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Re:How to make the internet small again by jacquesm on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:13AM (#30345437)
That's pretty easy to understand though: that 150 soul village is in the middle of a much less dense area than the heart of Berlin, so a line that would pretty much always be saturated in Berlin will have plenty of capacity left in that small village.

For the best - and cheapest - bandwidth: total deregulation of telcos. Like what happened in Romania, which has the cheapest and best connectivity of any European country. Which really isn't what you'd expect.

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Re:How to make the internet small again by tomatodevice on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @07:24AM (#30345535)
I'm not sure if I prefer a slow ftth deployment or the spaghetti cabling of hell from Bucharest streets. There must be a way to do it correctly...
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Re:How to make the internet small again by jacquesm on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:13AM (#30345942)
Last I lived there (2015) it was very well organized and more reliable than most other infrastructure in Romania.
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Re:How to make the internet small again by mro_name on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @04:25PM (#30365911)
the lines rarely are the issue but the copper-cable length from home to the DSLAM:

Less cable-meters mean less reachable households per DSLAM. And the DSLAM costs - both hardware and maintenance. Regardless if 2 or 20 customers connect. So the carrier wants to conect as many as possible and so they have to suffer cable length.

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