Home internet is so fast now and hardware is so cheap and powerful its a good solution. It amazes me how expensive aws compared to having your own hardware.

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cenamus 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wish it was that fast. Somehow in the past 15 years prices for a 10/100/200Mbit have stayed exactly the same, only Gigabit came down a smidge to around 70 euro/month now. As if all the hardware and switches hadn't evolved at all.

And for some reason, nowadays over 5G you get pretty much the exact same speed/price combos as for DSL or cable, only with less guarantees.

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jeroenhd 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It highly depends on where you live.

I can get gigabit for about €32,50 a month. 2gbps for about €40. Unfortunately, the cheap ISP that offers these rates doesn't have IPv6 so I'll stay with my current one. €70/mo would get me 4gbps symmetrical with another ISP. All of those include a WiFi 7 capable router, of course.

Prices have increased, but high prices are a local problem. The €35 price for cheap gigabit would equate to about €20 in 2000, so I think prices have stagnated alright, but speeds have evolved a lot since then.

	▲	nottorp 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Kinda off topic, but I'm staying on a 500 mbps pipe for now... simply because I don't see the reason for more. I could get up to 2 Gbit by making a phone call to my curent ISP but why?
	▲	cenamus 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		May I ask which country that is?

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asdff 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think they are ever going to run gigabit over to me if they haven't by this point.

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cenamus 9 hours ago | parent [-]

That's the other point, fibre can be a bit cheaper but not even all 10 year old apartment blocks have fibre run in to building??? If you wanna get it installed that'll be at least a couple hundred extra

	▲	asdff 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		More than that. When I called about it they made it seem like I had to pay for the entire installation from wherever the nearest fiber line was all the way to my place. They quoted me a couple thousand dollar price and I never asked again because I don't even own this place.

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00deadbeef 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not that expensive everywhere. In the UK I can get 1000/1000Mbps for £29 a month, and 8000/8000Mbps for £99 a month.

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arccy 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

with 30% inflation in the euro area over the past 10 years... the price has maybe gone down in real terms by staying the same?

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cenamus 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And how much has equipment gotten faster/cheaper? Tad bit over 30% I'd say, on the side of 10x? 50x? 100x?

	▲	arccy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		the cost of actually getting the equipment into use (laying down new fiber etc) probably went up though.

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LeoPanthera 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Home internet is only fast downstream.

Upstream is usually awful.

(At least in the USA.)

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acuozzo 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Verizon FiOS has had symmetric gigabit service available for well over a decade for a reasonable price.

Where in the USA are you?

	▲	swiftcoder 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Anywhere outside of a tech hub, usually. The cable TV providers all had a lot of downstream (to carry television), and very little upstream, and they have largely done little to fix that state of affairs.

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winrid 12 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Except for fiber, for all providers I'm aware.

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ptmcc 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My home fiber is symmetric gigabit in Seattle, for $65/mo