36 points

10 Gbps symmetrical for 40 bucks a month TV included. It’s absolutely mind boggling for me how expensive internet is in North America.

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Jesus, 10Gbps!? I’m paying $90 for “gigaspeed” AT&T fiber. But, I’m luckier than most, I have AT&T fiber and Metronet as fiber providers, as well as Spectrum and T-Mobile (but yuck to using 5G as my primary source of internet).

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Spectrum near me charges me $79 a month for 400mbit down, and… Get ready… 10mbit up.

I’m in southern San Diego and they have non-compete agreements with the other companies. I can’t get anything else.

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I know, it kinda sounds crazy, but at the same time it makes sense because after infrastructure the cost for the ISP is minimal. I mean upgrading to 25 Gbps is possible for just 70 bucks, so what can I say. Although my country is comparably small and I do live in the city. So it’s not universally like that.

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North America is insane with their internet costs.

Here in VN, I can get unlimited 4G for 40$ a year, and 100mbps symmetrical fiber for about 50$ a year. The biggest provider is the Army. Their customer service is actually pretty fast and good too!

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The country is fucking huge to be fair, but it’s also the capitalism capital of the world.

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Would have great internet too if the telecommunication companies didn’t just pocket the money for installing fiber infrastructure. Twice.

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Which country? Some of the countries in North America aren’t huge.

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Country (noun):
an area of land considered in relation to a particular feature

North America country.

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32 points

3 download 0.9 upload

:)

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18 points

That’s awful, I’m sorry :(

Is your ISP’s infrastructure based on RFC 1149?

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IPoD actually has really high throughput.

According to wikipedia Carrier pigeons typically travel ~1000km at ~100km/h and can carry 75g comfortably. a microsd card weighs about 0.5g and we have 1Tb ones now so our pigeon could carry about 150Tb per trip (sidenote that’ll cost ~20K so packet loss would really suck) . that’s an impressive 33Gb/s at the 1000km range. the 30million ms ping might be annoying though.

relevant XKCD

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This really needs an update for each carrier to transport multiple packets at once.
Based on RFC2549 it seems each carrier can transport up to 10g. That’s roughly 40 MicroSD cards. The current largest MicroSD cards are 2TB, so that’s 80TB/carrier. It seems the smallest response time is 3,000s.
That means the theoretical top transfer rate could be roughly 213Gbps.

Edit: Although it seems the carriers could do as much as 75g. That’s 300 MicroSD cards or 600TB. At 5km that makes 1.6Tbps!

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Not to mention it needs a security update. Gotta figure out a way to encrypt those pigeons!

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20 points

17mbps (Neighbour’s Wifi).

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🏴‍☠️based🏴‍☠️

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18 points

1000 up and down. Fiber is great. Actually having competition instead of a Comcast monopoly in my area is amazing.

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The one downside when I bought was only Comcast in the area. 6 months in, Att fiber got dropped in. Now I’m with you!

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1000/1000 for like $3 a month. But that’s with the caveat of living in China, where I need a VPN to access most western websites, so that’s my bottleneck.

Domestically I can get the full bandwidth when streaming (ton of English content available for cheap), but once I need to use the VPN it drops to maybe 200-300 mbit, depending on the server and current utilization.

Moving to Malaysia in less than 2 months where I can get 2gbit for about $90 (tested at my friend’s house), but honestly I think I’ll settle on 500. It’s more than I can realistically use in a 2 person household, and it’s like 20 bucks.

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500 is the sweet spot, at least for downloads. I have it and it’s fast enough for all my needs. Upload can be less, although I’d love to have more than the current 50. Good luck with your move!

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Thanks a lot! Will be an interesting journey for sure.

And yeah that’s what I thought, I had 100 asymmetrical before when living alone, and thought there’s still room for improvement, but it’s a declining balance really. My friend has a 4 person household and never even came close to utilizing his full bandwidth, he basically told me he took the biggest package just because he could.

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