Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.
Yikes. I thought america was bad… we usually have 1-2 options for internet and they take advantage. I suspect even when there are more options, collusion is happening.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I’m Aussie but I live in the USA now. I’ve heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren’t symmetric? Crazy for a network that’s supposed to be “modern”.
I had ADSL2+ “up to 24Mbps” in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was… an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
What’s crazy to me is that some of the big internet companies in the USA are rolling out symmetric 2Gbps over cable using DOCSIS 4.0, by upgrading their equipment. In theory that should be possible over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks in Australia too, yet I haven’t heard of any attempts to do this.
Not everywhere in the USA is bad, especially in metro areas. I’ve got 10Gbps symmetric for US$40 where I live (San Francisco Bay Area, via Sonic.com), and there’s a few providers throughout the country (mainly smaller ones) that have similar price points. Some cities are lucky and have municipal internet, where the city provides the internet as a non-profit.
Elsewhere in the US, even in cities, you are lucky to get 250 mbit asymmetric for $60
I’m in Canada getting 100mbit down 30 up for $70/month.
Our telecom industry is awful. They have full regulatory capture.
Yikes. I thought america was bad… we usually have 1-2 options for internet and they take advantage. I suspect even when there are more options, collusion is happening.
we have sonic, we left Xfinity of thier outrageous tiered pricing BS with bundling.
Holy shit they have speeds that fast for residential??? I’m over here thinking I’m living like a king with 1Gbps symmetric for $80 in south Texas.
sonic is pretty good 10gps. it appears only on the west coast though. and its 40$, we switched like 10yo ago, when sonic was just new.
cries in $60 for 50/20 D:
australia.
I really wish Australia had rolled out the proper NBN instead of the worse, cheaper initially but more expensive over the long run version. I’m Aussie but I live in the USA now. I’ve heard that even gigabit NBN plans aren’t symmetric? Crazy for a network that’s supposed to be “modern”.
I had ADSL2+ “up to 24Mbps” in Australia back in 2013. In reality it synced at around 7Mbps. I moved to the USA at the end of the year and my apartment had a 600Mbps connection. It was… an experience. So many sites were hosted in the USA at that time too (much cheaper servers and bandwidth than Australia) so latency was much lower in the USA too.
Yup. No symmetric gigabit plans here. But you have to have fttp to get gigabit. Which, thanks to the Liberal government, hardly anyone has.
What’s crazy to me is that some of the big internet companies in the USA are rolling out symmetric 2Gbps over cable using DOCSIS 4.0, by upgrading their equipment. In theory that should be possible over the Optus and Telstra HFC networks in Australia too, yet I haven’t heard of any attempts to do this.