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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Sylocule

@paoloredaelli @pluralistic @dukeboitans We’re on 600/600 - I work from home, my wife sometimes teaches online, we stream a lot and my children are often streaming and gaming online and there’s never lag