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Re:Tales from the far-flung Faroes by isostatic on Saturday June 02, 2018 @10:36AM (#17214756)
What internet connectivity do you get? I assume it's just one submarine cable - do you get reliability problems? Are speeds limited?

What about on island connectivity, mainly wireless, or are your lines (especially on the remote islands) good enough for DSL?

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Re:Tales from the far-flung Faroes by Sammi on Saturday June 02, 2018 @04:41PM (#17216258)
There are two fast modern submarine cables connecting the faroe islands:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FARICE-1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHEFA-2

Prices of one of the major ISPs: https://www.ft.fo/ver/breidband/

50/10 - 487 dkk, 65.42 euro, 76.29 usd

75/10 - 497 dkk, 66.76 euro, 77.86 usd

100/20 - 527 dkk, 70.79 euro, 82.56 usd

And the other: https://hey.fo/internet/heimanet/breidband/

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Re:Tales from the far-flung Faroes by Symbiote on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:43PM (#17222818)
For comparison, this is about 50% higher than the same services cost from the major ISPs in Denmark.

Although where there's fibre to a large apartment building, it can be half the typical rate.

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