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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by t0mas88 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @01:46PM (#23554350)
Many providers in EU countries offer 1gbps fiber as an option, but the most sold option is more like 200-250mbit because the price is lower. And many of those are cable based which means only 25 or 50mbit uplink, not symmetrical like fiber. So that would require 100,000 endpoints participating.

But this was a reflection attack, so most of the bandwidth was coming from poorly secured servers. In datacenters those would most likely have 1 Gbps uplink speeds.

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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by sudosysgen on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @03:57PM (#23555992)
... Or only 2300 high value endpoints. You can select your endpoints, you know.

Also, even cable is capable of Gigabit speeds. I briefly had 1.2Gbps via cable, downgraded to 400Mbps as it became cheaper.

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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by zucker42 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:12PM (#23556148)
I feel like you didn't read the comment you replied to carefully.

Did you have GB upload speeds with cable too?

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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by sudosysgen on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:23PM (#23556269)
Not gigabit upload, but I got close at 700Mbps, and some cable providers offer gigabit upload speeds in some regions, cogeco for example offers gigabit symmetrical cable in Trois-Rivières.
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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by user5994461 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @04:19PM (#23556240)
France is widely offering 1 Gbps symmetric fiber in major cities. The 3 major ISP offer the same unique package for 35e a month with internet and phone and TV, not negotiable. That's gigabit fiber if your home is in a area covered by fiber.
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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by tzs on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @05:21PM (#23556933)
Do the ISPs have enough outgoing bandwidth to the internet for all their 1 Gbps symmetric fiber customers to maintain a 1 Gbps sustained upload simultaneously?
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Re:AWS said it mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS attack by rubatuga on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:56AM (#23559913)
no
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