Our business has no access to anything like this in Australia. It would cost something like $25,000 per month to get this kind of connection.
If we had this, it would allow us to literally grow at double or triple the speed.
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
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#432I 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…
What exactly did you do on 10gb that couldn’t be accomplished on 1gb?
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#433Here in Bangkok, Thailand 1Gbps down and 500Mbps up in Bangkok is around 650 Baht per month which is just under $20 USD.
Now there is 2 Gbps up and down available which is slightly less than $40.
Brah. USA/Canada/Australia is so far behind its not even funny anymore. Let's not even get started on things like banking.
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#434Earlier quoted context omitted.
Third world is inaccurate, but what’s wrong with “developing world.” Also: did I call it about China and Australia or did I call it?
Like I mentioned in my top-most comment, "developing nation" is what people typically refer to. As to your comment, I was pointing out that "global south" is not a euphemism for "developing nation". I'd say it is the other way around and in a misguided way. This is because the global south/north designation intentionally distances itself from terminology such as "developing nation". I understand if this comes across…
> I understand if this comes across as pedantry but the global north and south terminology does a better job at leveling the playing field when talking about wealth and progress disparities.
How? South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are richer than France or Spain now. As nations develop the geographic terminology makes less and less sense. Developing nation is much more accurate.
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#435Earlier quoted context omitted.
What exactly is insane about it? I was surprised when my parents had 1Gbit in 2009. I was delighted when I could get 500Mbit in 2013. I'm slightly miffed that I don't even get 1Gbit in 2022. I literally laugh at providers attempting to convince me to get whatever with 10 or 20Mbit uplink speeds, in 2022l Yes, they exist. Anyhow. What's insane about a 10Gbit uplink? I wired up my apartment for 1Gbit in 2001. I've been…
At home you are free to make everything 10G-capable, have a NAS that can saturate such a link, etc. On the wider internet, few resources are happy to dedicate such bandwidth to you, even if you can consume it. Not even every popular torrent can muster so much incoming bandwidth. I can see how it may make sense if you run a popular public server from your home; maybe more convenient than colocation, but still is not a…
Also, even at colocation providers, 10 Gigabits committed rate is going to be a bit pricy.
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
Like I mentioned in my top-most comment, "developing nation" is what people typically refer to. As to your comment, I was pointing out that "global south" is not a euphemism for "developing nation". I'd say it is the other way around and in a misguided way. This is because the global south/north designation intentionally distances itself from terminology such as "developing nation". I understand if this comes across…
> I understand if this comes across as pedantry but the global north and south terminology does a better job at leveling the playing field when talking about wealth and progress disparities. How? South Korea, Japan, and Singapore are richer than France or Spain now. As nations develop the geographic terminology makes less and less sense. Developing nation is much more accurate.
Developing vs. developed country is always relative, and the term and the implied benchmark is set by developed countries.
In other words, effectively developed = what we are, developing = trying to be what we are.
It also places unnecessary upper bound on progress (if you call yourself developed, I guess you can stop developing then?).
Ultimately it is forcing a finite game onto the world.
Global south sounds like a better term.
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#437Earlier quoted context omitted.
A lot of it is down to those countries being early adopters of telecom infrastructure. It meant when a lot of other countries were wiring up internet for the first time, they weren’t faced with the prospect of having to piggyback existing and aged infrastructure. eg in some cases they could leapfrog copper almost entirely and jump straight to fibre.
In Canada it is down to our telecom oligopoly, which our government protects by (a) refusing foreign competition and (b) installing industry heads to run the consumer protection regulator, i.e. allowing the oligopoly to capture the regulatory body. In actual fact, our telcos were heavily subsidized during their formative years, granting them a monopoly, rights of way, and helping to pay for their infrastructure. In r…
Govt created monopolies are bad whether they are public or private. Private is worse because money is removed as profit, not just reinvested.
Privatisation is good if competition is fostered at the same time. For example by opening existing physical infrastructure to multiple service providers.
Where I live we had (historically) one fixed lined govt provider. When mobile arrived we got 3 private providers. With fibre we got multiple hardware installers (ie multiple companies digging fibre) and then dozens of ISPs running on that.
So far, so good.
Re: My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
#438Sat in the UK with my 25 Mbps for £50 a month - definitely gives some perspective on things
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#439Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I’ve never heard someone call their own country a “third world country”. Out of curiosity, which country are you referring to?
It’s colloquially used to mean economically underdeveloped/developing countries. However recently economists have begun using the term “emerging markets”.
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
>I'd now refer to my country as a country in the global south Meaning what, in the southern hemisphere and not Australia or new Zealand?
It isn't a geographical denomination, but rather socioeconomic and political. Most of the countries in the global south denomination are actually in the northern hemisphere.
Well, most of earth’s landmass lies in the northern hemisphere.