[mjn.mixael]

I'm waiting for my Google Fiber install in September... I laugh at your slow speeds. :-p

[Klaustrophobia]

We have Verizon FiOS here, but I honestly have no idea what our raw speeds are, since I'm stuck on wireless-G.  I'll need to try on the system that's actually connected to the router, but I managed 15.88/5.04 off the wireless, which works for me.

that's the base speed of FIOS right there.  wireless G goes up to 54 by the way, it's not limiting you.

[deathfun]

I need to figure out what I get through the modem
It'd be nice to have some god damned streamability but my upload speed just kills that dream

[niffiwan]

I've currently got ~100/2 (cable) with 100GB download for ~100 AUD per month, internet & phone package.  I'm waiting on an upgrade to (theoretical) 100/40 (FTTH) with 200GB download, same price.  And just for interests sake, 2 years ago the best I could get was ~1/0.25 (ADSL), ~10GB download, including phone ~60-70 AUD per month.  Blurgh.

[haloboy100]

Here in Alberta, through our family package, we get the second fastest internet speed that Shaw provides for $99 a month, which is 100 Mbit/s down, 10 Mbit/s up.

Pretty consistent service too, unlike Telus' nagging tendency to randomly disconnect a few times a month...

[deathfun]

Surprisingly enough, Telus has improved for us here in Vancouver
Used to be sketchy, but as of late, always consistent, always connected

Still ****ty, but consistent

[MP-Ryan]

I have 50 MBps down, 5 MBps up.  With cable TV and home phone, it totals $110/month.

[pecenipicek]

20mbps / 1.5mbps, 320GB cap before throttling on busy days ,40 cable tv channels + flat-rate phone to landlines for $44 or so?

gotta love cable

[edit] note, i'm in croatia.

[Klaustrophobia]

speeds and prices are WAY more variable than i would have imagined.  even within the US.  i'm also surprised by how many people have insanely high speeds like 100+.  question for those of you: is that the base speed or are you paying extra to get that?  and if the latter, do you even notice a difference above the lower speed?  my 25 mbps is functionally equivalent to the insane university connection in the dorms, unless i happened to be downloading something from someone else on the same uni connection over limewire or something like that.  i can't recall the last time i had a download that was limited by my connection.

[niffiwan]

The speed on my not-yet-installed connection is an upgrade (base is 12), it didn't cost any extra but that's only due to us telling the sales guy that we weren't interested because the competition was cheaper.  And he matched the price, amazing that it worked so well   As for noticing the 100 speed, one word, torrents.  I can torrent a Linux install CD in under 1 minute

[Klaustrophobia]

i guess i don't torrent popular enough things.  i don't think i've ever broken 2 MB/s.

[Nuke]

i can understand why the more rural connections are slower and more expensive per mbit. its amazing i can live on an island off the coast of a state no one gives a **** about, with a population under 4000, and still get ok internet, albeit at a way overpriced rate. there is not enough demand to justify an expensive trunk line, not like in the big cities that need a bunch of them just to have usable speeds. the other side of it is that my isp is not a very bright blip on the radar of ip rights holders, and they kinda stay out of your way when you are downloading to just below your cap every month.

what pisses me off is when they design web services around super high quality content, and dont consider that there are still a lot of people out there with internet connections under 10 megabit, or really low caps. this locks me out of services like steam where having a modest library of games would suck up all my usage, leaving me nothing for pron kitten videos and illegal perfectly legit downloads. even people who fail to compress images and video properly seriously piss me off. before we upped from 1 megabit to 4, it was impossible to watch embedded video because the player applet didnt have working buffering (likely because it was never tested under low bandwidth conditions).