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

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Post by Hikikomori »

shanebellone wrote: post #7
LinuxBender wrote: post #6

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.

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.

Should be common with fiber (not PON) and copper Ethernet. Other technologies like cable, some DSL and PON (typically advertised as ftth) are designed to be asymmetrical, they use a single wire or pair to send data and the spectrum is divided so download gets more.

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

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Post by CitrusFruits »

shanebellone wrote: post #7
LinuxBender wrote: post #6

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.

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.

You only typically see a symmetrical connection with fiber. Traditional cable connections have to sacrifice download speed for upload speed at a neighborhood level, so they usually do a roughly 90/10 ratio.

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

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Post by 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%

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

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Post by Hikikomori »

DaveJorg wrote: post #21
m348e912 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After reading that my brain spent 10 seconds on two things: 1. I wonder why they have data limits on gigabit internet. 2. How much data is 45 GBP anyway? I'm an idiot.

GBP is the currency - it’s the abbreviation of British pound sterling

No it's not.
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