What home internet speed you actually need

The question “how many megabits do I need” runs into the price list rather than into needs: on this market a slow tariff does not mean a cheap one. A hundred megabits from Comnet costs 165,000 UZS a month, while sixty megabits from Sarkor costs 185,000. There is simply no saving to be had on speed you do not use.

So the real choice is not between a slow tariff and a fast one, but between the entry-level plan and the one that costs twice as much. And it is settled by three things that the big number on the shelf does not mention: the time of day, the technology at your address, and one-off payments.

Starting the choice with “how many megabits will be enough for me” makes little sense in Tashkent: on the lower rungs the price barely follows the speed. Comnet's minimum tariff is Fast — 100 Mbps for 165,000 UZS a month; istv has Smart-1 for 169,000; Sarkor has Spark for 170,000; UZTELECOM's entry-level “Hammasi birga 2+” costs 175,000. Meanwhile the promotional Wi-Fi BOR 60 from that same Sarkor gives 60 Mbps for 185,000 — more than a hundred megabits at Comnet.

Above that, the price climbs faster than the speed: 200 Mbps at Comnet costs 250,000, 300 costs 350,000, 500 costs 500,000; at UZTELECOM 500 Mbps comes to 500,000 and a gigabit to a million UZS a month. So the question is not whether to take the entry-level tariff, but whether the second hundred megabits is worth paying twice as much for.

Three things matter more than the number itself. First, the time of day. Sarkor's Spark tariff delivers 100 Mbps only until 17:00, and from 17:00 to midnight it cuts the speed to 70 — and the provider says as much: “every day at 17:00 and 00:00 the internet connection is reconnected automatically in order to change the speed”. The neighbouring Boost tariff holds 100 Mbps around the clock and costs 20,000 UZS more — that is the price of a stable evening.

Sarkor is not alone in this, and other tariffs arrange the schedule differently. On istv's Smart-1 over GPON, 200 Mbps applies from 00:00 to 19:00 and drops to 100 Mbps from 19:00 to midnight. UZTELECOM's “Hammasi birga 2+” does the opposite: 150 Mbps from 12:00 to 00:00 and 200 Mbps from midnight to noon. Which means the “fast” half of the day at one provider falls exactly where it ends at another.

The opposite case is worth keeping in mind too: across TPS's whole ULTRA+ line the speed is stated as the same by day and by night — 100 Mbps for 165,000 UZS, 150 for 180,000, 200 for 230,000, 250 for 280,000. The entry-level tariff runs over FTTB and GPON, the higher ones over GPON only.

Second, the technology at your address — and the threshold is the same everywhere: a hundred megabits. Comnet writes that “speeds above 100 Mbps are available over GPON technology and where FTTx is technically possible”; Sarkor, that “internet access at speeds above 100 Mbps depends on the equipment installed at your address”; at TPS the entry-level tariff runs over FTTB or GPON and every higher one over GPON only. So the question for the operator is not “what is your maximum speed” but “what technology is wired into my building, and is there GPON”.

Add up what actually runs at the same time. An evening with two 4K screens, a work call and background updates comes to about 55 Mbps — half of the entry-level hundred. Even a flat streaming four 4K feeds at once fits inside 80 Mbps. The top shelf of the price list is not for “just in case” but for a particular job: constantly moving large files, or several heavy streams together.

Hence the order of operations: first find out what is wired into the building, and only then pick a number. The mobile network stays as a fallback — how to assess it is covered in the guide to coverage and speed.

Third, the one-off payments that the monthly price does not show: Sarkor charges 49,000 UZS as a registration fee and another 25,000 to move to a tariff cheaper than the current one, which makes “I will take the fast one and downgrade later” a paid strategy.

Equipment is a line of its own: a sixth-generation Wi-Fi router at Comnet costs 290,000 UZS. Every tariff in UZTELECOM's “Hammasi birga” line lists a separate subscription fee for IP telephony — 25,000 UZS a month.

The home internet tariffs come from the Farq catalogue, the same one that feeds the board above; the check was made on 8 September 2026. Provider terms come from their own sites: UZTELECOM, Comnet, Sarkor, TPS. Recommended service speeds come from the help pages of YouTube and Zoom. Checked on 9 September 2026.