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Fiber is key. I see that here (Switzerland) where places that have existing and new fiber to home can now get 25gbit synchronous for peanuts (~80 USD per month)
by sschueller 5y ago
Fiber is key. I see that here (Switzerland) where places that have existing and new fiber to home can now get 25gbit synchronous for peanuts (~80 USD per month). It's difficult to even purchase hw to deal with 25gbit.
Meanwhile 5g promise of 2gbits actually delivers in most places around 200mbits download and maybe 50mbit up.
What I hate is when companies like Sunrise state on their website that 5G is just like fiber when it will never be. Moving light through a clean dedicated piece of glass can't be compared to a medium constantly changing in water and gas content.
- rektide 5y agothere was a road crew cutting up pavement in front of my house & I went out to chat. 5g is coming to the street pole outside. guess what's not coming to it? fiber. the cell will just have power, just be a repeater. it's distressing to me that we're chopping up this city & have an exclusive huge 5g provider rolling out really expensive hardware, and a large-ish % of those radios haven't even been afforded their own net connection. most of my neighbors have fiber but the cellular system itself is in sizable part repeaters? this feels like a scalability problem in the making, feels like a way to foolishly recreate bandwidth scarcity on the airwaves.