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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 fransje26 »

whinvik wrote: post #59

In neigbouring Germany, we had a lady from Deutsch Telekom asking us today if they should build a 250 Mbps line to our building!

Hahaha. And I'm sure the price is cheap. Only an arm and a leg. Oh. And your soul. And with the caveat that the 250 Mbps will only be available in the middle of the night, when everybody is sleeping.

After having had to pay Vodafone 50 euros a month for 10Gb of data through LTE for years, due to the impossibility of getting any connection faster than 3Mbps (even as a business), we are also, through the miracles of governmental financial incentives and magnificent planning (only 2 years late), getting the joys of high speed internet in our area. 100 Mbps. Hoooray!

Telecommunication in Germany is a cancerous, price-gouging cartel that needs to be eradicated at all costs, packaged on the first-available Falcon Heavy flight, and propelled at escape velocity out of our solar system.

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Post by brailsafe »

antihero wrote: post #270
zhdc1 wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Can you share, at least vaguely, what was your work? We work with gis/satellite data. Nothing groundbreaking technically, but we aggregate it into products that are useful for social science researchers who aren’t comfortable with or don’t have the computing resources to use this data by themselves.

What exactly about gis/satellite data required such an insane uplink?

GIS and remote sensing has you working with gargantuan TIFF files and massive amounts of other kinds of data. It's a whole thing. If you're doing data aggregation, it's possible that without an absolute unit of a pipe just to do a download of imagery, the prototype wouldn't have been feasible.

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/product/imagery/ma...

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Post by sylware »

sylware wrote: post #138

With a simple and lean signaling p2p protocol, with sufficient nodes at that speed (and support of diffserv), popular live streamers with a few thousands of viewers could part from twitch/youtube and similar. For broadcast, namely the scale above (for instance a public TV channel), if I recall properly, IPv6 has many broadcast IPs... just need the IAPs of a "telecommunication zone" (state, country, etc) to manage to…

DOH! Correcting myself in the use case of a public TV channel, IP broadcast does not help here (would generate traffic for no users), only IP multicast would handle it properly. Namely, under the authority of the "local" telecommunication regulator, multicast IPs would be statically allocated for all IAPs to provide to users, and not only CDNs, efficiently distributing content like public TV channels (for a public TV channel, probably a high bandwidth IP and a low bandwidth IP, etc). I don't know the real reasons why this is not done, the IP multicast "subscribe/unsubscribe" state machine is not robust, etc?

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Post by doublerabbit »

geoka9 wrote: post #130
Existenceblinks wrote: post #36

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I'm in a rural city in Thailand, fiber 2Gbps is $50 / mo. And this is just for normie. Like unimpressive.

I'm in a top 10 most expensive city in the world (Canada) and the best I can get for $50 is 80 Mbps (and even that is only available as a promotion that you can't get by simply going to the ISP's website and buying a plan).

$50 gets me 2Mb ADSL here in the city centre of Glasgow. Your lucky.

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Post by [deleted] »

OJFord wrote: post #487
thomastjeffery wrote: post #323

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I think you have successfully illustrated the failure of "global south" as a replacement term. I'm not against replacing "third world", but something with the word "south" is ambiguous and counterintuitive.

Funnily enough until they said their country was such, I assumed they were American saying 'global' South to distinguish from meaning a South American country. 'Southern hemisphere' is fine though I think? And I assume that's what was meant.

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Post by thoughtpalette »

agilob wrote: post #86

What is the use case for this? How are you doing to utilise it? According to fast.com I have 29Mbps and I see no reason why I would need to go faster now. And to be said, I'm WFH all the time, I have a homelab and we stream movies, not once since pandemic started I had a thought I might need faster broadband. My home router has SFP port.

I was also under the assumption fast.com was the standard speed test as speedtest.net had some ISP (xfinity) affiliations (in the US(?))

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Post by joshschreuder »

evanjonr wrote: post #421
joshschreuder wrote: post #417

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It’s much, much better than it used to be at least (depending on where you live + NBN technology choice of course). And yet still completely hamstrung by the mess the current government made of the original NBN plan. If you live in an area that can get HFC, FTTP, FTTN etc. it’s possible these days to get a pretty consistent 1000/50 for $150/month. Those fibre services are pretty stable in my experience, definitely a…

Did you mean FTTC instead of FTTN? FTTN can rarely get close to the max of 100/40 in best case scenarios.

I did indeed, thanks. Too many acronyms!

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Post by joshschreuder »

FridgeSeal wrote: post #422
joshschreuder wrote: post #417

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It’s much, much better than it used to be at least (depending on where you live + NBN technology choice of course). And yet still completely hamstrung by the mess the current government made of the original NBN plan. If you live in an area that can get HFC, FTTP, FTTN etc. it’s possible these days to get a pretty consistent 1000/50 for $150/month. Those fibre services are pretty stable in my experience, definitely a…

The area of Sydney I live in has HFC-based NBN offered only, and it still falls over if it rains too much. Apparently you can pay money to have fibre routed to your house from the nearest node/etc, but I rent, so I’m not going to do that.

You can but it's EXPENSIVE. Something like $5k-20k depending on residence and technology choice you have.

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Post by jjav »

arcade79 wrote: post #397
antihero wrote: post #270

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What exactly about gis/satellite data required such an insane uplink?

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…

> I literally laugh at providers attempting to convince me to get whatever with 10 or 20Mbit uplink speeds, in 2022l Yes, they exist.

Meanwhile here in Silicon Valley, the fastest connection I can get at home (sonic.net) is 22Mbps/1.7Mbps. In the office I have Comcast Business which is a bit faster (don't recall exactly) but certainly well below 100Mbps.

So yes 1Gbps sounds quite insane. 10Gbps is out of this universe.

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