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In my city (Europe) many ISPs have stopped offering fiber and are now mostly pushing 5G "broadband connection". I moved last autumn and had to get 5G. I can att

In my city (Europe) many ISPs have stopped offering fiber and are now mostly pushing 5G "broadband connection". I moved last autumn and had to get 5G. I can attest that it is pure garbage. Connection drops several times a day and I have never seen speeds any faster than 4G, often dropping to ADSL speeds during high congestion. The modem is also buggy as hell and needs to be rebooted at least weekly (believe it or not - it even came pre-installed with a setting that reboots it every night!) I am currently negotiating with two ISPs to get private fiber, because I simply can not work from home with this unreliable connection. It's going to be expensive, but OTOH adds to the value of my home.

sofixa 5y ago
> In my city (Europe) As a fellow European, please don't do this. There's a bunch of very different countries on that continent, so the information provided by "Europe" is extremely limited baring rough geographic area. Plus you sound like an American who doesn't know anything about anything but claims "Europe does this so communism" and similar, you know the type. If you don't want to dox yourself, you could at least state "Northern Europe" or "Southern" or w/e and rough size ( mid-sized). ISPs in a small town in Germany doing only 5G wouldn't surprise me; in a big city in Bulgaria it would.