Cory Doctorow1d ago

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/

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I think the best I can get with the providers around here (Verizon and Cox) is 2Gbps. Looking at Verizon's page for my address, they're only showing 1Gbps (for $80/mo). Cox wants $100/mo for their 1Gbps plan. While Cox has traditionally favored asymmetrical provisioning, Verizon's plan is bi-directional. That said, I've only bothered with a 500Mbps plan:

1. There's just two of us living here

2. While we have two large-screen TVs and three computers, only one of the TVs and one of the computers is 4K

3. When we're streaming video, it's not frequently 4K (most YouTube videos caps out at HD and little of the programming via Hulu — etc. — is 4K)

4. We don't really watch 4K content on other than the one TV (below 50", 4K is kind of a waste, even on my laptop's OLED …and definitely not worth a bother on our phones)

5. With the exception of the TVs, we're usually VPNed and the VPN service's per-session throughput doesn't go at our broadband plan's maximum throughput

Mostly, I opted for the plan I did because it was the cheapest FTTH option Verizon still makes available in our service-area.
Apr 7 at 11:19amWeb