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Look, I could have fibre... to my apartment. The problem is the underlying connection is copper, so there's no point. I live in Switzerland.
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thats just switzerland. I remember it was insane how great korean internet was in the aughts.
I'm in the US and we have 25 gig fiber
Edit: I should have clarified it's an option. No it's not affordable. However 2.5 gig is fairly reasonable @ 99 usd/month. We pay for 1 gig which is 67.99.
Honestly, fuck American ISPs, but what on earth would you need 25 gig fiber in your home for? We have a gig line that actually runs at a gig 99% of the time, and I can be downloading a steam game while 3 separate videos are being streamed and I won't have stuttering. 25 gig sounds cool, but also utterly pointless
A bluray remux of a whole series can run in the hundreds or thousands of gigabytes. I want to be able to download and watch it the same day I decide to do so.
The only use for such speeds in the home is offloading all your data and computing to cloud services. Yay? Symmetrical gigabit is already about 5 times faster than I would ever need. Most people are too lazy to even run a LAN cable to get better than 150-300 mbps.
Yeah I honestly canβt think of why one needs more than 1 gigabit other than what you mentioned (or torrenting). Even 1 gig feels like overkill for us and I do much more internetting than the average person.
Or hosting your own services. 25 gbit/s is a lot of potential to scale up to a pretty decent sized web business before you need to get dedicated hosting.
I host video streaming for personal use and gigabit doesnβt even flinch.
The us internet situation sucks but the author has a complete misunderstanding why. I dont k ow if they are very young or no from the united states but there is big misunderstanding of whats wrong. Its all bad but you need to go back to wwii. You need to talk about the nsa. You need to talk about 9/11.
Also we have fiber, its not shared and they rip up all the roads they want. They are a local company, locally owned.
