internet service

I live in the US so it's standard to offer a come-on rate of like $35/month for six months or a year and then the rate jumps to like $85/month (plus fees and taxes taking it to the better part of $100) for some s***ty-ass service like 400 Mbps down, 5-10 MBps up cable with the promise of high-split getting installed sometime circa 2032.

That sounds excessively high by about 2x. In the UK I get around 500MB/s for about £33/pcm after a bit of haggling. I used to have 150MB/s for £30/pcm. Korea is the place to be for truly hyperfast BB.

My tiny rural village is unusual in having full fibre to premises on tap. Neighbouring ones have VDSL or rival microwave peer to peer links.

Give up on the landline entirely and you can have 1.6GB for £70/pcm

Haggle and you will do better than their first offer price.

I've had a 100Mbps connection for the past 6 years, shared by our two sons' desktops and mine, two laptops and four phones. I occasionally ask my sons if they want more speed. The answer's always no.

Download speed is usually 98-100 Mbps daytime, sometimes over 150 Mbps late at night. Upload 95-110. Latency 25-32ms unloaded, 70-110 loaded.

I pay the current equivalent of USD9.70 per month including all taxes.

Oh, and a free landline phone with unlimited calls and a settop box.

We got cable TV and internet (and phone) as a package at home. We signed up for 50+50 Mbits and they have several times upgraded at the same price, I guess to be competitive. We're downloading now at close to 1G, which is way more than we need.

At work we have a Monkey Brains microwave dish. Same story, we bought

Does anyone need more than 200 Mbits? That's enough to watch a movie or download most files.

A WiFi 6 router on the 5 GHz band tops out at around 500-700 something MBps in real world conditions. But I don't really have any applications for that kind of download speed, either.

I would like faster up speed but it probably won't happen anytime soon, my city's captive cable company is probably too busy trying to pay lawsuits stemming from its employees murdering their customers:

The guaranteed 100Mbps here generally is good for 150Mbps.

Your ping latency time seems rather high. I get around 13ms @ 100Mbps and now 11ms @ 500Mbps on full fibre. It was only as slow as 40-50ms in the old days on ADSL copper lines.

Ya, for local networking between the lab PC, multimedia/AV editing PC, and backup/file server they're on gigabit Ethernet. I'm thinking about retiring the AV desktop which is currently in a hefty old-fashioned tower case and getting a Mac Mini with the 10 gigabit Ethernet option, and then just plug a 10 gigabit card into the server.

What's the point of having bulk storage on the AV machine anyway the projects drive and backup drive(s) with parity can just live in there, at 10 gigabit the audio and video files might as well be local for the relatively simple stuff I do.