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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Andreas K

@Sylocule
Sniff

Now if I didn't live in a complex that has been cable company territory since it has been built.

Actually no one would admit it in writing but no fibre company would bother to lay fibre into our houses.

So it ends with with 1gbit/100mbit

Actually for what T-mobile charges for that I can get a potentially better upstream via 5G but there it's that "potentially".

While cable generally delivers the bandwidth. Sigh.
@pluralistic

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Tiggy 1d ago

@yacc143 @Sylocule @pluralistic

I finally managed to get fibre.
It was laid in my street a few years ago but they missed the 3 houses on the top path. It took my broadband provider nearly 10 maths of nagging but I finally got it. Free. And compensation from Openreach meant I didn't pay anything on my usual bill for 9 mths.
Just occasionally the rules work, not without a battle but eventually.