Comments on: Bandwidth, Its Getting Cheaper

By: Phil Harvey

Phil Harvey — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:26:48 +0000

re: "Harvey… does some friday evening beer infused math… "

How dare you, sir? I'm a Bushmills man. Especially when math is involved.

Cheers, ph

By: Northcoast

Northcoast — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:03:37 +0000

$54.95 for 4M down/ 384k up, Adelphia cable in western NY. That’s $13.7375 per megabit. Anxiously wating for FiOS to be hooked up. Not that I like Verizon, but there’s no other competition in my neighborhood (don’t count DSL as real competition and Verizon’s making it go away in favor of FiOS.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:30:11 +0000

In China, I am paying $15/month for 1Mb/sec DSL.

By: MyAarzoo

MyAarzoo — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 02:25:02 +0000

Yahoo DSL for $30/month. Download speed around
4.5 Mb/sec. Upload ~600kb/sec.

By: eas

eas — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 23:44:57 +0000

Big woop. So cost per megabit has gone down, particularly if you are willing to go with higher tiered service. On the other hand, the value of the last 4mbps (the difference between 6 & 10Mbps) for the average user is far lower than the value of the first 2mbps (the difference between dialup and a 2mbps link).

I imagine that the average selling price has also stayed pretty constant since there are basically new options at the low end since DSL providers started offering 256/256 intermittant connections as their low price offering. Average selling price might even have trended up, since there aren't really viable lower cost options to offset the effect of people who go for these premium offereings on the average.

By: Robert Goldberg

Robert Goldberg — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:42:19 +0000

Yahoo/ATT offering DSL at 1.5Mb = $12.95/mo, 3Mb = $17.95/mo

By: Altimus

Altimus — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:08:01 +0000

In France, where there is real competition among BB players (France?? Competition?? Shock, horror!), you can get a 25Mbit line for Eur 24.99 (that’s about $30) - and that includes TV over IP and unlimited national and international calls (to 15 destinations). Amazing thing, competition.

By: Dan The One

Dan The One — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:48:54 +0000

I live in the Bronx NY and Optimium Online is getting saturated and Verizon DSL isn’t much better. I can’t wait for Verizon FIOS or Optimium Online Boost. Until then I will stay with Verizon DSL only because it’s a least a dedicated line, where cable is shared bandwidth. OOL cable subscribers are lucky here if they 3-4 Mbits upload speed. My Verizon DSL tops at 2.6 when they claimed 3 Mbits upload.

By: Dillon Thomas

Dillon Thomas — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:28:02 +0000

In Ireland I’m paying $50 per month for 6MB. I could get 20MB for $100 a month including tv and line rental (not yet available in my area).

By: Taylor

Taylor — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:01:46 +0000

My fav speedtest is (link)

By: dave

dave — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:40:31 +0000

btw, i spent a few hours off and on lookin over online speed tests and found this rather solid one, with both download and upload from multiple sites across the usa:

(link)

By: Dexter Zafra

Dexter Zafra — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:52:11 +0000

Right now I have Charter pipeline 10megs/1megs for $49.00 a month with a cable package. But, if you don’t have the package it will cost you $60.00 or probably little bit more. I’ve been with Charter for about 3 yrs now. When I first signed up with them, I have 3 megs, and I was paying $39.00 a month. 10 megs for 49 bucks a month is worth the money.

By: Unleaded

Unleaded — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 20:47:16 +0000

30 Euros per month for 20 Mbits with Free.Fr in France, so 1.5€/Mbits or 2 dollars. TV and free phone are included.

By: phineas

phineas — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:46:26 +0000

In the U.S., I pay about $2.75 a month per Megabit-per-second. Where I am in New England, FiOS is pretty prevalent. Since FiOS rolls out town by town (something of an over-simplification), you have to be lucky about what town you’re in. But there are something like 40-50 towns in my state that have it.

Here’s a tip to people who live in Verizon country, call up and ask. And keep calling. I got FiOS in my town six months before it was announced in my town. That’s because they actually roll it out street by street, and often don’t announce until most of the town is ready.

That $2.75 is for the 15Mbps service, which at the time that I ordered it late last year, was the best bang for the buck. I should check on the 30Mbps service. I turned it down initially because it would have been more like $5 per Mbps.

For those of you “stuck” at 1-4Mbps, for straight surfing you hardly notice the difference. The Internet is largely Web-server-bound. If you’re into online gaming or addicted to Web video, that’s where you’ll notice the difference. Especially the latter. But even that is server bound. Akamai and others are going to need a whole new game plan in a few years — if not sooner.

By: worldwildweb

worldwildweb — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:32:31 +0000

"American prices are just still too ridiculously high."

I think so too, it's ridiculous

In France:

Free.fr offers Dsl 28 Mbit/s (internet,TV, Telephone)Wifi connection-Routeur 5 ports and up to 10 Go for personnal webpage for how much? how much? 29.99 euros/month (tax included)

And with that you don’t even need to suscribe to a telephone company it all comes together.

And this is one company among others like neuf.fr wanadoo.fr that offer about the same thing.

If you want a complete list(in French) of all the providers in France here is a link: http://www.dslvalley.com/adsl/offres-adsl.php

By: yannick

yannick — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:07:52 +0000

1.75 Euros/Mb in Spain.

I pay 35 Euros for a 20 meg connection provided by Wanadoo.

American prices (and Ireland, from reading these comments), are just still too ridiculously high.