What are you paying for internet?
 

I'm fed up.
We are SE Michigan in a 4G area using a Verizon "hotspot" air card.
The thing loses connection every few minutes, decides to disconnect on it's own, and decides to not connect sometimes. Very annoying, and a security risk if doing online money transactions (we don't). The device and the SIM card have already been exchanged with replacements.

Our current plan is about $80/mo. for 8GB.

We still max it out, even with semi-limited video usage.
Netflix is out of the question.
After reviewing an itemized bill, I suspect some of those days of high usage are pure BS.

It costs the ISPs an actual 1/10 of a penny to transmit 1GB.
We are paying 10,000 times that.
ISPs exaggerate the cost of data
"The study showed that each gigabyte of data cost approximately €0.01-0.03 to the provider."

Who is using unlimited plans, and what do they cost?

Why Your Phone, Cable & Internet Bills Cost So Much | Daily Ticker - Yahoo! Finance
"Americans pay four times as much as the French for an Internet triple-play package—phone, cable TV and Internet—at an average of $160 per month versus $38 per month."

"Americans pay 38 times as much as the Japanese for Internet data."

John: I live out of town a bit and my only option is a Verizon USB ModemAircard...I put it in a router and run 3 computers....

I pay $60/mo for 5 Gig......UR right, you really have to watch it to not go over.....If I used 10 Gig, the extra charges would be $1,250......

Sorry, I can't suggest options for you, but mine is pretty reliable....There is a Cell tower along the I-90 very close to my house...I made sure I was in a "Digital" area before I signed the 2 years contract....That was over 4 yrs ago......

Maybe check cell coverage of Sprint, or one of the other compaines?

I'm too far from town to get DSL or cable, so I have Hughes Net.
I pay about $70 per month, with the taxes, for their minimum plan with 10 g per month.

Right now they are pimping their new Gen4 technology, and you can get the basic package for less than I am paying. Plus you get the installation for free with this promo.


Sat does not hold a candle to DSL or Cable, but I guess it's better than tin cans and string.

We are way out in the country and have DSL, although my neighbor one mile away does not have it.

We pay through our phone bill (Land Line), it is 3.5 MB per second for $25.00 per month. It is enough to watch Netflix at 480 without any problem. However, when the boys are streaming another movie from Netflix and surfing the web at the same time, we sometimes get a rebuffering on one of the movies.

I've noticed the speed varies and is not consistent. The morning is usually better than the evening.

10mb/s down speeds. $45 per month. Not sure what my limit on usage is. I stream Netflix daily and have yet to hit a cap.

20mb down DSL with Century link, $19/mo.

EDIT: and $30 for my IPAD. I also have a backup 4GE Sprint USB modem but the company covers that.

HUGHES NET SUCKKKS SADAM ACKMED APU'S TECH SERVICE SUPPORT CAMEL BALLS.


Like others, I'm rural with no DSL or cable in street. I put up with HughesCanSuckMe for 36 months, and had 32 troubleshooting service calls to tech support in India and Philipinnes.



Finally fired them (only took like 3 months of getting their run-around)

Tried AT&T wi-fi, didn't have the signal strength and returned it 3 days later.

VERIZON 4G Mi-Fi Jetpack 4620 kicks butt. I'm on a 18 gig a month plan for both Razr Smart Phone and home internet.


Speedtest.net from 2 minutes ago. It hauls assss.


Verizon kicks butt, do a google search on the 100,000's of thousand pissed off HughesNOT service issues.


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I only have one provider on my street, Time Warner Cable. I threatened to leave for Dish, and they dropped internet phone, internet and expanded cable to $110/mo from $150. My internet speed is slow.

commiecast charges me $60+ a month - the only good thing is that as a stockholder I know that as a monopoly they are screwing other people too and passing some of the benefits on to me

more info:

States are prohibited from regulating internet service providers because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) classifies them as information services, not telecommunication services. The states only have authority to regulate telecommunication providers. As a federal matter, this is something that your congressmen may be able to address.

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On a related note, I was informed by the state Public Utility Commission that regulation of VoIP service (not internet service) has been considered by many states. The issue is murky because there are four types of VoIP service and the FCC has preempted one of those types of VoIP service. The FCC has been silent on the other three types. If the FCC explicitly delegates authority to the states, it would be clear. If the state passed a law regulating the three remaining types of VoIP service, there would be legal challenges.

$48.95 comcast (sux)

Very rural here. We have our own phone co. and get DSL 1.5M for 74.95

More details please (for instance maxGB/unlimited and/or movie watching).

I'm hearing "why can other normal people watch Netflix, but we can't"?
"Why are we so strange?"
We'd both like that modern convenience, without breaking the bank of course, but I thought the movies were a few GB each.
Netflix doesn't post the file size, and surprise overage charges add up quickly.

In old flat: 100Mbit down / 10Mbit up Ethernet, 40$. No cap.
In house: 24Mbit ADSL (more like 16Mbit actually) 42$. No cap.

4G is available with "up to 80Mbit" for around 35$ a month but it's capped to something like 20GB. Gotta try it.

That's outrageous!

You mean there is something cheaper in Canada. Was paying $45 since July and was $33 before. They did not notify me of the increase and I threatened to go to the competition and is back down to $33 for 6 more months. This is high speed internet, not dial up.

50/25 from Verizon is $45/mo, but w/ the bundles I really dont know what it costs. Just tested 40Mbps/15Mbps so it's not quite as advertised.

Time Warner Cable 16.72 mbs tested. Was $39.99, then $44.99, then $52.99, now $56.99 over a 2 yr period. I consider this a predatory billing practice and am shopping for alternatives. Verizon has terrible service and worse billing practices in our area.

Virgin 4G anyone?

I use the mobile hotspot on my work phone for my wireless.........$0.00 for me!!

We have AT&T UVerse for Internet (11Mbps), TV and phone service. We have the basic TV pkg and the total is $140 a month for everything, including taxes, surcharges, fees, etc...

$85.21 for unlimited high speed internet and my phone service. That of course doesn't include my two Iphones on AT&T contract.

Almost the exact same here. Bellsouth DSL at home.

As to the Verizon hotspot/aircards. My direct reports all live on an aircard for work. Some on Sprint and it's solid 'where' you can get a signal. All the folks that have moved to Verizon have had issues. Every time Verizon pushes out a software/firmware update we run into problems. McAfee updates will affect with the Verizon cards as well. If you stay at Verizon's tech help they will eventually get you working but in our experience you have to badger them unmercifully for a few days straight otherwise they'll never get back to you. Since we're in mostly rural areas with limited 4G most of my guys have had the 4G service deactivated so they can stay on a slower but much more stable 3G connection. Most of the new VZ Access Mgr software has this feature hidden so you need VZ tech to do this for you. We've found when the card jumps from 4G to 3G the laptops drop signal and this plays havoc with our VPN.

One other thing to look at for aircards moreso than hotspots is adjusting the power management setting for your USB ports. Lot of power management schemes will turn off power or idle USB ports. Turn these features off and the USB will stay hot all the time.

-J

$61 Per month, Speakeasy Internet DSL. The connection I have isn't even available anymore, been connected since 2001. I forget the speeds. I was upgraded at no cost at some point due to loyalty. It's fast and never goes down.

Stop whining, we pay way more than the US and have about 10% of the competition....

That being said I have 50 Meg Cable for $109 per month at all the employees places ;P

Comcast internet/ cable TV $101.38 mo.

I was going to cancel the cable TV, but internet only is $76.00 mo. So i kept them both.
Its fast and never a problem.


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Comcast in Houston, 69 home, 99 office. Service is similar to Sailcheif

$72 gets me 45 mbps down & 4 up. Tonight it is 87.39 mbps & I have seen 123 mbps. Cable.

Ian

CenturyLink DSL, 40mbps/5mbps, this is probably the highest it has tested, $45/mo

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the S/O has a Verizon MiFi 4G MiFi card for work, tops out at 5mbps at best...rarely. I think it's $57/mo.

I have IPTV/100Mbit DSL line at home, 23.95€ per month, tv has ~120 channels.

3G costs ~9-12 € per month, no cap.

Crazy... I'm using Straight Talk in my iPhone and tethering to it as needed. I pay nothing to cable or satellite tv - exactly what it's worth. My cost is $45 a month - phone. & data, no contract & no BS

WARNING - At&T Uverse High Speed Internet does not allow real email access - they block most ports outbound "for security reasons" but happily open them up if youy agree to a $50 extortion charge (and 2 + hours on the phone)

What are you paying for that?

We are on the new Dish broadband for $50 a month

my 4G phone internet costs me $80pm for 1gb of data (measured in 1mb packets up and down, and there are no unlimited options, and the most you can get is 3gb for $130pm), and the 4G coverage is very patchy. Usually it's 3G coverage at best.
My home internet is ADSL2 and costs me $70pm for 40gb of data (measured up and down).

Home:
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Mobile:
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Out in the country, stuck with Windstream satelite service. It sucks.... and I pay $95.00 a month.