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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 a
by t0mas88 6y ago
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.
- sudosysgen 6y ago... 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.
- zucker42 6y agoI feel like you didn't read the comment you replied to carefully. Did you have GB upload speeds with cable too?
- sudosysgen 6y agoNot 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.
- user5994461 6y agoFrance 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.