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There is a nice "gigabit community" being built in Sout Carolina near Charleston: http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/
Every home has fiber, but the bandwidth is throttled to about 12/4mbit by Century Link, which is the contracted provider. This contract expires soon, so hopefully we'll be able to negotiate better speeds.
Tangentially related: Init7 is one of the few providers here in Switzerland that offer native IPv6 connectivity to end-users (they might be the only one offering it to end-users). This makes this already amazing offering doubly interesting because it would finally allow me to play with native IPv6
Have much capacity do they have to offload that traffic, I imagine they have largest ports on peering exchanges locally, with some other local private peering, and perhaps they got some backhaul to AMS-IX, LINX and others, but you can read the issues peering exchanges are facing with capacity and the cost of highest 100G ports (where available). How much transit do they have to carry the rest? I jut cant see this bei…
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.
Fortunately I work for a Swisscom owned co. so there are some benefits that hopefully will eventually trickle down, otherwise I think I'd be very tempted by init7's offer (we also use them at work, and they're a good bunch).
Hmm, Swisscom have been waving FTTH here (Winti..) for the past few months, and I've seen lots of workers actually laying cable, but nothing to the actual apartment yet.. Fortunately I work for a Swisscom owned co. so there are some benefits that hopefully will eventually trickle down, otherwise I think I'd be very tempted by init7's offer (we also use them at work, and they're a good bunch).
[1] http://www.swisscom.ch/en/residential/packages/options/1giga...
There is a nice "gigabit community" being built in Sout Carolina near Charleston: http://www.nextonsc.com/gigafi/
Interesting. This looks like the same concept as the community in which I reside: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daybreak_(community) Every home has fiber, but the bandwidth is throttled to about 12/4mbit by Century Link, which is the contracted provider. This contract expires soon, so hopefully we'll be able to negotiate better speeds.