we're located in santa monica / west LA, in the middle of town, and our building had, until last year, had the following options for bandwidth:
* adsl ... $40/month for 3/.25 megabit
* EoC (sdsl) ... $1500/month for 15/15 megabit
* Bonded T1 / T3 ... insanely expensive.
Time warner business class moved in with fiber to the building and now we have:
* cable modem over coax muxed into fiber switch @ roughly $300/month for consumer-level speeds (30/5 megabit). which is what we use right now.
* Fiber to fiber (ethernet switch on customer premises):
10/10 megabit starting @ $1300/month (worse than EoC above)
40/40 megabit $2400/month
1gbps/1gbps for $14,000/month (yes $14 THOUSAND/month.
we pay $400/month at the datacenter for each of our 1gbit/1gbit links w/ a 100 megabit commitment.