I wish it was that fast. Somehow in the past 15 years prices for a 10/100/200Mbit have stayed exactly the same, only Gigabit came down a smidge to around 70 euro/month now. As if all the hardware and switches hadn't evolved at all.
And for some reason, nowadays over 5G you get pretty much the exact same speed/price combos as for DSL or cable, only with less guarantees.
It highly depends on where you live.
I can get gigabit for about €32,50 a month. 2gbps for about €40. Unfortunately, the cheap ISP that offers these rates doesn't have IPv6 so I'll stay with my current one. €70/mo would get me 4gbps symmetrical with another ISP. All of those include a WiFi 7 capable router, of course.
Prices have increased, but high prices are a local problem. The €35 price for cheap gigabit would equate to about €20 in 2000, so I think prices have stagnated alright, but speeds have evolved a lot since then.
Kinda off topic, but I'm staying on a 500 mbps pipe for now... simply because I don't see the reason for more.
I could get up to 2 Gbit by making a phone call to my curent ISP but why?
May I ask which country that is?
I don't think they are ever going to run gigabit over to me if they haven't by this point.
That's the other point, fibre can be a bit cheaper but not even all 10 year old apartment blocks have fibre run in to building??? If you wanna get it installed that'll be at least a couple hundred extra
More than that. When I called about it they made it seem like I had to pay for the entire installation from wherever the nearest fiber line was all the way to my place. They quoted me a couple thousand dollar price and I never asked again because I don't even own this place.
It's not that expensive everywhere. In the UK I can get 1000/1000Mbps for £29 a month, and 8000/8000Mbps for £99 a month.
with 30% inflation in the euro area over the past 10 years... the price has maybe gone down in real terms by staying the same?
And how much has equipment gotten faster/cheaper? Tad bit over 30% I'd say, on the side of 10x? 50x? 100x?
the cost of actually getting the equipment into use (laying down new fiber etc) probably went up though.
70 euro a month for gigabit? That's a great price! And way, way, way, more than you need for self hosting a website (maybe more for other things?). I've hosted my .com website from home since the late 90s and anything faster than a couple megabits is just fine .My current 80/10 megabits connection from comcast is $115/mo and has a 1.2TB data transfer cap with $10 per 50GB over. Even with such a terrible, expensive, exploitive ISP I host my dot com from home just fine.
Trying to host from wireless would probably not work so well. Do they even give you a real ipv4? And even if so, you're round trip time is inherently randomized which leads to tcp backoff and slowdowns in this context.