In Russia, 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit ADSL costs me about $8 per month; they keep suggesting I make a free switch to a 15 (or 30 or 60, have not checked the actual speeds yet) Mbit cable connection, but I am unsure if I do want to pay extra $3 :) Given the (free) D-Link 2300 running a 2500 firmware is really showing its age sometimes now (after 6 or 7 years of non-stop work), it may be indeed time to switch (not that I need anything more than 5 Mbit downlink, I think though).
This is a state provider, there are many private ones around, and their prices (usually for a 50-100 Mbit downlink via usual Ethernet cable) are $10-20 per month (comparable, that is), if I remember correctly.
The ADSL quality has always been good, btw (esp. given I wired the modem to telephone cables probably 30-40 years old :) ) -- decent pings, stable speed, was down only once or twice (in all the years).
I'm curious why you're satisfied with 2 Mbit / 512 Kbit. Do you never use streaming video / music? Don't you get frustrated waiting for large downloads?
2 Mbits means 900 Mbytes per hour -- enough for youtube streams in 480p (and more often than not, in 720p, without pauses to buffer), and ok if software distributions are downloaded (XUbuntu 14.04 was 900 Mb, iirc); music takes a fraction of the downstream capability...
Shortly, people used to 30 MBit downlinks might have forgotten how little most of our (modern-day) media requires -- often a megabit, or two per second :)
This is a state provider, there are many private ones around, and their prices (usually for a 50-100 Mbit downlink via usual Ethernet cable) are $10-20 per month (comparable, that is), if I remember correctly.
The ADSL quality has always been good, btw (esp. given I wired the modem to telephone cables probably 30-40 years old :) ) -- decent pings, stable speed, was down only once or twice (in all the years).