Apply for cable and/or DSL connection

How fast will the DSL connection be? If there is also cable there, it may be that DSL is only rudimentarily developed.

Where there is currently cable, in my view there will be no FTTH expansion in the medium term. That also makes little sense, since the cable still has a lot of potential. The problems usually do not lie with the cable itself, but with the provider who often hopelessly oversubscribes the segments.

I would do both.

Have everything installed. That way you can switch anytime. We only use the cable connection for the internet. TV runs via IP-TV (Zattoo)

That was our plan. Unfortunately, it's not always that simple. Cable connection was supposed to cost us 17K€ net, fiber optic to the house as well. DSL 800€. Cable would indeed only have been a backup. Preference would have been fiber optic, VDSL second choice, and cable only a necessary evil if nothing else worked. About 35K€ for cable/fiber optic was still too much for us. So we have "only" VDSL with 75/40 Mbit. Especially for me, it was a disaster at first. But just a lot of hot air. The times when I constantly downloaded 100GB of game data are over. Today, with kids and all, I do that overnight and play, if at all, a few days later. Netflix, Prime, Disney+, Spotify also run wonderfully in parallel. And Magenta TV works great too. So complaining at a high level. We have fiber optic in the house. As soon as Telekom expands here, we can switch and cable can go jump in a lake.

We have fiber optic installed in the house.

What do you mean by that? One or some fiber optic cables from the house entry point to X? That is rarely necessary.

What do you mean by that? One/some fiber(s) from the building entry point to X? That is rarely necessary, though.

That was poorly phrased. The cable has already been blown into the house from the street and is now lying there unused. We didn't actually order it that way, but since it didn't cost extra, as it turned out, it's just going to stay there. So if the street is ever connected with fiber optic, we can apparently connect directly.

Oh, interesting - especially that they have already blown in the fibers. In our area, all houses are now supplied with the pipes, but the fibers (from the distribution point 200 m away) only come in once the connection is activated for the first time.

How far does the fiber go? At the end, it would have to be spliced again, so everything would have to be reopened.

Oh, interesting – especially that they have already blown in the fibers. Here, all houses are now supplied with the pipes, but the fibers (from the distribution point 200 m away) are only brought in when the connection is activated for the first time.

How far does the fiber go? At the end, it would have to be spliced again, so everything would have to be reopened.

To be honest, I can't answer that exactly. It was only a short part of my training and I have no professional contact with it.
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