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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 40 minutes ago

Note

This article is written by me and spell checked with AI. Many of the images are generated by AI. They are mostly to explain certain points and break up the wall of text.

Well FUCK YOU!

Use your word processor to spell check, and buy stock photos taken by humans, which have probably been ripped off to train that AI.

Your disclaimer doesn't legitimize anything.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Google tried to break regional US monopolies with Google Fiber, which to my surprise is still going despite Google's best efforts to kill off projects that aren't immediately successful and is active in 19 US states or around 40 different cities.

The only way I can see this catastrophe ending is one of three ways:

  1. Satellite internet - Elon Musk would need to massively drop the price of Starlink to encourage others to switch, or a competitor would need to pop up and offer similar service at a lower price point, likely through Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic.
  2. The US collectively vote the Republicans out of office by a landslide and bring in a left-wing Democrat leader. Won't happen for so many reasons.
  3. Mesh networks. Something like Freifunk but on a much bigger scale.
[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Not only is Google Fiber still going, it actually has begun expanding service again after being stuck in limbo for a while.

It's a strange one, to be sure, but I guess they see a benefit to the infrastructure they built.

[–] JordanZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Google Fiber is massively expanding in my state. They blew through my neighborhood in about a week getting the lines installed at the street. Then a month or so later we’re setting up the per house installs. I’ve only had it a few months now.

I got this email on March 26th though. Once their expansion slows and the number of new subscribers starts to taper off I expect the full enshitification process to begin.

[–] maia_app@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

At 1Gbps, I think ours is one of the fastest in this part of Germany...

[–] mcange@feddit.org 21 points 9 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

1Gbit for 40€ per month here in Germany, the US is much worse afaik.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 5 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I suppose there's a long German word that describes that feeling.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 hours ago
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 hours ago

Yeah but the Swiss say it wrong.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So?

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaah, warum???? Warummmm????"

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 26 points 11 hours ago

They will never give you more unless something forces them to. That could have been us, forcing them to, but we're shit at accomplishing those kinds of things.

[–] osanna@lemmy.vg 35 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lmao. I have 25 Mbps. Let alone 25 Gbps. Thanks Malcolm turnballs

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I have fttp and it goes airtight but I pay for the best I can get and still only get 850mbs on a good day.

But 3 years ago I only got 18Mbps so my jump on speed is amazing

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

What does airtight mean in this context? I've only heard that term in a much different way...

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

Ah my bad, meant to be "Alright"

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Probably slang.
In Breaking Bad one Tuco said "Tight, tight" while snorting the meth.
So I'll assume this is the next higher level of "tight".

[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh airtight is the next higher level of tight all right lol

[–] westingham@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

Also curious because I understand airtight to mean something vastly different

[–] Cellari@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours ago

Thanks, this reminded me that I should check the competition for now. It's not as well designed infra as in Switzerland, but I should check for an open fibre that has several service providers.

[–] Efflixi@lemmy.world 21 points 16 hours ago (10 children)

I'm sure this will be lost in the comments but you CAN get 25GBit here in 'murica. My ISP offers it... But this ISP is also considered one of the best in the world so... https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/#choose-your-plan

[–] alphabethunter@lemmy.world 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Those are insane prices. I live in Brazil and I have gigabit internet for 32-ish dollars.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

It costs me $120 internet after discount for 2 gig Xfinity, and the upload isn't symmetric. America is a ripoff.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Are those converted to USD?
How much do you make in salary after taxes?

Because as far as I read everywhere about US and salaries, it's not that unusual for regular skilled jobs to achieve 6-figure yearly salaries.

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

it's not that unusual for regular skilled jobs to achieve 6-figure yearly salaries.

This is a... very messy and complicated area to talk about and there are plenty of stats and data setsyou can cherry pick to make things sound better than they are. Consider things like median vs average, whether or not you excluded retired folks, etc.

This graphic is a decent toe in the water:

[–] Vermingot@jlai.lu 5 points 6 hours ago

That's daylight robbery, how is that one of the best in the world ?

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 33 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] glitch1985@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Right? I'd rather get 3x10gbit and bond them together.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Just for reference Init7 offers 25 Gbit/s for 65 CHF a month. Thats about 83 USD.

They have the same monthly price for 1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s and 25 Gbit/s. Only the initial install for the higher speed optics costs 77 CHF or 222 CHF more respectively.

I'm still on their 1Gbit/s service because I'm too lazy and cheap to replace my router and LAN with 10 Gbit/s equipment.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Most hardware does 2.5Gbps out of the box these days.

I've had 1Gbps for 13 years now (in Denmark) and can comfortably say: it's plenty

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 hours ago

True most motherboards, even the normal ones, now come with 2.5G included. But upgrading to 2.5 G feels like a wasted middle step if the next tier of external connectivity is at 10G, so I've not done that either haha

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[–] M137@lemmy.today 29 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Here in Sweden I have over 20 choices of providers, many with specific a focus. One that is superb, which is the one I have, don't do any tracking or information gathering at all. They are fully focused on privacy, an open Internet and have helped countries in need, like Ukraine, with hardware to keep Internet access on. They've been raided and taken to court over not following the required IP address storage laws and some other things of deliberately not collecting information. Their newsletter is so good too, all about privacy and relevant tech news. Seriously couldn't dream of a better ISP.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] oozynozh@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago

the ISP name is [redacted to maintain anonymity]

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