Sometimes changing internet providers pays off

[MrRiplEy[H]]

I changed to another provider and my connection speed went from a measly 80/30 Mbit to this:



 

Same price, 40 bucks a month no data cap.

[Gman]

Nice.  You Euros always get far better upload than us Canucks.

I had 250 mbit down 30 mbit up from the local Cable company, but too many were getting the 250 and they weren't prepared for the saturation, so they took it away and dropped us all to 100 mbit down and only 15 mbit up.  I only ever see 12 mbit up, but down is more important, as is stability to me.

We just ordered for the winter home the new "infinet" fiber service from the local Telco.  It's a big roll out, we're in a really good spot for it, the dug the trench and laid the fiber cable to the home yesterday, and ran it into the access point/utility room, and are coming Dec 2 to finish the install.  It's 260 mbit down, 40 mbit up, so it'll be close to the upload you're getting Ripley, and about 2x the download.  125$ per month for the fiber with free equipment/install, and my downgraded 100mbit from the cable company is currently 80$.  Just wondering what you pay in USD, or Krohns, Dinars, Gold Pieces, whatever Northern Europe uses (ha ha) by comparison?

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Nice.  You Euros always get far better upload than us Canucks.

I had 250 mbit down 30 mbit up from the local Cable company, but too many were getting the 250 and they weren't prepared for the saturation, so they took it away and dropped us all to 100 mbit down and only 15 mbit up.  I only ever see 12 mbit up, but down is more important, as is stability to me.

We just ordered for the winter home the new "infinet" fiber service from the local Telco.  It's a big roll out, we're in a really good spot for it, the dug the trench and laid the fiber cable to the home yesterday, and ran it into the access point/utility room, and are coming Dec 2 to finish the install.  It's 260 mbit down, 40 mbit up, so it'll be close to the upload you're getting Ripley, and about 2x the download.  125$ per month for the fiber with free equipment/install, and my downgraded 100mbit from the cable company is currently 80$.  Just wondering what you pay in USD, or Krohns, Dinars, Gold Pieces, whatever Northern Europe uses (ha ha) by comparison?

For fiber? 100Mbit is around 50 bucks a month and 500Mbit is around 90 bucks. But if you own your own house and want fiber there you have to pay for installation - around 1000 to 5000 euros.

I got quoted 4k+ for fiber directly to my house. I think I'll take the LTE advanced instead for like 4k cheaper

[Gman]

Wow.  If you could get the 500mbit for 1000e  installed, 90e is a fantastic price IMO for that kind of speed. 

Your LTE network is much more setup for home PC than hours here in Canada I think, where it's mostly a cell/mobile device service.  I don't know anyone using LTE for their home service.

[MrGeezer]

I wish more people would/could do that.

I have friends who's gameplay is hosed about 30% of the time do to service drop outs and crap connections.

The sad part is that in many markets there is only one cable provider, and no option except ATT internet or satellite. 

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Wow.  If you could get the 500mbit for 1000e  installed, 90e is a fantastic price IMO for that kind of speed. 

Your LTE network is much more setup for home PC than hours here in Canada I think, where it's mostly a cell/mobile device service.  I don't know anyone using LTE for their home service.

It's the same here. When my step-brother ran speedtest.net at my house and I saw his phone had lower ping and faster speed than my DSL at the time a light bulb went off in my head. Then chance came into play, I had my house painted and as a side project I decided to get rid of some unnecessary phone cables on the wall which were remnant from the previous history of the house (our house used to have 4 apartments before we converted it into one large house) and accidentally cut my active phone line. That gave me the initiative to really try if I could go all wireless, main concern was function with games and my work. I did some research and found this advanced LTE home router (had to order one abroad actually, not available here).

http://www.store4g.com/huawei-e5186/

Turns out I got multiple times better service in all my use scenarios and cheaper.