Are these ISP internet prices in Vietnam normal?
Posted by PasswordRoot@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 13 comments
Hey all - I’m helping set up ISP internet connection for a factory in Vietnam and the quotes we’re getting seem really high.
- 500 Mbps dedicated line: USD $51,000/year
- 100 Mbps dedicated line: USD $21,000/year
This is for a stable, business-grade connection (not shared), but still feels steep compared to other regions. Does anyone have experience with business internet pricing in Vietnam — are these numbers typical, or are we getting overcharged?
Thanks in advance for any insight!
herowinbvn@reddit
5Mbps leased line with 1Gbps domestic BW is about 8mil VND per month, so that price look correct if you really want that much. My org no longer pay to rent leased line but use multi WANs but from 4 ISPs and it work perfect with a good router
The_C3rb@reddit
You setting up in HCMC or Hanoi or another city?
Try checking with VNPT and their FiberVNN Wideband Internet Service. Not sure what the contention ratio is off top of my head, but I'm paying about $500 USD a month with these guys and service has been fine for our business needs with upwards of 40 users.
One thing to be aware of is if you need consistent high(ish) speeds to and from Vietnam you best to get a plan with "International Bandwidth" that is guaranteed as a "100Mbps" Internet line, will not always be 100Mbps when traversing Internationally. If using any "American" products like Microsoft, Autodesk, Box etc.. then 100% you will need this as otherwise things take way to long to sync, download, upload to external data centres in Singapore, US or Aus.
Hot tip: If in HCMC Make sure you have your router and switches on UPS always, as power is shit and expect to have outages anyways.. Hopefully the factory has its own generator as well.
Consider Starlink as a backup link if need be once it arrives and if available.
blockplanner@reddit
Yeah, that's normal for a high-end dedicated link in Vietnam. Domestic bandwidth prices are pretty absurd. Contention Ratio in Vietnam is like, 100-1, so if they're actually giving you a dedicated line they're basically giving you the infrastructure for 100 residential customers.
GarageIntelligent@reddit
omg yea, thank fuck for 5g
chandleya@reddit
I’d go 20mb and get aggressive with caching and filtering. As others have also pointed out, using a pedestrian source is a consideration, especially if you have a more robust router with proper QoS.
TroubledGeorge@reddit
I wonder what the deal there is, for my previous job we had a remote worker in Vietnam and their home connection was so so slow, this was probably some 5 years ago in the peak of the pandemic but I remember remoting into their computer and it was almost unusable. Probably around 1 mbps, I asked them if they were using mobile data and no, it was actually their home connection. I live in South America so I was not expecting blazing fast symmetrical fiber but this was bad even for my own standards.
Kuipyr@reddit
Wow, that's more expensive than a DIA line in the U. S.
Sir_Vinci@reddit
That's 28x the price in my area.
itanite@reddit
Starlink will exist in Vietnam very soon. That'll probably meet you needs, especially if you bond with a few local cellular carriers for backup.
sylvester_0@reddit
In the Midwest US we pay ~$750/mo for our gigabit fiber business connection.
Charli3q@reddit
Downvotes because you're not clarifying is this is dedicated fiber, or shared (gpon/xgs-pon, etc) connectuon.
llDemonll@reddit
SD-WAN or something similar. Get a few residential lines and a satellite / cellular backup.
itsupport_engineer@reddit
As soon as you want business grade it gets expensive. The numbers you note are not unusually high. However consider 5G services and Starlink. 5G is usually very good, and you can get good enterprise 5G Routers.