• dinckel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    This is kind of cool, but at the same time, there’s gotta be a catch. Beside that, I can’t imagine a situation where a residential location might want that. Even if I had a self-hosted data center for my entire family, their friends, and friends of their friends, I still couldn’t saturate that bandwidth

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        11 months ago

        About 10 years ago, the muni fiber outfit in the town next door lit up 10Gbit fiber for their entire footprint. The price? $900/mo. It’s currently $300/mo, and they just turned on 25Gbit across their entire footprint ($1500/mo).

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        11 months ago

        There’s probably still a bandwidth cap and it’s probably still the same shitty 1tb everyone else gets with overage charges per gigabyte or some shit.

        “It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon download a file for 12 seconds”

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          11 months ago

          They are pretty transparent on their terms on their website. No caps on any of their other plans.

          You are using shared bandwidth like all other residential plans, meaning that if there is no available bandwidth on the network you get what you get. That’s the catch.

          Turns out when you install bundles of 80Tb/s fiber long haul interconnects. Upselling to enthusiasts can be profitable.

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      11 months ago

      This is a publicity stunt and an ad, no, residential users don’t need it. No one is gonna sign up, but it’s viral marketing targeted to land in exactly places like this and we eat it up

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      11 months ago

      If I had this I’d probably just become the neighborhood ISP, sell 1 gig symmetrical to 49 houses for $100/mo and you’re no longer paying for that connection after 9 customers

      Permits, a mini JCB, buried fiber runs and stuff would be expensive though… as well as routers for each customer… ah maybe I’d pass on that business opportunity actually 😅

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        11 months ago

        You could probably also run a pretty mean Wi-Fi connection. Like neighborhood mesh Network, $50 a month per person.

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        11 months ago

        You could probably sell a 1gig service to 200 users on a 50gbps line. That’s how GPON works and mostly people don’t have issues.

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      11 months ago

      Why do we need anything more than a 56k modem? It’s already way faster than my 9600 baud setup.

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    11 months ago

    I haven’t looked into point to point wireless in a few years. Seems like this could be a use. One person pays and then blasts that connection to the whole neighborhood.

    Otherwise there is zero residential need for these speeds.

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    11 months ago

    I hope the three customers they ever get will be enough. That’s $10,800 which is more than many even make.