To all of you who have families where multiple people are using the internet at the same time: What ISP do you use, and how much does it cost you?
My current one is pretty crappy and can barely handle 2 people gaming at the same time without slowing down.
Will depend a lot on where you are, especially in the states.
Some towns/small cities there have ISP monopolies where you only get one choice.
Mine is telstra we get around 300 mbs download speeds with a family of four watching YouTube netflix playing games online and downloading stuff and it’s $100 a month for unlimited
I have Comcast. I forget the exact speed but it’s over a gig I think. It’s great, but I pay over $100 just for the internet. No data caps and everyone in the house is usually online with no problems.
Currently on frontier dsl, which is the only option in my rural area. I’ve had Shentel, Comcast, and SuddenLink in the past, and Suddenlink was the best out of them.
T mobile home internet
$50 a month no data cap
The speeds are absolutely amazing that I called my old ISP and said “screw you guys”
Centurylink $65 a month for 1000 Mbps upload and download, no caps. It’s around 500 upload and 650 download over WiFi.
I’m a technician for my ISP so I get my service at a discounted rate, and because of that I don’t want to say who my ISP is as I try to avoid revealing who my employer is in online discussions. And my opinion wouldn’t exactly be unbiased anyway since I work for them.
What I will say though is that service for most ISPs can vary from area to area, even neighborhood to neighborhood, depending on how well maintained their infrastructure is in a given area. You would probably be better off asking your neighbors how well their service works rather than asking random people online, I have great service (and recommend my ISP to everyone I know IRL), but that doesn’t mean you would have the same experience somewhere else in the country.
And just incase someone figures out who my ISP/employer is, I would like to state for the record that these opinions are my own and do not reflect the opinion of my employer in any way.
What’s available to you varies area to area. We were lucky enough to get fiber and I’m running Metronet Gigabit for $65 a month. That’s 1Gbps up and down.
I have Verizon 100/100 but it’s only myself in my house. I can’t remember what it costs me but I think it’s only $80 a month. My speed test shows me at 110.44 down and 119.37 upload. I could go to 500/500 or higher but I have no need for it.
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I had to redo the speed test… I forgot you can link it (and unfortunately due to the stupid trust levels, I can’t post a link. What an absolutely stupid forum).
I would love to be able to not say CenturyLink.
I have ATT home Internet. Good days it works like a wonder but out of nowhere it’s hard to reach internet in my room now. Att is usually like that though. And the area I’m at doesn’t make it any better tbh.
Spectrum, $85/month. Just got a new modem from them a few weeks ago, and I have my own wifi setup (Tenda Mesh, MW6). Currently there is 1 PC on WoW, 1 laptop on WoW, 2nd laptop doing other things, basketball streaming on the xbox, and several smartphones connected.
Not a smidge of lag in sight.
It also depends on the load (ie number of customers) for that given hub as well. (No I don’t work for an ISP.)
I’m currently using a Comcast Business line due to the “no data cap” with roughly 750gb up and down. There is 8 people in my house right now and we don’t have many issues. Just costs a ton with roughly $100 a month being my portion while my work pays for the rest.
I will be switching to a gigafast ISP that my town just voted in. Should be up and running right after the new year. The cost is $60 a month for 1000gb up and down.
I literally have no choice here but Charter Spectrum. It sucks. They know they’re my only option, I get 1/15th the speed I’m supposed to and get charged full price - $80/mo.
I have evil empire Comcast.
But it’s not bad service.
And honestly . . . all the ISPs are evil empire so it really doesn’t matter which evil empire ISP I ended up with.
Telus fiber. I get 900mbt to 3.0gbt and 4ms ping times.
1000/1000 for ~$50. Then again I don’t live in the US but I’ve heard horror stories.
here in Philippines i mostly use Converge ICT. pay approximately $40 a month, it includes basic cable TV. we also have PLDT which costs slightly less with only a landline phone and no TV service. i generally don’t have any bandwidth completion with others in the household; most of problems are from the lousy routing of internet traffic back to USA, so i often have to use a VPN.
in the past i’ve lived around the USA and have played WoW on these ISPs: