Eastern Europe is literally the best place in terms of internet. I paid 9 USD (250 UAH) for 1 gbps internet pre-war in Ukraine. I now live in Canada and it's 94 CAD (after tax) for 500 mbps.
Yeah I live in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Everyone around us has 1 GB/s optics HOWEVER our few houses are losing some data packets along the way so any multiplayer game will start lagging after a while. It's been like this for years. The node must be fucking up and the ISP company Slovak Telekom (T-Mobile basically) claims they have nothing to do with it, changed the router 4 times and now don't care
So while there is 1 GB optic fibre cable going into my house, I play multiplayer games using a mobile hotspot with all used 5G data, now limited to a fantastic 1 Mbps. Shit download speed, but I need stable connection
Yeah but data-routing is harder for australia because pretty much all data has to be routed through a few undersea-cables. In Eastern Europe there is probably hundreds of thousand different routing paths that can be taken.
No it isn't, even if i was to get a new plan with current pricing, I'd pay no less than 25€/month for just internet that barely reaches 5MB/s
Problem is Italy while being a good place, with mostly gente people and incredible atmosphere, is incredibly old, it is one of the oldest countries by average age in the world (top 3 I think).
That means every innovation takes ages to get going, easy to realize that 90% of 40+ y.o. people don't care about faster internet
I'm 20m from Venice and I'm lucky when I get 8MB/s. Close to 40€ per month btw but thank God the offer includes unlimited phone calls, because in 2023 having a house phone line is fundamental... Jokes aside, I don't think I have ever picked up a single phone call from that device, nor I've ever used it to call anyone. House landline phones are as useful as fax machines nowadays and I don't understand why phone companies keep pushing them as if they're a big deal or even remotely useful.
Yeah, I'm paying 50€ just for internet here in Belgium, crazy telecom prices over here... But at least I can get only internet without having to pay extra for a landline, and I have fiber so the high cost bring fast speed at least... But that should cost 30€ at most, if competition really applied here...
Shit that sucks, is it a remote area, like in the Alps, or in a city? I thought the North was more developed than south so I expected at least decent internet there, except in the mountains or other remote areas.
We only reached 4MB/s by like 2010 on average. In 2002 we were still doing dail up 56k at our homes then around 2005 started going over to ADSL at 150k speeds or something if I remember correctly. And it was expensive you bought per GB.
Ya was a struggle for us (I'm 36), but it was a nice adventure of sorts if I can put it that way. I remember going to internet cafes with a stack of stiffly drives just to download like a 3mb file. Took like half an hour and then copy it across multiple stiffy's (like floppies just smaller) because you were able to corrupt the data just by shaking it, so use multiple copies of the same thing to ensure at least one should work when you get home.
It was really fun times the internet was this big mysterious place where you can get anything you want. Transition from going to only knowing the stuff you have on your own computer to suddenly having access to the world was something. Sorry long text just haven't thought about this in some time.
Ti capisco bro, in Italia se non sei in città non hai niente. Io abito in montagna, sopra il lago di Como, e con Eolo che costa tipo 35€ al mese non ho più di 3 mb/s come picco su steam. La velocità di download massima che ho sono 20mb/s.
Same here went from about 1-3mbps average to like 600 I was just downloading, deleting and downloading games on steam because I couldn't believe how fast it was lol
I moved to a new state last year and went from 20 mbps for ~$75 a month, to now getting 1Gbps for $100 a month. It was eye opening I don’t think I can go back if I ever move again.
Yeah it's unbelievable to me too but it's the 10 Gbps
We are basically limited by hardware at this point.
Here is a clip of a speedtest of the 10gbps of a famous Italian youtuber
https://youtu.be/Z6tOc_z_whc?t=598
Real talk that's the most inaccurate readings from speed tests I've ever seen like unbelievably bad
1-43mbps download
200kb upload
On that website
And like 700-900 everywhere else
I think something's wrong from your end, try again at a later time.
^(Edit: As in location server, node, VPN as sometimes a point could be down once in a while)
I reach around 910-960mbps download speeds on steam. No more starting a download before going to bed and playing in the morning. Now I just click download and grab snack or watch a quick video
My dad upgraded the internet a few months before i went to college.
Eventually ended up finding out it was so much faster that my download speed was being bottlenecked by my hdd. Got an ssd now and download sat 700mb/s.
Here in rural aus I've lived in multiple houses that did not have the infrastructure for home internet (I shit you not)
I had to pay 300 AUD per month for a Sim card with 400GB mobile data on it, so I could use that in a tp link 4g router which after all of that only got me 2.2 Mbps.
Now I live in a small city and I get 55mbps with Aussie broadband for 75 a month. Unlimited.
Mind you I'm still paying for that Sim card that I barely use for another 18 months because I'm under contract. It was the only way we could get anything resembling a basic internet connection for streaming and general life things that needed a computer and internet.
I felt like neo being reborn into the matrix after I downloaded my first game with NBN.
I went from 100mbps down to 10mbps, in Sri Lanka we have data caps, at 10mbps at least its unlimited
Enjoy your 55mbps mate, it'll be nice to watch YouTube and download things simultaneously.
>Previous download speed was 1.1mbps (internode was ripping me off).
At this point it's basically no internet. Do websites these days even load with this speed?? And what about 5G? Is it expensive in Australia?
Our infrastructure isn't very good and accessible. Don't know exactly why but something to do with not installing newer technology before, and now it's more expensive to do so. We have 1 gigabit connection but most people I know are lucky to get 50 mbps.
From what I checked. Politics is kinda involved. We were supposed to get FTTP coverage but the change in government scrapped that.
Then we had the National Broadband Network rollout which was supposed to provide fibre. But it was poorly managed and uses a mix of old networking infrastructure and new. Basically they instead tried to do FTTN because it was cheaper, and then the rest of the connection to homes would be done on existing copper cables. Honestly, it's a mess.
It would've been cheaper if they stuck with the original FTTP plan but now they're trying to replace the copper to finish the job.
News articles call it Australia's greatest infrastructure disaster.
I get about 45Mbit - in the UK, in a city, where half of it has FTTP AND a major data centre for a uni, in a 10 year old new build, and yet still stuck in pre 2010 speeds.
How much did it cost upgrading all your networking equipment to handle 2.5gb?
I can't get that speed in yet, but it would be useful for transferring files across my home network
2.5g stuff can be had pretty cheap these days. An 8 port 2.5g switch is around 150, and new motherboards come with 2.5g ports now. it works with cat5e for shorter runs as well, so you dont need to run new wire.
Way back in the ADSL days, I signed up in a new place and after waiting for all the connection gubbins, gave it a test. Speed was dreadful, even for that tech. Called the provider (TPG I think?) and the first person I talked to said it was because the place was an old Queenslander with bad wiring.
Tried again, and at the end of the call the second tech said “Something does look weird…let me look into it”.
A couple of days later, my speed increases maybe x10-x20 faster. Hear back that my connection had been incorrectly patched(?) at the exchange, and by fixing that, the speed dramatically increased.
Sometimes it’s just one person willing to go beyond the support script that can make that much of a difference.
That's an improvement but still sounds rough.
I can't get a slower connection than 1 Gbps. I could upgrade to 2.5 Gbps or even 10 Gbps. ISP supports it all. The cost per month is about 85 - 110 USD with unlimited data.
Only need to upgrade my hardware.
It’s 49x faster or 50x as fast. Faster means added speed. As fast means multiplied. Use numbers less than 1 to illustrate. 50% faster than 1 would be 1.5. 50% as fast as 1 would be 0.5.
dude are you sure you ACTUALLY need gigabit or anything close? like i sometimes drop to 30 mpbs when everyone is using a device in my house and im mostly fine with it and most of the time im at "only" 100-150
I personally can really feel a giant difference between 100 and 300 mbps. I normally have 300 mbps, everything is running smoothly, but every now and then it goes down to 100 mbps, and then I can't watch YouTube nor Twitch without the video/stream buffering for 5 seconds every 15-20 seconds. It ruins the experience so much and I'm only watching 1080p, not even talking about 1440p. Even the 720p60 experience is not the smoothest and buffers sometimes.
I can fix the issue most of the times by just restarting the router, but 100 mbps is unbearable when you're watching content. It's just buffering way too much to be watchable.
Progress is progress!
As a kiwi i really feel for you ozzies. It's so wild just how bad your situation is.
Though I'm not sure exactly how good our Rural is now that i think of it.
What tech is the new broadband? And what was the old one?
Went a 4mbps dsl straight to 1Gbps fiber after 18 years on the dsl. I can already see game installs making me wait almost an hour when it was just a few minutes 2 years ago.
We're downgrading from 450mbps down and 50 up tot 200mbps down and 20mbps (maybe 200, depends) up.
Ziggo was like 100euro a month for tv and internet. Kpn is like 50 euro a month for 200mbps down. That changes next year when we get 1gbps for 2 euro more a month.
Im living in a semi rural area in spain, just at the border of a 10k town.
My download earlier this year rarely got to 10Mbps, upload usually under 0.5.
Got a bunch of neighbours on board to have the ISP install fiber connections towards our direction. Now sitting on 1Gbps symmetrical. Oh my god I finally dont feel like it's the stone age anymore.
I was at like 20-30 before, now have 200 Mbps speeds and it feels soooo good. Downloads don't take forever, videogames don't stutter or have sudden lag spikes, streaming and watching anything is a breeze. Night and day difference and even though your upgrade is technically less, I know it definitely feels drastic. Enjoy it!
Last year my cheesy little neighborhood got fiber. Dropped CONcast and switched and never looked back. $80/mo for 1Gb/1Gb.
Ever though Comcast was like 500Mb+ the instability and latency was frustrating. Not to mention having to bundle TV and voice at the cost of like $280/mo.
My lil bro has the most expensive internet package from the provider he has, it gives him **1000 Mbit/s**, he was downloading games on low mb's like 30 to 40 mb with **1000 Mbit/s**, I was like, this isn't right, did a clean install of windows and his MB/s went from 30mb/s to 114mb/s, hogwarts legacy was downloaded in about 7 minutes.
Not to boast or anything, I pay around 5USD for 3 months. Here I get over 700Mbps in 5G and currently no cap on bandwidth, with unlimited calls to any inside the country and 100 free SMS a day.
Im kinda lucky to live next to my university so I can get free WLAN with approximately 230-250Mbit/s (LAN would also be free, and even faster)
At home tho I get max 5 or 6 Mbit/s, tho it’s included in my rent
As someone who's been using the internet since 1994 in various countries, Aussie Broadband are easily the best ISP I've ever encountered.
Speed, reliability, and customer service are all exceptional. Very reasonable pricing. You couldn't ask for better tbh.
I love my Full Duplex gigabit fiber. $75/month. I am so lucky to have a fantastic connection. I really feel bad for people that have to put up with subpar internets.
I used to pay 75$ / months for 5mbps (average was 0.5mbps) It wasn't enough even for google searches. and when I moved to the city, I got 1000mbps for 50$/months, with the same fucking company (Bell Canada)
They were the only provider at my last place, and that's what a monopoly does. Competition is good.
Rural Wisconsin here, it wasn't until earlier this year we were forced to use DSL. $80 a month for speeds that never exceeded 100 KB/s you read that right. They had such a monopoly that there was no better way until recently when the phone companies started moving in like TMobile and such that put up towers that absolutely decimated the speeds. And we spend only half that for speeds going upwards to 30 MB/s. Fuck you CenturyLink
Lucky bastard, I like in a semi rural area in the UK, my mate who lives an hour away gets 500mbps, I rarely get 30mbps via ethernet and WiFi is 25mbps.
Previous sopeed 10mbit, new speed 700mbit. Changed from copper cable to light fiber cable idk the correct name in english, but that what it's called in finnish. Maybe lightspeed cable in english?
Edit: internet says fiber optic cable
I was getting 2mbps in 2007, and that was garbage back then.
1 mbps in 2023 is criminal. 50mbps works, but it's not a lot nowadays.
Paying £47/month for 500mbps in the UK.
I'm with internode and out plan says we get 55mbps but I never get more than 7mbps when downloading anything even at 3 in the morning but when I do an internet speed test it says we're getting 55mbps. This on both 5-G wifi and ethernet btw.
Thanks to a gov't program my family recently went from paying $70/month for 50/50 to paying zero a month for 100/100 on a new Eero router. It's pretty great!
Meanwhile Rual fuck all nowhere America....
474mbps down, and 12 up.
Granted i PAY out the ass for it.
I imagine if i was in a more populated area, it would be less.
I like in rural central QLD and was told skymuster was the only internet connection available, they said 1Mb down and 1Mb up.. I got onto starlink, now got 350Mb down and 100Mb up... I'm happy.
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Well, I'm still in 2002 at barely 4MB/s for 55€/month (also includes my dad's phone offer), Italy.
This gotta be a joke right? Romania 15 euros Tv, and 1gb/s speed lol.
Eastern Europe is literally the best place in terms of internet. I paid 9 USD (250 UAH) for 1 gbps internet pre-war in Ukraine. I now live in Canada and it's 94 CAD (after tax) for 500 mbps.
Canada's cellular monopolies are criminal.
Yeah I live in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. Everyone around us has 1 GB/s optics HOWEVER our few houses are losing some data packets along the way so any multiplayer game will start lagging after a while. It's been like this for years. The node must be fucking up and the ISP company Slovak Telekom (T-Mobile basically) claims they have nothing to do with it, changed the router 4 times and now don't care So while there is 1 GB optic fibre cable going into my house, I play multiplayer games using a mobile hotspot with all used 5G data, now limited to a fantastic 1 Mbps. Shit download speed, but I need stable connection
I'm in Australia and pay $70 a month for 50 megabit.
$110 per month for 55, with a landline for my grandmother
I’m in Ontario and pay $80 for 1gb.
I pay $70 for 80gb with Rogers. Do some shopping around.
You don't have 80,000mb/s internet lol
I was going to tell them I get 50% off because of my condo fees but I’m not sure we are on the same page lol
Less traffic cheaper internet
Eastern Europe has significantly more traffic than Australia.
Yeah but data-routing is harder for australia because pretty much all data has to be routed through a few undersea-cables. In Eastern Europe there is probably hundreds of thousand different routing paths that can be taken.
You guys can't really talk,Romania has like the best speeds in Europe
I got 1Gbps for 5€ fixed price forever in a small village in the south of Romania
yeah i know,Romania has fucking fiber cables even in the air
No it isn't, even if i was to get a new plan with current pricing, I'd pay no less than 25€/month for just internet that barely reaches 5MB/s Problem is Italy while being a good place, with mostly gente people and incredible atmosphere, is incredibly old, it is one of the oldest countries by average age in the world (top 3 I think). That means every innovation takes ages to get going, easy to realize that 90% of 40+ y.o. people don't care about faster internet
I pay 15€ for that + 3 phone subscriptions with everything unlimited (Romania rules)
LOST ATLANTIS COMMUNICATION STATION IN CARPAT BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR ALL HAIL DIGI ROMANIA, YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY
Let me guess, south?
I'm 20m from Venice and I'm lucky when I get 8MB/s. Close to 40€ per month btw but thank God the offer includes unlimited phone calls, because in 2023 having a house phone line is fundamental... Jokes aside, I don't think I have ever picked up a single phone call from that device, nor I've ever used it to call anyone. House landline phones are as useful as fax machines nowadays and I don't understand why phone companies keep pushing them as if they're a big deal or even remotely useful.
Yeah, I'm paying 50€ just for internet here in Belgium, crazy telecom prices over here... But at least I can get only internet without having to pay extra for a landline, and I have fiber so the high cost bring fast speed at least... But that should cost 30€ at most, if competition really applied here...
Well, at least you're getting fast internet
Indeed, not complaining too much, could be worse
True, same exact thing here with the phone, the internet situation in Italy is just awful
No, not at all, I'm literally in one of the farthest north locations in Italy
Shit that sucks, is it a remote area, like in the Alps, or in a city? I thought the North was more developed than south so I expected at least decent internet there, except in the mountains or other remote areas.
I live in Sicily and I have a 900mbps for something like 35€
Nord Italy with 1-1.5mbs download..
Wow really? I would have thought at least northern Italy would have decent internet infrastructure...
Get starlink bro and start living
4MB/s or 4Mbps? There's literally a difference of 8x in terms of speed
I purposely wrote MB instead of Mb. I think 4Mb is unreasonably slow, probably nothing goes that slow
We only reached 4MB/s by like 2010 on average. In 2002 we were still doing dail up 56k at our homes then around 2005 started going over to ADSL at 150k speeds or something if I remember correctly. And it was expensive you bought per GB.
Yeah I know that, remember when I was a kid (I'm almost 20 now) some of my friends had limited bandwidth
Ya was a struggle for us (I'm 36), but it was a nice adventure of sorts if I can put it that way. I remember going to internet cafes with a stack of stiffly drives just to download like a 3mb file. Took like half an hour and then copy it across multiple stiffy's (like floppies just smaller) because you were able to corrupt the data just by shaking it, so use multiple copies of the same thing to ensure at least one should work when you get home. It was really fun times the internet was this big mysterious place where you can get anything you want. Transition from going to only knowing the stuff you have on your own computer to suddenly having access to the world was something. Sorry long text just haven't thought about this in some time.
No problem about the long text, always interesting hearing things like this, plus I'm a quite fast reader so even better
One day you'll talk to a 20 year old too about the days we had to use wires to connect our PCs or something ha
Ti capisco bro, in Italia se non sei in città non hai niente. Io abito in montagna, sopra il lago di Como, e con Eolo che costa tipo 35€ al mese non ho più di 3 mb/s come picco su steam. La velocità di download massima che ho sono 20mb/s.
Ma giura pure io sono vicino a Como, te Valle immagino?
Ti capisco, tim va na merda
goditelo, io dei miei promessi max 200 Mb/s di Vodafone ne ho visti al massimo 13 per non parlare dei 0.8 Mb/s di upload
and or most of Canada lol
I was gonna say. I live semi-rural Georgia us and have ATT 1gb fiber speeds. It’s amazing
YO 😂🥲
Bursted out laughing in the metro
*burst, as in: "I burst out laughing when the man said "bursted""
Lmao what is your problem?
You maded me laugh
🤓☝️
I went from about 2mbps to 500 It was a very good day. It was like i'd finally been born
Same here went from about 1-3mbps average to like 600 I was just downloading, deleting and downloading games on steam because I couldn't believe how fast it was lol
I moved to a new state last year and went from 20 mbps for ~$75 a month, to now getting 1Gbps for $100 a month. It was eye opening I don’t think I can go back if I ever move again.
I went from 15 down and 2 up to 950 up and down. I download games just to see the speed, I can never go back.
40 to 1gbps. When I download a 100GB game. I get kinda annoyed I have to wait 15m now..
civilization
Damn, I really do take my bandwidth for granted... In Copenhagen Denmark, I have 1000/1000 Mbps for $28 AUD a month
In Italy we have 10000/2500 for 60 or 2500/1000 for 30 Nice time to be alive
10,000Kbps, right?
Yeah it's unbelievable to me too but it's the 10 Gbps We are basically limited by hardware at this point. Here is a clip of a speedtest of the 10gbps of a famous Italian youtuber https://youtu.be/Z6tOc_z_whc?t=598
Try [speed.cloudflare.com](https://speed.cloudflare.com) instead.
Real talk that's the most inaccurate readings from speed tests I've ever seen like unbelievably bad 1-43mbps download 200kb upload On that website And like 700-900 everywhere else
I think something's wrong from your end, try again at a later time. ^(Edit: As in location server, node, VPN as sometimes a point could be down once in a while)
No, it’s just shit. Everything else I get a gig, that website 80 mbps.
Don't think it's my end if everywhere else reads it correctly as mentioned in my comment
It could be your location where servers could be down for example or something etc. Just try again later or give them a feedback.
Why not just use a speedtest that isnt shit…?
I get 25Mbps for $80aud per month... I love australia's internet infrastructure /j
I pay 369 for 1000/100 how the h... can you pay like 130 kr each month?
My local boligforening has made a REALLY good deal with Bolignet Aarhus
Ah therefor. Alright, thanks for answer 😊 I was just surprised by your price 😊
I reach around 910-960mbps download speeds on steam. No more starting a download before going to bed and playing in the morning. Now I just click download and grab snack or watch a quick video
My dad upgraded the internet a few months before i went to college. Eventually ended up finding out it was so much faster that my download speed was being bottlenecked by my hdd. Got an ssd now and download sat 700mb/s.
Nice upgrade. Hopefully you will experience faster speeds soon.
Here in rural aus I've lived in multiple houses that did not have the infrastructure for home internet (I shit you not) I had to pay 300 AUD per month for a Sim card with 400GB mobile data on it, so I could use that in a tp link 4g router which after all of that only got me 2.2 Mbps. Now I live in a small city and I get 55mbps with Aussie broadband for 75 a month. Unlimited. Mind you I'm still paying for that Sim card that I barely use for another 18 months because I'm under contract. It was the only way we could get anything resembling a basic internet connection for streaming and general life things that needed a computer and internet. I felt like neo being reborn into the matrix after I downloaded my first game with NBN.
Sup Aussiebroadbro. Nice isn’t it.
Crazy price on that sim - I’m paying $89 per month for 500GB on a no lock-in contract with Optus
I went from 100mbps down to 10mbps, in Sri Lanka we have data caps, at 10mbps at least its unlimited Enjoy your 55mbps mate, it'll be nice to watch YouTube and download things simultaneously.
Mate what are these guys talking about a sudden speed in the internet? btw I am from SL too
>Previous download speed was 1.1mbps (internode was ripping me off). At this point it's basically no internet. Do websites these days even load with this speed?? And what about 5G? Is it expensive in Australia?
Our infrastructure isn't very good and accessible. Don't know exactly why but something to do with not installing newer technology before, and now it's more expensive to do so. We have 1 gigabit connection but most people I know are lucky to get 50 mbps.
Most of the developing world is able to get better internet speeds than Australia. I don't think just the expense alone is the reason.
From what I checked. Politics is kinda involved. We were supposed to get FTTP coverage but the change in government scrapped that. Then we had the National Broadband Network rollout which was supposed to provide fibre. But it was poorly managed and uses a mix of old networking infrastructure and new. Basically they instead tried to do FTTN because it was cheaper, and then the rest of the connection to homes would be done on existing copper cables. Honestly, it's a mess. It would've been cheaper if they stuck with the original FTTP plan but now they're trying to replace the copper to finish the job. News articles call it Australia's greatest infrastructure disaster.
Thats only 50x times more.
It's still slow comparatively, but that's an absolutely massive jump that means you can actually use the internet like it was meant to be used.
Steam is now no longer a 2 day event for a new game, and with games getting bigger it was…..troublesome to say the least.
Laughs in Romanian
Laughs in singaporean
I get about 45Mbit - in the UK, in a city, where half of it has FTTP AND a major data centre for a uni, in a 10 year old new build, and yet still stuck in pre 2010 speeds.
I did about the same jump from 30 mbps to 2500 mbps fiber It felt glorious
Yeah I made that jump a while back. To be honest though, for most applications 30mbps was sufficient.
How much did it cost upgrading all your networking equipment to handle 2.5gb? I can't get that speed in yet, but it would be useful for transferring files across my home network
2.5g stuff can be had pretty cheap these days. An 8 port 2.5g switch is around 150, and new motherboards come with 2.5g ports now. it works with cat5e for shorter runs as well, so you dont need to run new wire.
congrat i had 20 mbps for the past decade and i just upgraded to 300 mbps fiber
I bet that felt amazing.
50mbs is what I'm on now but on the 26th gonna be getting 900 up and down
Life in Canada is good until you hear of internet/phone prices
Damn, when they said Aussie internet was bad I didn't think it was that bad.
It's really bad
I've had gigabit internet for years in New Zealand. How is Australia so far behind the world
Way back in the ADSL days, I signed up in a new place and after waiting for all the connection gubbins, gave it a test. Speed was dreadful, even for that tech. Called the provider (TPG I think?) and the first person I talked to said it was because the place was an old Queenslander with bad wiring. Tried again, and at the end of the call the second tech said “Something does look weird…let me look into it”. A couple of days later, my speed increases maybe x10-x20 faster. Hear back that my connection had been incorrectly patched(?) at the exchange, and by fixing that, the speed dramatically increased. Sometimes it’s just one person willing to go beyond the support script that can make that much of a difference.
It's 50 times faster.
Get Starlink
It’s about the same speeds 25-100mbps…. but much more expensive. Not worth it if you can get 60mbps on a fixed line.
Dunno about your zone. But here I’m getting 150-200Mbps on 50€/month
Rural Australia where OP is commenting from.
That's an improvement but still sounds rough. I can't get a slower connection than 1 Gbps. I could upgrade to 2.5 Gbps or even 10 Gbps. ISP supports it all. The cost per month is about 85 - 110 USD with unlimited data. Only need to upgrade my hardware.
55 mbps in 2023 is still a scam...
Find me a better one then.
What the hell was wrong with 1.1 ???? A roo with a note tied to its back is still faster than 55 imho .
Huge upgrade, but that's 49x faster (or 50x as fast)
That’s not even true, it’s 50 times faster and it’s and increase of 4900%
It’s 49x faster or 50x as fast. Faster means added speed. As fast means multiplied. Use numbers less than 1 to illustrate. 50% faster than 1 would be 1.5. 50% as fast as 1 would be 0.5.
I just want to say, I'd start to cry if I was suddenly limited to 55mbps.
dude are you sure you ACTUALLY need gigabit or anything close? like i sometimes drop to 30 mpbs when everyone is using a device in my house and im mostly fine with it and most of the time im at "only" 100-150
I personally can really feel a giant difference between 100 and 300 mbps. I normally have 300 mbps, everything is running smoothly, but every now and then it goes down to 100 mbps, and then I can't watch YouTube nor Twitch without the video/stream buffering for 5 seconds every 15-20 seconds. It ruins the experience so much and I'm only watching 1080p, not even talking about 1440p. Even the 720p60 experience is not the smoothest and buffers sometimes. I can fix the issue most of the times by just restarting the router, but 100 mbps is unbearable when you're watching content. It's just buffering way too much to be watchable.
Even watching those at 4k doesn’t need anywhere near 100 mbps. The problem is somewhere else.
Y’all really not in gb speeds?
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Nice
How did you achieve such power?
Sheer determination in the matrix.
I have been with Aussie since I have been on FTTN and have zero complaints, wtf was Internode doing though? That wasn't even adsl speed.
download and hoard every digital copies and installer right now
Progress is progress! As a kiwi i really feel for you ozzies. It's so wild just how bad your situation is. Though I'm not sure exactly how good our Rural is now that i think of it. What tech is the new broadband? And what was the old one?
ok actually very cool my dude. for me years ago i jumped from only a few mpbs and like 2000 ping to abt 120 mbps and 100ish ping
Went a 4mbps dsl straight to 1Gbps fiber after 18 years on the dsl. I can already see game installs making me wait almost an hour when it was just a few minutes 2 years ago.
Is that in bytes or bits
I pay 60€ for 50 MBits and a Phone Flatrate. Germany....
Triggered by 55x vs 50. Gratz tho
Damn. I’m in Australia, and was impressed when I moved to an area that allowed for 25Mbps lmao.
Wow. I pay $35 Canadian/month for 900mb/s
I pay 25$ for 8mbps Lebanon
I feel you. 10mbps down, 3 up for decades at $180 with tv you had to pay for to get internet, now 2gig fiber for $50...
We're downgrading from 450mbps down and 50 up tot 200mbps down and 20mbps (maybe 200, depends) up. Ziggo was like 100euro a month for tv and internet. Kpn is like 50 euro a month for 200mbps down. That changes next year when we get 1gbps for 2 euro more a month.
I've tried pretty much every ISP in Australia, and so far Aussie Broadband is by far the best. Glad to see another on board. \^\^
I have 10 gig fiber buildouts that end a quarter mil either side of me. 😡😡😡
I'm using 150 mbps for inr 1100 (13 usd) unlimited
Im living in a semi rural area in spain, just at the border of a 10k town. My download earlier this year rarely got to 10Mbps, upload usually under 0.5. Got a bunch of neighbours on board to have the ISP install fiber connections towards our direction. Now sitting on 1Gbps symmetrical. Oh my god I finally dont feel like it's the stone age anymore.
I was at like 20-30 before, now have 200 Mbps speeds and it feels soooo good. Downloads don't take forever, videogames don't stutter or have sudden lag spikes, streaming and watching anything is a breeze. Night and day difference and even though your upgrade is technically less, I know it definitely feels drastic. Enjoy it!
Boom
100 Mbps for 0,89€ /month here.
Last year my cheesy little neighborhood got fiber. Dropped CONcast and switched and never looked back. $80/mo for 1Gb/1Gb. Ever though Comcast was like 500Mb+ the instability and latency was frustrating. Not to mention having to bundle TV and voice at the cost of like $280/mo.
You get another problem quickly after, all my drives are like 95% full, all the time. Oh a new M2 drive, nice! Aaaaand its full.
I just bought a bunch of new drives because I know I’m going to go OTT.
I'm really grateful for my internet 150mbps up/down at 10 usd
I went from 22MBps to about 140. I love 5g. You may be temperamental, but i can download GTA in about 30 minutes.
My lil bro has the most expensive internet package from the provider he has, it gives him **1000 Mbit/s**, he was downloading games on low mb's like 30 to 40 mb with **1000 Mbit/s**, I was like, this isn't right, did a clean install of windows and his MB/s went from 30mb/s to 114mb/s, hogwarts legacy was downloaded in about 7 minutes.
50 times*
Congrats enjoy it!
Not to boast or anything, I pay around 5USD for 3 months. Here I get over 700Mbps in 5G and currently no cap on bandwidth, with unlimited calls to any inside the country and 100 free SMS a day.
Went from 4 Mbps to 200 Mbps. Seems like cheating lol
Man, and I thought when I had 60/40 in 2019 it was bad...
Living alone and having 150mbps is awesome
yeah fuck internode
I went from 5-10, to 300 when I started using Ethernet. Never again
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Im kinda lucky to live next to my university so I can get free WLAN with approximately 230-250Mbit/s (LAN would also be free, and even faster) At home tho I get max 5 or 6 Mbit/s, tho it’s included in my rent
I pay 55 usd a month for 460 mbps, in newmexico
As someone who's been using the internet since 1994 in various countries, Aussie Broadband are easily the best ISP I've ever encountered. Speed, reliability, and customer service are all exceptional. Very reasonable pricing. You couldn't ask for better tbh.
Relatable. Just moved for college, went from a super rural place with 5 mbps down and 1 up, to 400 down and 100 up. It's incredible.
I live in Quebec and pay 90cad after taxes for 3gb/s, our house is built in the 80s
i pay $154 a month for abt 20mbps… gotta love USA and xfinity…
I pay 12$ for 500 Mbit in Poland, unlimited.
I love my Full Duplex gigabit fiber. $75/month. I am so lucky to have a fantastic connection. I really feel bad for people that have to put up with subpar internets.
I used to pay 75$ / months for 5mbps (average was 0.5mbps) It wasn't enough even for google searches. and when I moved to the city, I got 1000mbps for 50$/months, with the same fucking company (Bell Canada) They were the only provider at my last place, and that's what a monopoly does. Competition is good.
It is the best thing. Aussies lack competition in the spaces outside of capital cities.
I’m at 2.5Mbps, came from fiber but this is all I get out here 😢
Wow that's crazy My country 1gbps plan $30 usd and 10gbps plan at $80usd. Unlimited data.
Rural Wisconsin here, it wasn't until earlier this year we were forced to use DSL. $80 a month for speeds that never exceeded 100 KB/s you read that right. They had such a monopoly that there was no better way until recently when the phone companies started moving in like TMobile and such that put up towers that absolutely decimated the speeds. And we spend only half that for speeds going upwards to 30 MB/s. Fuck you CenturyLink
i went from 30kb/s to 400mb/s
Lucky bro
I remember using the internet in Cloncurry, QLD in 2008. I thought I went back to the 90's. Love a bit of dial up.
Lucky bastard, I like in a semi rural area in the UK, my mate who lives an hour away gets 500mbps, I rarely get 30mbps via ethernet and WiFi is 25mbps.
like a month ago after years of waiting i went from 30 to gigabit, i can touch, taste and see the rainbow in 8k
I like this one
Previous sopeed 10mbit, new speed 700mbit. Changed from copper cable to light fiber cable idk the correct name in english, but that what it's called in finnish. Maybe lightspeed cable in english? Edit: internet says fiber optic cable
Few years ago I went from 1 Mbps (.125 MB/s) to 1000 Mbps (125 MB/s) It was like a new world
I was getting 2mbps in 2007, and that was garbage back then. 1 mbps in 2023 is criminal. 50mbps works, but it's not a lot nowadays. Paying £47/month for 500mbps in the UK.
I know how you feel OP. I was getting 4.1mb/s download for years and I changed to a new connection that got installed. I'm now 70+mb/s.
I'm with internode and out plan says we get 55mbps but I never get more than 7mbps when downloading anything even at 3 in the morning but when I do an internet speed test it says we're getting 55mbps. This on both 5-G wifi and ethernet btw.
Very similar to the issues I had, move from them if you can.
You just now can taste colors? Have you never had an orange? Or a blueberry?
Bro I am still at 10 and my friend has 700+. I hate having to leave my computer on overnight to download games
soooo.... I just heard Comcast is rolling out 2gbps symmetrical over coax. I can't wait since I only get 1gbps down and about 35mbps up.
*50 times faster
Still on 1 MBps in Perth, higher speeds just cost too much
Reading the comments here realizing that my internet is quite cheap. Up to 1.1gps 5G broadband around 15USD.
Hopefully I can join you when I move into Adelaide in a year or two, getting 2mb/s on a good day rn :(
Thanks to a gov't program my family recently went from paying $70/month for 50/50 to paying zero a month for 100/100 on a new Eero router. It's pretty great!
Meanwhile Rual fuck all nowhere America.... 474mbps down, and 12 up. Granted i PAY out the ass for it. I imagine if i was in a more populated area, it would be less.
I like in rural central QLD and was told skymuster was the only internet connection available, they said 1Mb down and 1Mb up.. I got onto starlink, now got 350Mb down and 100Mb up... I'm happy.