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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

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Post by underlines »

Youden wrote: post #173
snovv_crash wrote: post #146

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Also with init7, very happy with my 1Gbps line. I'd probably even take a 300Mbps if it was half the price. Even with gigabit LAN I don't saturate the line more than a few seconds a day on things like updates, and anything from my RPi NAS isn't going to saturate it anyways. Please note too, piracy is not legal in Switzerland. What is illegal is the spying and tracking which would be necessary to build a case and prose…

Downloading is legal in Switzerland. For a nice authoritative source, here's the Swiss Federal Institute for Intellectual Property (part of the Department of Justice and Police)[0]: "Downloading copyright-protected works for private use is permitted in Switzerland (Art. 19 CopA)." The mentioned legal basis is [1]. Note that this applies strictly to downloading though. Participating in a torrent swarm (where uploading…

downloading anything since 1997 in Switzerland: BBS, FXP, IRC/XDCC then later on gnutella, DC++, torrents and one click hosters.

De jure it's not really legal anymore since they updated the law... De facto nobody cares as long as you're not making a business out of it.

Same goes for the place I live since 2016: Thailand.

Though: Not pirating for professional stuff, only for private stuff. I still support software/media by buying the things I want to support.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by 83457 »

fauigerzigerk wrote: post #247
larusso wrote: post #186

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As a German I weep and cry. 25Gbit/s seems so so far off. And I live in a major city. I only get 150Mbit VDSL at the moment. I have no cable connection so one of these to get the theoretical 1Gbit/s download is out of the question.

The maximum speed available at my London address is 35 mbps download and 5.5 mbps upload. It hasn't changed in the seven years I've been living here. The best mobile connection I get is two bars of 3G unless it rains.

wow. that's ridiculous

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by qwertox »

zhdc1 wrote: post #45

I had 10gb internet on what was essentially a shared connection when I lived in Zürich. That, along with a surplus server I literally housed in my shoe closet, gave me the firepower I needed to prototype out something that led to two research grants which now employ myself and a new PhD student. We discount technological investments like this as being “too much” and “unpractical”, but we forget that, even if it only…

These are the comments which should reach politicians.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by ericd »

dale_glass wrote: post #236
mdb31 wrote: post #229

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Without drowning in fan noise? This world... Sure, I guess you can get a Mac Studio, or some other 'workstation' class PC, but your switch will still need to be within a few meters of that endpoint, and it's not going to be very green nor silent. 2.5Gb/s can easily be done with a lot of laptops and workstations these days; 10 Gb/s isn't quite there yet (and 25, 40 and 100Gb/s are definitely in the server-only fiber-o…

Mikrotik makes a whole bunch of 10G hardware. The 8 port ones are fanless and have a heatsink on the back, and the 16 port model has a fan that only gets switched on when needed. I have one sitting behind me and it's been off all day. It's also easy to open and replace the fan with something less noisy. Just remove a few screws, it's a standard size with a normal connector on it. There's also big external heatsink so…

I have the Mikrotik 8 port, but the spacing requirement kind of sucks. If you want RJ45, I'd go with this one: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-1208-8c

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by rayiner »

tptacek wrote: post #301
rayiner wrote: post #286

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What’s the “global south?”

Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. HTH.

Is it south of some reference point (here in Maryland it looks like I’m south of Turkey and around the same as Beijing). Is Australia excluded? Or is it just a euphemism for developing nation.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by zepearl »

denysvitali wrote: post #195

Swisscom customer (and employee) here, opinions are my own of course. They recently called me to upgrade my fiber connection from 1 Gbps to 10Gbps for free (every customer with a compatible connection gets it, AFAIK). I have to admit that, although the network is indeed faster (on the speed tests and file transfers), I really don't see the point quite yet. Considering that: - Most of the devices I use are anyways con…

I assume that you got from Swisscom a new router? If yes, does it have an active fan? If yes, is it usually active? Thx

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by Sakos »

404mm wrote: post #340
Sakos wrote: post #332

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> Back to original question and with genuine curiosity - what is 25Gbit for??? What a pointless question. I wish people would stop worrying about this instead of simply making it possible, so we can figure out what to do with it.

… but that’s what I’m asking. What can I do with it? As I mentioned above, I have 1Gig and can go up to 5Gig. What can I do with it??

Maybe you can't, but somebody will find a use for it. Everybody should have access to it and I'm tired of the excuses made for not improving this infrastructure "but nobody needs it!!!!".

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by bitbckt »

404mm wrote: post #242
kbenson wrote: post #193

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> Living in a home with Cat5 throughout so the best I can do is to route 1Gbit. Having your uplink faster than all your individual ports in a network helps prevent any one port from being able to saturate your network. I work at an ISP that within the last year started selling 10Gbit symmetric, and we all sorta know there's not a huge use for it - yet. It's not really an issue for use to justify though, we don't char…

That’s nice!! $40/mo? That does not sound like US price.

That's what I pay for 10Gb in the US. I think I'm a customer of the ISP the GP is referring to.

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by nix23 »

sschueller wrote: post #184
101008 wrote: post #71

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Being from a third world country, I completely agree with you on how technological investment can change lives. Even a low speed connection in a rural zone can achieve wonderful things. But I really wonder what was your prototype that needed that speed connection and that wouldn't work with something slower. Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work?

Technically Switzerland is a third world country according to the original definition.

You could also say what you meant.

>>The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

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Post by tptacek »

rayiner wrote: post #345
tptacek wrote: post #301

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. HTH.

Is it south of some reference point (here in Maryland it looks like I’m south of Turkey and around the same as Beijing). Is Australia excluded? Or is it just a euphemism for developing nation.

I don't know, I just Googled it. I've definitely heard the term before, though.
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