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

[shanebellone]

Long story short, I had fiber installed yesterday and it's impressive for $60/m.

Download - 946 MBPS Upload - 944 MBPS

(tested with speedtest.net)

[rektide]

Verizon fios, 100mbos, $65. Major (for us) metropolis, East coast USA. They turned on IPv6 like 2 maybe 3years ago, yay.

I'd love a gratis bump to 200mbps some day.

Edit: oh snap! It was pretty hard to find plans on the website (most pages wanted me to check availability with address/email/phone... No) but I did eventually find a page that told me there's a 300mbps for $55 - $10 if I use a de it card. Called them, and done! This post saved me money & tripled my speed.

I have a very expensive grandfathered Verizon unlimited wireless plan with no softcap (but they'll drop me if I use 100GB or so repeatedly). Alas it's not qualified, otherwise I'd save another $20!

[shanebellone]

"This post saved me money & tripled my speed."

Great win!

[vijucat]

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

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

Packet Loss: 0.0%

[popcalc]

Budapest, Hungary: 1Gb/s up, 2Gb/s down => ~$14/mo

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

[shanebellone]

The disparity in service and cost is surprising.

[lukeqsee]

Switzerland, Init7

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

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

[_nalply]

Same.

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

[prirun]

$30/mo for 20Mbps down/1.2Mbps up

Spectrum (aka Charter) near Louisville, KY

Grandfathered Time-Warner ELP (Everyday Low Price) that was originally $15/mo for 3Mbps down/1.2Mbps up

I could get 300Mbps up/down from AT&T for $65/mo, but that is only a 1-year intro rate and puts me on the "call AT&T every year to protest price hikes" treadmill. That's the reason I switched from 50/10 service years ago with Time Warner to ELP.

[TacticalCoder]

France: 72 EUR / month ($80) for 2 Gbit/s down // 600 Mbit/s up (router doesn't have any SFP port though and ethernet ports aren't 2.5 Gbit/s, so it's advertized as 1 Gbit/s down per machine max)

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

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

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

[BrandoElFollito]

Which provider do you use in France?

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

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

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

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

[Lazvon]

5Gbs symmetrical AT&T Fiber residential for $170/month in metro area of southeast US.

And backup than I never have to use except middle of night maybe once a quarter when AT&T doing maintenance or something… first year we had like 5 fiber cuts and autofailover was awesome, but they finally buried deeper and no more cuts.

1.2Gbs Down/35Mbs Up Comcast Cable for $120, can’t remember Internet part of the bill, $90 or $100 I think; no TV channels, but do have Telephone service for alarm system (AT&T compresses VoIP and it doesn’t work).

[jmclnx]

Xfinity is the only choice I have. It advertises as 5Gpbs and costs 100 USD

My real speed:

Download 14Mbps -- Upload 1 Mbps

If I had a choice of any other service, I would jump.

Note, Xfinity is really Comcast. I used Xfinity so this would show up in searches.

[glmeece]

AT&T Fiber in Round Rock, TX (Austin metro area) 940 down; 939 up - per Speednet's macOS app via Ethernet directly to AT&T's supplied router.

Unfortunately, I'm paying $80.42/mo. as I'm well past all the offers they're willing to give. Still - overall pretty reliable, except when we have a power outage (not AT&T's fault) and it takes (on average) 15-20 minutes to get back online.

[IanCal]

UK, would get ~15 down and <1 up wired. Have a 4/5g connection that varies from 4 down to 350 down, generally stuck at about 6 up I think - only 4g for uploads. About £30/mo.

Strongly affected by signal strength, so I sometimes open the window to "let more internet in" which can dramatically improve speeds.

Very eagerly awaiting a proper fibre connection which would be symmetric gigabit for something like £40/mo.

[danaris]

Charter/Spectrum (upstate NY), 500Mbps down tier, $100/mo. In practice, tends to be between 80 and 100 MBps down; considering downgrading.

[MandieD]

40 EUR/mo for 250 Mbps down, 50 Mbps up. Actual down is often about 280.

Germany, Deutsche Telekom DSL in a semi-urban neighborhood with no cable service.

[ChuckNorris89]

Damn, that's terrible by most EU standards, very similar to here in Austria.

[LinuxBender]

520/520 fiber $170/mo counting the static IP. Price likely due to no competition. Only alternatives are a highly congested LTE network or Starlink. very rural area I also had to pay to trench in the fiber as I was late to the party. Early subscribers trenching was paid for by the federal government.

[shanebellone]

Are symmetrical connections common? I hadn't seen that offered until they knocked on my door lol.

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

[jasoncartwright]

3Gbps each way fibre, with 1Gbps/50Mbps backup cable. GBP115/month from two separate providers. South London

[asicsp]

What do you all do with such high speeds? Guessing video streaming. I don't need that as I prefer reading fantasy books instead.

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

[kreetx]

High speed is convenient for the occasional install (apt get/npm install/nix develop). Other than that I could probably live with 20Mbits/s for web/ssh/youtube/spotify.

[shanebellone]

I am a web developer and researcher. I use my internet in excess of its cost. It's totally unnecessary for the typical browsing and streaming scenario.

[senectus1]

In Australia: I'm now in the ISP hopping game, to get the best value for money (you switch ISP's every 6 months or so to get deals)

right now I pay AU$85 a month for 100/40 plus static IP on HFC (Hybrid Fiber Co-ax) I just did a speed test (lunch time on a sunday) DOWNLOAD Mbps 104.65 UPLOAD Mbps 36.54

[LargoLasskhyfv]

Shaped FTTH, 250/50 EUR30.

Hamburg, Germany, excellent peering and latency.

500/100 for EUR40 and 1000/250 for EUR50 would also be possible.

But I'm cheap, and the 100/40 I had from the same ISP was enough already. They just did an upgrade I couldn't avoid, price didn't change, so be it :-)

[AdrianB1]

1 Gbps fiber optic with unlimited traffic in 2 places, one in the capital city and one in a small village in the mountains. Another one over GPRS, ~150 Mbps down and ~ 25 Mbps up with 200 GB/month of traffic. About $10/month each. Country = Romania.

[mikewarot]

Indiana, Chicago suburb

Comcast/Xfinity - $120/month!!!

175/11 Mbps down/up

The killer is the data cap, after 1299 Gb, it gets really expensive, really fast.

I can never download a language training set without going broke.

Or, I have to go to a friend who has ATT gigabit fiber with no limits for only $40/month.

[lostmsu]

Bellevue "rural" near Microsoft. 1Gbps symmetric from Ziply for about $90/month. With an option of up to 10Gbps for $300/m (that one's new).

I am staying on 1Gbps, but will likely upgrade within a year.

Right now I'd prefer to pay extra for IPv6 though.