Technology Upgraded My Internet

[Hobbit]

After years of being with the same, shitty internet provider, I bit the bullet and decided to change.

I was with iiNet (literally the worst ISP in Australia with horrific customer support, all outsourced to India with jeets who can barely fucking speak English). After a talk to one on the phone yesterday to fix my modem - they didn't know what they were talking about so I abused the fuck out of them and told them I'm changing providers, to fuck off - I decided to go through Optus, who are generally decent and are my mobile service provider.

Black Friday deals are on, so I got a high-speed modem for free with a $15/month off for 12 months contract.

My current speeds are 50 megabits download/18 (at most) megabits upload - which is just really, really fucking shit for my location and in today's age.
My new speeds will be 500 megabits download/43 megabits upload. The new download speeds are going to be literally 10x faster than what I have now.

It's also just a little more expensive than what I pay for now, which is kind of fucked. I pay $79/month for 50mbs download... which is a rip off. I'll be paying $84/month for 12 months for my new speeds, then it'll be only $99/month afterwards. I'm willing to pay a bit extra for a decent connection.

I told my mate about it, and they said once you get minimum 500mb/s download speeds, it's impossible to go back, which makes me excited for it.

I calculated the new download speeds - I got around 62.5 megabytes/second, which will be a HUGE improvement. I'll be able to download games at a reasonable speed now.

I could have gone for 800mb/s download, but I think that'd just be overkill.

Here's the plan I got:

 

[Postman]

Can't go back to the days of playing 10 fps Minecraft cs go on 10 mbps in 2014

 

[rentier]

Black Friday deals are on, so I got a high-speed modem for free w'll be paying $84/month for 12 months for my new speeds, then it'll be only $99/month afterwards. I'm willing to pay a bit extra for a decent connection.

All of that is cost of labour, taxes and anti-Chinese telecom regulations.

I pay $6/mo for 1 Gbit optical fiber connection via Rostelecom (and split the cable with neighbors so it's $3/mo) and can have unlimited mobile broadband for $7/mo (e.g. Sber)

What can we learn from it?

Two things:
1. China mogs
2. Westoids smash fentanyl

 

[newsincerity]

All of that is cost of labour, taxes and anti-Chinese telecom regulations.

I pay $6/mo for 1 Gbit optical fiber connection via Rostelecom (and split the cable with neighbors so it's $3/mo) and can have unlimited mobile broadband for $7/mo (e.g. Sber)

What can we learn from it?

Two things:
1. China mogs
2. Westoids smash fentanyl

Chat-gpt told me avg prices for 1Gb/s internet
In Russia $12 In China $16 in my country $25, im in ee
Russia mogs with the cheaper prices but wages are lower too so idk

 

[Foidkiller]

wages are lower too

 

[Ultimate Subhuman]

All of that is cost of labour, taxes and anti-Chinese telecom regulations.

I pay $6/mo for 1 Gbit optical fiber connection via Rostelecom (and split the cable with neighbors so it's $3/mo) and can have unlimited mobile broadband for $7/mo (e.g. Sber)

What can we learn from it?

Two things:
1. China mogs
2. Westoids smash fentanyl

1. Your broke
2. Westoids are rich

 

[OgreLTN]

I'm on 20 Mbps brother. Takes days to install some things