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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Romania probably.

    They went hard on fiber investments a decade or two ago and now they have some of the world's best internet.

    Last I checked you could get 10 Gbit for around 12€

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  • [+] -21 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Last I checked you could get 10 Gbit for around 12€

    then it would be €1200 for a TB (assuming the price goes up linearly), so not cheaper than starlink

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    10 Gbit as in speed, not data cap. In Europe (at least in most places afaik) we don't have data caps on fiber.
    So no, not even close.

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  • [+] -13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Then you should write Gbit/s or Gbps, not just Gbit

    Also I live in Europe and my internet is capped at 50 GB and the max speed is 30 Mbps, so 10 Gbps is baffling to me.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Also in Europe (Germany). A cap to home Internet is kinda crazy to me. I don't measure my usage, but when I did, I usually used about 2-3tb per month.

    I have 1gbps down/300mbps up for 50€. Price is shit compared to other parts of Europe, but I can live with it.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I usually used about 2-3tb per month

    are we talking about a whole household or just you?

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  • Just me. Since I took that measurement, I changed my habits. I download fewer games, I stream a lot more stuff locally, but I also added a server to my network that does a lot of stuff, including relatively high bitrate video streaming to ten users, so it's probably even more these days.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think you’re misreading that as “10 GB of data,” when it’s actually download speeds of 10Gb/s. I looked it up, and there doesn’t seem to be a data cap.

    So it’s quite a bit cheaper than Starlink.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I'm not misreading. The comment clearly says 10 Gbit, not 10 Gb/s

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    While you are technically correct, gigabit almost universally refers to speeds, and not size. You can probably blame the ISPs for that, since they love to advertise “gigabit service” and drop the bit about “per second.”

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    well you can't blame me for misunderstanding the comment then can you

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    We pay 4.58€ for 1gbit/1gbit fiber in our condo association in Sweden...

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    how is this better? the twitter guy is ordering a TB not a GB

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    That gigabit per second, without any datacap.

    Twitter guy is ordering 1000 gigabyte worth of data, or slightly over 2 hours of internet in Sweden at full speed.

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    why is everyone dropping the "per second" part

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Because gigabytes (GB) are units of storage capacity, and gigabits (Gb) are units of data transfer rate.

    It's implied it's gigabits per second, as no one ever really measures it in like... Gigabits per hour, or year.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    A gigabit is defined as 1 billion bits of data which is equivalent to 8GB. Both are a unit of capacity.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I pay €18 for 250/100, of course unlimited data, and the company has no tracking and fully supports privacy etc. their main servers are based in the old cave where the pirate bay used to have theirs. It also comes with a great VPN, ID security and antivirus from f-secure (not that I use it since I'm on linux). And they just opened a datacenter inside an old war bunker in my city, with this description: "Freedom of communication and the virtual world need to withstand both Russian bombs and Donald Trump's Cloud Act. This industrial bunker is built for just that." In Sweden, if you hadn't guessed.

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