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

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Advertised: 10gbit fiber symmetric - $30. Real: ~5gbit upload, 2gbit download (max); ~800mbit up & down (median) Sonic, San Francisco Bay Area

How does that happen? Fiber shouldn't have congestion, right?

I attribute it to the speed test I server which is picked up - it is not the ISP provided one, so I assume there will be some variation of the measured bandwidth. Manual tests against the ISP provided instance is much closer to 10gbit, but I haven't bothered to automate it yet to graph it.

On other hand, my understanding is that fiber is not immune from congestion problems - the only difference is at what point it happens.

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

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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.

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

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UK, would get ~15 down and 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.

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

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post #43

Australia: 50/20 Mbps @ 79AUD (~53 USD) per month. My speeds are actually lower than in 2019, when I was on 100/40 for the same price - but that was with a 500 GB per month data cap.

Also Australia.

Getting 790/50 Mbps for ~USD$100 (paying for 1000/50).

Our 'NBN' is luck of the draw with which type of connection your street has, and then dependent on what state your 30+ year old underground copper is in.

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