U.S. Internet Speeds Causing Digital Divide?

TDS Telecom Business DSL - Northeastern USA
3Mb down (advertised and actual)
512Kb up
$45 a month

I'm not complaining since I live rural (though far from being considered the boonies); the business class allows me to avoid bandwidth caps entirely - residential service is 50GBs a month. My only complaint was how long it took to get broadband; it was made available less than two years ago.
 
ClearM4 said:
Here in New Jersey I have Verizon Fios as a package deal (HDTV, Phone, Internet) for $110 a month. Its rated at 25 mbps download/15 mbps upload.

NJ DSLreports.com reports my connect at 17814kbps down and 9811 upload but it maxes at 9999 kbps

NY Speakeasy reports 26115kbps and 4118kbps.
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ATT DSL
Shreveport, LA
6mb / 512k
47.50 a month.


Actual speed, close to 7mb down to some sites when it is in a good mood.


At Work

$500+ for . Pretty lame huh lol.
 
Hampton Roads Virginia
$49.99
20/5 FIOS

Splitting from my wife and moving into my own apartment here next month, will be paying $89.99 for 50/20 FIOS.
 
$29.99 a month

30mbps upload
30mbps download

Fiber to the home via Cincinnati Bell

Yeah, it fucking rocks. $29 a month.
 
AT&T @ $60/month
Austin, Texas
Download promised: 16mbs
Upload promised: 1mbs



Getting better then promised on all counts.
 
Allendale Telephone Co.
Coopersville, Michigan
56k Connection
Advertised Upload: Very Slow
Advertised Download: Walk away and come back in a few hours


In a sub division of a good number of houses all of which have no broadband access unless you want to pay up the rear for satellite internet thats unreliable.
 
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Cox Comm.
16 Mbps plan
$68 /mo
 
I've got Comcast, my speeds are:

16mb/10mb

And I couldn't be happier to pay $70 for both internet and TV combined.
 
I live in WV. Specifically, a bedroom community between the states two largest cities. This is the only internet provider here that can go past 1.5 mbps and we pay about $39. The service is not very reliable and in order to get halfway decent rates we have to bundle everything. Around here, Suddenlink has a monopoly on high-speed internet and they charge us accordingly. I could get Verizon DSL, but I live too far from the CO to get the 3.0 mbps. I totally understand that wired data services and telecommunications networks are large, sunken costs but there needs to be more choice to offer price competition. Problem is, in areas where the population is low, no one wants to start service and when a community decides to start municipal internet services, lobbyists and lawyers from the telco's put a stop to it.

 
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$29.99. Not the going rate but if you call and ask for a reduction in rate they will give you this deal for 6 months. Yes you have to call every six months but then that is what calendars are for.
 
Tacna, arizona
768kb down / 256kb up
$69.99

average, pretty much have to reboot before any gaming session
 
Verizon FiOS 20/5 @ $39/mo I've got it bundled with FiOS TV and my Verizon Wireless account which is why the price is low.

My BlackBerry on the other hand is another story. I'm lucky if I can get it to stay on 3G service when I'm tethered at my desk. Even then 3G is just good enough. 4G can't get here soon enough.

On my Storm I pay $35/ month for BES (Employer discount) and $15/month for a tethering plan (no discount). On 3G I get close to 1M down. Not sure what my 2G speed is, but it feels like dialup.

So all together I pay around $89/month for Internet service.
 
Czech Republic - EU
small local ISP
8Mb/s down
8Mb/s Up
no data limit
10€ per month

 
Las Vegas
Cox
It's supposed to be 8mb/768kb
I ran tests from dslreports.com, speedtest.net, and test.lvcm.com (speed test left up from when cox bought LVCM).
It's widely varied; dslreports.com gave me a speed of around 1.5mb, and I used to be able to trust them, but now I'm not so sure.
the lvcm, the local test, shows my speed at 8mb/3mb, but that's very local.
speedtest.net gave me an 8mb to the las vegas tester, but 1.5mb anywhere else.

$44.99/mo (with bundled services, would be 54.99/mo w/o bundles)
 

$30 (iPhone Data Plan)
CA

This is through tethered to my iPhone, its what I use during the day. I'll post later my speeds from my home cable connection which are quite a bit faster.
 
Verizon FiOS 20/20
$79.99/mo
Waltham MA
Speedtests are useless as they show powerboost type results. I get my full speeds up and down via ftp, usenet, and torrents. I'm right outside Boston so there's also Comcast and RCN available.

 
Chiplg said:
Verizon FiOS 20/5 @ $39/mo I've got it bundled with FiOS TV and my Verizon Wireless account which is why the price is low.

My BlackBerry on the other hand is another story. I'm lucky if I can get it to stay on 3G service when I'm tethered at my desk. Even then 3G is just good enough. 4G can't get here soon enough.

On my Storm I pay $35/ month for BES (Employer discount) and $15/month for a tethering plan (no discount). On 3G I get close to 1M down. Not sure what my 2G speed is, but it feels like dialup.

So all together I pay around $89/month for Internet service.
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Why on earth would you pay the tethering fee? Pdanet or wmwifirouter ftmfw.
 
last place, DSL 3/768k

now it's even worse :(... but it's only temporary. Hopefully going with a fiber connection next
 


Cable One.net - price is $60 per month and they cap your ass if you exceed a certain amount of bandwidth after 4PM. I kept adding entries about this BS policy to Wiki a few years back and someone AT cable one were deleting it. If I transfer under 5GB downstream, my service speeds get cut back to 2.5-5.0Mbps and the upstream is less than 250Kbps. :mad:

The only other alternative around here is crappy 6Mbps DSL.
 
computerpro3 said:
Why on earth would you pay the tethering fee? Pdanet or wmwifirouter ftmfw.
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with PDAnet, I was getting d/l speeds around 300kbps. Not bad for a cell phone :) It was considerably faster than download speeds I've seen on the phone itself.
 
I have Comcast business thru work, stated as 16/2 but I can do sustained throughput at about 17.2/2.8Mbit and I have bursted to ~30mbit down and 5mbit up.

Best part is it's FREE!
 

Central Oklahoma. I have Cox's lowest speed package (advertised 1.5 mbps down, 256 kbps up). Dunno what the exact cost is since it comes out of my apartment rent, I haven't asked.

12 mbps down costs ~$45/month. 20 mbps is ~$60/month.
 
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