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Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible
by ebertx 13y ago
Yep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).
- SpikedCola 13y agoYou're well off. Here in Ontario, I pay ~$75 a month (after taxes & extra fees) for 25mbit. I would kill for $60 40mbit service.
- benburleson 13y agoSeriously! These people don't know how bad it can be.
- awaythrowme 13y agoDon't forget the data caps.
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- MikeCapone 13y agoHave you looked at Teksavvy? They sell a cable package in Ontario that gives you 60 mbits for a bit over 60$ (more after tax and all that)... You can get pretty decent download caps with them (it starts at 75 gigs/month, but I have upgraded to 300 gigs/month for a bit more. they also have an unlimited option).
- SpikedCola 13y agoI was with TekSavvy before I moved (2x25mbit mlppp). Everything was great, and there was even a promo for "no activation fees" when I signed up. When I moved a year later, they told me I would have to pay that activation fee again, because Bell treats move orders like setting up a new customer, and thus they can't waive the fee. I ended up going with another ISP that had a similar promo.
- Sunlis 13y agoDifferent areas have different packages, or at least differing availability. The best package available in my area is 28mbps and unlimited bandwidth for $62/month.
- mercuryrising 13y agoWhy does Canada have such terrible internet? Is it a regulation thing, competition thing, or what? Why do you guys have such extreme data caps?
- Cyranix 13y agoAs an American in Canada, I most often hear that a duopolistic system is the root of the country's internet problems. I haven't heard a single suggestion that there are technical limitations or lack of consumer demand.
- 3pt14159 13y agoMany reasons. 1. We're a unpopulous country for the area we occupy. 2. Our investment environment is much more conservative. 3. We gave some sweet deals to telephone companies in order to get 80 percent telephone coverage back in the 70s. Toronto isn't bad though. You can get 250 mbit for a decent price
- SpikedCola 13y agoAFAIK Internet is unregulated here. The CRTC is [basically] run by Bell & Rogers, they seem to do what they want. When one has a deal, the other shortly follows - when you cancel with one you're stuck going to the other. As long as they each gain the customers the other loses, they win.
- afterburner 13y agoOligopoly (or duopoly in most cases) with regulatory capture.
- 404error 13y agoSame here on the Central Coast of California. In my town though there is only one cable internet provider (Comcast). My only other option is DSL
- gobbs 13y agoComcast is still sadly better than Charter (though I think Charter is owned by Comcast now?).
- rogerbinns 13y agoYou've got it good. Here in Santa Cruz California at the southern end of Silicon Valley, I pay $70/month for a whopping 6mbit (ADSL). This is via a reseller of everyone's darling Sonic. They helpfully include "free" phone service I have no use for, which is then responsible for a not free $10 of that bill, $7 of which goes to Sonic for providing the "free" phone service.
- jzawodn 13y agoWho is the reseller?
- bronson 13y agoI bet he's talking about Cruzio's Velocity service. (I'm on it too)
- rogerbinns 13y agoAs bronson said, it is indeed Cruzio. There was 26 hour outage yesterday due to a fibre cut in SV. It didn't affect people on Cruzio's DSL service but did affect those of us on the resold Sonic Fusion service. http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/capitola/ci_23040335/at-t-customers-cut-off-by-outage http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/capitola/ci_23040335/at-t-c...
- danielbarla 13y agoAnd yet it gets worse: here in South Africa, I'm paying just over 140 USD for a 8mbit ADSL, with a +- 50 GB bandwidth cap. I suspect the New Zealanders are about to chirp in with their extortion-level rates :)
- zeroexzeroone 13y agoand I pay around 80 in TN for 25 mbps
- CarlosT 13y agoI pay $40 for 3 mbps. Palm Springs, CA, Time Warner. Fios is not here yet. Only cable.
- knodi 13y agoWow, I spent some time in Palm Desert, CA and I was able to get 20Mbs for about $40 for the summer. Month to month no commitments. (with Time Warner)
- RKearney 13y agoSeriously? I'm paying $70/month (no modem rental fee as I own my own) for this http://www.speedtest.net/result/2652775120.png http://www.speedtest.net/result/2652775120.png in the Nashville area. What part do you live in? I think they're upgrading everyone? Or maybe it was just the middle Tennessee area. Either way, the $70 I'm paying is 10 times slower than the internet Google Fiber users get for the same price so even $70 is still grossly overprices for what I'm getting.
- zeroexzeroone 13y agowow...im in Mid TN, the Smyrna/Murf area. I am not in the Metro area at all. I also use my own modem. My speeds are nowhere near your results, it is actually closer to 15-20mbps down and 2-4mbps up. I need some more info from you on this, I'd love to find out where they have this speed out here... I only pay for internet and regularly go over my 300GB/month data cap as well
- RKearney 13y agoI live in Cool Springs. I had the 50Mbps service which they recently doubled to 100Mbps (with the same 300GB cap unfortunately). They had been playing advertisements on the radio about doubling speeds and someone in my area mentioned they power cycled their modem and got the new speeds, which worked for me. I don't have TV or Phone service from them, only Internet. I'm not sure if it's a promo or not, but that's what I've been paying since January 01 when I cut my TV service.
- ddorian43 13y agodoes google have customer service for the internet service?
- bradmcnally 13y agoYou're lucky. I have to pay comcast $70/month for 12mbps
- bradmcnally 13y agoI just called comcast and got them to drop me to $50 and upgrade me to 50mbps. I was really going to quit until they did that
- dmishe 13y agoI don't need 1gbps and would love something like 25mbits for, say, $20. They really need a midtier connection between free 5m and 1G.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHell, I would pay $40 for 5mbit if they beat down the latency. Remote-desktop type applications would be much more pleasant.
- DigitalSea 13y agoI pay $75 a month for 500gb of data and a 20mb cable connection here in Australia... The Government is rolling out a whopping 100mbps network which is due for completion in 2025... One can only dream that Google would try and implement something like Google Fiber in Australia but the limited capacity of undersea cables probably means it won't happen for another 100 years.