I have been struggling with the speed of my internet connection for the past few days as the speed is around 1 5th of what it should be. I thought I will do a quick scan through google on what the average internet speeds are across the globe and I was astonished to see what is out there compared to what we receive in Africa. I would love to know how Africa compares with the rest of the world.
I am paying R699 per month for a 10 MB Fibre to home connections. That works out to around US$55 per month.
There is an option of 100 MB Fibre at around R1599.00 working out at around $100 per month.
If you do not mind sharing your information, please indicate how much you are paying for what in the comments section.
Here are some information I found online.
US Pricing from Google
UK pricing from Virgin
Thanks for participating in if we can all it a survey :) I will populate into a spreadsheet and share it with anyone who is interested.
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I pay $200 for 250mbps here in Kenya, i use such speed because i work from home and page loading is something i hate having to see. I mean who can stand 0.2 second of a page loading! I know i can't!
Who is your provider?
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In Romania we have 300 Mbps at 8$. fast internet
In the netherlands, we have all-in-one packages, so it's a bit hard to see what we pay for what.
For instance, I pay € 67 ($ 75) for Internet, TV & Landline phone & Spotify Premium... the internet is advertised as 60 MB/s but since it's ADSL and I am to far from the hub, I ONLY get 13 Mb .
I've been meaning to switch to Fiber, which is (again, All-in-one package) which comes in at $ 65 but that's at least for 300Mb up/down
Again, with TV & Phone, but without spotify
I have been with my current ISP, Virgin Media (UK) for about 10 years. I pay a package price which includes broadband, TV and landline.
I currently pay £49.00 a month for 100 MB/s, this is inclusive of a £9.00 a month loyalty discount.
I can generally get about 75 MB/s download and about 5 MB/s upload through wifi - it's usually a touch higher if i use a wired connection.
You have done good survey on this.
We don't have Fiber here but if we had I would take it immediately. The whole town would! It would be R 400 less than what I'm currently paying! I pay R 599 for line rental and then R 399 for wireless internet, on a 4 meg line.
you would think the country that watches the most porn would have the fastest / cheapest internet.. Nope...
Pakistan? Saudi Arabia? There are many ways to meassure that and not all studies are impartial.
If you're talking about the US, then let me tell you that it's doing pretty well. (I'm a Swede and not all that supportive of the U.S., so I'm saying this to pat myself on the back)
Fellow South-Africa here... I feel your pain as far as the net is concerned, I live in Witbank and cannot even have fibre yet.
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our internet in Australia is pitiful - i am now following you and upvoted this post too -David
Here in Ireland, I have a legacy 240Mb connection (VirginMedia don't upgrade accounts as higher bandwidths become available). My package with them includes a land-line which costs about €5/mth. The broadband package is therefore €47.50 per month (approx. US$53).
On a wifi connection, I get a Download speed of about 20 Mbps (my PC is on the opposite side of the house to my router and the signal has to pass through a concrete wall). Upload speed is about 25 Mbps.
With a Powerline adaptor, the Download speed triples to about 80 Mbps.
With the PC connected via ethernet cable, I get around 220 Mbps.
Wow good observation and yes the speed and price do seem to correlate. It creates a good opportunity in the arbitrage market as well! Thanks for sharing and I'm following :)
Im in the UK but in the countryside so we have no fiber options, I get about 15Mbps for around £21 per month. The actual broadband and phone is £4.95, its the line rental thats the killer at £16 per month even though we pay it in advance for a discount.
Here in India, I have to pay $15/month for a shitty 1MBPS connection lol.
In Romania the cheapest we can get is Fiberlink 100mb/s at 28 Lei(about 6 Euros). It goes up from there, you can also get all-in-one packages for just a few euros extra.
Attached are the results of a random speed test.
I'm up here in Ontario, Canada and i pay 75$ CAD for 25mbs. This is also with a 25$ discount. I do find i have the same issue as you have been having with slower speeds then what you pay for.
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Damn that is a bit expensive for me... I have to admit that my internet is pretty cheap, although is just 2 mb and very crappy
Hi @jacor, is yours uncapped? From which service provider? Currently I am on 2Mb, uncapped for R579.00
Dont come and live in Port Edward, veeeeeryyyy slow but much better than nothing.
I am from Czech Republic and I pay only $17/month, but the speed is merely 12Mb/s in my area, which is shitty, but still better, than having a foot in your arse :)