I never even knew such speeds existed for home users...
http://www.etisalat.ae/nrd/en/personal/elife/elife_ultimate.jsp
Ultimate broadband speed 1Gbps download capable and 100Mbps upload
costs USD 1360 per month!!!!![]()
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And I am wanting to go down in internet speed. My 60mbps is a waste ($60/mo). Other than the occasional game download, I never use it all. I am looking to go to a cheaper plan that is maybe 20-30mbps. There is a company that pulled fiber to my place so I hope to move to them once my cable contract is up.
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Here in the US it's a bit cheaper, about $80/mo:
http://waveg.wavebroadband.com/services/
https://www.centurylink.com/fiber/plans-and-pricing/denver-colorado/
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Here(Romania) we have 1GB down +0.5GB upload, at least 1 year ago started the offer, at 39RON = 9USD, so yeah, not so much big thing for a country with so much money as UAE, on the contrary...
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I pay them here in Hungary ~ USD 15.5 for 1Gb/200Mb net access + around 100 unscrambled DVB-C channels (a lot of them HD) and a landline telephone... Unbelievable!
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Here you go @Phoenix, Network SLI
Double, Triple, Quadruple Network Speeds!!
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we got 1Gbps Internet in Sweden to. Im on a 100/100Mbit right now, costs me around $30 a month, 500/500 is around $55 and 1000/500 is around $70.
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Yeah its very cheap in Sweden, we might as well move there.
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Thanks for bringing this up guys. While I can't have 1Gbps Internet and quite frankly I don't need one (neither do most of you though), because you have mentioned this I went on and checked with my ISP and discovered that I can upgrade my 100mbps connection to 300mbps for additional $3.
Now, I don't need 300mbps connection either, but neither do I need those $3, so I might just upgrade for the hell of it - it will come handy once a week or so.
Anyway - since we're comparing prices in this thread as well I pay $14 for 100/10 and can get 300/10 for $17 (mind the upload speed though - it's still stuck at 10mbps even on 300mbps connection).bennni, jaug1337, hmscott and 1 other person like this. -
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If you want cheap, fast, reliable broadband internet, move to either Eastern Europe (excluding Russia), or East Asia, including Singapore. We have 2 Gbps plans here for S$69.90 per month (US$50), and 10 Gbps plans for S$189 (US$130) per month. More typical speeds of 300, 500 Mbps and 1 Gbps are even cheaper.
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that nothing on your home network supports speeds above 1Gbps - not the router, not the cables, not the computers.
So you'd have to buy all the 10Gbps hardware (which is expensive as hell BTW) and upgrade your computers and change the cables all to not-get 10Gbps because you'll never get that speed from any servers on the Internet anyway.
This is why you can buy that reasonably cheaply from some ISPs. I bet you anything they don't even have the capacity to deal with their own clients using that bandwidth, because they simply don't.bennni, jaug1337, alexhawker and 1 other person like this. -
a very very very tiny city in south-east asia
usd 16.5/month
the router's throughpoint simply cannot keep up very well to be honest
p.s. this broadband has been offered for several years
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I got a letter last week, from Feb 7th onwards the fiber installed in my apartment is finally active and 1Gbit is an option.
For now I've been on 100Mbit for 9,90e/month. 1Gbit upgrade price still unknown.
Retail prices for those are 27,90e and 39,90e but as our condominium has made a deal with the operator, we get 10Mbit for free and 100Mbit for 9,90e. If 1Gbit is under 20e I might take it... just because it's possible.Spartan@HIDevolution likes this. -
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You people in the USA/Canada/Europe have awesome deals for internet and mobile phone plans
Speaking of Dubai, Virgin Mobile is coming to Dubai soon:
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Yes, in Hungary the major telcos do have awesome packages, provided you live in the right area where you can actually subscribe to them... I moved 2 years ago from downtown Budapest (100/30 Mbit connection there) to a district that is considered a wealthy area. Imagine my surprise when I found out that only one ISP was available at my apartment complex, offering a ****ty ADSL service for scandalous prices. The fastest offering was 30/5 Mbit - that I could have lived with, but not a week went by without downtimes, some of which lasted days, and the real speed was closer to 10/1...
In the last decade or more, the one available ISP didn't invest a damn cent to upgrade their infrastructure, while they could charge what they wanted thanks to their quasi monopoly in the area. Fortunately it all changed when DIGI (ironically my ISP downtown) started to rapidly deploy fiber all throughout the district, offering Gigabit connections with FTTH technology at prices that are simply amazing (see my previous post in the thread). And what gives, the former monopoly actually also started to deploy fiber, but most people here just gives them the finger now
TL;DR: Yes, it's true that in CEU there are amazing connections for peanut money, but they are VERY far from being widely available. The vast majority has access to only paltry speeds.
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Upgraded. Now to see how much more would 1gbit be
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took my personal laptop with me and tested 4G at work
edit2: at the moment 1gbit price is shown as 39,90e/month and even 100mbit is twice the price I'm paying so they haven't yet been updated. At least I hope so.Last edited: Feb 7, 2017 -
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Cell packages are even worse -
Upgraded to 1000Mbps... Operator promises 600+ speeds and upload seems to be capped at ~125Mbps.
Speedtest starts at 200+ upload so there is some bandwidth still unused.
Most speedtests are too short, speed is still climbing when they reach finish.
Now I have to find out why my network restricts speed to 100Mbit still.
I mean, I got this result when directly connected to the fiber. Wireless with my AC68u I get 200mbps+ and wired ~100Mbps. Annoying.
Edit: Found it! A bad cable between router and first switch limited speed to 100Mbit. It never mattered before.Last edited: Jul 28, 2017Vasudev and alexhawker like this. -
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$1360/month? At that price, you can get 1 Gbps internet in pretty much any country except those where some sort of armed conflict is happening on its soil. Heck, in most developed countries you can get 1 Gbps internet for a tenth of that price or less, so long as you live in the right city/neighborhood.
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Not really an issue for mobile or dsl users
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Dubai has 1Gbps internet!
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