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chuck138 t1_iu27axn wrote

Reply to comment by Zagrebian in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

I've been waiting for over a decade and I've lived in decent sized cities for most of it. Some have even had fiber but due to building contracts I've never been offered the service.

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Roboticpoultry t1_iu2sno5 wrote

My college apartment building got fiber just as I was moving out and my current building doesn’t want to pay for it. That said, we still have more than enough bandwidth for what we need

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chuck138 t1_iu2zfwc wrote

Yeah I have been paying for the fastest consumer speeds since I've had a full time job and I've never had an issue except for upload speeds.

But I also know I'm paying a premium price for very outdated technology that is run by corporations who have zero interest in improving their services or their customer relations. All of which I have no choice in because they've virtually eliminated all competition.

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goingtotallinn t1_iu3bg9i wrote

Hey what's the fastest consumer speeds you can get and how much it about costs for you? I live in small town in Finland and we can get 10Gbps fiber for 100€/month (100€ = $99.67)

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inverimus t1_iu4jk4m wrote

I don't live in a small town in the US and pay ~$80 a month for 800 Mbps down, 20 Mbps up. I could pay $110 for 1200 down/20 up and that is the highest available.

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jbman42 t1_iu5l3pg wrote

Bruh, i live in the middle of nowhere in South America and I've had fiber for several years, now

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Some-Reputation-7653 t1_iu61xkh wrote

Could you be more specific? I’m curious - what country/region; who is your ISP? What kind of speeds

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jbman42 t1_iu7y8kw wrote

Brazilian northern coast, in a moderately sized city of about 400k inhabitants. Local ISP called Proxxima. My plan is for a 100Mbps fiber connection, costs about $20 monthly. I only actually tested speeds once, and got around 90Mbps download, and 40Mbps upload. I get about 120ms latency when playing games on American servers (completely bearable to me), doesn't matter if it's west or east coast. Never had such a stable connection before, and uptime should be around 97%. I literally don't see the need for better speeds, though I guess I could reduce latency if I lived closer to big urban centers.

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Some-Reputation-7653 t1_iu88ft5 wrote

Nice!
Standard of living there sounds pretty good - I’ve a friend who moved to Colombia and he keeps telling me to come over…

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Lunafreya_NoxF t1_iu6svzc wrote

Same thing here. Also, no data caps. That seems pretty common for the guys up top.

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