Who Has Fastest, Cheapest Internet in the World?

[edilee]

[citation][nom]scifiguy[/nom]Thats weird, I have 1 Gbps fiber at work. And it is NOT an educational institute.[/citation]
I was thinking this was odd also and I just tested it to make sure but I come in at 73.54mbps and I am on Comcast and not near any schools. I will also add the speeds have been super high lately and I normally average in the mid 20mbps range which I think is a more acurate figure. I do not have Comcast's highest speed either and I am actually 2 tiers below their highest. I think some figures in this article are inaccurate.

 

[Guest]

The article refers to average speeds of every internet subscriber. I'm on Shaw in Edmonton with a 15Mb/s for 55/month. 1 Gb/s will be mad expensive when it comes, the 25 Mbit is 100 and 100 Mbit is 150.

 

[dogofwars]

I've got 30Mbits/Sec at work and that is because it's the max you can achieve per station. The pipe of the company is probably bigger because we did some test on some computer at the same time 😉

 

[infernojericho]

Hi there, just to let you guys know that I live in Hong Kong.

There are some catches to these broadband services. Availability is rather limited, because HK Telecom (along with another provider Hutchison), does not have their optical cables laid everywhere in Hong Kong. PCCW has almost 100% coverage, but generally also has the highest prices.

Not only that, these prices does not apply everywhere. These prices usually apply to the government housing projects, where the spending power is usually lower. The place where I live is a private estate, and HK Telecom is not available in where I live at least for another year or two. The only available providers in where I live is PCCW and Hutchison, but since PCCW is so much expensive, and for Hutchison seeing there is no HK Telecom to compete with them at my place, the prices are much higher. I pay around $135HKD ($17.5USD) a month for a 30MB broadband, telephone landline, and free wifi services in the Hutchison wifi hotspots.

Last of all, there is a catch in the speed. The 1Gigabit speed is only available with local downloads, foreign downloads is significantly less (since leasing the foreign cables is a lot more expensive). I would expect a foreign download speed of around 20-30MB only.

Thanks for reading!

 

[The Dark Wall]

Yay ^^ I live in Hong Kong but how come I still haven't heard about this?

I'm stuck with a 10mb/s connection : /

 

[4ILY45]

5GB cap on a 3.6 Mbps (HSPDA so speeds may vary) for $28

welcome to Malaysia..

Getting throttled is FUN!!!! /s

 

[Fandogh]

Ok. now Iran!!

128kbps with 10GB cap = 30$ a month 🙁( (in capital of course!!)

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

[citation][nom]7amood[/nom]I have 20GB cap with up to 2mbps (depending on network availability) for 85$welcome to bahrain[/citation]
Right with you there! (also live in bahrain)

 

[Guest]

24 Mbps download / 6 Mbps upload for 18$/month. There are cheaper suppliers but since I also have the digital & HD TV from these guys (cable)... why not. Romania, Bucharest

 

[randomizer]

Ok. now Iran!!

128kbps with 10GB cap = 30$ a month 🙁( (in capital of course!!)

Nobody needs anything faster than 128kbps. Haven't you paid attention to Government propaganda?

 

[anamaniac]

Fibre on Shaw in Calgary!?!?!
That's the ******* news right there!

Though from what I can tell, Shaw only offers its fibre optic cables to businesses (they claim they have 625,000 kilometres of fibre and offer 1+ Tb/s services).

 

[deividast]

Khe.... I live in Lithuania and I pay for 100Mbs(local)/25-50Mbs(abroad) internet just 18$

 

[killerclick]

In Serbia I have 8 mbps unmetered/uncapped for $30. The uplink is only 256kbps though.

 

[jackleung]

[citation][nom]infernojericho[/nom]Last of all, there is a catch in the speed. The 1Gigabit speed is only available with local downloads, foreign downloads is significantly less (since leasing the foreign cables is a lot more expensive). I would expect a foreign download speed of around 20-30MB only.Thanks for reading![/citation]That's because the outside world has much lower speed. (I was born in HK but living in US now)

 

[sithphobos]

60€ for a 200mb Internet acess with phone and 200 tv channels here in portugal....

 

[Guest]

Next is Australia with Fibre to the home 100mb/s to every home in Australia. Australias National Broadband network. Wiki it 😉

 

[Guest]

Just to inform you.
In Bulgaria (little country in eastern Europe)
you get 50 MBits for 22BGN ~ US$16, no caps.
for a mount you could do over a 1TB upload.
The network is usually FTTP or FTTH.
1Gbit are coming soon, for not more than US$40
I'm on 1Gbit and my HDD dies over 30MB/s (megabytes!)

 

[SpadeM]

Fiber - 100Mbps for about $20 in Romania, no restrictions.

 

[jgv115]

LOL you say the U.S lags behind. Try living in Australia!!

 

[neiroatopelcc]

Honestly I see no point in a 1Gbit connection for home users at this point. Sure it's nice to have, but I can barely utilize my 50Mbit connection, and I'm even running my homepage from home.

 

[Nexus52085]

[citation][nom]TidalWaveOne[/nom]18.7Mbps? I have 35Mbps![/citation]
I do believe that's a misprint by the author. I think he means 18.7 MBps, as in megabytes, not megabits. 18.7 MBps is fast as hell, that's like half of USB 2.0 transfer speed... for the INTERNET!

 

[xrodney]

I just changed from 8m/512kb to 50/5mb and love it. Dont need to wait hour to download new driver etc. Its freaky expensive in my country, but I use it for work as well so no complain here.

 

[llemm]

Manila Philippines has PLDT almost 23$ a month for 512Kbps(that's the commercial speed but I really dont get that speed), Plus more than 12 hours of downtime a month. No other wired alternative in our place.

 

[juliom]

Well, I have a 16 Mbps ADSL connection with no bandwith cap, TV channels on IPTV and unlimited use telephone for 40€ in Portugal. I could also get a 200 Mbps connection for about 70€ also with cable channels and telephone service. And lots of people are having access to optical fiber at home, not just in big companied or major cities. Being a small country does have some advantages.

 

[urlsen]

Damn..... here in denmark i am on a 20 mb up/down for 45$ a month (250 dkk)