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There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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Re: There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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Post by aeonik »

matja wrote: post #33
aeonik wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not OP, but modern asymmetric cryptography on the Internet negotiates a new encryption key on every connection.

True, but that is transport (TLS). I was asking about the underlying data.

I am curious why you are interested in that.

Re: There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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Post by TMWNN »

oytis wrote: post #22

I'd take guaranteed 100Mbps without outages over best effort 1Gpbs any time. Unfortunately, it's hard to get this service at reasonable consumer prices, at least in Germany

I've seen a lot of Germans talk about getting Starlink, for both the speed (400Mbps down) and stable uptime.

Re: There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

oytis wrote: post #22

I'd take guaranteed 100Mbps without outages over best effort 1Gpbs any time. Unfortunately, it's hard to get this service at reasonable consumer prices, at least in Germany

Depends on where in Germany.

https://www.wilhelm-tel.de/privatkundinnen had always excellent latency and peering for me. No problems with stability either, which comes in handy when you're mostly living on another continent :-)

Re: There's still no point in gigabit broadband

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Post by mike_hearn »

Gud wrote: post #73

Meanwhile I have 10Gbit here in Zürich. What's the point in having less ?

Cost? It's not much - Swisscom charges only 10 CHF/month more for it, but I stuck with 1GBit because basically nothing I do is bottlenecked by the ISP at this point. It's all latency or upstream/peering bottlenecks. There's no point in spending more money to open a huge pipe even wider if you just hit a smaller one further upstream.
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