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What kind of office is it and where is it located?
by phinnaeus 7y ago
What kind of office is it and where is it located?
- 411111111111111 7y agonot the parent but that kind of situation is pretty normal in germany with consumer gigabit costs of about 50€/month. enterprise connections pay a premium, and smallish employers often don't want to spend money on monthly expenditures, so mostly ~50-200mbit shared between all people at the office
- gsich 7y agoOnly download. Upload is far worse usually.
- Roritharr 7y agoTo be fair, i spent 1500€/m for 1gbit fiber in the center of Frankfurt, which was considered cheap at the time. You can get 1g down, 50mbit up for less than a tenth of that with cable for example. We used that line heavily and I loved it, but I'm still unsure if I should rather have spent the money differently. We've moved now to a WeWork Style Location ( Studio from Tishman Speyer ) and are down to 100/100, have put our vpn equipment in a datacenter for 70€/m and nobody complains.
- 411111111111111 7y agorereading my message makes it sound like a complaint. That wasn't my intention at all. I know how much of a premium it costs and how little you need for anything but streaming video. The most efficient way is probably to get consumer cable through the CEO(for "private" access to YouTube etc) combined with a smallish business vdsl connection for everything company related.
- samoa42 7y agotrue, but qos is usually terrible and there is no sla to speak of on the consumer offerings. the most common offer (vodafone cable) has frequent outtages where you only hope is to call a robo-center and the optimal outcome is a troubleticket and maybe a refund. upload speed on gbit-cable is also only 50mbps... if your business relies on connectity, best to avoid it.
- kayoone 7y agothey are often "up to 1Gbps" and also not available everywhere. In my area it's also at least 70 EUR, so I am fine with 400Mbps at home.
- C1sc0cat 7y agoHow small if its over 5 or so They do know that consumer internet is asymmetrical and not practicable for real work. FYI ELM (ethernet last mile) at 70Mbs in the UK costs about £70 pm
- irrational 7y agoFortune 500 in Portland, Oregon. My home Internet is more than twice as fast as my office line.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoA dedicated 50mbps/50mbps fiber circuit for a business will be better quality than a home cable (coaxial) “100mbps” connection, shared between a million houses with 2mbps upload. Notice how you can’t even find upload bandwidth advertised for residential cable internet, much less other factors affecting connection quality.
- selimthegrim 7y agoHe may have fiber to the home
- irrational 7y agoI have a fiber optic line coming all the way to the box inside my home. The only coaxial line is the short line from the fiber box to the WiFi router.