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

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

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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

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

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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.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

"This post saved me money & tripled my speed." Great win!

Verizon I'm sorry but the website experience trying to do this was awful. I called & we changed my plan in like 5 minutes, done. The person on the phone told me I could save money by switching to debit/bank-number autopay. I said, yeah, let me just go on the website & i'll do that after we chat, thanks. Well, that took a while. Of course the vzw & fios accounts are basically separate, great, right. Eventually I got o…

My guess is you'll be very lucky to get the $49.99 rate, considering all the times they have sent you the wrong rate. I went through this nightmare with Time-Warner before the Charter/Spectrum buyout: they raised my rate from $55/mo to $65/mo, I called, they said they had fixed it and credited my account. The next month they did credit $10, but still charged $65. I called again, same story, next bill, same story. On the 3rd call I told them they can change my rate to $45/mo or I'm switching to $15/mo ELP. They said they couldn't give me $45/mo, so I did switch to ELP. And I'm still on it with Spectrum. The funny thing is, right after I did that, TW started sending me all kinds of offers for less than $45/mo! These cable companies are so screwed up and frustrating.

My neighbor recently went on a trip to Ireland and added international texting and calling to her Verizon phone plan for 10 days for $100. But the continued to bill her $100 extra every month for several months. Every time she called, they said they had taken care of it, but it was still screwed up the next month.

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

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post #80

Switzerland, Init7 10/10 Gbps for 66CHF (~$70) / month. Unfortunately my router can't firewall packets at 10Gbps so I get around 1Gbps effectively. :)

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

I have a Ubiquiti Security Gateway that seems to manage by LAN network well. However, adding an Edge Router X significantly reduces my speed.
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