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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Krist van Besien 1d ago

@pluralistic the nice thing about Init7 is that they are very geek friendly. You can run any hardware you want at your. end of the link, as long as your tranceiver sends/recieves the right frequencies.
Unfortunately not all of Switzerland has fibre yet though. The Urban core has it, but in remote mountain villages you are still stuck to either slow copper or cable, or have to use 5G. That is however a good option. I get 600M down, 200 up over 5G, with no caps (easily do over a Tb per month) for around 35$.
Starlink btw. is rather cheap here. Probably because there would be no takers otherwise...

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tizilogic

@krist @pluralistic It's not even necessary to live in remote areas or mountain villages to be stuck with dead slow copper.. I live a stone throw away from the largest city in Switzerland and all I get is 300M/50M via copper.
I asked the company in charge of the network build out in my area and I was told that we will get fiber in about a year or so.. given how slow they have been so far, I'm not sure if I can believe them.

what provider gives you no caps 5G for 35$ ???

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Krist van Besien 1d ago

@tizilogic @pluralistic Wingo. But I took advantage of a special discount.