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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by WoodenChair on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:22PM (#20615372)
Why do you consider that expensive? If it’s reliable, it sounds very reasonable to me. 1 dinner out.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by lloda on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:27PM (#20615424)
I pay about that for ‘10 Gbps’ in CH. I don't even have a machine with a 10 Gbps port, but there isn't anything cheaper here that makes sense.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by rsynnott on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:26AM (#20624482)
Does the ISP equipment even have a 10Gbps port? I know someone here (Ireland) who had an early consumer 1Gbps FTTP connection. The ISP provided equipment had 100Mbps ports and 802.11n...
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by C1sc0cat on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:29PM (#20615452)
That's connection speed what payload do you get on average.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by lloda on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:47PM (#20615627)
That's why I put the speed in quotes. I get about 900 Mbps both ways on my computer that has only a 1 Gbps port.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by siddhant on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:32PM (#20619858)
My point of comparison is the internet prices/quality in India. Post Jio, fast internet seems to be practically free over there.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by whatshisface on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:25PM (#20615400)
It's all relative to what you can get in the market. It's very expensive compared to what is available in countries with good internet.
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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by mic47 on Monday August 05, 2019 @12:28PM (#20615436)
well, maybe because in some other EU countries it's 22 EUR for 500Mbit :-)
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