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$60/mo for high speed Cox cable, Internet only. I get TV over-the-air from a high gain antenna I put in the attic. I get about 60 channels. I see that others spend over $250/mo to include cable TV so their wives can watch the "Hallmark Channel."

$41/month with a deal through my employer. The speed isn't great, but is good enough for me. (16 Mb/s download and 6 Mb/s upload, I think) I have my own modem and router, so don't pay extra to rent that. I cut cable a decade ago and installed a very small antenna on the roof. I have 3 TV tuners hooked to my computer for recording. The last time I watched something "live" it was the 2nd Twin Tower coming down. Recently I have not been recording anything at all; there's already more than too much to watch with Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, or Youtube.

29.99 spectrum

$29+$12 router rent from Xfinity.

A year later they raised it, but when I said I was going to move so cancel it and they immediately dropped it back to the first year rate.

When I eventually returned the router they sent me a $50 gift card.

I have only Classic Reel on Roku =$3/month.

I had Disney Plus =$7 for a month so my guest could watch Baby Yoda adventures.

65.73 from Sonic.net, which resells ATT.

20.80 Mbps download, 1.91 Mbps upload. Just measured it again with speedtest.net

Never figured out why download and upload are always so different. Is that to prevent people from effectively hosting home servers?

Patrick says

65.73 from Sonic.net, which resells ATT.

20.80 Mbps download, 1.91 Mbps upload. Just measured it again with speedtest.net

Never figured out why download and upload are always so different. Is that to prevent people from effectively hosting home servers?

I do not think "home servers" is the issue, as coax is asymmetrical while fiber is symmetrical. Likely a tech issue with coax.

$62.48 for Fios 300/300 - I get about 5-10% more via Speedtest. I'm running my own router so as not to enable the backdoor "mesh" WiFi (NEVER use the company's router - it comes with this feature automatically enabled).

I'll also add that the school-provided Chromebooks are bandwidth pigs. Anything less than about 75 gb/sec has them flaking out and dropping connections.

I ditched cable years ago(2012), I pay about $30 bucks for Comcast cable. Or what ever in the hell they call themselves.

Anything less than about 75 gb/sec

75 gig/sec? I want that.

My bad, it's mbits/sec

Patrick says

65.73 from Sonic.net, which resells ATT.

20.80 Mbps download, 1.91 Mbps upload. Just measured it again with speedtest.net

Never figured out why download and upload are always so different. Is that to prevent people from effectively hosting home servers?

Speaking for cable modems only, no. On a cable modem the upload speed has to be reduced.

On downstream every time the cable splits so one cable can service 50 homes for example, you just duplicate noise. On the upstream however, every time you hit a junction point where it splits you pick up additional noise going upstream.

Also: On a cable modem you are effectively receiving all packets from everybody within a certain modulation frequency, but your CM discards them. On upstream, it uses TDM (time division multiplexing) - this is a window where you are cleared to send data and not trample on somebody else's transmission. You get this from the downstream periodically, and when you get an acknowledgement that the data was sent you normally get another window but you still have to share with many other users, so periodically you get a window to do a transmission even if you don't need to do a transmission.

DSL might have similar limitations but I never worked with DSL so I cannot say. Same with UVerse which is entirely proprietary. Fiberoptic is symmetrical though. Eventually we'll all move to that. It's 1 GB/s - and I could literally run a company of 500 people off that line alone.

HeadSet says

$60/mo for high speed Cox cable, Internet only. I get TV over-the-air from a high gain antenna I put in the attic. I get about 60 channels. I see that others spend over $250/mo to include cable TV so their wives can watch the "Hallmark Channel."

Lol. You're my internet and tv doppelgänger. I think 59.95/mo for internet and over the air like you do. If you have kids, paying $150-200/mo for TV is pure stupidity. We're never home. More now with Covid, but we don't watch anything. Don't even have time to binge watch shit. The wife and I are more into cooking new things. Might have a beer and night cap show, but usually we're not paying attention.

My internet alone is $111. I'm in Northern Va.

$29 @ Comcast

70-sh Mbps.

60/mo the lowest internet package from comcast.

$70 a month for 1,000 gigabit fiber.

I'm getting raped by Suddenlink. $175/mo for 100mbps down/8 up, TV channels and a phone number I don't use. I want Starlink pretty bad, I'm on the Beta test but no invite yet :(