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American citizens pay four times as much French citizens for Internet bundle packages
When the Internet was first invented, America was #1 for Internet Speed, now we are #29 in the world
America pays 38 times as much as the Japanese pay for Internet access


http://sourcefednews.com/2012/09/26/why-you-make-me-broke-internet-phone-and-tv-package

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How much do you guys pay for like 60 MB/s? Would that be more then $50 a month?

Also you guys are practically being fcked by: ''lobbyists in Washington that are looking out for the business rather than the customer.''

I really can't understand why lobbyists have so much power in the U.S.
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Thats really horrid....
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It's better than Canadian internet. Our ISPs have slow speeds, low bandwidth caps and high prices.

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heroo wrote:How much do you guys pay for like 60 MB/s? Would that be more then $50 a month?

Also you guys are practically being fcked by: ''lobbyists in Washington that are looking out for the business rather than the customer.''

I really can't understand why lobbyists have so much power in the U.S.


We get 12Mbps (96MBps) for around that much maybe a little more.
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40Mbps DL
5Mbps UL
Cable

$50 USD
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Tasdik wrote:Le sad.


Since we're in the same area, what ISP do you use and how much is it?
I'm on Comcast 30/5, we're getting a 2x speed increase eventually, so ~60/10.
I pay $49 / mo.

Compared to many parts of Europe we do pay quite a lot for our speeds.
I'm working 26/31 days next month 10-11 hours a day, so I'm considering downgrading. :soosad:

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Gaigemasta wrote:40Mbps DL
5Mbps UL
Cable

$50 USD

Lucky, in Malaysia I'm on 5Mb upload and download for RM150. Divide that by 3.2 so it's around 50 USD.
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Blame the jews. Seriously ever since everybody is getting into the craze of cloud and streaming what happened? Internet prices suddenly went up. What else? Bandwidth caps.

ATT when U-Verse was first introduced when I was back at home around 2008 if I recall $30 = 1.5mb down and let's ignore upload. Never had a good up speed. Was always around 1/10th of download. I guess in my area a lot of people uploaded so they limited that? Over the years they attempted, key word here, to put a cap on it and +$10. They can't measure what internet usage is TV or telephone through the same wire on u-verse apparently so caps never happened. Not sure about their DSL service.

A single dollar makes them millions more. Ten dollars? brb getting in my plane
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15Mbps DL
3Mpbs UL
MAX DOWNLOAD LIMIT PER MONTH: 90GB

49$ per month here in quebec

Recently got a free upgrade for 1 year from our ISP

Otherwise:

7Mbps DL
1Mbps UL
MAX DOWNLOAD LIMIT PER MONTH: 50GB

49$ per month

What kills me is the download limit. I mean fine make us pay 50$ a month for internet, but for fu.cks sake don't give us a download limit!!!

That is why, we, Canadians, especially Quebecers, get ripped the fu.ck off!

By the way, even for rich dudes that can afford 200$ per month, they get 120Mpbs Download and 40Mpbs UL and 200GB download limit...........................
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Pay $200 a month. That includes my homephone, foxtel and internet. Also get unlimited :sohappy: :sohappy:
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IM OFF TO JAPAN, BYE>

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Pay $200 a month. That includes my homephone, foxtel and internet. Also get unlimited :sohappy: :sohappy:

dafuq, the things I could do with 200$ monthly :/
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Download caps, you guys are still in the Middle Ages of internet. I feel sorry for you:(
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1 Mbps DL
256 Kbps UL
23$ per month
And not even getting a full 1 Mbps during the peak time
Be happy with what you got !
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+ TV channels
30 euros per month
no download cap
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I lied :$

But listen guys, I'd rather have 3Mbps and 2.25Mbps per second of internet and have unlimited download limit.

No one here knows what its like to have a download limit I suppose... It is horrible to check every day how much my download is at... I can't keep utorrent open, otherwise if I forget it one day or night, im screwed for the rest of the month. I download, then close it. No seeding..... This sucks bad.
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We have 50Mb/s DL and 10Mb/s UL also TV with 70 channels and some radio stations. The whole thing is about 28 euros, which is about 37 dollars.
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The customer is once again screwed over by big business!
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heroo wrote:Download caps, you guys are still in the Middle Ages of internet. I feel sorry for you:(


"B-but only 1% users go over the cap! We must make limits!" ISPs in a nutshell attempting to put caps. It's like I'm Australia. Absolutely disgusting.
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30 euros for 100/10 no cap sup

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£22.50 for Internet and landline, but couldn't tell you about speeds and stuff...

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Download: 9.78 Mbps
Upload: 0.91 Mbps
Ping: 40 ms

I have a feeling that it isn't all the great, but what I use my Internet for, it does the job. I also have unlimited download as well.

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20mbit download, cable television and a phone connection for 50eu a month I think. No download limits, my ISP even went to court to fight the decision to ban thepiratebay.
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In Romania, for 100Mbs internet + TV + tellphone we pay 15 euros (around $20) but we're poor :(
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only_me wrote:In Romania, for 100Mbs internet + TV + tellphone we pay 15 euros (around $20) but we're poor :(

Damn you, now I feel we are paying too much.
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Sanktum wrote:
only_me wrote:In Romania, for 100Mbs internet + TV + tellphone we pay 15 euros (around $20) but we're poor :(

Damn you, now I feel we are paying too much.


The average wage (per month) is something around $450. So we're technically paying 4,5%.

Even though you're paying much more for internet, I don't think it's that much of your monthly income.
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