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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Show threadJacob Olness1d ago
@pluralistic we recently got 8gig fiber (granted I live in Montana) and I’ve never felt so smart for buying 10 gig networking gear. 25Gbe is insane. I’d definitely be buying a bunch of used mellanox SFP28 cards and optics
Show threadRBuzz
@jolness @pluralistic what? I cant imagine any decent way a person could utilize this. You are building AI data center to flood last strongholds of human internet with images of cat stippers or what?
Apr 7 at 8:18pmTusky
Show threadJacob Olness20h ago
@rbuzz @pluralistic I often work with large repositories and other large files. I was paying $110 for 1gig/30mbps (down/up) before and this is $90. And I can stream my media library anywhere with no buffering from my home connection and VPN my traffic through it when I’m away if needed.
It’s a little overkill still for me but being able to push a 7GB file in less than 10 seconds instead of a half hour is nice.
Show threadwall-e12h ago

@jolness @rbuzz @pluralistic the usecases will come when the infra's there. Infrastructure shapes reality.

Imagine if this kind of "enterprise level" networking had been widely available to private households during the dotcom years...

I'd like to imagine we'd have a lot less centralized, less consumption-centered Internet today

Show threadSvavar the Neurospicy11h ago

@wall_e @jolness @rbuzz @pluralistic

This along with the increasing proliferation of IPv6 certainly opens the door for a lot more self hosting of Mastodon, Nextcloud, video conferencing, Counter Strike, and more.

Of course also ring cameras and telemetry from every device in your home.

Show threadJohn Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁💪⬆️11h ago
@wall_e @jolness @rbuzz @pluralistic "home robosurgery with realtime MRI and particle physics experiments.com"