Tell me about it here are my monthly expenses!
Road Runner Cable $59.95
ClearWire $36.99
Sprint EVDO $79.95
I have all three services, the ClearWire and RoadRunner at home, and the Sprint EVDO while I am on the move, and I am still hurting for bandwidth with a wife and three kids all on the net.
Downstream is barely adequate and upstream speed is terrible! Comparing what others in the world are paying maybe it is time for some competition. GigaOm.com
Here in Australia I look on in envy of what you have access to in the US.
I pay $50.00 per month for a 1.5Mbit up / 256k down ADSL connection. That wouldn’t be too bad (maybe), but I also have a 5 GB monthly limit.
It is rare that you can find an unlimited connection here in Australia, and if you do you will be paying a minimum of $150.00 for it.
We are paying 29.95 a month for ATT pro-class DSL. This is 6 mb up by advertisement, but generally about 3.5 or 4 in reality. In addition I have free access to any ATT wireless hot spot anywhere in the country with my laptop. This is sufficient to run our home network of seven computers. I know, we’re getting an amazing deal. Normally this service would be about $60 a month, but we bundle with our phone service and this gets us a better deal on DSL. We have good speed here but live very near a big metropolitan area, which makes a difference.
Here in the Netherlands, we have ADSL, which is combined in a monthly plan with our phone service, and is quasi-VoIP (there is a landline somewhere in the system, but how it exactly works I don’t know…). We pay 35 euros / about US$50 and get a 1.5Mbit download, 256kbit up and free phonecalls in weekends and after 6pm. That’s pretty reasonable.
I don’t have a mobile internet soluction, but our ISP would charge 80 euros a month (US$110) for 1.8Mbit down, 384 Kbit up, with a datalimit of 2GB, but a ‘fair-use policy’ for overage.
I’d say you’re internet was pretty cheap!