Quick Survey - How's Your Internet?

[Prophet 451]

Curious about what kind of net service my American friends get. If you don't mind sharing, how's your download speed and what do you pay for it?

Here (British Midlands), I pay roughly $50 a month for 150Mbs, no cap.

[Electric Monk]

1. Up or down or both?

The trend lately is for much higher downspeed than upspeed.

[Prophet 451]

2. D'oh! I meant down

Edited OP to mention that. Thanks for the reminder.

[Electric Monk]

3. Last time I checked, I got about 25 down and 3 up, for about $60/mo I think

but it's packaged with my tv and phone, so the lines are a little blurry. It'd cost more without the bundle.

[Prophet 451]

4. Geez, that's expensive for lousy service

I could knock about $10 off ours if I took the package deal but that would mean accepting a cap and I live and die by internet access.

[Electric Monk]

7. Cheaper would be nicer, but it's enough to stream 1080p from youtube. nt

[SamKnause]

5. Computer illiterate person replying.

I have 2 choices for internet in my rural area.

Through my land line phone or satellite.

There is no cable in my area.

I chose the internet through my land line phone.

It is not dial up.

It is DSL.

I have the SLOWEST speed that can still be considered broadband.

They have been working with congestion issues for years.

Sometimes live streaming works some times it does not.

I have trouble getting videos to load in HD.

It is slow and frustrating.

Sometimes I don't receive the packets of information that is sent out.

I pay $30.00 plus $7.00 in various taxes for my internet per month. (no caps)

If I had chose satellite my bill would have been $49.00 plus unknown taxes per month.

Monopolies run EVERYTHING in the U.S. !!!!!!!!!!!!

[Electric Monk]

6. speedtest.net is a good way to get quantitative numbers, and it's easy too

[SamKnause]

9. Thanks I have used it quite a few times,

as has Frontier, the company I get my internet from.

One time my computer was running so slow it wouldn't complete the speed test.

That was the time I was missing packets of information.

The last time I had an issue they used a different speed test site.

[Prophet 451]

14. Good link, thanks

Just tested ours and we're at about 120 down and about 25 up.

[Electric Monk]

17. How much is enough? Moore's law, etc. taken into consideration. nt

[Prophet 451]

18. If you play online games

then there is no such thing as "enough".

[DonnaM]

15. I'm with Frontier as well

and use land line. Am in the same situation - slow, frustrating and Frontier calls our service "high speed". We pay about the same and have no other options in our area - well, there is a guy in a garage about 20 minutes away who offers "high speed internet" but I think that's because he no longer offers meth

[KT2000]

8. Slow

DSL - 256 kb at $33 plus tax - no cap

It is very slow and am unable to view videos.

[silvershadow]

10. A little too Comcast-y. nt

[RebelOne]

47. Me too. According to a speed test, it is too slow for what I paying.

But I don't have much of a choice. It was either satellite or cable, and I had problems with satellite.

[sakabatou]

11. Don't know how much I pay. I get about 7.8 Mbps

[petronius]

12. 14.7 Mbps down and 3.3 up, according to speedtest.net - we pay $48/month

I have no idea if that's good or bad, but as long as it's working (not necessarily a 24/7 proposition on Charter), it's completely sufficient for my needs...

[Prophet 451]

13. It's not great

Given the answers so far, I'm starting to think that, in addition to a new WPA, that WPA's first job should be to lay fibre optic cable across the country.

[dorkzilla]

16. Download 20.59 mbps, 7.91 mbps upload

I'm in a bundled package but i think its about $70/month. I live 30 miles outside NYC.

[NutmegYankee]

19. 17.48 Mbps download, 1.78 up $50/month

I live in a rural area, so the fact that I have fiber to the node VDSL is a big plus. This service has never proven to be a problem with online gaming.

[IdiocracyTheNewNorm]

20. $72 a month with all taxes and fees for 25Mbs, most times I get about 17-18 due to traffic.

Comcast is my only choice if I want internet access.

I could go to a Sat Dish for internet but it is slower for a higher cost.

[penndragon69]

21. DSL sucks !!

I have no choice but DSL so my speed is crap

[Enthusiast]

22. AT&T for $45/month coming in at 2.45 Mbps download and upload speed of .42, it's called DSL.

I'm almost entirely computer illiterate. But I know this service is often unsatisfactory and I have had a number of service interruptions.

[Live and Learn]

23. 50 Mbs Down, 5 up.

I pay nearly 200 a month for combined (standard) tv and (standard) internet. I just checked and the internet alone at that speed would be about 40 a month (add in fees and taxes and it would probably jump to 50 or more).

I just bought a HD antenna for one of our tv's and returned one box and dropped a tier that somehow got added by the cable company on its own to lower the bill. As soon as I can talk other family members in to it, I hope to drop the tv service and just use internet.

[RazzleCat]

32. Just about the same her

bundled TV, Internet and phone. Total $160.00 per month all cable stations plus showtime and hbo. Down 40 up 6 (just tested at speed test). When my year is up will downgrade TV package and drop phone (don't even know the number) to lower cost to around $80.00 per month . edit its hbo, not ho

[Papagoose]

24. 7 Mbps down/ 2 Mbps up

No cable or DSL where I live, so my options are satellite or cellular.

I have Sprint 4G modem that gives me 60GB of data for $80 per month. Thankfully my work picks up some of the bill.

[imthevicar]

25. 15 up 15 Down

Just checked it.

[Oktober]

26. Internet in Africa sucks....

[freshwest]

27. 105 Mbps, good for youtube, $49 a month, landline hard wired. Faster with adblock and firewall.

Depending on hard drive space, downloads are fast, but delete often for more free space and speed. No cap on usage, unlimited long distance on land line phone, no frills like television, etc.

[RiverLover]

28. Acc to speedtest.net--Download 27 Mbps/Upload 5. Uverse $55/mo

[truebluegreen]

29. Sucky sucky sucky: 3 down and .26 up, no cap though

otoh, at that speed who would need one?

[Triana]

30. 17 Mbps down/1.06Mbps up - $35/month n/t

[Nite Owl]

31. Internet is ok

I pay about $40mo, supposed to be Turbo. They offer faster for more $

Ping 29ms
Download 15-20Mbps
Upload 2.14Mbps

[BlueJazz]

33. 25 up 12 down 60 bucks/month

[Prophet 451]

34. What's coming across...

...is that Americans frequently pay over the odds for sucky internet speeds.

[Scuba]

35. Mine sucks. I'm rural, but still.

[Old Codger]

36. Shitty

Frontier and horrible, 40 a month for what is supposed to be 1.3mps, average is (according to sam knows) .77 last month high was 1.13 at 1 am on the 12th low was .12 on the 17th .
Like I said shitty.

[Boom Sound 416]

37. Error 404

Could not reply to this message

[IDemo]

38. Bottom of the barrel...

Up = .49Mbs, down = 3.62 Mbs

YouTube is a non-starter.

$35/mo.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

39. Holy shit! I was paying $29 a month for some AT&T bullshit of 6 Mbs. I

finally dropped it and switched to cable $39 for 50 Mbs. Oh and I was lucky if my old service went anywhere near 5 Mbs. AT&T sucks ass.

[JaneyVee]

40. $50/month for 50/50.

[dumbcat]

41. 20 down 3 up at $75/mo

no caps. Time Warner Cable and Roadrunner.

[hunter]

42. Just fast enough to stream one video...

... at something between video cassette recorder and DVD quality.

I could probably push the connection higher, but that's good enough. Our television is a movie player. We don't have, or pay any attention to cable, satellite, or broadcast television. I'm not even sure the broadcast television channels are set up. Our television is not connected to the internet except through the old model Nintendo wii and composite video.

Comcast and AT&T offer faster service, but I hate doing business with them. In my private life I can do as I please. My internet connection started out as a Pacific Bell copper pair connected directly to a local ISP; that was before AT&T reconstituted itself and Comcast offered their own brand internet services in our city. I haven't changed my connection. AT&T probably has to deal with our line as an exception, which amuses me.

Personally I think some adequate level of internet service ought to be available to everyone, for "free," paid for through a combination of income taxes, taxes on HDTV services, and low fees and taxes on for "for profit" internet services such as commercial television, "smart phones," and high quality "internet radio" streams. Ordinary "dumb" voice-only cell phone service would be available without subscription or fees to anyone who had a phone, similar to the way public sidewalks and streets are available for walking or bicycling upon.

[Prophet 451]

44. I like the idea

IIRC, France does something similar - basic net access (at not-very-fast-but-bearable speeds) is included as part of taxes.

[boston bean]

43. wireless 9.39mbps down, 26.93mpbs up - Verizon Fios.

[wyldwolf]

45. download 20.3 mbps, upload 1.72

[PasadenaTrudy]

46. All I know is

Netflix gets booted whenever I watch a movie on my iPad. So does Amazon Prime. The thing disconnects from the wifi and I have to restart the iPad.

[Old Nick]

48. It's

[octoberlib]

49. We have broadband and it's 12.02 down and 1.53 up and costs $50 a month.

[Orsino]

50. Cable giving me 126/23 Mbps

I'm rural enough to get 1 bar for cell signal, but fiber into my yard is pretty great.

[James48]

51. 2.57 Mbps down, 0.41 Mbps up, DSL, $29.99 a month ATT

n/t

[spinbaby]

52. Satellite here

I forget what it's supposed to be, but we're paying $99 a month for what is theoretically the fastest available service, which is barely enough to support YouTube.

[sweetloukillbot]

53. Cox - 35-40 down, 5-25 up depending on the time of day. $70/month

That's wireless. I can pull 60 constantly when wired, but my main pc doesn't have any cable access in the room and I haven't experimented with ethernet over power yet.

There is some sort of upstream sharing on my plan where you can use max bandwidth available at the time - I can get some ridiculous upload speeds at the right time of night.

[Aerows]

54. 23mbps down / 3mbps up

$60/month

[CBHagman]

55. Satisfactory DSL at what I guess is an average price.

I have a landline phone plus the Internet, plus a cheapo cellphone.

Your $50 figure astonished me because I had heard that competition was quite vigorous among British Internet providers.

[Prophet 451]

59. It is, sort-of

If I was overly concerned about price, I could get it down to about a tenner but most of the services are capped. I pay over the odds to get uncapped service.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

56. Based on what everyone else is getting, I'm getting reamed.

According to speedtest.net, I just got 8.15Mb down, 1.6 up.

My cable bill is bundled with cable tv and net, but I'm paying something like 180 a month for that and a single static IP.

[Initech]

57. I pay about $90/month for 4G LTE on two devices.

[Kablooie]

58. 65Mbps down - 4.2Mbps up. Charter Cable - $40 mo.

And I have no other options at all.
Luckily it's not a bad plan.