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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by zrav on Monday August 05, 2019 @02:40PM (#20617059)
40 for 50 is not so bad. Some regional ISPs installing FTTB/FTTH offer 100mbps + voice for ~40€, which is a pretty good deal.

Due to heavy oversubscribing cable is an inferior product in Germany (on weekends actual speeds drop to a fraction of the advertised line speed), and the biggest cable provider by far (Kabel Deutschland/Vodafone) has serious user support and service quality issues, not to mention they only offer ipv6 dual-stack lite connectivity.

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Re:Germans Grow Frustrated with Their Slow-Poke Internet by siddhant on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:30PM (#20619840)
Interesting. Not sure if it's location dependent, but I've had a considerably better/faster/stabler experience with cable. With DSL the connection keeps breaking all the time. And yes, Vodafone definitely has support/quality issues.
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