How is your internet? (How viable is always online?)

I'm pretty happy with my own connection. I've got somewhere between 300-500 mbps down, it's reasonably priced, has no data caps and I rarely ever experience a network drop. My personal concerns with always online games are never with my own connections, but with how long companies are willing to support keeping their games up.

However, I think there are still wide swaths of the world that do not have access to good internet and have little to no faith in anyone solving that issue for me to say "Yeah. I feel good about an always online future.".

I work from home, so any connection hiccup for me is very noticeable. In the colder months, I tend to see maybe 1-2 drops per day on the high side. In the summer, when the old cable infrastructure equipment is baking in the sun, sometimes it goes out for hours and I have to rely on my WiFi hotspot on my cell phone to do my job. Not ideal.

We pay $85/mo for 750mbps through the cable company with no data cap, but come springtime (after the snow is melted) we'll be getting 1Gb fiber through a new company for $55/mo. We'll see how well that fairs.

Lately, as in the last six years, I have had no [problems with Internet. It pains me to say that while I am probably paying too much for what should be a service the government caps at a certain rate, my Internet connection works. Tts fast enough to play multiplayer games, and it rarely goes down even during hurricanes.

My internet is shitty and expensive. There are only two options in my area, and this is the best option. I get regular drops and outages. Less expensive packages have data caps and you get charged extra for going over. More expensive won't have caps but will still have the same drops and outages so it's not really worth it. There's no way I would use a cloud service like Stadia in my area.

Fuck ISPs.

My internet cuts out completely randomly at least once a week, sometimes more. Stadia worked awfully for me, I would get disconnected every level in Orcs 3 due to connection quality and have to start over. I can stream videos just fine most of the time. I also can't reliably do steam remote play.

In the UK I spend about £40($50) for 70mbps no data cap with a landline I don't use which I could cut and double my speed, I cannot remember when my connection dropped last.

my overprice comcast internet mostly works well enough, but my fiancee works nights n i've always been a night creature , and the net here habitually dropps on a multipul times a week between 3-5am at some point...ya know hours we actually Want to use it given our schedule, its pretty irritating when watching something , i don't want to imagine trying to play something.

on top of that myself aside its just not sensibly fessible for a large chunk of this country still at least , not but 30-45 from me a few towns over you still can't get bettr than dialup if that in certain spots, its pretty rediculous

I pay 175 for Unlimited at 100mbs and frequent outages. This "amazing" option just came into effect a year ago and is a direct result of the pandemic destroying the entirely questionable ISPs long time stance that bandwidth caps were necessary to keep the system functioning due to the burden on the Arctics primitive infrastructure.

Before that I paid 175 for 200mbs down and a 300gb cap. It was ridiculous. I could download a modern game at the cost of my family having internet for the rest of the month. Overage fees were like 5 bucks per gigabyte over up to almost 500 dollars before it just capped out. One time my router was hacked and someone was leeching bandwidth off of me - that was a real shit show getting that problem solved.

Anyway I'm hopeful things like Starlink etc. will provide some competition and things will improve. Absolute joke that it takes everyone calling them out during the pandemic when internet consumption went through the roof for them to magically increase their services.