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@BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world

2026-04-18 21:27 UTC

> 25 Gbit Internet Sounds like they overspent massively on infrastructure. This is a waste of taxpayer money. You have to run some top tier industrial service from your home to utilize even 10% of that. There's literally no use case for avg Joe. Here's how this works in poland: Infrastructure is private, but law mandates that telecoms share with each other. The result is extremely competitive industry that delivers cheap internet over entire state. I'm running 600Mb down/30Mb up at equivalent of $20 a month, 23% VAT included. It's possible to get 1Gb+ but at that point most common networking hardware and cables are becoming bottleneck. I know literally noone who needs more than 1Gb symmetric connection. Market delivers what's mostly in demand, and it isn't 25Gb That needs extreme infrastructure on both sides, provider and user

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  • @marf@lemmy.world 2026-04-18 22:33

    I can’t imagine when privatised infrastructure is ever a good idea?

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  • @MrShankles@reddthat.com 2026-04-18 22:54

    Yeah, I have 1Gb fiber but all of my equipment is old and none of it can even utilize the entire Gb. I only keep it because I got a deal on it when they first ran fiber, had issues with someone severing the fiber to my house (like 12 times when "gardening"), and now I'm grandfathered-in to a cheaper price... so I keep it for whenever I do upgrade something. Which should be soon, if I ever get back to setting up my home server

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  • @BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 2026-04-18 21:38

    It's not necessarily a waste of tax payer money for a country as small as Switzerland. Switzerland is about twice as large as New Jersey, the 4th smallest US state. It makes sense for them to provide high bandwidth to everyone since their banks and data centers are in the same physical area as their living districts.

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