INTERNET, WHY YOU MAKE ME BROKE?

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

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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

Le sad.

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

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.

BuDo · **Joined:** Dec 2008 **Posts:** 4714 **Location:**

Thats really horrid....

Blindfire · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 3844 **Location:** ...

It's better than Canadian internet. Our ISPs have slow speeds, low bandwidth caps and high prices.

Amarisa · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4049 **Location:** Magic

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.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

40Mbps DL
5Mbps UL
Cable

$50 USD

Rawr · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:20 am

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:

Guardia · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 1187 **Location:**

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.

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

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

Majorharper · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 2:23 am

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...........................

Fury · **Joined:** Jan 2008 **Posts:** 1596 **Location:**

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

CrimsonNuker · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 13791 **Location:**

IM OFF TO JAPAN, BYE>

Mirosuke · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:41 am

Fury wrote:

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

dafuq, the things I could do with 200$ monthly :/

heroo · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 6618 **Location:**

Download caps, you guys are still in the Middle Ages of internet. I feel sorry for you:(

Vaya · **Joined:** May 2009 **Posts:** 1848 **Location:**

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 !

chrisorg · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 872 **Location:**

+ TV channels
30 euros per month
no download cap
:sohappy:

Bartic · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 10:54 am

And I was lucky that I got DL this high.

Majorharper · **Posted:** Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:30 am

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.

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

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.

*BlackFox · **Joined:** Sep 2008 **Posts:** 7923 **Location:**

Quote:

The customer is once again screwed over by big business!

QFT

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

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.

Swindler · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 1:05 am

30 euros for 100/10 no cap sup

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

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

Tasdik · **Joined:** Jan 2007 **Posts:** 13206 **Location:** Life

http://www.speedtest.net/

Isis · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 4171 **Location:**

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.

woutR · **Posted:** Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:19 am

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.

only_me · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 561 **Location:**

In Romania, for 100Mbs internet + TV + tellphone we pay 15 euros (around $20) but we're poor

omier · **Joined:** Aug 2006 **Posts:** 5985 **Location:** ...

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.

only_me · **Joined:** Mar 2008 **Posts:** 561 **Location:**

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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