Meanwhile Comcast keeps rolling out price increases
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2025
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My Internet bill went up $5/month.
Every damned year
Getting paid by the letter? Why not just say 50Gbps?
I would guess it's to appeal to the greater United States audience of readers, as at least in my experience most people live in an area where speeds are still measured in the hundreds of Mbps. This would allow for a more direct and distinctly dramatic comparison.
Obligatory reminder that the Third-of-a-Pound burger failed because people thought it was smaller than a Quarter Pounder, since it had a three in it instead of a four.
Reminds me of the informal study where people kept choosing pizza that came in more/smaller slices because they thought it was more pizza.
The system has failed us. At least a third of us but, to have a respectable shot, a quarter of us must revolt.
A tenth of a Pound must be soo big!
You get hundreds? I don't know anyone with that much. Although starting to see very expensive over 100Mbit options now, I use 4G as it's cheaper and more reliable which is somewhat amusing to be able to say.
Not like I actually need higher speeds anyway.
I'm lucky enough to live over a business that allows me to use their Internet as a part of my lease, I do have 25Mbps. A marked upgrade from the non-business options in the area.
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No, if they cared for that, they'd say 50,000,000,000 Bps
Fair enough. They could even do 100,000,000,000 Nps
I think they just prefer saying things like "A thousand million" in their language.
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Ehhh, in my experience, 1Gbps is a very good speed already, what would please me more is lower latency.
That's the main reason I haven't bothered upgrading mine any more.
100mbits with 3ms latency is pretty rocking.
For commercial stuff, 50Gbps is probably useful. Especially if you're not large enough to commission your own fibre cables but for the average person it's probably not too useful - at those speeds you're transferring fast enough to saturate even the fastest of commercial device storage.
Cries in German.
Living in a house with 40 parties, city is subsidizing optical fiber, only 5000€ for the whole building to be connected. Majority said no. So 50MBit/s is here to stay.
who else is utterly sick of reading the word qUiEtLy in headlines
I don't need faster internet. If they had a 2mbps connection for $15, I'd be happy.
Instead, the slowest is 20mbps, for $70. To watch youtube. Wtf do I need all the extra speed for???
You're talking about the USA, not China. Internet costs in the PRC are much lower than the USA.
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You're getting scammed by your ISP. That's a terrible value. I bet they have a monopoly in your area too.
Area? Try building. It's written into the lease of the apartment. Even if you want NO internet, you still gotta pay.
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