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25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by joshstrange »

Enginerrrd wrote: post #8
joshstrange wrote: post #5

So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.

I'd take YOUR deal in a heartbeat. I pay $110/month for 75Mbps down / 10Mbps up and 300GB data. They also constantly harass me with upsells and raise prices 10% per year.

Dang, that's rough. I'll fully admit I got super lucky. My ISP is MetroNet and you wouldn't necessarily think Lexington, KY would have fiber at all or if they did that it would be a good deal but thankfully MetroNet serves my area and has great prices. I wish they were in OH as well so I could move my parents over to them, they are stuck on Spectrum.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by digitallyfree »

I would expect such a service to ban hosting services on the "private" plan, or have strict conditions on what is considered acceptable use. However I see nothing of that sort in their contracts with the exception of this line in their Contractual Conditions.

"3. Fair Use Policy The Internet subscriptions for private customers are intended for normal personal use. Init7 reserves the right to temporarily or permanently restrict or discontinue the provision of services for connections whose data volume exceeds 0.5 petabyte (500 terabytes) in a period of 4 weeks, or to take another suitable measure."

(https://www.init7.net/de/kleingedrucktes/072021_contractual-...)

You can build some serious infrastructure on 500T/4weeks on a 25Gbps line, service uptime withstanding. They also provide optional /29 subnets with the private plan so it looks like it's intended for more than just personal browsing.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by felixr »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #10

I have 1gbps. I had to get a decent router. Cheap home routers can't handle it even when they outright claim they can. You also want something better than cat5 for home wiring. Lastly spinning hard drives wont keep up on sustained reads/writes you need an SSD. The above is things you should do when you have 1gbps in order to actually get those speeds. I know people will argue citing 640k being enough for everyone and…

On how to build a router that can make use of the 25GBps: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by xattt »

Enginerrrd wrote: post #8
joshstrange wrote: post #5

So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.

I'd take YOUR deal in a heartbeat. I pay $110/month for 75Mbps down / 10Mbps up and 300GB data. They also constantly harass me with upsells and raise prices 10% per year.

Tangential, but is a brand-new XGPON rollout more expensive to the provider than a DOCSIS 4.0 rollout?

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by xattt »

AnotherGoodName wrote: post #10

I have 1gbps. I had to get a decent router. Cheap home routers can't handle it even when they outright claim they can. You also want something better than cat5 for home wiring. Lastly spinning hard drives wont keep up on sustained reads/writes you need an SSD. The above is things you should do when you have 1gbps in order to actually get those speeds. I know people will argue citing 640k being enough for everyone and…

What’s your decent router? I’m in the market for something fresh and an Edgerouter-4 is looking long in the tooth…

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by iqanq »

jraph wrote: post #9
joshstrange wrote: post #5

So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.

I wouldn't, 13€/mo for unlimited 1Gbps down, 60M up, static IP and have never been bothered by these limits, especially for the cost (wouldn't hurt to have a higher upload speed since I host some stuff but that has not been a problem yet).

60M up, lmao. Let me guess, HFC

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by jagrsw »

They moved installing infra in my "commune" from December 2021 to mid-2022, and when asked on twitter, they told me it's a). supply chain problems, the time for router/optics delivery increased by a couple of months b). they want to lower pressure on their employees who need to install new infra during night

I'm already using Mikrotik CCR-2004 with 10Gb/s + 1Gb/s links, it has 2x28Gbps ports, so it should be fine when init7 comes here.

Though, with CCR-2004 I'm seeing about 50% CPU usage with 8Gbps up or down, which means I won't be able to use full 25Gb/s with it, most likely 20Gb/s max. And no, there's no specific reason for me to have it - it's just the price is sort-a the same as local 1Gb/s and 10Gb/s offerings.

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by andrei_says_ »

mskullcap wrote: post #17
joshstrange wrote: post #5

So $843.60/yr ($70.3/mo) + a 1-time $361.54 fee? I'd take that deal in a heartbeat. I pay a little over $100 for 1Gbps symmetrical plus a static IP.

And, 200 TV channels at no extra cost!

Time. Watching TV costs time - the real unobtanium ;)

Re: 25 Gbit/s internet as a normal customer

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Post by sschueller »

The reason this is available for this price in every house in the city of Zürich is because of a law that passed requiring every house to have fiber. The infrastructure is operated by the power and phone company and any service provider can use this fiber.

I hope the whole of Switzerland will do something similar because there are still a lot of places without good internet and fiber is quite future proof.

Home office out of a mountain cabin would be cool...

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