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The Chattanooga telecommunications company EPB is launching the first communitywide 25Gbps internet speed tier in the US.
[...] The 25,000Mbps plan, which features symmetrical download and upload speeds, is five times faster than AT&T's highly touted "hypergig" plan and Ziply Fiber's speediest tier. It's more than four times faster than the Gigabit Pro plan from Xfinity.
Chattanooga might still be most familiar for some as the city name-checked in the popular 1941 Glenn Miller Orchestra song Chattanooga Choo Choo. But to observers in the tech industry, it's been known as "Gig City" for more than 10 years. It was an early adopter of Gig-speed internet, offering it communitywide back in 2010, and it was the first US city to have a residential, 10 gig plan, back in 2015.
"We are once again breaking the typical approach for internet service providers by proactively upgrading to the latest technologies in anticipation of future needs," said EPB Board Chair Vicky Gregg in a press release. "Our goal is to enable new frontiers for technical innovation and job creation for our customers to the benefit of our whole community."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by RedGreen on Sunday August 28 2022, @02:14AM (2 children)
but no thanks at $1500 a month, that 1gb plan at $68 a month would be nice to have. No clue what the 1gb plan costs around here, but that is what I pay for mine here or close to it, I do not really care my 100/100 does all I need it to do. The amount of times I use it to capacity is extremely low percentage of my use of it, definitely no sense to waste money on extra speed never used.
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(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday August 29 2022, @03:57PM (1 child)
Here in the Pacific NW Ziply Fiber is $90/month for 1gig symmetrical service. Ironically I have to go home from the office for large file uploads at work.
(Score: 2) by RedGreen on Monday August 29 2022, @07:13PM
"Here in the Pacific NW Ziply Fiber is $90/month for 1gig symmetrical service."
Had to check you got me curious, $125 Canadian is what I can get it for. That being $8 bucks more than the exchange rate on your $90. I did discover while checking I am on bad deal I can get 500/500 line for $5 more, I see upgrade in my future for that puny amount.
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(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Sunday August 28 2022, @07:33AM (7 children)
I mean, right now it's maybe, how many? 100? Maybe a few 100 people who will have those 15gbit at their disposal. And you might wonder "what the hell do they do with that speed", becasue since there isn't widespread availability of those speeds, there isn't exactly any content being offered that makes relevant use of it just yet.
So there won't really be any relevant effect coming out of this, aside of a couple people waving a 15gbit e-peen about.
And then there is the only thing that can and does use bandwidths of this caliber: DDoS bots.
DDoS attacks today rely on the availability of high speed consumer links. Attacks in the terabit range have only become a reality once multi-mbit consumer links became widespread. Consumers don't know jack about securing their computers or their systems. Worse, consumer grade routers, the kind of shit that ISPs provide to their customers and those customers buy as a replacement for even shittier crap their ISPs hand them, are notoriously easily hacked and notoriously badly maintained and patched.
If this becomes adapted widely, expect to see the DDoS payload grow proportionally.
(Score: 4, Disagree) by MIRV888 on Sunday August 28 2022, @08:36AM (5 children)
If you have that kind of upstream you, don't need youtube to post video or files of whatever you want (at least in the short term). This will give all the really sh1tty people the ability to post to their audience with no restrictions whatsoever.
Nogood.com
(Score: 2, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2022, @08:49AM (2 children)
Govern me harder, daddy corpo! Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuoooooo
(Score: 2, Disagree) by MIRV888 on Sunday August 28 2022, @09:09AM (1 child)
You reveal your bias immediately.
Thank you for making my point.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2022, @09:12AM
If people hosting their own services gives you the vapors, you are pathetic.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday August 28 2022, @01:08PM
Presumably everybody has to abide by the Law of the Land whether a private individual or a company? It's not as if the authorities don't already monitor all internet connections and they can look at the traffic more or less whenever they like. I think they need to get some sort of a warrant in the UK, but I imagine that's pretty trivial.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 4, Informative) by EEMac on Sunday August 28 2022, @02:36PM
Let me recap this response: OMG people might post things YouTube doesn't like.
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Sunday August 28 2022, @09:08AM
But, but the ads, attacks and other bloat will arrive so much faster at your house. The delays due to ad auctions will remain however.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Appalbarry on Sunday August 28 2022, @09:04AM (2 children)
I'm from Canada, where sketchy cable Internet runs $110 a month. Admittedly that's an outlier in terms of what countries allow providers to charge people.
Here in France they are aggressively rolling out fibre most everywhere, including all of the thousands of tiny rural communes and villages. And I mean fibre to your door.
Right now we pay 19 € per month for that fibre service. And that's not some bogus introductory rate, that's the everyday regular price.
And, FWIW, the same price gets me 5g cel service with 200+ gigs of fast data and unlimited calling to all of Europe AND North America.
Really, there's something very wrong in North America, where essential services are so damned expensive.
(Score: 1) by liquibyte on Sunday August 28 2022, @12:41PM (1 child)
Outlier eh? I started at around $50 / mo. That has now crept up to $120 / mo. for no reason that's discernable by me. I don't use their equipment, never have. When they installed the service I specifically just had them run the line and I installed my own.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 01 2022, @03:52PM
Prices are creeping up in Australia too. Last time it was a bump of $5. Call it $60 for 25mb (50mb if you can find a deal) depending, unlimited data. Cheaper for other options. They wanted to increase profits so they could privatise and sell the network. Just like Telstra. Look how that turned out. NBN is okay for now. Waiting for the next price rise.
(Score: 4, Informative) by sjames on Sunday August 28 2022, @09:59PM (1 child)
Someone please tell me again the story about how corporations provide better and cheaper service than any government possibly can.
(Score: 2) by Spamalope on Monday August 29 2022, @01:33AM
Corporations sure as hell rent seek when they've got a monopoly, which is the problem for 'net service since we passed the dialup days.
(Score: 2) by Username on Sunday August 28 2022, @11:01PM
Walla Walla, Washington, or the man from Nantucket's internet connection?