because the dollar has plummeted. $56 per month is more than affordable for me, or any reasonably well paid Swede.
I choose to remain celibate, like my father and his father before him.
Oh... I'm in Portugal and I pay 75 euros for 1mbit/256kbits with 20GB. No matter if it is national or international.
We pay R900 (about $140) for a 512/256 dsl package with a monthly limit of 3gb, so everyone else can stop complaining now.
Dialup: $4.95/month 52kbps/33kbps
Accelerated Dialup $9.95/month 52+kbps/33kbps
Cable: $40/month 3Mbps/348kbps (where I live we do consistantly get that speed connection. cable near the colleges though its as slow as dialup during the day)
DSL 3Mbps/348kbps price varies, its $40/month in the suburbs, In the city however you can get it for $22/month.
T1(fractional) 348kbps/348kbps $300/month
T1(full) 1.5Mbps/1.5Mbps $500/month
All misspellings and grammatical errors in the above post are intentional and part of my artistic expression.
I pay $193/mo for 1Mbit Qwest and access from theriver.com. 1Mbit up and 1Mbit down, on ADSL (not SDSL). 4000 feet from the CO.
It's more than most but the service is good, business class more or less. A friend had a server colo'd at my apt and he had his own DSL line, ran it at 100% usage upstream nearly 24/7 for about a year until he moved it(1mbit up wasn't enough anymore), no complaints. My personal usage is minimal, average maybe 20-25gigs/month upstream and down, includes hosting email for about 40 domains, dns hosting for about 50 domains, web hosting for a buncha stuff.
I have 4 static ips($10/mo ea), reverse dns, they even updated the IP block so if you do a WHOIS on my IP(s) it shows it is allocated to me. no ports blocked, never had slow service, even at the height of blaster my isp was fast(though backbones in seattle were slow).
Minimal downtime, I track it closely. There are cheaper services, however I would bet that my isp is profitable on my connection, and if it means i can support a good company I am willing to pay the extra bucks for it.
Their engineering level support is good though their tier-1 sucks ass. fortunately I have only had to call once or twice a year(usually related to downtime issues). it is more reliable than the T1 I had from qwest at my former company, better routing too.
my company pays for the DSL part of my connection ($88/mo), while I pay for the ISP portion($105/mo)
20-something per month. 23 I think, for 576kbps.
DSL 115kbps up&down (old, not currently offered) - 38$ ADSL 640kbps down & 128kbps up - 42$
One that hath name thou can not otter
In Australia, it's typically around AUD$50-60 per month (USD$39-46) for 128k ADSL, often with hard download caps of around 1 - 5 gig depending on provider. Lately the ADSL prices and conditions have been improving considerably with lots of new players in the market, but who knows how long they'll last. Some are even offering 'unlimited' downloads, where of course 'unlimited' doesn't necessarily mean unlimited, but means soft caps - bandwidth is throttled back to dial up speeds after a certain download volume.
Unfortunately service is not available everywhere, with ADSL not available in many places or cable not available in many. Often the only choice for many users is one provider, Telstra, who's prices and service are far from competitive. They charge AUD$111/month for 512k ADSL capped at 3G, with any data over this limit costing AUD$139 per GB (yes really, $139). Or if you are a low volume user you could go for their AUD$50/month plan and pay an extra AUD$199 (~USD$155) per gig, right from the first byte. Still think you're getting screwed in Canada?
There is heaps of information about the Australian broadband scene at Whirlpool.
Go to dslreports.com and youcan get th info by zipcode.
I pay $40 for 384Kbps/3Mbps cable, but I often times get better download rates than that (My record is ~600KBps download)
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Optimum Online has been getting more expensive and slower at the same time. It's up to $45/mo for Cablevision customers, $50/mo for non-customers.
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We've got lots of competition. I'm using sbc dsl now, 1.5mb/256kb for $25/month. If I don't like it, then I'll switch to another of the many DSL people who keep advertising here. If you want cable you have to go with Comcast. I never had a problem with it when I had it, but got DSL because it was cheaper (You have to have cable, or pay extra $$, and they don't want to offer basic, no frills, analog cable in my area anymore.)
-Adam
In Southeast Texas we get 4Mbit down and I think 384k up for $44/month with Time Warner Road Runner. We had DSL for a few years when it was first available and it was very slow compared to Road Runner.
Even now I know someone with SBC/Yahoo DSL and their service is terrible and less than 1/3 the speed.
For now rates are the same in the whole country where DSL is available, some of the cheap offers are available only in the big cities. Everyone has to pay 13 euros/month for the phone line in addition to DSL costs, which are as follow:
Euro is around 1.27 USD these days: historical high, going up, historical low is 0.82 USD IIRC.
The great thing about DSL in France is the Grenouille site where users report download/upload/ping per city per provider all the time (plus their horror stories), all french providers are covered it helps a lot when choosing a provider!
Laurent
I come from Greece where broadband internet prices are the highest in Europe. The reason is the monopoly that the national telco enjoyed until recently.
The cheapest broadband DSL @ 384kbps costs 58 Euros / month (73$ currently).
This year I moved to Long Island, NY for studies, and I enjoy one of the best speed/money providers in the world. 10mbits download for 30$/month (for 6 months, then 50$)!
And it is really 10mbits as my speakeasy tests show (I get 9520/951).
I don't know what I'll do when I go back to Greece in a couple of years...
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...it costs me 2 goats and a chicken.
360K download and 64K upload ADSL costs me 13,625 Hungarian Forint per month. At the current exchange rate that's a shade over $64.40 per month.
Ed Almos
Budapest, Hungary
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Well, the situation in Spain, where I live, is more similar to African infrastructures than to European ones... The broadband you can get here is very overpriced and of subpar quality: all the operators offer ADSL of 256/128 24h with no bandwith guaranteed, from 40 euros month (taxes included). I remark the "no-bandwith" because where the net is not properly sized people often get no more than 15KB of download. Other broadband options are 128/128 ADSL from some operators in around 30 euros / month, or 256/128 but only from 18 to 08, and all weekend, for the same 30 euros (and if you connect out of hours, you pay the difference until about 45 euros). finally you can get cable, but only in few places, and usually just 128/128 and paying per MB... good pings, but not cheaper, and not really bandwith IMPOV. Ah, did I mention the infraestructures? Half the connections in Spain -the Telefonica ones, or the operators who resell that connection- pass through a big proxy, which used to break winamps streaming and get pages 2 or 3 days later... non-optionally. Nowadays they charge about 12 euros more for having static IPs (in the beginning it was for free; fortunately they kept that on my connection). ITs when you compare the Tiscali prices here (40 euros aprox. as I said) to the Netherlands (30 euros 512/128 I think), WITHOUT taking into account the different economical situations of the countries, when you realize that SPAIN SUCKS, at least technologically speaking.
Mine is bundled with my phone, so it's quite cheap. Also, there's a semi-contract for 12 months. As long as you cancel the line, the contract is void, but if you move within the area, you have to keep the dsl.
QWest phone company charges about $31 for DSL but we aren't using the default Evil Empire portal and are charged another $20 for the local ISP on the credit card. In all fairness, that does include a static IP for the DSL server, local dial-up, web mail, and my typical c. 10 hrs./day of 56K Euro-trance stream as a base to whatever other downloading. No complaints so far.
With about an hour/year observed downtime over the last three years and bandwidth at or above advertised DSL, I think it is working out nicely.
I have high speed cable Internet access with Videotron at 34.95CAN$. Speeds are 450 KB/sec in download and 50KB/sec in upload. 15 gigs max in download a month, 5 gigs max in upload.
256/128 go as high as 100 USD a month for a static IP and no firewall/download limits.
For dynamic IP with 30gb download limit it would cost 30 USD.
The big problem is that for each state you are bind to very few service providers, almost allways just one for DSL (telecon) and no more then 3 for cable.
That's the way it its down here, sadly.
Quick and dirty: /month /month
/month
ADSL
300 Kbit/s euro 24.95/month = $32
640 Kbit/s euro 44.95/month = $56
Cable (fibre)
10 Mbit/S (yes TEN MBit!) euro 65/month = $81
(only in selected cities, no public IP address available)
Prices start at around 22GBP a month, although pay-as-you-go DSL is also available for people who might not use all the bandwidth, but want the speed.
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Verizon Online DSL: $29.95 for the first 3 months, $34.95 each month after. First month free if you order online.
as I'm a student in sweden I pay approx 20 USD per month for 10Mbit fixed IP.
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Looking at the 2003 OECD Telecommunications Outlook, I can see that it's not a simple question of "how much does it cost?". The figures you have take into consideration are:
1. Monthly Charge
2. Mbytes included
3. Extra Mbytes
4. Downstream Bandwidth
5. Upstream Bandwidth
In the good old USA, nobody charges per megabyte. Then you just have price/bandwidth to compare. That goes the same for the following:
Denmark TDC, Finland Elisa, France France Telecom Wanadoo, Germany Deutsche Telecom, Italy Telecom Italia, Japan NTT, Korea Korea Telecom, Luxembourg P&T, Mexico Telmex, Netherlands KPN
Spain Telefonica, Sweden Telia, Turkey Turk Telekom, United Kingdom British Telecom, United States Verizon
Those who have traffic caps and "per megabyte" charges for overage are:
Australia Telstra - Big Pond, Austria Telekom Austria, Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line,
Canada Bell Canada Sympatico, Ireland Eircom, Netherlands KPN, New Zealand Telecom NZ, Switzerland Swisscom, Portugal Portugal Telecom
If you want to compare across the board, you have to make some arbitrary decisions, like "how much traffic does the average user consume" and "what is the minimum downstream and upstream bandwidth requirement". Repeat, ARBITRARY. Many researchers with "an agenda" manipulate these figures to make their country/telecoms provider look good or bad. It's easy to do.
I'll say 2GB/month, and 384/128. YMMV. Now you can say "this is what it will cost".
So, the following is what I come up with using the OECD data, which was collected in 2002:
Canada Bell Canada Sympatico 22.28
Korea Korea Telecom 27.58
Portugal Portugal Telecom 37.16
Belgium Belgacom - Turbo Line 38.67
Sweden Telia 39.65
United States Verizon 39.95
Japan NTT 40.76
United Kingdom British Telecom 41.51
Germany Deutsche Telecom 44
France France Telecom Wanadoo 44.42
Italy Telecom Italia 48.85
Netherlands KPN 51.1
Switzerland Swisscom 52.78
Denmark TDC 57.28
Norway Telenor 59.22
Finland Elisa 60.64
Portugal Portugal Telecom 66.5
Poland TPSA 71.58
Mexico Telmex 92.72
Spain Telefonica 95.22
Ireland Eircom 105.32
Australia Telstra - Big Pond 121.67
New Zealand Telecom NZ 131.27
Hungary Matav 248.64
Iceland Iceland Telecom 280
Turkey Turk Telekom 285.98
Apologies that the lameness filters have prevented me from presenting these figures in a more readable way.
I use Telus ADSL here in British Columbia and have never had a limit issue. And I quiet often upload and download a lot.
I've had no issues with hosting web sites or running an ftp server even though servers are not allowed.
Having used Shaw cable here as well, I can say that I find Telus more reliable.
Here in Vermont I get DSL service for $34.95/month. That gives me up to a full 8192Kbps downstream and 1024Kbps upstream.
Ummm... here in State College, PA (home of Penn State University) Adelphia cable modem service is $40/month if you provide the modem. I could be off a bit, because I have a package deal with my digital cable TV service, and haven't had just cable modem service on its own for more than a year.
* In Flanders, the cable was until recently provided by local governement-owned companies. There only was competition in one city, Leuven. Telenet, a communications company that provides phone and internet via the cable bought they cable system from the communities and now owns the network too. (Shortly after that they raised tv subscription prices, but that's another story).
You've got cable access from Telenet. This costs 41,95 euros/month. For this price you may connect 1 pc (a second one raises the subscription cost to 45 euro). You get a traffic quota of 10 Gb, of which 15% may be upstream (1,5 Gb). At night (from 0 am to 10 am) the traffic only counts for 50%. If you exceed this quota you are being placed on a slower-then-dialup speed until your average goes down again or you buy extra traffic blocks.
Until some months ago you *had* to connect trough the Telenet proxy, which was frequently down, and almost all inbound ports were blocked. Telenet also actively searches for servers homsted on their lines. Static IPs are not possible.
In Brussels and Wallonia you can also get broadband via cable, but I don't know how the pricing is there. I suppose it's comparable to Telenet.
* DSL: The former Belgian telecom monopoly, Belgacom, which owns the POTS network offers DSL trough a range of providers. Skynet, which is owned by Belgacom, takes the largest part of the market. One of the means they achieve is is by claiming a user is located too far from the LEX if they try to subscribe trough a competitor, but when they want to subscribe to Skynet they 'magically' are close enough. Prices vary around 39 euro / month. ADSL also has got a quota of 15 Gb, though it's not enforced as strictly as Telenet does. (Some providers don't overcharge you unless you really overuse excessively, some don't even count your traffic)
Recently Scarlet, which also offers ADSL via Skynet, has begun installing their own BAS equipment in Belgacom LEXes. Subscribers that are connected via the Scarlet BASes get higher up- and downstream speeds.
Even more recently Versatel has begun offering what they call "ADSL Light". They've got two formulas: Free ADSL and Always ADSL. The first one charges no monthly rate, but a per minute rate of 0,0425 euro and a per-session setup cost of 0,25 euro. Always ADSL costs 19,90 euro per month, for which you get a traffic quota of 250 Mb. Extra usage is charged at 5 eurocent per MB, with a maximum of 10 euro. The speeds are also somewhat slower than 'classic' Adsl offered by Belgacom.
To sum up: you can choose between two monopolies, which offer a comparable product. Static IPs or running servers are out of the question, but the prices are quite nice. According to the Internet Service Providers Association, over 55% of all residential users is connected via broadband.
I pay US$52.91 per month for Internet service via Comcast. That includes $0.56 in "taxes & fees". I do not get cable TV service, only Internet.
Pretty expensive, and it just went up AGAIN. If I had a landline telephone, I'd swap to DSL in about 12 seconds. I still might do that so I can share speakeasy dsl with my neighbors.
ADSL prices, approximately:
128/32 : 35 USD
256/64 : 50 USD
512/128 : 77 USD
Max speed you can get is 2 mbit/512 kbit
What really matters isn't so much the cost of broadband in absolute terms but the cost of broadband relative to the average income. If broadband is only $5/mo in Outer Elbonia that's not very good if the average citizen only makes $9/yr.
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a lot of people i see complaining that $50 for a 1mbit line is too expensive. well, news for you: Idaho sucks.
i pay $52/mo for 640/256 DSL, and starting around monday, i'll be paying over $80 for a 640/640 DSL package. (this includes Qwest.net ISP charges)
the beauty of this is that Qwest is the only real Telco in the area, so they're the only ones you can get DSL from - sure, you can have any ISP you want, inclusing an ISP owned by Idaho Power Co. but if you go through anyone else OTHER than Qwest for your DSL, you'll pay twice as much.
Cable isn't much better, running $50/mo for a typical home package (allowing 3 computers), and $100/mo for the "business" package that allows you only 1 computer (which will end up being a router) and only slightly more bandwidth (1mbit/500kbit).
Wireless is usually out of the question, as it's slightly more expensive than the DSL, and you can't host anything on it. this despite the fact that there are now 4 wireless ISPs in town that i know of.
T1/DS-3, etc. are the worst of the lot. if you're lucky enough to get someone to talk to you about it, it's $200/mo for a T1, and it's only site-to-site. for a loop to the internet, you have to pay another $200 or more. the cheapest DS-3 i could find was $12,000/mo.
i'd say what a SONET ring or OC-line would cost, but i can't get anyone to talk to me about it.
grey wolf
LET FORTRAN DIE!
Singapore
- Cable via starhub.com
1.5mbps down/13kbps up/unlimited -> S$56 (~US$33)
3.0mbps down/13kbps up/unlimited -> S$76 (~US$44)
- Cable via pacific.net.sg
1.5mbps down/Unknown up/unlimited -> S$62.90 (~US37.11)
1.5mbps down/Unknown up/xfer cap 200mb -> S$25.10 (~US$14.80)
- ADSL via singtel.com
256k/unlimited -> S$57.75 (~US34)
512k/unlimited -> S$78.75 (~US$46.45)
512k/xfer cap 200mb -> S$19.95 (~US$12)
1.5mbps/time cap 30hrs -> S$39.90 (~US$23.50)
- ADSL via pacific.net.sg
384k/unlimited -> S$54.40 (~US$32)
512k/unlimited -> S$69.20 (~US$41)
1.5mbps/xfer cap 250mb -> S$42.00 (~US$24.70)
- ADSL via QALA
fuck this i'm getting lazy... go see it for yourself www.qala.com.sg
Do it, and make sure the map shows the data cap rate (if any) and make a service complaint index too..
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For DSL in Florida, I pay ~$50/mo for 1.5Mbps down, 256 kbps up, no cap. I think cable users who already subscribe can get broadband for cheaper, but I'd rather die than give Cox Cable more money!
49.99 for comcast cable. Worse yet, it sux. Since comcast bought it, it is down about once every month for anywhere from 1 hour - 2 days. With TCI/ATT, it was down about once a year for about 1-2 hours.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
In a small area in the western part of Stockholm they've just finished getting optical fiber to all apartments. One company owns the cables, and four operators compete for customers. Now the lowest price is $35 (SEK 240) per month for 10 MBit both upstream and downstream. Downloading the newest Linux kernel in 30 seconds flat or a DivX movie in 15 minutes feels pretty good!
You can get monthly ADSL for about 100 kuai per month (1 kuai - 8.27 USD) if you're willing to commit for a year. Otherwise, a month of unlimited broadband in Beijing will set you back 120 kuai.
Access is slightly cheaper in the rural areas, and 5 gigs of prepaid wireless connectivity goes for 200 kuai per month through China Unicom.
So yes, you guys are being ripped off in the West. Move to China.
Through Free I get roughly 2MBps/400kbps, plus free national phone through ADSL, and ADSL TV (though I don't have a TV but it's included anyway).
There's no cap whatsoever, and in fact at some times I get up to 8Mbps download, like around 5AM. I also have a static IP for free. The main drawback is that it's not very reliable, mainly because of their homegrown set top box -- they had design their own since no OEM has an ADSL+TV+Phone set top box on their catalog. No setup fee. The only extra fee is when you cancel the line, costs you 100, decreases with time down to 0 after a couple years. Modem is free and included.
Quite a good deal.
DKK 600,- (ca. US$ 103,-) for ADSL 512/128 including landline subscription with Orange (they don't sell Internet access anymore).
Sweden might have the cheapest high-speed Internet connections in the world, it's because the government subsidizes it.
Usually the phrasing would be across the country etc and around the world. As we grow interconnected and approach something like Marshll McLuhan's global village our mindset requires new habits.
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Cohen
I live in downtown Vancouver.
$25/month gets me 10Mb/s Ethernet
That's right, not cable, not DSL, not PPPoE or some crap. Straight 10Mb/s both ways.
For $75/month, I can get my own dedicated IP address and 10Mb/s link to the 'net.
All prices in $CDN
or what I end up paying after I route it to my five neighbors?
Cable prices in Montreal (Videotron). Approx. 300kB/sec down, 50kB/sec up. They charge for bandwidth overage, but I've never recevied a bill in excess of my expected base price.
Price:
Acces Internet haute vitesse 44,95
Rabais engagement 12 mois 10,00-
So, basically, $35CAD/month.
Not bad...
DSL is comparative (Bell/Sympatico). Prices are same, bandwidth is lower, but there's no cap.
I don't have a landline, though.. so Cable it is.
Unless I want to go with Look (Microwave) -- approx. same prices, same speed, but goes out if/when it rains/clouds/etc.
S
well i ahve 512/256 and pay ~ $65 us dlls
damn those candian bastards, whoe get loike 3x for 50% of what i pay!!
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I'm paying 43 EUR a month for cable modem.
For that price, I get a pityful 128 kbits up, but a royal 4 megabits down. Sadly "capped" at 15 Gigs a month : I pay 8 EUR for any extra 10 Gigs, with no bandwidth penalty.
Before that, I paid 40 EUR for the same upstream, and a downstream of 1 megabit (was contractually 750 kbits but whatever) that was with no reason upgraded free to 3.3 megabits. ADSL.
Before hating me, read on : for a year now, I get woken up not by a pityful 5$ chinese analog radio, but by my 300 Watt computer that downloads national radio streams from the net. Until some months ago where I decided I wanted more porn and more warez, I took the high quality stream. But forgetting to deactivate the autowake function was too frequent and one month I ALMOST hit my max so I downgraded to lower quality radio.
In France, the same companies that operate in Belgium hype pityful 128 kbits Downstreams of the same price in Belgium.
Remember that in Belgium, local PSTN calls are not free (about 2$ an hour, about 3$ in peak hours, so broadband is really a great added value compared to dialup.
*sigh* Why does it always boil down to "price". SBC/Yahoo DSL is, what, $39.95? Our DSL is $50.....our DSL is static IP, always on, and when you call our support center, you're going to get HELPED. Not "that's our problem".
Comcast/MC is $40 + $5 modem rental per month (don't have to pay if you have your own).
That is 3M down and 256K Up.
The entire county is covered, so its the only high-speed option for half the county.
Oh yea, ISDN, which I dropped was $90/month for 128K
Well, where I am in NJ I have a choice between two broadband services -
Verizon DSL at $29.95/mo 768/256 with some WiFi hotspot access in NY city.
-or-
Optimum Online (Cable) $49.95/mo 10000/1000.
The thing with these is that while OOL has jaw-dropping raw speed, how often can you find a server that is going to give you 1 KB sec throughput? When you get it you can download a CD-ROM in about 10 minutes - but...
Anyway I signed up for OOL mostly because it was available before Verizon DSL, but I suspect that except for those days when I am downloading a Linux distro DSL would be just as good.
NOK 699/USD 103 for a 10Mbps symmetric connection.
NOK 449/USD 66 for a 2Mbps symmetric connection.
Because then you pay only for what you use. Would you like to pay a fixed rate for your electricity, gas, water and so on? No. So why pay a fixed amount for local phone calls?
From Esat
:
the following pricing in Ireland is
Esat Residential 512K/256K Package (8GB Cap a month)
49.95 euro a month
Business 512K/256K Package
110 euro a month
Business 1MB/256K Package:
190 euro a month
"WebTV: bringing the Internet into the shallow end of the gene pool since 1995" - Martin Bishop
Foreigners and Yankees with a disproportionate number of Jealous Canucks!
verizon dsl - $35
Hold still so I can hurt you!
In St. Cloud MN you can get a package that includes 1.5mbps cable internet, analog cable, and local phone service for $70. There are 2 providers in St. Cloud. Now I moved to Fargo ND, and it costs $130 for the same service, because Cable One (the Fargo cable provider) has a monopoly.
At the moment I'm paying around 4000Yen (37 USD) for my ADSL connection a YahooBB, 26Mbit down - 1 Mbit up, connection. The speed/price is about average in Japan though of course we don't really get anywhere near that in real world speeds.
roll out of the 45Mbit/3Mbit service starts this month for a few hundred yen more.
Correction: $1 USD = 8.27 kuai
DSL starting from 39..50e from most commercial operators (256/256..512/512kbps).
..) might be a bit on the expensive side, 30..200e.
Cable is kind of monopoly, 50e for 512/256kbps.
1 euro == ~1.25us$.
Opening the service or any other change into it (switch speed, install, open, close, move,
wanadoo.fr (FranceTelecom group)
:
29.90 EUR -> 512kb/s
39.90 EUR -> 1024kb/s
http://tpsl.tps.fr/
free.fr (Iliad group)
29.99 EUR
- 2Mb/s internet bandwidth with static IP
- free unlimited national phonecall + "local anywhere number"
- 100 TV chanels (3.5Mb/s additional bandwith is used and is freed for internet if you stop TV)
9Telecom.fr (from LDCom)
17.90 EUR -> 128kb/s
19.90 EUR -> 512kb/s
24.90 EUR -> 1024 kb/s
34.90 EUR -> 2 Mb/s
tele2.fr (Group Tele2 AB)
19.58 EUR -> 128kb/s
24.59 EUR -> 512kb/s
tiscali.fr
20 EUR -> 128kb/s
40 EUR -> 1024kb/s
club-internet.fr (T-Online Group)
24.90 EUR -> 128kb/s
29.90 EUR -> 512kb/s
39.90 EUR -> 1024kb/s
During end of last year there was a real boom in broadband access and as a result multiplication of the providers (about 20 by now !), price continue to drop while bandwidth are skyrocketing !
The biggest is Wanadoo (a spinoff from FranceTelecom) with about 50% of the market. But one of hottest player here is Free, because their offer is just amazing !
Here in Spearfish, SD (very western edge) cable is $30/mo for 3mb/128k. Excellent service, too, very little downtime.
Where I moved from 6 months ago (North MN) it was twice that much for 256/128k. 1mb down was about 4 times that much, and the highest rate available.
*scratches head*
Technically, we're much more in the boonies here than where I moved from. Therefore the "close to metro area" makes no sense to me...then again, we seem to have a city government with a Clue here; the whole town is fiberoptic wired.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
Since some peeps mentioned the tech... I use Sonera 1m/512 DSL
- bridged ethernet
- dynamic IP (though it hasn't changed as I keep my firewall machine on constantly)
- no ports blocked any direction
Saunalahti blocks incoming SMTP but apparently you can get mail routed to you via their mail server, at least if you've bought static IP addresses.
I've never heard of bandwidth caps in Finland, though a cable modem operator took action over a year ago when some clients transferred some crazy amounts in a short period.
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
In Australia prices vary very much but in general you can have DSL 512/64 with 1 GB download for about A$ 45 a month with A$ 5 per GB thereafter which is pretty good. THe same company offers 1500/128 and 10GB before capping to 64 kbps for A$ 80 per month. I'm just getting cable installed, it costs A$ 70 per month for full speed up to 10 GB and thereafter shaped to 64 kbps. HOwever, many users report in forums they've gone far beyond the 10 GB but still havent been shaped. The contract actually says: "You may be shaped..." Now that A$ 70 is currently around US$ 50 or so but since the US dollar is heading to become worthless piece of paper that ratio is changing a lot daily.
I live in Winnipeg, Canada and our Internet provider shaw cable provided its full speed residential internet for $48 including taxes, but its lite-speed internet connection costs under $25 a month.
The full speed connection runs at upwards of 3megabit a second and the light speed runs at about 1.5megabit.
Our DSL service provided by MTS Sympatico runs for about $36.99 a month plus taxes
I'm using Bell Sympatico for my DSL in Toronto, Canada, and I'm paying $69.99 CDN a month for an uncapped line running 3MB down and 640K up.
sweet.
So my parents get this, and I'm like "cool." Horrible, horrible, horrible.
1yr contract lock
$59.95 / month
512kbit download
128kbit upload
but now get this... they cap you if you exceed 200mb, yes that is MegaBytes, of transfer in 2-hours, and the cap lasts for 8-hours... I watched the add for it on TV and it said "Yeah, you can download all the movies and music you wan't! It's super duper fast!" So I called them up and pretended to be an interested buyer, and said, "so this is pretty fast right?" and the lady was like "yeah, it's really great!" and I said, "so I can download all the music and movies I want?" and she said "yep!" and I asked, "is there a cap?" and she said "Yes, 200mb in 2hrs" and I said, "then how is that fast, since my dialup goes about that speed?" long pause "......." and then she said "I dunno."
Hehe, assholes.
Comercial level broadband w/ Cox, $70/mo SOHO plan, 3m/256k
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
R$90 for 300k, R$120 for 600k in dolars, USD30 and USD40
Do you all know that in SE, 10mbit biway, so 1MB/s down and 1MB/s up, for a total of 2MB/s only costs $29.95/month? Yes. Pretty wild huh? Also, they are upgrading the lines next year I heard to 100mbit. This is like available all over sweden. I wish I lived there... why the hell are we being overcharged here in the USA? All it is, is lousy fiber and a few servers to run the stuff. There is no way we need to be paying so much for such shitty speeds we get here.
TV cable connection, comcor-tv.ru - slightly less 10 cents per Megabyte (one of the popular plans - 300 Mb for $30 per month, and $0.08 for each Mb above the limit)
LAN, starlink.ru - about the same; currently there is a plan with 660 Mb for $50 per month.
In my province (Nova Scotia, Canada) broadband is available in most towns of at 3000 people. Cost is $C 45 DSL or cable after intro pricing is over.
My town only has 1400 people, but we broadband it too. Of course the cable baron is from around here, so this little place is special.
Mark
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I live in southern PG County MD (right outside of DC) - I pay Comcast $60.95 US/month for 3 Mb down/256 Kb up (too far out for decent DSL, fastest I could get is 256/256). At least service is stable, the last time my IP address reset (and the only major outage in about 2 years) was after hurrican^W tropical storm Isabel.
Here in my small norther ontario town of 13000 people i get cable internet access for only $24.95 CAN per month, thats about $19 US ! i get 2GB traffic per month and regularly get 300 KB/s download speeds and 120 KB/s upload (thats KiloBYTES). Could this be because in my small town there are 3 competing companies? (ONLink, ViaNet,Persona Cable and Bell Sympatico)
I figure why have one isp go down, so I get both, and since telus my dsl provider really messed up my move I get a deal from them for my service. 2.5Mbit/.640Mbit for $34.99/month with totally unlimited bandwith, no phone calls no nothing... usually they want $54.99 for it but they really screwed up my move and this is what they offered me. Cable on the other hand is 34.99 a month aswell for about 3-5 mbit downstream and .512 up. Sometimes has real bad bandwith issues, they bitch about bandwith (more than 6gb upstream in a month and they are bitching) but if you dont exceed the upstream they will let you do whatever.
I just laff at most USA dsl packages, they are such a ripoff with such little bandwith... considering 5 years ago we got limited area DSL in our city at 4mbit/.640 for $75 CAD a month (back then equiv to about 45 usd) unlimited ips, and unlimited bandwith.
Come to canada, live in a igloo and drink our higher percentage beer!
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I have a 256K connection at home and I pay about $120 to the network folks and then also have to pay about $120 to the phone company as well.
There is at least one DSL provider here that will charge $80 for the internet side, but it doesn't change the phone side.
If your house is in an area of coverage, there is a wireless system which I think is at 512K, and I'm not sure on the cost - but it is close to the DSL.
At work we have a 128K frame relay connection and it costs over $100 a month for the phone line (I haven't seen this bill, but I know it is over $100, I suspect it is closer to $300) and then over $500 for the network side.
If we want to go up to 256K, then it would cost over $750 on the network side.
We have tried to get in and share a T1 with a neighboring building, but they can't do that without running a cable outside over roofs, and they don't want that as a security risk.
We can't get the wireless system at work because for half of the year, the cruise ships in town block our signal.
At a population of 65K people, there is no economy of scale, so while the island needs to bring in lines to other countries just as the way the States does - the cost is distributed over a much smaller pool of people/companies.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Look on the bright side maybe Israel will invade again and bring in Israeli infastructure. Your only hope for decent internet is Israeli invasion!
ADSL starts at US $75 for 256Kbps downstream and 64Kbps upstream. Like most caribbean countries, we are only now breaking the yoke of Cable and Wireless' monopoly. So far they have managed to stall the cellular competion for over a year by refusing to agree on interconectivity charges etc. Needless to say, most people here are going to switch en mass when the other companies finally get going....competition is a wonderful thing....
Optimum Online here in Brooklyn, NY is $50 a month, and I get a 10 mbit down/1 mbit up line. If I connect to a good site, I can easily get 1.1 MBytes down. Usually though, I get around 360 Kbytes down, but my upload is always ~120 Kbytes. Some ports are also blocked (i.e. you cant run an email server or web server-- although for 30 bucks more a month you can)
The line is capped however, if you use too much throughput. I'm thinking of spending $60/mo for a nice ADSL line from Speakeasy with no bandwidth metering or port blocking, 2 static IPs, and a shell acct. It would be nice to run my own little private ISP, just for me, or run a secure proxy off of my box.
I wonder if that's a word. Anyway, the single largest provider in Sweden for Internet and telephone services, Telia, is the private remnant of the now-defunct national telecommunications company. They charge about 450 SEK (equivalent of about $60 to $55 USD with current rates) for a 512/368 kbit/sec ADSL account (no bandwidth cap). The "best" ISP for those that can get their service is Bredbandsbolaget who offer 10/9 or 8/1 mbit/sec depending on distance to the station for about the same price as Telia. But they are clueless bastards that don't know how to fix DHCP servers (from personal experience :)
And yes, 10 Mbps both ways is the bandwidth to the internet, and not just the closest router (within Scandinavia and with normal congestion, anyway)
I am capped on my upload. Those bastards used to be cool about letting you use your upstream as much as you want, but the glory days are gone for OOL users.
In Costa Rica, my access is government owned and it is certainly not cheaper. You get dial-up internet access from the government's company, RACSA, or cable internet access from your local cable company (that has to pay RACSA a cut). The cost of cable at 128kpbs is $40 a month, plus you have to pay extra $20 for your cable TV (so it's actually $60 a month). Don't want cable TV? You're out of luck, you have to buy it to get cable Internet access. Want DSL? Wait until it goes through all the government red tape so that they approve the purchase of the necessary equipment and you may get it - after being 9 months on a waitlist.
Why not just use the phone-based access? It might be that phone lines were you live are so damned noisy that it is impossible. Phone is government owned too, by the way.
Don't get me started on cellphones.
As this and the poster from Jamaice exemplify, it is actually the lack of choices that drives up prices.
I am currently in Spain and prices for DSL are around 40Euro/month. I am using Telefonica DSL which costs me 39Euro/month which is 256k down & 128k up (as well as 24hour access). Also I don't need a contract or anything, this includes a USB modem. You can get a router/dsl modem as well as wireless stuff for about 30-100Euro more (one time charge). There is an option for 512k as well but I am not sure of the price.
There are other companies out there, Ya.com, Wanadoo which you might be able to get a better price. Keep in mind though that in Spain, Telefonica is the traditional government backed company and I am pretty sure they own most of the lines. I think that is why most of the companies have the same price for their DSL.
One final note you can find a few prices a little bit lower but they actually limit the service so you don't have 24hour access. So you can use it at night or offpeak times...I have never seen that before in the US, those were around 30Euro/month...to me the extra 10Euro was worth being able to be online all day. I hope this helps and if there ever is a website that would be awesome...it was such a pain to try and read Spanish and then call people and try and ask questions...so painful.
I pay $35 Canadian a month for Look
It's a wireless microwave link, no caps, static IP, they don't mind if I run a server, and I received over 2Mbps downloading Linux ISO's.
Down here I spent 38 US$ for DSL 300kbps down/128 up (monthly). This includes 5.60 US$ for the modem rental (you may buy one, but since I share the connection with a neighbor we agreed on renting it). At least for my current telco the renting is not anymore available.
Also, some Telcos here are enforcing monhtly download limits, but happily this is not happening with mine.
AFAIK, other DSL speeds are available: 600kbps, 1mbps and 1.5mbps.
Another thing worth to say is that you are not pushed to use the telco ISP do authenticate, so if you have a friend that works on some business that has a PAP/CHAP server you may save some extra $$$$. Currently I pay 5,13 US$ monthly for authentication (already included on the US$ 38 value).
The service is quite good and when downloading from national sites I get easily 30-32 Kbytes/sec.
Obviously not every city has DSL available, in my state only cities over 20-30,000 people offer it. But I think its damn good for what some call a 'third world country'.
So, maybe this explains why so many brazilian script kids are messing with the net...
Heh... if you don't like that, I think the Movimiento Libertario is trying to change the government monopoly on telecom. Check them out.
Yes, yes, I know I'm biased.
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
in itlay the DSL rates rise from 25-30 euros for a 256/128 to 50euros for 640/128 :)
in some city (milan, rome, turin, genova, bologna, naples) FASTWEB (www.fastweb.it) offer a 10Mb/s fiber optic for 85 euros (including national phone calls)
i'm one of the lucky fastwebbers
I Italy I pay 50$ to be able to connect for 6 hours a day with ISDN.
The cost of long-haul bandwidth, especially in the US, is insanely cheap. There are thousands upon thousands of miles of unlit fibre strung across the continent, available for purchase at fire-sale prices. Of course, nobody's buying because there is long-haul capacity to spare and then some. The cost to light it (end-point equipment) are fixed based on the endpoints, not on the length (although it is expensive). The cost to run it, while proportional to the length, is nothing compared to the cost of laying it in the first place, or lighting it once laid.
Most of the trouble with WorldCom was that they were lying about their network growth. In response, every other carrier was sinking vast sums of money into their networks, and every Tom, Dick, and Jane with VC and a backhoe was laying new long-haul fibre. At the same time, advances in technology was pushing the amount of data you could push through a strand throught the roof. All existing routes could be (and many were ) upgraded for just the cost of new end equipment--no new fibre necessary.
In the end, it became clear that this capacity wasn't being used. Most of the fibre laid was left unlit, because there were no buyers for the potential capacity. Much of it has been sold at bankruptcy auctions. If you find you need more network capacity from New York to Chicago, say, you have multiple cheap options. You can buy new endpoint equipment, thereby increasing how much you can shove through your existing fibre. You can buy already lit fibre cheap from small-time networks that are going under. You can buy unlit fibre from failed startups, and plug your endpoint equipment into it there. Finally, you can just ask Sprint or MCI their rates, which are insane for short distances, but if you can bring a connection to their point of presence, they'll dump your traffic in whatever city you like, cheap.
The density argument only works when you talk about the density of a city. Given the fibre is already a sunk cost, there is no technological reason for the cost/bandwidth disparity the US is observing.
Here are the tables for Xtra, and part of New Zealand Telecom, part owned by Microsoft, and ADSL monopoly for most of the country.
Home: http://jetstream.xtra.co.nz/chm/0,5123,203086-2023 43,00.html
Yes, it's a huge rip-off. But hey, it's OK because Telecom is owned wholly by owned subsidiaries of Ameritech and now "a variety of institutional investors". Thanks for selling us out, New Zealand government - the NZ telco market is Pwn3d.Business: http://www.xtra.co.nz/products/0,,5804,00.html
Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
Sasktel in Saskatchewan: $45.99 CAD per month for 1.5/128, or $59.99 CAD per month for 3.0/256.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Means their princesses won't go down on him.
At least, they won't go down on him if he's not wealthy enough to ignore the cost of cable. But hell, anyone could have told him that...
"We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't believe in tolerance and free speech." - David Brin
I pay $20 / semester for 10Mbit/s . Tough this is with a NAT:ed adress. But I'm not complaining. :)
I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
I used to have DSL, and was quite happy here in the Twin Cities. Then I bought a house and moved to a location where cable was my only option.
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My broadband connection (via cable) works just fine. In the past 12 months I have had one major technical problem which lasted 24 hours. I get steady download rates, so I'd say it is "quality", if quality means you get what you should come to expect. I mean, that is the way things are *supposed* to work, so I'm not going to say it is "great quality" just because it works. (I thought I would interject this rant because the question of price in terms of quality has been mentioned more than once).
Now my real rant... I have a cable provider from whom I get television and broadband from. This gets me a a "discount" applied to my internet cost. I use the term "discount" loosely. I suspect many of you also have this "discount". Without the discount, my broadband would cost me upwards of $60 (USD) per month! We could have a glass-half-full vs. glass-half-empty debate, but to me it seems like instead of getting a $15 discount for having both cable AND broadband, its more like paying a $15 penalty if I decide I don't want cable TV. Seems like I am getting screwed, especially since (as far as I know) most people don't have a choice of cable providers. So I'm stuck... sorta.
I'd like to get satellite TV, but I would miss the $15 "discount". I have a friend who finally was TV but kept broadband (paying a higher rate now). The icing on the cake was that the charged him a "downgrade fee". What a load of sh*t.
If money is the root of all evil, then the cable companies are trying to collect as much evil as they can.
Thanks for listening to my rant.
$35/month for 512/128 down/up cable, with poor latency (online games are unplayable), frequent connection problems, and no ping/traceroute functionality. Sioux Falls, SD. And it's the only thing that's really available.
I have a friend in BC, CA. He pays 20$/month for something like 768/386, and has no restrictions whatsoever.
~/ssh slashdot.org ssh: connect to host slashdot.org port 22: too many beers
ADSL/ 1MBit/320KB /FUP/staticIP costs me Eur 53/month. The 1MBit downetram will be double januari 15th, without a pricechange.
"Honey, I feel a certain distance between us..." "Really? A 31ms ping ain't that bad..."
I live in Arusha, Tanzania. There are three major internet providers in town, each of which buys a satellite uplink. My provider connects users by running cat5 cables through trees etc. with the occasional signal booster. Max bandwidth is around 320kbps, average is 40kbps. They charge $54 US a month.
The second major provider uses Navini wireless transmitters and receivers. I'm told that their users get around 500kbps max, 80kbps average. They charge ~$45 a month, but charge $550 for the navini receiver on signup.
The only thing I know about the third major provider is that they're not available in my part of town.
Here in Buenos Aires I pay $100 pesos per month, or about U$S 33, for 512k down / 128k up, no fixed IP...
In Spain, DSL prices are (much standard):
256/128 Kbit, 25 /Month (from 18:00 to 8:00)
256/128 Kbit, 45 /Month (24 hours)
512/256 Kbit, 90 /M
2048/384 Kbit, 192 /M
Cable varies in each city, about 20 128/128 flat.
I use a radio-link 4Mbit/4Mbit, it's 300/Month.
I wrote someone elses post about Flanders. I think ghe missed my ISP :).
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:) and with aliases 30. I only use 1 and maybe 2 when my brother is going to use one instead of his hotmail-adress.
I was with Wanadoo Belgium. But they have been taken over by Tiscali now. Anyway: It's ADSL:
for 35
down: 3,3 Mbps
up 128 kb/s
max traffic/month of 15 gigabyte. Never have reached 10 and I download linux, listen to radio, even set up small teamspeak-server with 4-5 persons speaking simultaniously. They're service is great. Now seeing what Tiscali will give. Till now great, they even raisezd my webspace from 50 MB to 100 MB.
Ohh, I have 10 emailadresses
I'm in Japan. Since a few months ago, 40Mbps ADSL service is available at around 4000 yen/month ($30-$35). I'm using a dedicated optical fiber line at 100Mbps, and it costs around $150/month. A 100Mbps shared line costs around $100/month, if I recall correctly.
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Whoa, I didn't realize we were so well... In Portugal the average cable or ADSL connection will set you back about 35EUR/month for 640/128. What's really weird though are the bandwith caps, some ISPs give you a figure and you can't go over it, or you start paying through the nose for every 100MB more. The limit is usually 7GB/month upload+download. You can get uncapped ADSL for something like 55EUR, but the instalation fee is about 250EUR. My ISP, the leading cable and ADSL provider (a monopoly of sorts) only allows 1GB downstream unless you're downloading from a national IP, then you get 20GB downstream. They don't even care for the uploads, so no weird policies about home servers. Fortunatelly from 4am to 7am they turn off the limits, so people like me can get all the stuff they want without taxing the other users. Thank god for bittorrent and cron jobs :)
Some ISPs are now starting to turn off the limits from 1am all the way until 7am. Here's hoping mine follows suit cause 3 hour/day ain't bad, but it certainly could be better.
The norwegian market for broadband has a good deal of variation, depending on where you live (rural vs. city) and even what part of the cities you are in (some parts has access to very high-speed broadband and has had it since the end of the nineties).
You can find a total overview on this URL:
http://www.itavisen.no/art/1302634.html
kr/mnd will show the price, they also rate it as a bang-for-your-buck. For comparison, you might do quick and dirty convertion for about 7 kr pr. US dollar, and 8 kr pr Euro.
Overall, broadband in Norway is now cheap and availiable in most parts. However, since we are still dominated by a few big players, development and deployment of new DSL standards are slow (they wish to have a dividend on their initial investments before moving on..).
So far, neither I nor any of my nearby friends have been contacted though we download far too much to be considered "normal" users.
USD 110 may seem like a lot for an ADSL line, but remember that a student in Denmark can apply for governmental support, which amounts to USD 1000, including a small loan. Furthermore you're allowed to have another income besides that, so it's not uncommon for students to have around USD 2000 a month.
If you have that income and share your line with a roommate or two, it's really cheap! And TDC's customer support usually answers the phone very promptly.
Moderate wisely :)
We have a pro account, $100/mo, 5 ips that only change ips twice a year, 4Mbps down, 500Kbps up, better than bellsouth dsl in this area.
I'm having BBB as my ISP and get 10 Mbps up/down for, hmm.. maybe around $53 / month.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
My connection is VDSL (in 10Mbit/s, out 10Mbit/s) with public static ip, no traffic filters and no use restrictions. Price: 82 e /month (+ 6 e /month for the VDSL-box).
It is a normal customer line from Oulu Telephone Company (www.opoy.fi). Typical throughput is from 1Mbit/s to 5 Mbit/s, input bandwith is usually more available than output.
Opoy offers VDSL, where available, at the same price than ADSL (in 8, out 1). They don't restrict bandwith or usage.
With private dynamic ip through proxy connection it is 50 euros / month, less if special deal.
(hope the first try didn't make it through)
:)
Whoa, I didn't realize we were doing so well...
In Portugal the average cable or ADSL connection will set you back about 35EUR/month for 640/128.
What's really weird though are the bandwith caps,
some ISPs give you a figure and you can't go over it, or you start paying through the nose for every 100MB more. The limit is usually 7GB/month upload+download.
You can get uncapped ADSL for something like 55EUR, but the instalation fee is about 250EUR.
My ISP, the leading cable and ADSL provider (a monopoly of sorts) only allows 1GB downstream unless you're downloading from a national IP, then you get 20GB downstream. They don't even care for the uploads, so no weird policies about home servers.
Fortunatelly from 4am to 7am they turn off the limits, so people like me can get all the stuff they want without taxing the other users. Thank god for bittorrent and cron jobs
Some ISPs are now starting to turn off the limits from 1am all the way until 7am. Here's hoping mine follows suit cause 3 hour/day ain't bad, but it certainly could be better.
Silly Con Valley USA ..... DSL 29.95 for 256 down 128 up..... Cable... 49.95 a month + in both cases you may or may not have to rent a modem from them. ....
I'm sorry, I'm to tired to be witty at the moment so this message will have to do.
100 Mbps up/down. (please note the capital M there) for about 5,000 yen a month (about US$ 46).
Link, (in japanese) UsenCheck out http://www.whirlpool.net.au/ for Australian broadband news and prices;
"Whirlpool is a non-commercial, non-profit, independent community web site devoted to keeping the Australian public informed on the state of broadband internet access in our country."
You will be able to find all Australian broadband prices there for comparison. Currently 1AUD ~= 0.777USD
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No internet via the one analog cable compny here, and Sprint owns all the phone lines, so if I want broadband, it's $45 for 512K, $60 for 1.5M (or $53 and $75, respectively, if you don't sign up for a year).
"I might have made a tactical error in not going to a physician for 20 years." -- Warren Zevon
You have to pay for phone line rental too - I think Eircom (Ex-State Telecoms monopoly) is something like 26 p/m for the phone connection. Chorus (the State's main cable/wireless TV) charge about half the amount on their wireless phone connections. So altogether it can cost over 75/$100 for 256kb down here in Ireland. Surely we're the most expensive State in the E.U. Broadband is only available in major cities and selected areas. Few areas have more than one provider (I know of only 4). The Irish govt./Eircom plans are to rollout to all towns over pop. 1000 next year. Businesses can get better deals - particularly if in an area with the competitors (E.G. Esat BT - Irish branch of BT - British Telecom, and UTV internet - Ulster Television - Northern Ireland's TV station). Broadband is offered mainly via telephone lines - though Chorus offered wireless broadband till the equipment supplier went bust.
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I live in Santiago, Chile and this is what it looks like here:
You can get Cable Modem from two providers, Metropolis and VTR (they are about to merge).
You can get DSL from many different companies.
You can get wireless/radio from several groups.
At my house I went with Broadband from Metropolis. My connection is 512Kbps download and 256Kbps upload. I pay about US $50/month for this (last year is was $42, but the dollar has crashed here). You can get up to 1Mbps upload and 480Kbps download. Pricing and plans are here:
http://www.metropolis.cl/
(click on "Internet" - the link is ridiculously long to post).
DSL pricing is very similar here, but you have to deal with paying for connection fees. I would have preferred this route, but the physical shape of the phone lines to my house made DSL dubious.
I, also, have IP phone service, which is about to be the subject of intense legislative debate in the Chilean government as the cable company is getting around the taxes on phone calls... Same issues, different country.
- From Santiago
I pay $44.95/month for my 3.0Mbps/384kbps connection.
In Sri Lanka (look it up, small island to the south of India), ADSL was recently introduced. Flat rate 512k down/128k up (you can get about 30k downloads or a bit higher). No bandwidth cap so far (although that might change when more people come in)..
:)
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... but the always on connection will probably change a few people's lives..
Cost: works out to about $12.50 per month.. you need to cough up about $150 or so for connection and the router.
Of course, the way people are paid there, that's about the equivalent of $300-$400..so not cheap. All the same, pretty cheap compared to dialup earkuer(where the phone bill would set you back more than that for any kind of surfing
Down with telecom monopolies. All we have are resellers of bandwidth right now. No monopoly means even cheaper rates.
Its even probably cheaper in India
Of course, the speed is deceptive, because you got a minimum of 3-4 hops to anywhere
In Finland TeliaSonera's 512/512kbps ADSL costs me 48. No transfer limits. IP is "dynamic", though it never _really_ changes.
I went with incentre.net for my DSL -- they gave me 2 static IPs with only P2P blocked so I could run my HTTP/FTP servers.
C$50/month = us$37/month
I get 3.0Mbps/384kbps and pay $60.00
A Cable Modem, through Time Warner, costs $40 a month.
In the suburbs, the cost for a cable modem + basic cable is around $60.
Favorite
Conversion rate to USD ~ T$2 to US$1.
Wireless service (Using this system). Equipment rental of $125/mo. above price listed below
32/32k is $300/mo
64/32k is $500/mo
128/64 is $1000/mo
And it goes up from there. No discount for higher rate levels. $4125/mo if you want 512/256k. The average yearly salary of a family out here is about $5000. You people don't realize how lucky you are.
Pulu All rates are uncapped as far as monthly limits.
Well, I'm in Quebec and I'm subscribing to Videotron's cable modem services. They have three plans:
1) 128 Kbps for CAN$25/month (modem included) It has a 1 GB/month up down limit.
2) 3 Mbps down / 15 Kbps up for CAN$35/month (modem not included) It has a 10 GB/month down and 5 GB/month up limit.
3) 4 Mbps down / 30 Kbps up for CAN$60/month (modem not included). No usage limit.
Far west suburb of Chicago: $25/mo for 1.5/256 ADSL
College town in the middle of nowhere: gets about 800kbps to C-Net, included in my rent ($680/mo for reasonable-size 2br in a good location)
Great. Except Verizon in my area won't lease their high-quality endlines. Mom-n-pops can't get access to offer ADSL or SDSL, only ISDN. Which costs twice as much, for a slower connection.
I was pricing recently, the lowest anyone else could offer was the same price as Verizon's business line cost. And it would be slower than Verizon's home line. This is competition?
'Sensible' is a curse word.
Here in Australia I'm currently paying $90 AU (around US$50) a month for 3 GB of downloads, the only bonus is, if you play games or get files off the company's server its unmetered ie. doesn't count toward dl limit. And the files on the server are requested by users. Otherwise its a ripoff.
Karma: -2^0.5 . Mainly due to the imbibing of dihydrogen monoxide
Here in Chile the telecomunication/internet market is quite competitive. I mention it, beacuse i think is important to give a context on technology and market development to evaluate prices over internet access.
With 15 millions people, Chile has 4.5 million users of digital 2G and 2.5G (GSM and CDMA) cellular phone services and 3 millions of residental phone lines.
750k broandband users and a total of 3 million internet users (dialup/at-work/etc).
So.. what are we paying here?
ADSL and Cable have prices on this ranges:
256 kbps => 40 dollars
512 kbps => 50 dollars
1 mbps => 70 dollars
For extra 10 dollars a month you get WiFi (router and installation for your home network).
the average plan is au$80, roughly US$60
this is for 512/128k adsl with ~15gb download (uploads are generally free)
the biggest prob for ppl here is being able to get broadband as many areas still don't have it... tho hopefully that will change with some of the new wireless technology coming out
---- Put Sig here:
Here in Quito, Ecuador I pay $330 (US Dollars) a month for a DSL line of 256x64. The only way I can afford that is to divide it up amongst my neighbors wirelessly. My friend in Bogota, Colombia pays $80 (US Dollars) a month for cable modem which is equivalent to the speeds I have seen in the US.
FrontierNet offering $24.95 for 12 months (although no contract). Free install, etc.
They're a bunch of idiots, took them 2 days to install and get running... that after ordering it in October and just getting installed this last week.
At least it's 3meg down 780k up even though they're not advertising any specific speeds.
--D
Up in my neck of the woods 1.5Mbps/768Kbps is $45 in Mill Creek (20 mins North of Seattle).
Geeks of the World, Unite!
THen why do i see it advertised for 50$ everywhere i look?
25$ would be nice.
For your 'chart' be sure to take into effect the different relative value of a 'dollar'...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
I got my DSL from Earthlink, who provisioned it through Covad. A Covad guy showed up at my house for my installation. I asked him if he was going to run it over my existing SBC (nee Pacific Bell) phone line. He said something to the effect of, if I really wanted that he'd do it, but he didn't think I wanted that. In the end, he ran a new jack to exactly where I told him to put it -- drilled a hole in my wall, ran the wiring along the baseboard, everything. I'm still sitting right here next to a jack with the Covad logo on it, and there are no "filters" on my regular phone line. And, I might add, this installation was free. Things may have changed since then, which was a couple of years ago now, probably; but I've had consistent service with the same provider since then, with very few complaints.
I pay about $50/month, which until recently was pretty much the going rate in the area, whether you went with SBC, Covad or some other DSL provider, or whomever the local cable provider was (Viacom, then AT&T and now Comcast). Competition seems to finally be starting to drive the prices down; or, Comcast seems to be going back to the model of competing on bandwidth, I believe offering 6Mbit in some areas.
Breakfast served all day!
I'm not lebanese, fortunately.
Anyway, I agree the only way to bring development to that country is to have the israel x muslims conflict ended so that israel can takeover lebanon economically and develop the place (development there will *never* happen with the current 70% of muslims running the country under the sirian blessing)
Malaysia's monopoly phone company Telekom Malaysia and their subsiduary (TMnet) have deployed about 150,000 DSL lines recently. The quality of service is poor with complete outages of international links for as long as 10 days. Partial outages are frequent and can last a couple of days. Malaysia with 12 x 155Mbps international circuits has some serious congestion to international sites. The price of their service is however a decent value for broadband deprived Malaysians.
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From: http://isp.tm.net.my/streamyx/newPromoPackages.sh
384kbps/128 (60 hours, no modem) - 11.58 USD/month
512/128 (unlimited, leased modem) - $26.05 USD/month
1Mbps/384 (fixed ip) - $110 USD/month
1.5 Mbps/1.5Mbps (fixed ip) - $162 USD/month
The city I live in, Spanish Fork Uah, has its own cable service. I get 1.5MBps downstream (I've measured it) and 768 kbps upstream IIRC, a routable, static IP address (more if I wanted them), no questions about what I do or how much I use. I run my own domain, mail, web and more with no questions. I've downloaded huge numbers of megabytes of Linux distros in short periods of time with no question of limits. They are upping the service to 3Mbps soon at no additional cost. They have a shared 150Mbps uplink (private 75Mbps circuit). Best of all they have no use for profit (legally our city can't make a profit as I understand it) so any "excess" that they make goes back into the service. $35 ($28 if I bought cable TV as well). Comcast is also in the neighbourhood and can match it in price but not in service performance or quality. The lack of profit motivation means that the city has about half the connections per physical node that ComCast has. QWest is our local loop. They wouldn't give me DSL a couple of years ago (before the city had cabled up) saying I was on a Multiplexer (MUX) and gave the impression everyone in my neighbourhood was sharing pairs. So, they never got my money (though they stung me nearly $100 a month for IDSN-2 and service - that's for only 128kbps). It turns out that when I finally got to speak to a real Qwest engineer a few weeks ago they actually had a MUX on one of my pairs only (previous home owner had two lines on one pair). I could have had DSL all this time. Well Qwest, way to throw the money away by letting the blind (salesmen) lead the blind (me since they wouldn't let me argue the point)! Going back to the static IP address with the city. They let me use 802.11b for a few months before they cabled my street. The day I setup the modem the network manager called me and asked ME how many IP addresses I wanted! No extra charge! He even said OK to hosting a secondary DNS server for my domain at no cost.
Of course, there is the fact that that you're the one actually paying for the government subsidies anyway...
You need a FREE iPod Nano
The one where all the damn foreigners try to tell me whats going on in my country by what they read on Communist Websites.Canucks contributing to US Presidential candidates etc.
Don't you fuckers have enough at home to worry about?
You are all a bunch of pre-teen girls and the USA is your fucking Britney Spears.
We Ownz yo'Asses!
U..S..A..!
U..S..A..!
I'm a videotron customer living on the south shore of montreal (Quebec, Canada). Currently I pay 39.99$ (for the first 5 months) for 4mbit down, 768kbps up. The regular price is 69.99$ However, they do offer 3mbit down and 384kbps up for 29.99 a month. And just in case anyone was still wondering, my prices are in canadian funds. I'm one of the lucky ones!
Thats not BFE GA
Hell you guys got a decent Football program for a Cow College
Last time I talked to someone, a few months ago, they said that in Ecuador, cable costs about $150/month, and they have technicians check that you're physically only using it with one computer (no router deals). DSL was like $800 (!!!).
But, I'm moving there next week so I'll find out for sure pretty quick!
Montevideo, Banana Republic of Uruguay.
64/64 kbps - US$ 45. IP changes every 12 hours.
256/64 kbps - US$ 70. IP changes every 12 hours.
384/128 kbps - US$ 165. Fixed IP.
(ref: www.anteldata.com.uy; 1 US$ =~ 29 uruguayan pesos; multiply by 1.26 to account for service sale taxes)
To add a little more perspective... a junion teacher here makes around US$ 100 / month.
Then what about bumping the price of service D to the combined price of services D+A for those who don't subscribe to that company's service A? This accomplishes the same net effect.
I'm living in Costa Rica, Central America, right now, so I thought I'd pitch in on the whole "my place is a rip-off" bit. Because, as far as I see it, I'm going to win. :)
The country is served by a France Telecom / Open Transit fibre line from the US. Internet (as well as land line, cellphone, and even electricity) service is provided by a monolithic government agency. Cable is available pretty much anywhere, and cable modem access is available in the urban areas. They're still working on DSL, but if you know anything about Latin American work ethic, it's gonna be a while.
Here are the rates for residential cable modem access:
(downstream/upstream kbps)
128/64, $35/month
256/128, $50/month (I have this one)
512/128, $70/month
Those rates used to be much higher (used to pay $80/month for 256/128), but the rates and services have changed as of January 1, 2004.
As for access from an office, we have 128/64 for $50/month (up to 20 computers). It goes up to $250/month for 1024/256 access, and if you really need the upstream, it's $350/month for 512/512.
So it's not great, but it could be worse. At least there's cable, and stable electricity -- which is more than you say about most of the world.
ADSL starts at 64 $USD/month for a 128kbps/64kbps connection.
Price really sucks
There are about 2 or 3 providers depending on which area you live. The price is quite the same with each provider.
Getting cable modem service in NYC is a funny thing. Here is the rundown for those that don't live here.
Borough - Available Cable Internet
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Bronx - Cablevision only
Manhattan - Time Warner only
Brooklyn - Cablevision only
Queens - Time Warner only
Staten Island - Time Warner only
Since I happen to be one of those lucky souls that lives in a Cablevision borough, I can safety say it is actually the fastest ISP in the world. My connection is rated, on average, at 9000/950kbps (yes thats nine thousand kbps, ask other cablevision users if you don't believe me). By comparison a T1 is rated 1500/1500kbps. The service is $50/month, no monthly GB restrictions. Sometimes, life is good!
64/64 kbps - US$ 45. IP changes every 12 hours.
256/64 kbps - US$ 70. IP changes every 12 hours.
384/128 kbps - US$ 165. Fixed IP.
(ref: www.anteldata.com.uy; 1 US$ =~ 29 uruguayan pesos; multiply by 1.26 to account for service sale taxes)
To add a little more perspective... a junion teacher here makes around US$ 100 / month.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
(specifically Eastern Toronto, Ajax)
Cable:
Rogers: 3 Mbps down - $45 CDN
Rogers: 128/64k "lite" - $30 CDN
DSL:
Bell: 1.5 mbps (may have changed) - $45
Bell: 128/64k - $30
Pathcom - 1.5 mbps - $35
Message: Skip Bell or Rogers. Go for something else. Pathcom rocks, but the IPs change about every 5 minutes
In Tampa, RoadRunner standard home cable is $49.95 a month or $39.95 if you order cable TV as well. It's pretty bad compared to the prices a lot of other places get.
I tried to get DSL thinking I could get a deal comming from cable, but the cheapest DSL I could find that was comparable to standard home cable was $119.95 a month. To rich for my blood.
The prices go from 70 pesos (23 dollars) to 120 pesos (40 dollars), more or less (ADSL). I know there's cablemodem, but it's not on my area, so I don't know the price.
1 peso = 0.3 dollars
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Here in the Netherlands there is plenty of choice, especially since ADSL has become as widely available as cable. I recently switched from cable to ADSL because it simply was a better deal.
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I used to pay 50 Euro (US$64) for 1.5 Mbps down / 128 Kbps up to Chello (cable provider which belongs to UPC) and never had any problems with them. However, running servers and connection sharing were not allowed and upload speed was lacking (especially when working from home). At the moment I have 8 Mbps down / 1 Mbps up for 65 Euro (US$83) with Demon and I have never been happier. Demon allows one to run their own servers (no support of course) and connect as many computers as you want.
Both providers have no fixed bandwith cap but an Acceptable/Fair Use Policy, although based on what I've read in newsgroups and web forums you're better off with Demon since they seem to allow more traffic. Some people claim to have as much traffic per month as I have in a year, but I digress
Since I share my connection with two friends who also live here I can split the costs, which makes it even better. And being able to download things quickly when you need them, be it new *BSD sources or a Linux iso makes me very happy
....and prices are not going down for the last 1 years!! There is a cap of 1 GB as well. Torture.
SingNet ADSL
256Kbps Unlimited = USD$33.50
512Kbps Unlimited = USD$45.70
Pacific Internet ADSL
384Kbps Unlimited = USD$30.50
512Kbps Unlimited = USD$40.20
Starhub Cable
1.5Mbps Unlimited = USD$34.20
3Mbps Unlimited = USD$45.80
100mbps Down, and around 25mbps up for 9,000yen a month.. so like, since the exchange rate is so bad for US now.. around USD 84... not too bad yea. :)
(let the jelousy begin)
http://flets.com/opt/s_outline.html
There are other 100mbit plans on that page, but the one I have is just for the single person. You can also organize with your neighbors to share a 100mbit line, in which case it's only 3,500yen/month (the catcher is you have to use NTT's phone service.. but that's fine, becuase everyone has it anyways already)
Tabayashi
I live in Aurora, smack dab between two large (for Maine) cities. Our TelCo is Union River Telephone, and they provide Internet access through Rivah.NET. Monthly dial-up service is $21, which is what I use. Their monthly DSL rates are $50 (128Kbps Down/64Kbps Up), $70 (256Kbps Down/128Kbps Up), $100 (384Kbps Down/128Kbps Up), $190 (512Kbps Down/256Kbps Up), and a whopping $290 (768Kbps Down/256Kbps Up). There is no cable service at all anywhere out here, and I refuse to pay those rates. Does anyone out there have to contend with worse money-grubbery?
In Singapore, the pricing for the 2 major broadband providers:
IMHO the prices for Cable is quite a good deal but they need to be more generous with the upstream! While the DSL pricing can be more competetive ;-)
Thanks for the link, I should have added it. I am aware of them, and try to evangelize as many people as possible. It will happen - eventually. It's just too damned slow.
Here in Seoul, South Korea I have Korea Telecom ntopia service (basically ethernet to my apartment). The bandwidth is around 70Mbps (unlimited use) and it costs me about $US35 a month.
Last night I downloaded a number of Linux distribution ISOs (setting up a MythTV box) - about 10GB in all. I downloaded it all simultaneously and got about 400KBytes/sec on each download. With BitTorrent I've seen 2MBytes/sec.
My friends back home in Australia are getting royally screwed - twice the price for 512Kbps capped at 2GB a month! Insane.
He is paying $100/month for 256kbs down and 18kbps up!
(I'm paying $50/month for 1.5Mbs down and 384kbs up - in Southern California)
"I was wondering if it would be possible to put up a world map with broadband internet pricing.
Yes. Everything is possible. This in particular is even rather easy.
The prices in Eastern Canada are ridiculous comparing to some states, around $24 US for DSL or cable.
Of course, the terms DSL and cable are rather nebulous, the bandwidth on these lines varies from 128Kb to 10Mb/s. We'll need to ask what type and what speeds the connections are and if they use proxies, NAT, etc.
I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones."
I thought getting screwed was getting lucky?
What are the best and worst prices in your own area?
I pay $60/month for a Cable modem that I lease, a static and globaly routable IP, and througput of 3.2Mb/640Kb downstream/upstream. I'm in Mesa, AZ, USA.
Perhaps someone handy with graphics can collect some good data points from your comments and create such a beast.
While this is very feasable, it's not going to be easyt to normalize all the data from the posts. It would be neat if someone like broadband reports would provide some simpler/graphic representation of this information.
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I have a 10 Mbit Ethernet drop from Bredbandsbolaget, for 44 USD monthly (315 SEK). It's DHCP, but the speed is very, very real. Before I moved, I had 512k ADSL from Telia for 52 USD (375 SEK), so it's not all that good. But unless you happen to live more than 4 km from your telephone station, the ADSL choice is always available. Haven't used a modem in years.
"Baka, baka, minna baka."
Malaysia only has ADSL as broadband, we don't have any legacy cable infraastructure to deliver anything on. the dominant provider is the incumbent former PTT and they used to paint the town red with their pricing. last october however, the government got a clue, and forced the incumbent to lower prices for ADSL broadband to
US$18 for 384/128kbps
US$23 for 512/128kbps
US$179 for 2Mbps/128kbps
the other smaller providers are slightly (10%) higher than the incumbent, but the incumbent by far leads in subscriber base. however, the problem here is not pricing, but the incumbent's inability to deploy the service. some are on waiting lists for over 3 months, and some places, due to the fibre infrastructure, cannot get DSL.
At least for Australia comparison pricing can be had at Broadband Choise. The copper local loop is essentially a monopoly in Australia, and the monopolist is also (not surprisingly) the largest bandwidth provider. Consequently, the majority of ISP DSL pricing is driven by upstream charges.
Zip Code: 19010
/28 routed subnet, $89.95/mo /29 routed subnet, $64.95/mo
Line 1: Covad: 384k/1.5M,
Line 2: Verizon: 384k/1.5M,
Line 3: Covad: 768k/1.5M, single static, $69.95/mo
Lines 1 and 2 provided by DCA.net, Line 3 by Speakeasy...
Here on Vancouver Island, I had 8 days downtime in November with Telus... After five unanswered emails to customer service and two calls to tech support (on hold for over an hour each time), I ended up submitting a complaint to the CRTC, which got me a response from Telus fast. They ended up apologising and refunding the month's service. I will be switching to Shaw in February.
Midcontinent Cable
3Mbps, $32 month
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Another things I'm interested, do you get a public IP? Are you allowed to serve (web, email, etc)?
Note that cable is shared bandwidth, and with downtimes that occur at least once daily, ISPs here just suck. Exchange rate is somewhat like 1.7 SGD to 1 USD.
So I don't really see how you can complain when you get T1 at USD40.
7.5 Mbps down 1 Mbps up cost Free Work for an ISP.....lol!!!!!
The community I am moving into (in Manassas VA, USA) is including 144KBPS in the Home Owner's fee. (For those of you who don't have these, think of a local, sanctioned government with powers not limited by the constitution, no oversight of votes, no appeal of decisions, and the rights to freeze your bank accounts for not paying a fine for not cutting your grass) For $99 a month, I will get trash removal twice a week, cable TV with ~40 channels, snow removal and 144 KBPS connection. For $5 more, I get 1 static IP. For $39.99 more, I get 1MBPS.
In my current area, Sterling, VA, USA, I pay $118 a month, get 144KBPS (no options for higher bandwidth), and 3 static IPs.
Oh, and I still have to pay $69.00 a month HOA, for trash removal, parking lot repair biyearly, and a community pool that is rarely open.
Around here, new developments either offer broadband or the ability to use a golf course once a month with their fees. To contrast, the smallest home you can get costs $240,000.00, and, to provide a measure of comparison with another reader, the average teacher makes $3334.00 a month (~$40,000 a year)
Bredbandsbolaget LAN/ADSL 10/8 Mbit 320 skr = 40$ Bostream up to 26/Mbit 55$ as i said... pretty cheap =)
Why? I pay $30 a month for a fiber optic connection (Static IP. Dynamic is cheaper) with a 100Megabit cap. I've clocked it at 58Megabits. Why? I live in Grant County, Washington. It may be a podunk nowhere, but the county PUD made bank selling cheap hydroelectric power to California during the crunch. Now they're laying fiber to all businesses and residences. It rocks like nothing else. Moses Lake (The biggest town in Grant County, about 20,000) may be in the middle of buttfucking nowhere, but I don't know how I'm going to leave!
...it isn't properly a "gift". Well, it wasn't meant that way.
:)))
:P
This dates back to the very beginning of public Internet access in Brazil (~1996 AFAIR).
What happened is that people were scared on the possibility of the Internet here ending monopolised by the public telco (they controlled the phone lines), so they made a law forbidding the telcos being ISP themselves.
Unfortunately nobody predicted the ADSL so, yes, it's very stupid to have to pay an ISP while the telco provides everything you need.
So that's why ADSL users give money for free to dialup ISPs. Isn't that pretty...
Branson, MO, USA
Cox Cable is, I think, $30 normally. I pay $60, but it's for a commercial 256/768 with a static ip.
CenturyTel has DSL. I think it's $40/month.
JJ
City of San Carlos in San Mateo County, on the San Francisco Penninsula:
Comcast is offering Cable Broadband at 19.99 for the first 6 months, then up to regular price which is around 40-45 I do beleive.
"It takes a very long time to count to 2 in binary." ~'Fourlegged'
I do pay ~100 BRL (~35 USD) a month, for ADSL 600k/300k (Brasil Telecom).
I know that the plan for 300k/150k is ~80 BRL (~27 USD) a month.
I do have my own ADSL modem, so I don't have to pay the overpriced one they offer you when you sign up (they allow you to pay it in 1000x so you don't notice the rape).
OK, so why is broadband expensive in many places in Europe? I know for a fact that Denmark, one of the countries with the highest % broadband usage, has high prices, despite the presence of competition.
Why people in Spain always believe they're the worst thing in Europe?
:/
ADSL in Spain is OK i think. Look at the ADSL in Portugal... THAT stinks (pricey, 2GB limit a month.. and a provider called "Sapo" ("toad") ). Poor portuguese people.
Gosh, I'm in Brazil and my ADSL is not as restrictive as the ones in Portugal.
Here in Hong Kong it's dirt cheap. You can get a decent connection for less than $25 USD. Any plans above that pricing line is considered to be damned expensive. And if you know where to look there are broadband offers that are under $10, and despite that some of those serivces may suck, some may actually be comparable to those $20 plans. Of course, expect the prices to rise a bit once the intense competition is over.
Basically everybody running broadband is getting at least a 3Mbps connection now, and I'm running off a 10Mbps cable connection (they say it's shared by a bunch of other users, but to date I don't really feel the drag... I constantly pull a few hundred Kbytes/s from local servers)
Don't quote me on this.
Sorry, I disagree that it's useless without QoS information.
I have three local high bandwidth ISP options. The cheapest is about $35/month. The most expensive is Comcast running which starts at an incredible $52.91 per month.
It is true that QoS is interesting, but it is also informative to learn that it isn't possible to get broadband for less than $35 per month in my area.
In addition, it is interesting to note that Comcast charges $53 per month for their service where I live.
And, by the way, none of those options include a static IP.
Here in Kuwait I use a Satellite/DSL combo. I download via satellite at speeds of 1Mbps and upload via dSL at a speed of 256kb. Price for my broadband is approx $120 US.
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I live in a county larger than all of Rhode Island, with a population of about 12,000 people.
The County Seat has a pop of about 5,500. There are only 2 other towns. They have pops of 200 and 500 people. Those two towns are not served by Qwest, they are served by small local phone companies, both have residential DSL. The county seat is served by Qwest, we have no DSL. One of the other phone companies saw an advantage in this. They added a second exchange and run new loops to business accounts only. They offer DSL to those business accounts.
Because of this, they charge through the nose. We pay $37.00 for the line, $89.95 for the DSL service (256k up/640k down)and $20 for the ISP (they own the ISP and don't give you a choice about providers). They have two T-1's for their backbone, so they are so over subscribed, we seldom see more than 350k downloads.
I keep watching for competition but so far, everyone who brings in an alternative sees that kind of pricing with $$ in their eyes and charges similiar rates (1 wireless provider can cover about 25% of the town)
Lack of competition sucks
The best uncapped broadband you can get in South Africa is 64Kbps off-peak and 32Kbps peak for R950 ($141). The telecomuinications monopoly of Telkom means that it is illegal to use wifi over public areas (like roads). Telkom do offer ADSL but they limit you to 3GB of international bandwidth per month and charge (I think) about R700 ($104).
Provider: Multinet
Type: Cable
64kbps 18USD
128kbps 22USD
256kbps 27USD
512kbps 36USD
Provider: Prodigy
Type: Dialup
56kbps 22USD
128kbps 28USD
Provider: Prodigy Infinitum
Type: ADSL
256kbps 28USD
512kbps 34USD
2.1Mbps 48USD
Provider: Todito.com
Type: Dial up
56kbps 10USD = 100 minutes (prepaid service)
Provider: Axtel
Type: Dial up
56kbps 23USD
Provider: Direct PC
Type: Wireless
256kbps 34USD
Here in south india, prices are quite high and the critical limitation is on how much you can download - I pay the equivalent of US$200 for a mere 5 GB on a 256/256 Kbps link ! For 512/512, the cost is higher: about US$1000 and a cap of 25 GB / year.
My ISP Verizon Online DSL, lowered the price from $50 a month to $35 ... I guess they were feeling the pressure from cable internet providers.
Over here shared connections are predominantly used, as their prices are very cheap and unlike some other schemes available, one can download unlimited number of bytes.
I live in the southern part of the city, and on an average, the prices here are about 700Rs. per month, so about 15$.
However, in the suburbs, the prices are even cheaper, the last I was told, about 350Rs. per month. so about 8$.
But the disadvantage of a shared connection is the slow speed, so in terms of genuine broadband (for Jan 2004, let's define it as...512Kbps, obviously I may be wrong), they lag behind quite a bit.
I pay $80 a month for 128/64Kbits DSL in Bangkok. I' using the cheapest provider... Higher speeds go up lineairly to 1.5M for $500-600
Well, in Mexico for example with MegaRed for a home use we pay like 40us dlls for 384kbps using cable (well, they will change for the same price to 512kbps really soon). DSL in Mexico with Telmex we have to pay 54 us dlls for 256kbps (they will change that to 512kbps really soon too for the same price) In DSL we have no options, Telmex is a monopoly in our country, so no one can compete... Dialup is ile 17 us dlls for 56k, many ISPs do that now. But we have several problems, for example my Cable provider only lets you connect a PC to the cable, no problem sharing, but they limit your simultaneous connections, 30max, so if you share or use clients like BitTorrent, you suck up those connections and you can't connect :(
Paying for commercial is like 60 us dlls for 512 or 100 us dlls for 1024
Of course there are other options but mostly local (local cable providers, local ISPs)
Cable Modem = US$ 44.95 (all taxes & fees included), No garuntee of any speed just "50 times faster than dial up"
ADSL = US$ 41.95 (768 Kbps download, 384 Kbps upload)
The damn bastards are using their monopoly against us.
Here (Fort Collins, CO, USA).
Service is uncapped.
Comcast Cable Internet:
3m Down/256k Up
$55 a month
Qwest DSL (Business-Class; Includes ISP):
256K-640k Down/256k Up
$26.50
I live in rural upper michigan, north of wisconson, and the only practical choice for broadband is charter communications' cable. Its $30 a month for 128kbps up and 384 down. Currently, though, as a "promotion" I'm getting 1mb/sec download. However when I initially signed up the $30 plan was 512 down and 256 up
If it happens and the Free State Project flops, I'm learning Spanish and moving to Costa Rica. Especially if you guys elect a PML president in 2006! :)
So, quite possibly, see you in a few years.
I claim first use of "Error No. 0B" - or "No. 0B error." It'll be the new ID 10T!
500,000 Toman = 5,000,000 rials? It's been a while since I last went dickering at the Isfahan bazaar (120r = US$1, that long ago) so I'm a little rusty on the monetary jargon. This is a job for .... Freenet! However, I have no idea what the cost or availability of 802.11b equipment is out your way... or if it's so heavily regulated, it's besides the point.
Luke, help me take this mask off
Try this one on, my housing company made a deal with a provider here. Every apartement complex (that's every decent one in the Bloomington-Normal, IL area) is provided by a DSL company that has a subcontracted answering service that doesn't have two way communication with the actual company, and doesn't know when the actual techs working hours are. They didn't know that the techs are all off after a certain time... and paging them is just a queue for the next day. Further, I've had a couple of weeks total downtime over the past few months. I can't change my provider, and the cost is built in to my rent. I can get cable, but them I'm paying two ISPs. Way to go SAMI.
A global telecom company, www.tpsa.pl, gives 640/160kbit for about 35$ (a year before the only possible choice for broadband was 128/128 for 42$). There are also local ISP operators, including mine, givin access to shared, 1-10Mbit connection for about 10$. With proper QoS and good LAN, this is fairly better option than broadband. Eg. I 've got 40ms elsewhere (no lags, icmp, udp and selected tcp - eg. battlenet games). Connection speed oscillates in 100-300kbytes/s range. For 10$. Is it enough?
Here in NZ, I have to pay around NZ$40 for a phone line, $30 DSL costs to the telco (telecom) for the dsl service to be active on the line, and then ISP costs, these range from $20 to much more for flatrate ($130 i think) - all this gets you is 128k bidirectional connection. Im on a typical plan from most ISPs, 10 gigs of international data, unlimited national. Total cost is $40+$30+$35 = $NZ105 or about US$70 The broadband ones can only be bought from the telco. However they still make you get an ISP account for some reason. Most ISPs are NZ$10 for that. All that gets you is a mailbox, DNS service and a bill each month. Pricing on the broadband plans is horrendous, NZ$60 for 2 gigs of traffic at 256kbit. There are cheaper plans at half and 1 gig. The full rate plans are insanely priced. All data over your monthly quota is charged at NZ20c per meg. I think the rest of the world is laughing. recently there was an inquiry into this, the outcome was that the recommendation is that they have to wholesale the 256k service to other providors. No mention of the issue that I am forced to get a analog phone line that I dont want in order to purchase an ADSL connection.
I pay $AU40 per month for 256/64, with a 2 GB limit ($AU6 per GB thereafter) - that is about $US30 and $US4.50 respectively. But with the way the US dollar is going ...
And no, I am NOT with Telstra BigPond.
I am anarch of all I survey.
Our monopolistic goverment-owned telecom charges from $34 (1024/256 kbps) to $79 (4096/768 kbps) per month for an ADSL line. One-time connection fee is around $160.
You can also get cable access in some bigger cities for about the same price, but most cable operators set a very low limit on MB/month (as low as 500MB/month in one case in know) and charge insane amounts of money if you download more.
HomePNA connection, 1 Mbps. 29 euros/month. Location is two miles away from Nokia headquarters. :)
Thailand:
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www.ji-net.com:
dynamic IP, "unlimited" (you know
ADSL 128/64 = 87.50 US$
ADSL 256/128 = 175 US$
www.loxinfo.co.th:
fixed ip, "unlimited" (you know
ADSL 128/64 = 150 US$
ADSL 256/128 = 275 US$
(http://www.loxinfo.co.th/proc.asp?table=new
www.inet.co.th
ADSL 128/64 = 133.75 US$
*note*:
128 kbits/sec is acctually 12.6 KiloByte per
second not 16 Kilobyte!!!
*note*:
subscription prices are per month!
*note*:
all overseas carrier (teleglobe, reach, mci,
sprint) must go thru CAT (communication autority
of thailand). CAT then resells bandwidth to local
ISPs. compared to hongkong where you just need
to buy a piece of land bordering to te ocean you
have automatic cable landing rights. this doesn't
apply to thailand where all overseas communication
must be sanctioned by CAT (www.cat.or.th/eng/)
*note*
you can't get ADSL everywhere in thailand!
hi
Im getting 10Mbit for $30-$35 a month.
We have recently celebrated a birth of the 20th million Australian. That includes a population of 5 million immigrants from all around the world.
Australia is truly multi-cultural, a young country with only 234 years of (occupational)history, the size of the US, with contasts of vast deserts and rich plains and sub-tropical climates. Most of our population is spread over coastal regions. A lucky country...
I pay US$55 per month for ADSL 512/128 with 16gb allowance and $US3.85 per additional gig.
To put that into perspective = 2 music cd's (retail), 5 packets of cigareetes, a dinner out for two at a moderately priced restaurant(excluding wine), three superb steak or seafood meals at home or a full tank of petrol (gas).
For me is excellent value.
here in Chico, California SBC dsl is fifty god damned dollars a month.
Being stuck out in the middle of the Indian Ocean with only limited satellite links to the rest of the world means that things are a little expensive...
Dial-Up: SR350 = US$50 per month for 60hours
64k: SR2000 = US$300 per month!
128k: SR3000 = US$450 per month!!
256k: SR4000 = US$600 per month!!!
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Comedy pricing - Can anyone beat that???
Steve C.
(sadly still using 56k dial-up in the 21st century)
I am bald
In general, I agree with you. In Ohio, USA: 1. The name is DirecWay 2. They are constantly improving service... my service boasts/claims 945(down)/127(up) kbps (and it's not even the latest DW6000 integrated modem, no software install needed) 3. It's definately a choice of last resort, due to upload speeds, latency, price, and the "FAP" - Fair Use Policy (the cap you refer to - it's a little more generous midnite - 6 am I am told up to 350 mb / 3 hours).
Even though this post is late, it's here for the sake of completion: DSL in Dubai 384kbps/128kbps costs DHS270 = US$74 per month thanks to the great competitive environment that exists.. errr... There isn't any! The telco is a state run monopoly. Cheers
India is the worst country I have seen in terms of broad band access, especially for the home user. In India, the rates range from Rs. 7,000 to Rs.10,000 for 128 KB connection, and that too with a lot of restrictions in bandwidth usage / usage time. Just RIDICULOUS. I have lived in Singapore and also in Taiwan - actually I live here now and broad band access is fabulous. I had a 256 KB cable connection (unlimited both in bandwidth as well as in usage time) from Singapore Cable Vision for S$66 a month. In Taiwan, I have an ADSL connection (1.5 MBPS/64KB) and is also unlimited in both bandwidth and usage time and costs NT$1700 a month. This is from Chungwa Telecom , Taiwan. Really Fabulous.
Unless India does something to make truly broadband unlimited internet access affordable to all its citizens (read HOME USERS), no one can consider India a developed country. I am an Indian myself and am truly ashamed of this brutal but honest fact that is prevalent in India.
Cheers,
Michael.
Strange, I use Bell and well, I f(#$ing hate them. It serves me right for using them for landline phone, satellite, ADSL & mobile phone. There is too much inertia. Dealing with them regarding any of these services leaves me wanting to cry or hit someone. Anyhow, back to istop. When I entered my phone number, istop's webpage said that service is not available in my area, Somerset W in Ottawa, where I have pretty reliable ADSL. Those guys are gonna lose some business if they don't make sure their database is working right.....
I make a reasonable middle-class wage by going to work and not spamming blogs with scams.
for 512kbps (which is standard) you pay 20-30 Euros.
But one ISP provides 4Mbps for 30 Euros, including VoIP and Television over IP.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent - Salvor Hardin
Here we have a nice pricing scheme:
If you want DSL, you have to pay the national carrier a 'line activation fee' of around 45 euro (plus another ~40 for registration IIRC ?) and a monthly fee of 25 euro for a 384 line, around 44 euro for a 512 line and I don't remember what it is for the 1M line.
THEN, you have to go and subscribe to an ISP and pay them around 50 euro (IIRC) on top of that every month for the 384 line.
I don't remember the exact pricing for the ISPs because I tried to order DSL a couple of weeks back, but when I realised that the 25 euro/month were only for the carrier, I went back, gave them a mouthfull and cancelled the subscription (I just came back from the UK, where pricing was a lot more reasonable).
Prices here are understandably high since DSL was rolled out only a few months back, but the carrier's royalties were not something I felt comfortable with.
cheers,
Trian
I'm no longer fed up with MS Windows: I go rid of them
2mbit/300kbit adsl: 140 euros = 192 USD (wanadoo)
600kbit/600kbit plc: 39 euros = 47 USD (iberdrola)
4mbit/4mbit lmds: 330 euros = 396 USD (broadnet)
DSL (crappy service, worse tech support, and it will never be cheaper than the below rates because Bellsouth.net has a monopoly):
1.5 Mbit down / 256 Kbit up: 50 USD/month.
256 Kbit down / 128 Kbit up: 40 USD/month.
Cable (which isn't offered in my particular neighborhood. Of course, it sucks anyways):
1.5 Mbit down / DIALUP UP: 50 USD/month.
Wireless (just now being offered in my city):
3.0 Mbit down / 768 Kbit up: 50 USD/month.
Can you guess what I'm switching to?
--- Ãther SPOON!
Examples:
Price: USD$ 53 per month.
Price: USD$ 81 per month.
These offers usually include a free ADSL modem and often even a wireless ADSL router if you agree to a 12 month commitment.
This thing about the domestic downloads being free may baffle some of you... I don't know if this is general practice in other places but I doubt it, but this is the case in Iceland. You only have to pay for downloads from outside of Iceland.
You don't think enough... therefore you better not be!
I have yet to check the precise speed, but I can hit up MS update with some decent speed, topping out at just under 4 Megabytes per second. However, most servers don't have that good of a connection, Fileplanet "only" gives me 500kbytes if I'm lucky.
Cost?
$80/credit Hour, ~$150 fees, $2100+ for housing...
Now watch this drive.
I'm using a slow broadband 64 kbits/s and that is about 11 $/month for 512 kbits/s it costs 22 $/month
I pay 61EUR for my ADSL flatrate and telefon(ISDN).
ADSL: 2048KBit/s Down, 192KBit/s UP
For additional 5EUR per month I could upgrade my ADSL flatrate to:
4096KBit/s Down, 384KBit/s UP
> Worker protection is a joke (it probably has some of the worst laws (of the developed countries) to protect workers--on par with Italy)
You are kidding! Italy is the only place in the world in which you cannot fire someone even if he raped your daughter! And trade unions are so powerful that they own half Italy!
That's the cheapest I could find in Pittsburgh, PA
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Any Australians going to post? I've been out of the country for a year, so I'm not quite up to date on the rates. Is it still capped at 3gigs download a month? All I can tell you is the I haven't walked properly since the last time Telstra came to collect their bill.
In belgium, you get 3072 Kbit/s down, 128 Kbit/s up for 40 EUR/month ($ 51)
I pay 60JD (that's 85$) per month here in Jordan, for 512k adsl, limited to 1Gig download per week. As for London UK, i pay 30 pounds (that's 55$) per month for a 2.2Mb adsl line, unlimited usage.
I pay $20/month for 3000kbps up/256kbps down with Comcast in south-eastern Michigan, USA. I also subscribe to digital cable through Comcast.
... in Rotterdam we have a "lite" ADSL subscription for ~15$. A "medium" ADSL subscription is yours for ~29$, and a heavy account is about 50 to 80$.
Lite usually implies 384/128kbit, medium is 1024/320kbit, and heavy is either 2048/1024kbit or 8192/1024kbit.
-raz
"I shoot troubles with a jackhammer"
ADSL here in japan can go as high as 40MBps and at what price? YahooBB (Yahoo Broadband) charges about US$20 a month for unlimited use - which of course includes an IP phone, and unlimited use of YahooBB's WiFi access points (like in McDonalds)
$44/mo for 5 meg down/1 meg up from my local cable company doesn't strike me as all *that* ridiculous. It's nice doing a Debian update and downloading at 500 kilobytes a second, though :-)
Despite promises from Government to make Ireland into a "digital hub" and the fact that 25% of the bandwidth which comes into western Europe comes through here, Broadband penetration is low, mostly due to the incumbent telecom, Eircom being a bit of a monopolist dinosaur.
Things are changing though, as alternative infrastructure is in place and wireless is spreading fast. Prices are still exorbitant but expected to fall soon.
Detailed pricing information available via the IrelandOffline campaign website.
My cable-modem Internet connection (300 kbps upstream / 75 downstream) costs 45 Euro/month plus sales tax (16%), which amounts to 52 Euro. That prize includes the fixed cost on telephone. These figures are for R, in Galicia.
ADSL (256 kbps upstream / 128 kbps downstream) costs about the same, but phone calls are usually more expensive than with cable.
that his ADSL line in real life can download at a speed around 20 Mbps, 40 Mbps is the best case, but because he is lucky and lives at only 1 block from the NTT building, where the access point to the national or regional backbone is installed, and it may act as a hub for his city (small city). He also told me that people 2 km farther from the hub would get only 2 Mbps in average.
I'm on the east coast of the US, and I get 1.5- 1.7MB cable. That's considered pretty fast around here- and we're even about 40 minutes from a large city. (Philadelphia)
But everybody else's is faster!!!!!!!!!!
Here in chilly Budapest, Hungary, I pay US$58 (44 euros) per month for cable, 512 down 128 up. Performance is reasonably solid.
When I got it a year ago, DSL was not available in my neighborhood. DSL prices are about the same.
This Like That - fun with words!
Cable modem access is cheaper, at 35 USD, but its coverage is very limited and is 128/64 (I think!).
Too far from a DSL relay to get DSL, and Comcast has a monopoly on cable internet in Bernalillo County. $40/month. Where DSL is available it ranges from $30-$150/month depending on speed and provider. Dial-up is $10-20/month depending on provider (local ISPs are around 10, AOL/MSN around $22)
here in chile i connect to an 320/160 ADSL link for US$60.
very expensive deal compared to the ones that other people posted here...
I pay roughly $50 a month here in minnesota, and after reading these posts, I am getting screwed. forget this noise, I am movie to japan. 40Mbps sounds good to me...
This sig was generated by a barrel of trained kittens for SeXy_Red (550409).
When I was visiting my relatives in Korea, my cousin (who's an avid Starcraft player of course) told me of the pricings of his DSL. The speeds were about equivalent to our speed here.
Main difference... he was paying about US $5 a month.
Not sure if you know of this site: http://www.canadianisp.com/ I found it handy for comparing price vs service across Canada. I currently use Bell Sympatico. I will be moving to a cheaper, local provider once I get my own DSL modem. Having your own modem saves you anywhere from $5.00 to $10.00 a month in rental fees.
In Moscow, Russia there is one huge DSL provider - isptochka.ru , many other companies are just resellers.
It is a daughter-company of gov't telco MGTS (Moscow City Phone Net), ISP mtu-net.ru and Intel-Russia.
Price-list (in Russian) could be found here
Prices are about 0.12$ per mb.
But many people don't like their service because of poor quality & high prices.
There are plenty of home and city area LAN's, build by different companies and individuals, providing cable access, file sharing, game servers and so on. Part of them are "gray" dealers, built w/o any required papers and taxes (one must get MANY papers, including construction license and license to sell information services, to have right to sell cable access). Anyway, such "gray" LAN's could cover dozens of houses, even whole city area's, with hundreds of users. Prices are from 0.02$ to 0.15$ and more, depending on up-level provider prices and type of traffic - local (Russian) traffic usually cheaper than foreighn.
There are a lot of dial-up users, prices are about 0.5-0.75 per hour, but usually there is night unlimited acces for reasonable price.
Some people use GPRS for surfing\IM\email - 0.30$ per mb.
You can buy a Wi-Fi connection from several WiFi providers - prices will depend on quantity of data you use, speed and quality (from 200$ to 800$ to build a connection, 0.04$ - 0.30$ per mb). You could even get a fibre channel at home, channel providers sell it to home-LAN holders quite cheap - several hundred $$ to build a connection, 0.02$ and more per mb.
If you're lucky you could get connected to some academic network with internet access, but that means low speed and poor quality - but very cheap or even for free.
In other cities situation differs. There are places where it's impossible to get anything axcept dial-up. There are little towns, covered with cable 100%. A lot of cities have several huge Wi-Fi networks, official and "gray".
See www.nag.ru (in Russian) for information about cable and broadband providing in Russia.
...as a sidenote, I'd like to submit that while directly comparing monetary value via exchange rates is simple, it is also a meaningless exercise at the same time. Why? Mainly because costs inside of a country really don't vary too terribly much as the exchange rate varies as long as it is not really large changes. Most products already have sufficient profit margins(exorbitant) builtin such that exchange rates would really have to spread before a company importing items, or exporting items would really need to look at repricing.
Then again some currencies are extremely artificially undervalued to begin with.
Netherlands, @home cable (4096 down / 128 up) for about $45. They're going to quadruple the upspeed to 512 in a few months for free.
+++ATH0
I pay about 45,000WON per month for my cable connection (no cap).. according to XE, thats around 38USD.
Btw, this connection is very reliable. I only had about 20 minutes downtime last year.
Here in Puerto Rico we have only one landline telco (recently sold by govt) they have 256dn/128up dsl service for which I signed up for about 50 something bucks (and it'll amount to 70 something with the hidden costs and whatnot) however I've yet to pay anything because the service is not available where I reside because it's a "rural" area... been waiting for it for months.
Now Puerto Rico is roughly 100 miles wide by 35 miles but the telco insists in having a separate metro and rural area (this might change soon) with some services available only in the metro area (incidentally metro-to-rural calls are long distance calls, ie costlier).
Oh, and cable? Even less penetration than DSL and more than a $100 bucks for the lowest transfer rates.
And for business I've heard it say that unless your' biz has some punch you have to wait an average of six months for a T1...
I wish I could filter out the annoying Pickens articles...
St. Petersburg, the 2nd largest city in Russia.
I just switched from cable to ADSL. Here are the costs.
Cable: 12$ - monthly fee for 128kbps/32kbps, traffic paid separately, 0.07$/Mb. This means about 100$/month for my regular use (without stuff like trailers, demos, MP3s, P2P, etc.).
ADSL: 200$ setup fee. Monthly fee - 60$ for 64kbps/16kbps connection, unlimited traffic. The speeds are the guaranteed ones, actual download/upload rates are closer to 256/64 most of the time.
Only two companies offer ADSL in the city (4.5 mln population, although average salary is 170$/month). One company owns the equipment and charges for traffic, another one (my ISP) uses the equipment of the first and offers unlimited usage plans.
Two or three companies offer cable access, but only about 10% of the city is covered. Some firms offer radio-Ethernet, people can also use their CDMA or GPRS mobiles to access the Net, but these are used by only a few people.
Most people still use dial-up, which is basically 0.5-1$/hour.
Future Wiki -- If you don't think about the future, you cannot have one.
Total monopoly in Costa Rica by Racsa (racsa.co.cr) that is operated by ICE (ice.co.cr). Cable service is done by Teletica (cable TV company, or Amnet) ... :) net is expensive, life is affordable ...
prices for residential 128k = $50...
for an office 64k = $50, 128k = $100
(they just lowered the prices for offices, in 2003 I payed $100 for 32k - only option was to rent an offices since cable does not reach my house)
Hard to bee a ggek if you want to live in a country with lotsa sunshine, and 2 oceans
I pay 49.99 CDN for a 4 m/bit DL and 64 k/bit upload with unlimited transfer.
back west on a 1 m/bit line down and 32 k/bit line up I think it is 29.99 or probably less
Sasktel (government phone co) charges about C$23 per month for high speed DSL for students if you self-install (i.e. go pick up the modem, set your box to DNS, and plug it in).
Chart of rates:
http://www.ttlcomp.net/Sympatico/ServicePlans.asp
I would like to know who is getting screwed, and who are the lucky ones."
I thought getting screwed was getting lucky?
It depends
1.. did they use Vasoline?
2.. If they used Vasoline how much sand did they put in it ?
Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. Will Rogers
Here in Caracas a 256kbps/128kbps aDSL costs aprox 40US$ and there is only 1 company to choose from, which is also the telco (a private company).
At least it is a flat rate. Some people can use cable with basically simillar prices, but some companies charge when exceeding certain amount of data transfered. Penetration here is at 20% at best, i think its much lower.
I have a friend in Slovenia who is basically paying US$170, no other choices. It is also their telco, but they force users to have ISDN, so its basically dsl over isdn (i think thats 112~128kbps at most), and they pay for phone + isdn + dsl + internet access and it ends being those 170US$.
I would love to have this map too, someone please dig all the replies and put up a nice site with the results ^^
Artix
Your Linux, your init.
$30 for 1.5mbps down for 6 months is the best deal I could find recently. After that the price goes up around $5-$10 (though you can probably find a similar new deal..). This deal is offered by Netvision, the largest local ISP.
I pay approximately 88$ USD per month for a 704/128kbps ADSL connection.. theres no limit to the amount of data I can download..because I had the line before they started having caps... if I had not been that lucky I would have had a 30gb/month maxlimit
I live in the most expensive country on the planet.. thats.. NORWAY.. where we pay 1.5$ per liter of gasoline while I hear USA pays 88cent for a gallon..oh and just to make life even more miserable we live next to sweden.. where they give out 10mbit nocap connections for 1/3rd what we pay..
what I have doesnt even qualify as broadband.. its just a turbocharged ISDN... total garbage..
but, at least we dont have BUSH!
$80 AUD/month for 512/128, 12gig peak quota, 8 gig off-peak, quota calculated on rolling 30 day window.
It's considered a pretty good deal compared to what else is on offer to us skips.
Yay me!
Here in NZ I pay NZ$70, ~47USD for 256k/128k cable with a 10GB international transfer cap (local data is 1/10th the rate).
;)
I have a static IP, no ports closed and even the ability to run servers without violating the TOS. They even changed the reverse DNS entry to my domain name
You do need a second service from the company, either TV or Telephone, but since their phone charges are cheaper than the only competition, I'm not complaining.
The NZ government recently got talked out of unbundeling the local loop. Damn penny-pinching bastards the Telecom NZ are.
--sitharus
I live in a rural area outside Portland, Oregon. We have a local Co-op for telecom service that has faithfully served the area since the dawn of telecom. Even though the area is rural, they managed to deploy DSL to most of the service area quite effectively with "remotes" (Small weatherproofed DSLAM banks in the neighborhoods connected back to the C/O via fibre) While that limits out options (as of now, we have no choice except our co-op), it doesn't matter. Downstream is advertised as 768K but I have noticed near T1 speeds at low use times. Upstream is as advertised at 384K. For $47/mo including ISP, I don't think that's bad. There is also a cheaper plan that's 256/512 for like $35/mo. Service is quite reliable, and since I own the network like all ther other residents, I get a check in the mail if they end up turning a profit:D As a side note: Back before DSL came about, I had two phone lines and ran a pair of 56K modems bonded ("shotgunned") on a "normal" dialup account with my co-op. Most ISPs will charge you extra to do that or just plain don't allow it.
In terms of internet connection it's really frustrating in Indonesia after living in Canada for 5 years.
For lousy "home" cable there's only one provider so far, price is about 350,000 rupiahs (about US$ 41) per month. Don't get me started on their service/quality, it's disgusting.
For "business" ADSL (512/64) with unlimited usage we pay 3,800,000 rupiahs (about US$ 447) per month. I used to pay CA$ 45 per month for my 1Mb/256kbps home ADSL back when I was in Canada in 2001.
Hello, My name is Nataniel Klug an I am from Laranjeiras do Sul (it's a small town in Brazil). I have a small WISP and ISP here and I provide wireless broadband access (802.11b). Here we have one telco who sell DSL, the prices are like this: My WISP*: Wireless 128 Kbps down/up - US$ 17,00 Wireless 300 Kbps down and 150 Kbps up - US$ 27,00 *There is an investiment to use wireless (buying the 802.11b equipament) and its about US$ 160,00. DSL from BrasilTelecom Telco*: ADSL Turbo 300 Kbps down and 150 Kbps up - US$ 35,00 * There is an investment here too (modem ADSL) and its about US$ 90,00. In my town I sell wireless more than DSL becouse of montlhy prices.
Without going into too many details. I'm an Australian working in Laos in SE Asia. My company has had me investigate the options for Internet use and connectivity for the company headquarters located in Vientiane (Capital City of the Lao PDR)... Currently, we have the following options, not all broadband I realise, but it's good for background information. Standard Dialup account, $40 USD/month (PLUS usage charges over 40 hours... $1/h) Permanent Dialup account (lucky to get 21 kb/s with a 56k modem), $140 USD / month (TELEPHONE RATES are charged /minute at 1 cent US/minute)
Cable Internet 64kb/s at a standard rate of $300 USD/month (which I bargained down to $200 + free wireless lan for my laptop (paid 6 months in advance with 3 year contract *puke*).
Wireless at 64kb/s at $300 USD/m again.
Satellite service $600 USD/month and UPWARDS for 64kb/s upwards.. download limit beginning at 750 meg.
Thailand on the other hand (who supplies the satellite for Laos) is selling the same service for 3,000 BAHT /month which is equiv of around $80 USD/month... 10 km away it's 5 times the price.
You guys are incredibly lucky.. Internet here is slow, unreliable, and very expensive.. :)
I'm with Telewest and pay 50GBP per month for 512KB (both ways) cable broadband, cable TV and telephone. Not a bad deal by UK standards.
The price of the only DSL in Guyana is to be found at:
http://www.gtt.co.gy/dsl.html
It starts at US$65. It is SHARED bandwidth. No minimum. Sometimes slow...
Well, I live in a small town near St. Louis...here's our lineup currently:
Dialup: $20
Cable(512k down/96k up): $30 ($25 if you're a cable subscriber)
DSL(?/?): coming next this spring/summer
I've been VERY pleased with the cable internet here, and the costs of the cable modem are great to start($40 dlink after $20 mail in rebate)!
In holland most of the really cheap providers have a maximum usage of 150 to 500 MB / month. Unless we find a way to measure those kind of gotcha's, comparison seems impossible. And avarage wage in the area would be a factor to include too.