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[-] unmagical@lemmy.ml 157 points 1 month ago

Damn, maybe you should move to a radical leftist city where fiber internet is $50 a month.

[-] sudoku@programming.dev 41 points 1 month ago
[-] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago
[-] ECB@feddit.org 54 points 1 month ago

Romania probably.

They went hard on fiber investments a decade or two ago and now they have some of the world's best internet.

Last I checked you could get 10 Gbit for around 12€

[-] errer@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Best place in the world to acquire porn: it’s made there (farm to table), and you can download it nigh instantly

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 9 points 1 month ago

Do they have porn markets like farmer markets?

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last I checked you could get 10 Gbit for around 12€

then it would be €1200 for a TB (assuming the price goes up linearly), so not cheaper than starlink

[-] Liome@pawb.social 28 points 1 month ago

10 Gbit as in speed, not data cap. In Europe (at least in most places afaik) we don't have data caps on fiber.
So no, not even close.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Then you should write Gbit/s or Gbps, not just Gbit

Also I live in Europe and my internet is capped at 50 GB and the max speed is 30 Mbps, so 10 Gbps is baffling to me.

[-] VeganCheesecake 4 points 1 month ago

Also in Europe (Germany). A cap to home Internet is kinda crazy to me. I don't measure my usage, but when I did, I usually used about 2-3tb per month.

I have 1gbps down/300mbps up for 50€. Price is shit compared to other parts of Europe, but I can live with it.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

I usually used about 2-3tb per month

are we talking about a whole household or just you?

[-] VeganCheesecake 1 points 4 weeks ago

Just me. Since I took that measurement, I changed my habits. I download fewer games, I stream a lot more stuff locally, but I also added a server to my network that does a lot of stuff, including relatively high bitrate video streaming to ten users, so it's probably even more these days.

[-] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago

I think you’re misreading that as “10 GB of data,” when it’s actually download speeds of 10Gb/s. I looked it up, and there doesn’t seem to be a data cap.

So it’s quite a bit cheaper than Starlink.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not misreading. The comment clearly says 10 Gbit, not 10 Gb/s

[-] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

While you are technically correct, gigabit almost universally refers to speeds, and not size. You can probably blame the ISPs for that, since they love to advertise “gigabit service” and drop the bit about “per second.”

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

well you can't blame me for misunderstanding the comment then can you

[-] DesertCreosote@lemm.ee 1 points 4 weeks ago

I wasn’t blaming you. You were just one of today’s lucky 10,000, which is awesome!

[-] Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world 1 points 4 weeks ago

I read it, I spotted the typo.

I knew what they were driving at.

[-] kaosof@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

We pay 4.58€ for 1gbit/1gbit fiber in our condo association in Sweden...

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

If only I could immigrate. Know any single swedes looking for a spouse?

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

how is this better? the twitter guy is ordering a TB not a GB

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That gigabit per second, without any datacap.

Twitter guy is ordering 1000 gigabyte worth of data, or slightly over 2 hours of internet in Sweden at full speed.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

why is everyone dropping the "per second" part

[-] kaosof@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Because gigabytes (GB) are units of storage capacity, and gigabits (Gb) are units of data transfer rate.

It's implied it's gigabits per second, as no one ever really measures it in like... Gigabits per hour, or year.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

A gigabit is defined as 1 billion bits of data which is equivalent to 8GB. Both are a unit of capacity.

[-] kaosof@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Technically correct, but that's not how it's actually used. Gigabit is not used in any meaningful context outside of as a measure of data transfer rates.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

That is new to me and in contradiction with any information I can find online but ok

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Flat fee of ~€70 to connect and then free for as long as I live in this apartment. 1000/1000 speeds as well, pretty sick honestly

[-] frank@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

13-18€ for 1gig/1gig in Copenhagen is the going rate

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Sad German noises :/

40€ for 250M over cable here. At least I don't have issues with congestion/slowdown in the evening, which is a common downside of cable.

[-] LePoisson@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Sad German noises, never mind those, sad USA noises because yours is still better than ours.

[-] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

Us lucky fiber users, I can get 8gig symmetrical for $300 and 2 gig for $75 a month. Still nothing like other non American countries but damn do I have it good for living here.

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