How much do you pay? How fast are your your real world speeds? Where are you located?

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I live in Sweden and pay around 12 dollars a month for fiber 1000/1000 Mbps without data traffic restrictions.

Seeing the fees you pay makes me feel sad.

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What??? Let me cry a bit from Norway, where I pay 829NOK (82$) for 150mbps fiber

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I pay 15€ per month for 1000/100 cable plan in Finland. It’s a discounted price though, I believe the “real” price is like 40€/month, but it doesn’t look like I’ll have to pay that any time soon.

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These threads always just reinforce how much of a cunt Helmut Kohl was, god damn

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Bit of context in case people who come across this comment don’t know, Helmut Kohl was the german chancellor from 1982-1998.
He completely trashed his predecessors plans for nationwide fiber in order to advance TV instead. Now it’s 2023 and a staggering 19% of all households are connected via fiber.

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That sounds awfully familiar.

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Huh, didn’t know that before. What is it with politicians and avoiding foresight?

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Worst part about the cable is the packet loss. It’s legit better to get a slow DSL connection in Germany than a faster cable internet because the packet loss makes RTC unusable

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600 down / 20 up for $95 in western PA. My area only has one option, Comcast. So they can basically make the price whatever that want. The other side of town also has FiOS and of course the same Comcast plan is $60 there. I hate it so much

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1000 down / 20 up for $75 from Comcast. It’s getting upgraded to 1200/200… Eventually… 🥲

If they take too long I might just hop back to TMobile 5g home internet. It would peak at like 500 down / 120 up for $50 which I was super happy with.

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I’m giving T-Mobile a try soon since it’s $50/mo vs the $200/mo I pay for Comcast internet and cable (don’t use cable but it was cheaper as a internet & cable bundle for awhile). If I get similar speeds to what you got with T-Mobile I’ll be happy.

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Reading this thread and learning that data caps exist… my condolences.

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That’s because you live in a civilized country.

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