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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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The actual answer is nobody needs it or wants it.
Few will buy 1.5G+ switches to support it. Fewer will run wires though the walls.
It's a worthless service.
I use my shit a lot and can barely saturate my local network with 1G with 4 others in the house.
No the actual answer is that AT&T never spent federal money on actually upgrading their infrastructure for resedntial fiber service.
It would be natural for everyone to be on an 10Gb XGS-PON standard because it's the latest standard. There'd be little cost difference for an ISP in upgrading stuff with something cheaper.
I can saturate a 5Gb connection no sweat lol. Unified upload/download speeds makes all that p2p tech way the hell more viable.
👌👍 you're definitely not an edge case. Everyone is clamoring for bandwith here 🙄
You’re but ONE in a population of billions… « nobody » is a tad of an extrapolation based on you as a sample. I would gladly have more bandwidth. I have services that consumes a lot of it, we are 5 under the roof and everyone likes to stream & d/l on steam…
So between you and I it’s 50% in need of more bandwidth.
👌👍 all 12 of you
Everyone here just hinges they're existence on edge cases. And then asks to be subsidized 🙄
My point is; maybe you are the edge case… you are the one making over-généralisations. Which, through time, will likely be found to be plainly false.
There was a time when ISDN was deemed unnecessary for home users that were relegated to 56k bauds.
And now look at your 2gbps. Then consider 10 years from now.
I’m working in telco / isp and bandwidth is certainly a topic we like to scale based on the increase of average traffic from homes.
👌👍🤣
You just said if people were buying the telocos would scale up 🤣
I'm one of the few. I had 40 Gb/s-capable Category 8 cables installed in my walls, and I'm building a 10 Gb/s router out of a PC. I can easily upgrade it to a 40 Gb/s router by dropping a hundred on a new NIC.
Congrats. I'm not subsidizing you though 🤣
If you're an American you've already subsidized fiber infrastructure but the private telecoms just pocketed the money
Yeah I'm sure that money 25 years ago would have got us to 25G 🙄
Does Comcast pay you to be an asshole on the internet?
Oh I'm very fucking sorry I couldn't care less about unsubsidized Internet you nerd 🤣