Internet connection: Deutsche Telekom vs. cable network

If the 400 MBit are consistently available, that’s also great. At work, we have 600 down/60 up. The thieves’ gang I have never seen live. I find the ratio of down to up with DSL simply better. Currently, we have 100 down and 40 up. I notice the 40 up significantly more since the upgrade from 50 down/10 up than the higher download.

As I said, fiber optic would be best. We could have had 1000/1000. But 17k € net was too much for us. Since the ducts are in place, we can still check and upgrade at any time. If we get 100 Mbit and 40 upload, we are happy. The most important thing for us is that we don’t have to do without [entertain tv]. We have gotten used to IPTV and want nothing else.

In the end, fiber optic (up to 1000mbit in the private sector, also not a shared medium) is what you should have, but it is hardly available as a rule.

By the way, the thing about the shared medium is only partially true. With the GPON technology that dominates here, all households connected to a splitter (OLT) actually receive the same data stream (usually at 2.5 GBit/s) and filter out "their" packets, which are then distributed within the house. So you do not share the physical medium (up to the splitter; beyond that and in the rest of the internet anyway), but you still share the bandwidth that can be transmitted over this medium at maximum. So if ten households are connected with a nominal 500 MBit/s via GPON to the same splitter, it is absolutely impossible for all of them to simultaneously transmit 500 MBit/s.

Thieves' gang I have never seen live before.

If you do, call the police immediately...

If so, call the police immediately...

Speech recognition at its best.
I didn’t notice at all. It should actually say: but I have never seen them live before.

I’ll use the thread to post my question here: if there is fiber optic in the new development area, Internet and TV will probably be provided over it.

Do you always need a Telekom connection (800 EUR) for fiber optic, or can Vodafone / Unitymedia also lay the fiber optic cable from the property boundary to the house (price unknown, but hopefully not several thousand EUR as stated on pages 1 and 2)? :rolleyes:

Depends on whose fiber optic cable it is. For us, it was Telekom, so €800 done. Whether TV is via Telekom/Internet is a whole different topic. There’s a long thread about that. Vodafone is not allowed to use Telekom’s fiber optic cable :-) they lay their own and if not already available, then it costs. Our offer was €11k.