> fiber7 costs only 65 CHF per month and comes with a symmetric 1 Gbit/s connection.
65 CHF = US $67.89
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
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Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#12My first internet, and my internet for up until my teenage years until ~2005 was 14.8kbps, we couldn't get faster than that for some reason.
When we got 2Mbit I was AMAZED. The entire internet now actually semi-worked.
Now in 2022 I have gigabit (down, 50Mbit up) internet, with WiFi6 on my devices it's amazing (I'm hardwired for my desktop).
Aussie Broadband here in Australia is my current ISP, and they are amazing. FTTP was a major upgrade.
But the thing which hurts where I am (Perth, AU) is the latency to everything, not the download speeds :).
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#13It's crazy that at this speeds (and I mean, it's not a new thing) your internal infrastructure can be the bottleneck
You have 100Mbit internet? Cool, your 54Mbit only WLAN devices are now the bottleneck.
But now it's your 10GB ethernet that's the limit.
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#14When we got fiber, our internet didn’t speed up. We just saw a monthly rate increase. The providers here throttle it so significantly that there isn’t any benefit, not even for upload. The plans that cost an extra $150 per month have far higher limits but that’s insane
I'm far from an expert on L3-L2 ISPs and their tech, but they usually rent the line from whoever owns it and then sell it back to you - then they cap the speed between you and the box.
It's most likely an operational mistake - have you called and asked for them to nuke the line and then set it up again?
Or are you saying that you are getting your advertised speeds, and those just didn't go up when you "got fiber"?
Don't know which one is more worrying if true, to be honest.
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#15When we got fiber, our internet didn’t speed up. We just saw a monthly rate increase. The providers here throttle it so significantly that there isn’t any benefit, not even for upload. The plans that cost an extra $150 per month have far higher limits but that’s insane
I'm sure there are a lot of other bottlenecks as well. I have a pretty run of the mill mid-tier cable plan for $100/month in the US and, assuming it's working like it's supposed to, I've pretty much never been on another connection anywhere including in company offices that made me go "This is so much faster than at home."
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#16Damn, that's impressive. Technically I could get 2Gbps with the two providers running their own fiber in the neighborhood. But I don't even fully use one gigabit connection, running a torrent client is about the only thing that can do it. Any ideas welcome :D
Curious thing, the ISPs don't oversell even though they easily could. I get exactly what I pay for, speed is never below ~940Mbps (down or up), and uptime has been stellar.
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#17Not convinced by the use case section. Very few servers will allow you a full 25gbit download, let alone anything more than a 1gbit (and often less). And if you own the server on the other end, that sort of bandwidth comes at a cost. I think beyond 1gbit, the benefit become super marginal and the hardware expensive.
Isn’t a lot of content like YouTube served from edge devices at your ISP, which is what you’re connected to at 25?
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#18Not convinced by the use case section. Very few servers will allow you a full 25gbit download, let alone anything more than a 1gbit (and often less). And if you own the server on the other end, that sort of bandwidth comes at a cost. I think beyond 1gbit, the benefit become super marginal and the hardware expensive.
Even where the ports are available, 25 Gbit from a single address is well into the realms of looking like attack traffic in a wide variety of scenarios.
Past even 500 Mbit I'm way more interested in latency considerations than raw bandwidth, and practical matters like how to use that bandwidth from my laptop (good luck doing 500 mbit wireless reliably, never mind 25 Gbit!)
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#1925 Gb/s to the internet providers speedtest server is kinda cute.
But most CDN's limit is much, much lower.