Here in Portland, Oregon, with Comcast cable service. Basic Internet, $30/mo.

Ping 10ms, 3.6Mb down, 0.98Mb up.

We run our home phones over it also (Ooma voip, $10/month for 2 lines).

I wanted to post an update to the situation with the FCC that I described above.

Thanks to massive online pressure from organizations like Free Press, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has said that reclassification — exactly what we need to win REAL Net Neutrality — is "very much on the table."
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From Free Press:

1 epic online day of action: The Internet Slowdown inspired 2 million people to email the FCC and more than 300,000 to call Congress in support of strong open Internet protections.
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Hopefully, even without mainstream corporate media coverage Net Neutrality can be protected. With the same five corporations that control the rest of the media controlling the internet in the future there will be no way to fight them at all.

John

Cox. $64/mo
36mb down
6.5mb up
250GB/mo

Here is an article in Streaming Media discussing "bundling" with some shady practices thrown in by Comcast.

Bundles Are the Way to Savings, But Operators Can Be Sneaky.

John

Sorry to be late to the thread.

Verizon FIOS 50/50: $35 as part of a package (TV/Internet/Phone) TV is $55 and Phone is $30

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It's really eye opening to see what others are getting and what theyare paying for it. Even scarier that TWC and Comcast would be allowed to merge. We had Comcast and they are the worst of the worst. This should be stopped. We need more choices not less.

~jr

It's part of a bundle. The bill says $30 for internet but with a portion of the various and many taxes and fees it's closer to $37.

Verizon is very flaky with their internet business. There are some DNS servers that they won't allow me to use. They will redirect the requests through some third party DNS server (I can only guess for tracking). Plus, they have their fingers in the middle of the traffic - like with the Netflix peering issues.

Verizon is also one that is fighting neutrality most stringently and the first to roll over for the NSA.

You're gonna hate this:


I have Verizon FIOS - it's a bundle of phone, TV and internet for $124/mo. I am paying for 75mbps asynchronous. It really helps that we have a choice of Comcast or Verizon.

steve - WOW!!!!!!!

as geebax stated earlier, we can only dream (on mate ;-))

Almost the same as Steve here in Philadelphia; 84MB down and 91MB up Ping 17ms on Verizon. Also choice of Comcast and Verizon. We pay $80 for same bundle minus the phone.

but Netflix still buffers occasionally.

UK - Virgin Media with unlimited download, phone line and free calls £30/month

54Mbs download, 3.5Mbs upload

(If I wanted to go wild, £50/month for 120Mbs)

I wonder if there is much of a practical benefit to gigantic download speeds. I've been a cheapskate and here in Oregon we just have the minimum 3Mbps download speed (1Mb up) and 10ms ping.

It seems to me that for web browsing it would make little difference, since as a web page loads there are numerous back-and-forth communications with the server, so raw speed should take a back seat to ping delay. But raw speed surely will have a large effect for cloud backups and video downloads. Still, we get excellent NetflixHD performance here. It's been months since Netflix had to pause to refill the buffer.

We also use Ooma voip for our phone service to our house. On occasion there is the "phoe-phoe" sound as audio segments don't make it across in time to sync up, so there's also the matter of jitter, or consistency of service. I would imagine that having a larger pipe would serve to reduce these voip failures.

For sure - general web browsing I doubt will be a wildly new experience once you get past a solid 3-5Mbs.

I was under the impression that for the Netflix HD content 6Mbs was considered more than enough.

As for uploads and downloads, what bottleneck are the originators servers?