/int/ - International

Is this where we compare our virtual penises?

>>27840 Gib gigabit internet

I'm already paying extra for this crappy upload, and apparently they've cut it from 50 to 20.

>>27836 YOU suffer? Go fuck yourself

>>27836 >>27840 Asynchronous upstream bandwidth. What is this 1999

>>27864 OP wasn't lying. Even though he's got comparatively fast internet.

>>27864 There is always very low upload speed in Germany. I heard that it is a piracy thing once, but i don't beliefe that.

>>27864 They fear the German seeder

>>27865 >>27866 >>27867 It's mostly same here since forever. My hypothesis has always been that it's kept that way on purpose. People are supposed to be good *consumers*. You take in. You don't give out. You don't serve. You are to be a passive consumer slave. The whole modern internet is designed around this.

>>27870 >consume I can't. Takes me a quarter of a day to download modern videogames.

I win.

>>27874 wtf man lol.. this is a 10/10 gig FTTH connection but i'm too poor for 10gig network hardware at the moment

I will have to change my ISP soon. Should I invest in my own router? I don't want to pay them rent for a fucking router that used to come with the contract.

I'm going to get fiber in five days. Initially ordered 100/50, but as soon as I have made sure that it wörks, I will upgrade to 300/150 at the same or almost the same price. I just haven't done that yet in order not to introduce any source of trouble before the connection is made and working. If the other side also has a fast connection, it will enable things like easy remote backups and even distributed compilation over the internet.

>>27882 It's a simple math exercise. It almost always makes sense to get your own in the long run. What's pretty cool at 1&1 (if you have that) is that you automatically own the router after 2 years. They keep charging you, but that only gets you some online storage (I think they just need to provide something so that it's technically not a scam). You do own the router outright after 24 months as per their terms of service. (If you add up the rent, you end up at pretty much the same price as buying it in a store, it's a fair deal.) At Telekom, AFAIK the router will never transfer to you, so cancel it ASAP and buy a used Fritzbox or something for 100-150.

>>27881 reeeee I have the hardware but I will have to wait another ten years before they even make such internet available here

Although I don't hate my current settis. It's not symmetric gigabit but it's fast enough.

>>27864 DSL usually has much less upload than download here, commonly 1/10th to 1/5th of download. Fortunately, with fiber it usually seems to be 1/2 of download, and that's with much higher download speeds. So all in all, finally pretty good upload.

Good enough for my needs

I used to have DSL 50/10. Between switching to a fiber contract and physically getting fiber (which is where I currently am), they at least unthrottled the upload of my DSL to get me closer to the speed I'm supposed to have with fiber... or something.

>>27874 Is that on a mountaintop? FWIW, at my parents, where fiber buildout has been "ongoing" for like three years now it seems likely that they... well, her, since he died in the meantime... will get it in the next half year. Deutsche Glasfaser, not even once, DSL speed is 3000/384. It is actually not terrible for most "regular" uses, but downloading large updates or torrents is annoying. Uploading large data is even more annoying. HD streaming usually works. Additional information: My first DSL connection (after moving out for university) had 384 kbit/s DOWNSTREAM and I was happy about it because I came from a modem connection. That was in 2003, when 768 was normally the slowest you could get. Our copper line was too long... >>27881 >10/10 gig FTTH WTF mang. How much do you pay for that?

Mine is 4g 40mbit/sec download ...

Same.

>>28162 It's probably init7: https://www.init7.net/