• unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Damn, maybe you should move to a radical leftist city where fiber internet is $50 a month.

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      7 months ago

      Us lucky fiber users, I can get 8gig symmetrical for $300 and 2 gig for $75 a month. Still nothing like other non American countries but damn do I have it good for living here.

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        7 months ago

        Flat fee of ~€70 to connect and then free for as long as I live in this apartment. 1000/1000 speeds as well, pretty sick honestly

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          I pay €18 for 250/100, of course unlimited data, and the company has no tracking and fully supports privacy etc. their main servers are based in the old cave where the pirate bay used to have theirs. It also comes with a great VPN, ID security and antivirus from f-secure (not that I use it since I’m on linux). And they just opened a datacenter inside an old war bunker in my city, with this description: “Freedom of communication and the virtual world need to withstand both Russian bombs and Donald Trump’s Cloud Act. This industrial bunker is built for just that.” In Sweden, if you hadn’t guessed.

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              8 months ago

              That gigabit per second, without any datacap.

              Twitter guy is ordering 1000 gigabyte worth of data, or slightly over 2 hours of internet in Sweden at full speed.

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                  7 months ago

                  Because gigabytes (GB) are units of storage capacity, and gigabits (Gb) are units of data transfer rate.

                  It’s implied it’s gigabits per second, as no one ever really measures it in like… Gigabits per hour, or year.

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                    7 months ago

                    A gigabit is defined as 1 billion bits of data which is equivalent to 8GB. Both are a unit of capacity.