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I guess they don't bother using Speedtest in Switzerland, as the average speed seems about the same as the US: https://www.speedtest.net/global-index https://ww
by trynumber9 3mo ago
I guess they don't bother using Speedtest in Switzerland, as the average speed seems about the same as the US:
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
Must be a sampling bias or something.
- ks2048 3mo agoBrazil is surprisingly good. What are they doing right?
- danpalmer 3mo agoI ran speed tests a lot more when I had internet that varied from 5-20MB depending on the day/weather/etc. Now I'm on >1GB it's so rarely a concern that I don't bother. I suspect this skews the data significantly.
- aaron695 3mo ago[dead]
- SXX 3mo agoMost people use Speedtest when something going terrible wrong and they have packet loss, extreme latency or something similar. Or before renting out their appartment on AirBnB.
- not_your_vase 3mo agoYou know, in Switzerland there is a thing, that if a product or service has the name "Swiss" in its name, then it can be sold for any price regardless of quality - and it will fly off the shelves. I know it sounds ridiculous, but it's true. Swisscom is the biggest ISP in Switzerland - they charge high prices for very slow internet. But they have the word "Swiss" in their name, so it's okay to sell 100 Mbps connection for 70 CHF, which many people buys. But the same people can get 10 Gbps connection at the same place for 40-50 CHF also by simply visiting a competing store, and spending 15 minutes on it. But that won't have the word "Swiss" in it.
- arthurofbabylon 3mo agoThere really is this bias — it’s crazy. Not just the name “Swiss,” but allusions to the Swiss flag, Swiss typography, other Swiss branding. It almost looks like some of the products are state run. (Also, the internet connection actually is phenomenally good.)
- toast0 3mo ago> allusions to the Swiss flag, It is a big plus.
- pascahousut 3mo agoI see red when I read this kind of comments.
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- fmajid 3mo agoSwiss law does require an overwhelming majority of the value of a product be made in Switzerland to use Swiss flag branding, or even Swiss landmarks or other signifiers of Swiss-ness. That's why Toblerone had to remove the drawing of the Matterhorn they've had since forever on the side of their triangular tubes, because some production has been shifted to Poland.
- earth_tattoo 3mo agoI wish my country India was like that, because we are totally opposite. Anything made in India is considered very bad quality and will not fetch a good price even if better than imported goods.
- initramfs 3mo agoI've noticed a similar thing when buying products online. Overseas sellers from Asia will package their product as "Designed in Germany" or include a red cross to indicate Swiss design, but may not actually be designed or manufactured in Switzerland. Nice packaging though :)
- dheera 3mo agoI did an internship in Switzerland in 2007 and mobile data was 14 USD/MB while I had unlimited data in the US. The place I was staying in Zurich had only 128 kbps ISDN while I had a symmetric gigabit line in my US dorm room. At that time I thought Switzerland was the most backward country ever. Things change, I guess.
- hahahaa 3mo agoOr like your apples is what people have chosen and the oranges is what is available to buy if you want it. I upgaded to 1000mbps as it is the same price now as slower but only time itll make a difference is downloading a model or huge installer.
- microtonal 3mo agoThat says as much about socioeconomics (price sensitivity, laws that prohibit calling for upselling, etc.) as actual speed. E.g. in my country, the last time I looked over 95% had a fiber connection to home and the major providers offer 1Gbit (for connections still on AON) or 4 to 8Gbit (on XGS-PON). Yet, our average is still a mid 230Mbit. Why? People sticking with cable internet out of inertia, people sticking with cable because they have more attractive TV packages. People choosing 100 or 200 Mbit because it's cheaper (e.g. my parents just stick to 200Mbit because they don't need more for web browsing and some streaming). Same for cellular. My country is only in the 17th position, yet I have 1Gbit 5G cellular with unlimited data for ~25 Euro per month. Most people just don't want to spend more than 10 per month and go for cheap plans/providers. But such price sensitivity differs a lot per country.
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- Aurornis 3mo agoYou're not missing anything. The article is trying to imply that 25G is everywhere in Switzerland, but it's not. They just picked the fastest available speed and ignored the fact that some places in the United States also have 25G internet available.
- slopinthebag 3mo agoThe funny thing is, it works on people outside of Switzerland too. There are actual Americans fooled by this blatant marketing in this very thread.
- jkarni 3mo agoThe limiting factor on speed-tests when you have 10-25 Gbps internet is WiFi. That’s what this is more likely showing.
- Youden 3mo ago25Gbps is available but not common. Most average people will buy 10Gbps P2MP from Swisscom, Sunrise, Salt etc., the really big companies with marketing all over the cities. Then they'll use WiFi with the default modem and not reach anything like 25Gbps. 25Gbps requires pretty unusual hardware to use (see [0] for example) and you need to pay a couple hundred francs for installation so even among the geeks and nerds, it's not common. I have it myself but recommend to friends and colleagues to use Init7 but 10Gbps instead. [0]: https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-internet-router-pc-build/ https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-...
- Hikikomori 3mo agoSince its 2026 now we have easier alternatives. https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/cloud-gateways/efg?subcategory=all-cloud-gateways https://techspecs.ui.com/unifi/cloud-gateways/efg?subcategor... https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2216_1g_12xs_2xq https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2216_1g_12xs_2xq