# How much do you pay for internet? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 14, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596 "2011-10-14T02:18:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![With\_Rye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@With\_Rye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/With_Rye)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/1 "2011-10-14T02:18:01Z")
My Comcast cable connection costs $35 per month and I’m looking for cheaper options. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/2 "2011-10-14T03:02:10Z")
I pay $120 for my $90 special deal from Cox for phone, internet, and cable all together. Hey, waitaminnit… :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/3 "2011-10-14T03:22:39Z")
Through the City of Minneapolis wireless system, I pay $14.95 per month (with a 1-year contract - single $179.40 payment). ---
**Author:** ![Dag\_Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@Dag\_Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dag_Otto)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/4 "2011-10-14T04:14:04Z")
$45 per month from CenturyLink (formerly Qwest) for 11 Mbps download. A bit expensive but rock solid and a big improvement over my other options. Downside is 750 Kbps upload speed which means I won’t bother with a slingbox (which I’d really love to have). ---
**Author:** ![Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@Cap\_n\_Obvious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cap_n_Obvious)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/5 "2011-10-14T11:10:55Z")
I get local phone service, unlimited long distance to anywhere in the U.S. and up to 12 mbps download speed for $65/month from Windstream. It’s actually cheaper than that, but then you have to add in the FCC charges, 911 charges, taxes, etc, which bumps it up. ---
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/6 "2011-10-14T11:23:22Z")
$24.95 a month, AT & T DSL “enhanced.” Not quite as fast as cable which annoyed me at first, but it’s been a year now so I’m used to it. ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/7 "2011-10-14T11:35:08Z")
$45/month for one of the slower FIOS offerings. Frankly you probably won’t be able to find much cheaper than $35. I had Verizon DSL for a while for $30/month, and I recall that they offered a rock-bottom plan for $20. The latter is barely adequate for anything beyond a bit of web browsing and email, but it’s an option if you really desperately need the money. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/8 "2011-10-14T11:37:30Z")
$160, on a combined bill that includes cable boob toob and yellophone. I’m not sure what portion of that amount is Internet. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/9 "2011-10-14T12:58:09Z")
I believe have the same plan as VunderBob, which isn’t too surprising, since we’re practically neighbors. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/10 "2011-10-14T16:59:02Z")
Comcast has a “basic” broadband service for $24.95 a month which is about the slowest speed they offer. It’s 1500 kbps down and 384 kbps up, but it’s enough for my needs. I don’t do a lot of video streaming, just regular web surfing and shopping. And I have Vonage for phone and the service works great over that connection. ---
**Author:** ![thelabdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@thelabdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelabdude)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/11 "2011-10-14T16:59:42Z")
$30/month for Earthlink Lite from Bright House. That is for some limited speed, 7xx something. I suspect my connection is still faster than many of the servers I download from. SD pages load instantly usually. Even Fox News is no more than a second or 2. I also have Vonage VOIP. I am paying less now for cable and phone, a single payment of a little over $300 a year, than I paid for miserable local phone service and dial up. And part of my county was long distance. Now I have unlimited free calls to all of the US, Canada, and western europe. ---
**Author:** ![Jbone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@Jbone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jbone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/12 "2011-10-14T17:57:17Z")
$39.95 for Cellcom cellular wireless. .7 download .3 upload “advertised speeds”. With all the users on the system it’s about half that in the evening, but clears up late (like 11-midnightish). Hopefully some good news though. Recently there has been some utility work on the main county road right by me. I found out that they are placing fiber lines down the road. The contractors didn’t know what company it was for though. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/13 "2011-10-14T18:26:59Z")
$19.95/mo for AT&T DSL (dry loop, no phone) ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/14 "2011-10-14T18:32:01Z")
We don’t have a home phone. When we moved here we got the basic cable TV and 'net service. The monthly bill was about $120/month. Realizing we never used the television I cancelled it (bought a Roku) and upped the broadband to 50Mbps (the top they offer). My first bill last week: $37.50. Less than a dollar per Mbps. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/15 "2011-10-14T19:00:13Z")
I pay $70.02 for XFinity Internet (with Blast!, whatever that is). It’s ridiculous. I use maybe 6% of my monthly allotment of 250Gb. Nothing else is on that bill; we get TV through DirecTV and phone service through Verizon Wireless. ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/16 "2011-10-14T19:12:18Z")
I have a 8Mbit DSL line, for which I pay ZAR360 per month (plus the cost of the analogue telephone line; no naked DSL here). South Africa has a curious system in which we pay the incumbent telecom to get the DSL line, and then separately to an ISP for an account which connects the DSL line to the Internet; so in my case I pay a further R475 to an ISP, which gets me 50GB of data per month. So I’m spending a total of R835 per month, which at the current exchange rate is just over US$100. For the smartphone I pay about R145 ($18) per month for 500MB of data (including tethering, if I wanted to do that). ---
**Author:** ![ctnguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@ctnguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ctnguy)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/17 "2011-10-14T19:19:33Z")
Of course, nothing in my previous post is relevant to your search for new options; I just wanted to whine about how much Internet access here sucks. (Sorry to double-post, but the edit time has run out.) ---
**Author:** ![grama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@grama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grama)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/18 "2011-10-14T19:45:21Z")
I pay about CLP $52.000 A month, 15/2 mbps, this includes cable tv with 2 of this boxes that record shows and stuff (no idea what they are called). ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/19 "2011-10-14T20:20:47Z")
Not enough. ---
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596/20 "2011-10-14T20:32:26Z")
I was paying only $30/year for AT&T DSL 6.0 but I got rid of it when I lost my job and just use the library and my laptop or their computers. If you go to [broadbandreports.com](http://broadbandreports.com) they have forums there and they can tell you how to get deals. A lot of people over there say they’re able to get deals by threatening to cancel their service and say their going with a competitor. Visit the forums on that site for details on how to work the retention operators [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-pay-for-internet/599596.md?page=2)