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Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

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Re: Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

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New selling point for all the VPN sponsored segments... "if you're on Vodafone Germany, make your connection speeds faster with YetAnotherVPN!"

A VPN won't make your route shorter

It can.

Datacamp, which hosts lots of them has very good peering

Re: Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

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You forgot the government who spends billions to 3km of motorway a few people uses. To an airport that is one of the worst in EU and almost a decade late. And of course now cut from arts because of all this. And every single construction project takes forever. And costs a fortune. And it is impossible to build housing fast enough. The reason to be in Berlin has always been its great art scene. Now they are actively d…

> To an airport that is one of the worst in EU and almost a decade late. The delay is inexcusable but the resultant airport seems pretty good. Why do you consider it one of the worst in the EU?

Try to fly from Helsinki, Munich, or even Frankfurt and you notice how bad BER is.

Re: Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> To an airport that is one of the worst in EU and almost a decade late. The delay is inexcusable but the resultant airport seems pretty good. Why do you consider it one of the worst in the EU?

Try to fly from Helsinki, Munich, or even Frankfurt and you notice how bad BER is.

I regularly fly from Munich, indeed more often than from Berlin, and occasionally from Frankfurt. This doesn’t really help me understand what makes it “one of the worst in the EU”.

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Bell Canada also has had a long-standing policy of refusing to peer with internet exchanges. They'll only truly peer with other direct backbone providers and a handful of one-off peer with other large networks (google, cloud flare, etc), but their historical position as Canada's base backbone (not so much anymore, but it was definitely a thing pre-2005) has meant their policy is most people should pay them to peer. I…

It's annoying how they're the only big ISP offering fiber everywhere when they're also the ones that don't support ipv6 and have the shitty peering policy. I've heard you can use another isp though (teksavvy maybe?) that uses Bell's fibre and supports ipv6

I’m on teksavvy fibre (via bell) and IPv6 works wonderfully.

Re: Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time

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High speed internet is a market not just internet access. Email might not care that your on a DSL connection but a streamer can’t generally use DSL as a substitute.

They mean VDSL; that's 100~200 Mbit down and 10~24~50 Mbit up.

Which is laughably bad in 2025.
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