My Internet is awesome

[Roman]

Look at this. It's not in a data center, it's in my home lab -- very close to Google Fiber in terms of throughput.

 

[anodos]

I'm suspicious. That map doesn't look like any state I've seen, and a lot of those words look made-up. ;)

Seriously though, I'm very envious. The fastest internet where I live is a 100 mbit cable connection that costs an arm, leg, and half a kidney.

 

[DifferentStrokes]

It says Frankfurt on the bottom right. I'm assuming Germany. Makes me feel bad about my 15 down/1 up.

 

[Ericloewe]

Best we can get here is an incredibly asymmetric 1000/50, for 100€ plus the base 25/6/7€ (they jack up the price by a buck every year for new subscribers). And that's down from the 150€ they charged until this year.

 

[adrianwi]

And I though my home connection was good :o



I'd be more than happy though if I could get the same speed up as down :D

 

[rsquared]

And I though my home connection was good :o



I'd be more than happy though if I could get the same speed up as down :D

Your upload is better than my download... :(

 

[Jailer]

Here's mine running extremely fast right now since all the kidos are in school. My ping times double as soon as school lets out and from about 6PM on the speed goes down by at least half what is listed.

 

[joeschmuck]

Mine is basically what I pay for but I'd like the option to have faster upload speeds but it's all I need however it would be cool to have bragging rights to super high rates.

 

[Roman]

It's EU funded broadband FTTH Internet. The ISP is a tiny and practically unkwown regional IT company. Major ISPs WON'T EVER offer you that, never. It costs something like 100 EUR per month. Unlimited traffic, of course. Static IP is possible AFAIK.

I'm suspicious. That map doesn't look like any state I've seen, and a lot of those words look made-up.

It's http://www.speedtest.net/de/ where Franfurt a. M. only denotes the server location which is being measured against. Frankfurt a. M. (there are two such city names) is actually known as Germany's central Internet hot spot with several data centers located there.

 

[Pointeo13]

1Gbps service myself, I am planning on upgrading to 10Gbps service soon, trying to make a deal with the company to get the service a bit cheaper if I buy their gear for my house.

 

[Roman]

Shall we do LAN party then? :D

 

[jgreco]

Don't you know that taunting those of us who live in the broadband third world is not a good idea?

 

[anodos]

Don't you know that taunting those of us who live in the broadband third world is not a good idea?

Yeah, we have third-world amounts of guns to go with our third-world internet!

 

[jgreco]

Pretty much.

 

[Ericloewe]

Don't you know that taunting those of us who live in the broadband third world is not a good idea?

Most people here don't have 10GbE, much less any hope of seeing 10Gb Internet for quite a while.

Though at least I get 20% more bandwidth than advertised, instead of the 20% less that seems to be associated with Gigabit connections.

 

[BigDave]

I'm satisfied. Pay for 35up and 35down

 

[jgreco]

Most people here don't have 10GbE, much less any hope of seeing 10Gb Internet for quite a while.

Same here.

Though at least I get 20% more bandwidth than advertised, instead of the 20% less that seems to be associated with Gigabit connections.

I suspect that's largely a function of provisioning; an ISP provisioning a 50Mbps connection can easily configure the cap at 55Mbps or 60Mbps in order to "give them full speed". You cannot do that with a 1Gbps connection unless you move past 1Gbps hardware speeds. Plus most PC's really can't shove those bitrates around easily, Realtek and all.

 

[hugovsky]

Anyone that is above 16 mbit/s is not a real person.

 

[Ericloewe]

Anyone that is above 16 mbit/s is not a real person.

That's either insanely good DSL or a relatively crappy cell connection.

I suspect that's largely a function of provisioning; an ISP provisioning a 50Mbps connection can easily configure the cap at 55Mbps or 60Mbps in order to "give them full speed".

Yeah, judging by the setup, they're just using plain ol' 1000Base-EX or -ZX. Most fiber ISPs use GPON, which allows for neat things and is good enough for your typical connection. I think it's good for 1.25Gb/s bidirectional, plus RF overlay at 1550nm.

 

[jgreco]

It's always seemed to me that it was unfortunate that complicated layers like GPON got a foothold. From my point of view, which is admittedly a bit ethercentric, I see lots of cable TV dist amps and VDSL pedestals all over the place and they seem like way too big and way too frequent. LX always struck me as a useful balance between inexpensive and flexible. Wire up a neighborhood (or several) with FTTH, bring them to something like a SLC hut, and then run big backhaul from there, preferably on a redundant loop of some sort.