The cost of internet.

[Mcgreag]

Monthly Fee: $49
Bandwidth: 100/100
Country: Sweden
Service Provider: Bahnhof provided through the municipal fiber net.

Bahnhof is a very nice ISP, not only do they provide a good connection but they also don't censor or filter anything and they work actively to conserve your integrity by for example not keeping any more logs than absolutely necessary.
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[Mag-X]

Monthly Fee: $115 for internet and HDTV service + DVR rental. Internet by itself is about $70.
Bandwidth: 25Mbit down/15Mbit up.
Country: United States (Portland, OR)
Service Provider: Verizon
Package: I don't know if it has a special name. It's just the 25/15 FiOS pacakge.

I'm still getting screwed compared to Japan/South Korea and Scandinavian standards, but it's a zillion times better than what most of America has.

[bloody000]

39.95CAD
3M/1M
Telus

Telus doesn't track my traffic(at least not for now), but speed is not great. What's worse is that my phone line can only sync to around 3.8~4.0M, so no 6M for me. THAT REALLY SUCKS.

[BuriaL]

Monthly Fee: 449 NOK / $80 with the current weak dollar.
Bandwidth: 10Mbit / 10Mbit
Country: Norway
Service Provider: Lyse
Package: None, Alltho with the digital tv(separate cost), it would be "Family Pack" if i had a phone line.

Best connection ive ever had. Never had a problem, never been disconnected.
If it were a bit cheaper i would go for higher bandwidth tho

[TorturdChaos]

Monthly Fee: ~ $115, but that is for Cable TV, Phone & Internet Service.
Bandwidth: 8Mbit d/l.  ~ 512Kbit u/l - No bandwidth caps.
Country: US (Montana)
Service Provider: Bresnan
Package: Standard Triple Play package.

Most of the time I get the advertised speeds, even during peak hours only drops off a bit.  I have seen d/l speeds as high as 1.4 MB/s - even tho its supposed to max out at 1 MB/s. 

I was very happy when Bresnan came to town and started offering Phone & Internet along with cable TV.  For the longest time CenturyTel has pretty much had a monopoly on our valley's internet service & phone service.  And due to lack of compitition they were offering very poor service.
Now with Bresnan here CenturyTel has had to start offering better service & better packages to compete.
Although as long as I have the choice I will never go back to CenturyTel. Since they were the only one it town for so long they had this 'you have to use us' attitude.

Sadly, for about the last 3 weeks my internet has been very slow during peak times.  When I called Bresnan tech support they said they are experience a 'partial outage' for my area >_<.  But the tech said the ticket didn't say anything more than that.  I really hope they get it fixed soon.  Getting really tired of getting d/c'd from WoW.

[quekmeister]

Same here, but there are other providers at the west, unlimited bandwith and 10mbps, mostly are regionals so they only cover part of town or something like that.
Just you wait, new guys(not Redtone or WiMAx or whatever they called it) are coming in and bringing in better deals, foreign companies.

WiMAX can go stuff itself where the sun don't shine. Their coverage is so bad at the moment it's not funny. I'm glad some new companies are coming in, TM has had a monopoly long enough. You've seen the new gov't initiative to get 50% broadband coverage by 2020? Hilarious.

[mgz]

Provider - Verizon FiOS/TV/Phone packeg
Price - 105$
Bandwith - 20mb down 5mb up - fairly accurate on both (no usage cap that i know of and no throttling seen yet, very evident when i download at 2500kb/s off what.cd)

[Sitio]

Monthly Fee: Included in the rent, but should be around 50 dollars.
Bandwidth: See above
Country: Switzerland (Geneva)
Service Provider: Services Industriels de Genève
Package: ?

I'm in a university dorm. Ain't too bad I guess. Is the part when I mention I am from Sweden?

[Mag-X]

Provider - Verizon FiOS/TV/Phone packeg
Price - 105$
Bandwith - 20mb down 5mb up - fairly accurate on both (no usage cap that i know of and no throttling seen yet, very evident when i download at 2500kb/s off what.cd)

Those are the speeds of what my plan used to be. They raised them to 25/15 in my area, but unless you call them out on it, they'll just let you keep paying more for less. You might want to check and see what the current offers are in your area.

[Path]

Monthly Fee: $15
Bandwidth: 100/100
Country: Sweden
Service Provider: Perspektiv Bredband, through the local municipal fiber net.

As far as download quotas go, I think we got rid of them back around the time ISDN died out.

[erious]

Awesome timing on that thread - my ISP(UPC) just raised my plan speeds from 10Mb down/1Mb up to 25 Mb down/1,5 mb up(yeah, the uploads suck hard) for the same price, about 32.50$. Only they screwed up, and half of their subscribers(including me, of course) were cut off from the web and phone for two days. fffffffffffffffffff fffffffuuuuuuuuuu-
And right when I'm home on a sick leave from work
Good thing about them is that the declared speeds are usually what you get, with my previous ISP you were lucky to get 2/3 of what you paid for.
I'll be probably switching soon to 50/5 plan for 43$ - that is, if I'll keep the job after my internship is done.

Monthly Fee: $15
Bandwidth: 100/100

I hate you.

[Borror0]

Monthly Fee: $15
Bandwidth: 100/100

I hate you.

+1

[DaggerLite]

@Path
Doh. We're soon hooked up to the 50/50 fibers back home (with my parents). It includes the whole home-infrastructure package for a low price, I think. I wish I could stay there instead of near my University, but oh well. Presumably, the line here will be improved soon as well. It is a 100/100 connection directly to UNINETT (with a 2.5 Gbps - soon to be 10 Gbps - connection further to Oslo, and I think it goes to Stockholm and Denmark from there).

The problem is the local network being shit, so I sometimes get horrible (worse than ISDN) speeds.

Also, I don't think download quotas have been used here either since, well, the first switch to ADSL. Some mobile service providers might be using it still, I don't know...

[quekmeister]

@Path
Doh. We're soon hooked up to the 50/50 fibers back home (with my parents). It includes the whole home-infrastructure package for a low price, I think. I wish I could stay there instead of near my University, but oh well. Presumably, the line here will be improved soon as well. It is a 100/100 connection directly to UNINETT (with a 2.5 Gbps - soon to be 10 Gbps - connection further to Oslo, and I think it goes to Stockholm and Denmark from there).

Sweden makes me cry.

[Drew]

Well, guess that sums it up. Moving to Sweden ASAP.

[the trooper]

Monthly Fee: 36$
Bandwidth: 10/0.5
Country: Portugal
Service Provider: Cabovisão

My upload speed sucks badly, but this is the best internet i can get for less than 50$ (no download quotas, ports open and they don't have the weird rules the others providers have). I will upgrade when fiber reach my street.

[vuzedome]

Sweden.....
*Stares at telephone cables outside*
*Now looking through bills*
 :'(

[Mag-X]

Monthly Fee: $15
Bandwidth: 100/100

I hate you.

+1

+2 

[Wintereise]

Monthly Fee: $15
Bandwidth: 100/100

I hate you.

+1

+2 

+99999 :<

[hilander72]

Speed: 50/10
Cost: ~$43/mo
ISP: Comhem*

*through housing association

Some of us Swedes still haven't got municipal fiber (spring 2010).