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25 Gigabit Per Second Fiber Retail Broadband Service Demoed in New Zealand
25 gigabits per second — both downloading and uploading. CRN reports broadband infrastructure wholesaler Chorus demonstrated those speeds over their existing passive optical fiber network [PON].
The demonstration in Auckland achieved 21.4 Gbps throughput, tested simultaneously on the same strand of fibre that ran an 8 Gbps sy ... ⌘ Read more
Meanwhile in Australia we're still struggling with the ongoing battle with NBN Co that the multiple "screw ups" between Labor and Liberal governments that have resulted in most of the country still on effectively "slightly" better ADSL (vDSL2+). Here for example I still have to put up with the unreliability of ~600m of Copper with a vDSL service and all the constant drop-outs that comes with. Not to mention it's a measly ~60Mbps Downstream and ~30Mbps upstream (if I'm lucky). NBN is a joke.~
Meanwhile in Australia we're still struggling with the ongoing battle with NBN Co that the multiple "screw ups" between Labor and Liberal governments that have resulted in most of the country still on effectively "slightly" better ADSL (vDSL2+). Here for example I still have to put up with the unreliability of ~600m of Copper with a vDSL service and all the constant drop-outs that comes with. Not to mention it's a measly ~60Mbps Downstream and ~30Mbps upstream (if I'm lucky). NBN is a joke.~
@prologic Not that much better here in Germany. 😅 I have 50 Mbps down and 6 Mbps up. (I *could* upgrade, but that’ll get irrationally expensive and it’ll still be asymmetrical *and* shared with other people.)
Optical fibre is being rolled out very, very slowly. That’ll take ages until it becomes the standard.
(Honestly, though, speed is not my main concern. I’d love to run my servers here at home, but that won’t work for email, you get blacklisted immediately ’cause your IP is from a “bad network” …)
@prologic Not that much better here in Germany. 😅 I have 50 Mbps down and 6 Mbps up. (I *could* upgrade, but that’ll get irrationally expensive and it’ll still be asymmetrical *and* shared with other people.)
Optical fibre is being rolled out very, very slowly. That’ll take ages until it becomes the standard.
(Honestly, though, speed is not my main concern. I’d love to run my servers here at home, but that won’t work for email, you get blacklisted immediately ’cause your IP is from a “bad network” …)
@prologic Not that much better here in Germany. 😅 I have 50 Mbps down and 6 Mbps up. (I *could* upgrade, but that’ll get irrationally expensive and it’ll still be asymmetrical *and* shared with other people.)
Optical fibre is being rolled out very, very slowly. That’ll take ages until it becomes the standard.
(Honestly, though, speed is not my main concern. I’d love to run my servers here at home, but that won’t work for email, you get blacklisted immediately ’cause your IP is from a “bad network” …)
@movq huh. I would've expected consumer grade Internet services in Germany to be much better! 😳
@movq huh. I would've expected consumer grade Internet services in Germany to be much better! 😳
@prologic Probably depends a lot on where you live.
I tried to look up the current prices and availability, but, sorry, not in the mood for that. 😅 The ISPs try to cheat you every step along the way. It’s super annoying to read through all the footnotes. 😅
Maybe @lyse can weigh in on that. In my experience, most people have 100 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, or maybe twice as much. (It always says “*up to* $x Mbps”, there’s no guarantee.) But that’s usually it. The ISPs also focus a lot on *downstream*, hardly any lines are symmetrical.
(It’s a first world problem, of course. Unless you live in very rural areas, you will have some sort of *good* internet access.)
Oh, btw, still no IPv6 for me. 🤣*
@prologic Probably depends a lot on where you live.
I tried to look up the current prices and availability, but, sorry, not in the mood for that. 😅 The ISPs try to cheat you every step along the way. It’s super annoying to read through all the footnotes. 😅
Maybe @lyse can weigh in on that. In my experience, most people have 100 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, or maybe twice as much. (It always says “*up to* $x Mbps”, there’s no guarantee.) But that’s usually it. The ISPs also focus a lot on *downstream*, hardly any lines are symmetrical.
(It’s a first world problem, of course. Unless you live in very rural areas, you will have some sort of *good* internet access.)
Oh, btw, still no IPv6 for me. 🤣*
@prologic Probably depends a lot on where you live.
I tried to look up the current prices and availability, but, sorry, not in the mood for that. 😅 The ISPs try to cheat you every step along the way. It’s super annoying to read through all the footnotes. 😅
Maybe @lyse can weigh in on that. In my experience, most people have 100 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up, or maybe twice as much. (It always says “*up to* $x Mbps”, there’s no guarantee.) But that’s usually it. The ISPs also focus a lot on *downstream*, hardly any lines are symmetrical.
(It’s a first world problem, of course. Unless you live in very rural areas, you will have some sort of *good* internet access.)
Oh, btw, still no IPv6 for me. 🤣*
@prologic Yup, I fully agree with you, @movq. We're like a third world country in that regard. In big cities it's usually not too bad, but in more rural areas you're often centuries behind. I'm lucky that I cannot complain too much here about the service (except for the price). A speed test just revealed new all-time records: 56.72 Mbps download and 11.95 Mbps upload. I can't really believe that.