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Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by pasiaj »

brunnsbe wrote: post #39

xDSL-prices are still quite high here, at least in Gèneve. I'm not 100% sure if Swisscom has a monopoly as I have only lived here since January but here are Swisscom's price list for xDSL (rough calculation from CHF to EUR): 5/0,5 Mbit: 30 euro 10/1 Mbit: 40 euro 20/2 Mbit: 55 euro For these connections you also have to pay for a fixed telephone line (hello Swisscom, this is the 21-century, not the 19:th!) which cost…

I'm paying 30€ for a 100M symmetrical VDSL in Oulu, Finland.

I'm actually getting 35Mbps in both directions, which is awesome.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by ojii »

jimcsharp wrote: post #34
ojii wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mind explaining how living inside a rack is comparable to living in Tokyo? My apartment in Bunkyo, Tokyo is as quite as the one in Zurich, Switzerland was. And if that's too noisy there's lovely neighbourhoods like Kichijoji that are even more quite. Where the "cold" and "dark" comes from I do not know, I'd recommend you visit here in summer and experience for yourself that it's anything but cold.

They weren't comparing Tokyo to a rack. They were using it as the next logical progression for improving your network speed.

In this case I apologize. It's hard sometimes to read nuance/intention in text-only conversation.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by illumen »

ojii wrote: post #42
jimcsharp wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They weren't comparing Tokyo to a rack. They were using it as the next logical progression for improving your network speed.

In this case I apologize. It's hard sometimes to read nuance/intention in text-only conversation.

I <3 Tokyo :)

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by Nanzikambe »

brunnsbe wrote: post #39

xDSL-prices are still quite high here, at least in Gèneve. I'm not 100% sure if Swisscom has a monopoly as I have only lived here since January but here are Swisscom's price list for xDSL (rough calculation from CHF to EUR): 5/0,5 Mbit: 30 euro 10/1 Mbit: 40 euro 20/2 Mbit: 55 euro For these connections you also have to pay for a fixed telephone line (hello Swisscom, this is the 21-century, not the 19:th!) which cost…

DSL is expensive everywhere in .ch , switch to cable if its available in your area:

http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/internet/internet-at-h...

Not sure about Geneve, but in Vaud and Neuchatel it's available.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by Hurdy »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
Hurdy wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you've misread that. They don't use the layer 2 of EWZ, but they do use the fibers (layer 1).

>Im Gegensatz zu anderen FTTH Angeboten, die auf Layer-2 Plattformen von städtischen Werken basieren, benutzt Fiber7 eine komplett eigene Internet-Infrastruktur. ( https://www.fiber7.ch/fiber7-verfugbarkeit/ ) I think you misread that he misread that. It translates to this: "Contrary to other fiber-to-the-home offers, which are based on Layer-2 platforms by the municipal works, fiber7 uses an infrastructure all its o…

It also says: "Fiber7 basiert auf dem Ausbau von Glasfaser-Infrastruktur (sogenannter Layer 1), den die ehemalige Monopolistin und verschiedene städtische Energie-Werke seit einigen Jahren vornehmen."

I assume that the FTTH are what the EWZ and others built, but then the connection to the backbone etc. is their own, and not the shared one that the EWZ offers for other providers. Not sure how this technically works but obviously init7 doesn't have their own fibers to every customer.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by mtarnovan »

lugg wrote: post #2

Fuck it I'm moving to Switzerland. Honestly if I could find symmetrical adsl2 I'd be happy. Download speed is nice but I'm a gamer upstream is everything.

Move to Romania instead. Symetrical gigabit ftth for ~18$/month. I have had it for almost a year now.

Re: Swiss ISP init7 launches unlimited symmetrical gbit FTTH for $73/month

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Post by pling »

snowwolf wrote: post #37
pling wrote: post #11

Well that shits on my 12Mbit/1Mbit here in London that costs nearly that much...

Where in London are you and which provider are you with? Pretty much all cabinets in London now support FTTC so it should be pretty easy to get 80/20 and plenty of ISPs are offering unlimited FTTC for around £20/month. You might want to consider switching.

South West near Kingston. Andrews and Arnold. Unfortunately for some reason we can't get FTTC. I think its an issue with the cabinet near me which looks like it has been run over by a bus. The local exchange is also an ancient branch exchange so it may not have the capacity.
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