Mastodawn

If you live in Switzerland you can get a 25Gbit fiber link to your home. That's 25Gbit *symmetrical* - upload *and* download. On a dedicated connection that's yours and yours alone. From multiple providers. It's the *ne plus ultra*, *magnifico*, *wunderschön*:

https://www.init7.net/de/internet/fiber7/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/07/swisscom/#stacked

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Sylocule 1d ago

@pluralistic Spain have a similar system to Switzerland. Fibre to the house and you can use any provider. Most are around 1Gb symmetrical, but 10Gb is available from 1 company.

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Bad News Nobody 1d ago

@Sylocule @pluralistic In Italy we cheaped out and got 1G/300M, and we are stuck with that for decades to come. In big cities there's 10G/2G, but otherwise there's only Temu fiber - and some poor souls are still on VDSL...

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Paolo Redaelli 1d ago

@dukeboitans my family still got 100M/30M and it satisfies our needs quite well @Sylocule @pluralistic
I just wonder what use can a "plain user" do of 25G fiber!

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Hywel 1d ago

@paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule @pluralistic 30/8 on copper in semi-rural UK. We rejected a bunch of houses we liked when we moved in 2020 because they only had 1K down.

Fortunately it was just before Starlink was an option or we’d be part funding Elon now.

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AnneH 1d ago

@daycoder @paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule @pluralistic 80/20 here non-remote village UK E Anglia FTTC SOGEA.

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⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️1d ago

@annehargreaves @daycoder @paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule @pluralistic Snap. Two working from home, fine. Sky Q also fine.

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Hywel

@falken @annehargreaves @paoloredaelli @dukeboitans @Sylocule @pluralistic we do as much as we can on Sky Q native because it downloads or records to HDD and then <<<>>> is amazing.