Sure, but I bet those people aren't getting access to multiple transit providers in a carrier neutral facility, and they're going to have a hard time getting a BGP session or even justifying their ASN application. Where are their priorities?
I think Chattanooga, TN has 10g but not sure how expensive it is or how to get it. Chatt itself is pretty cheap in comparison to something like Nashville or bigger cities.
It's surprising to see Switzerland coming up here, as its being among the most expensive places in europe. Pretty much every other european country will be more affordable.
Switzerland is indeed extremely expensive for most things, but consumer technology is actually OK here. A low sales tax of ~8% actually makes some products made in China cheaper here that in Germany.
Oh, and a lot things like infrastructure actually work out cheaper because of the massive investment sunk in up front. It is a case of spending more now, to save more in the long run.
also mobile plans are cheap in Switzerland. You can get a plan including unlimited calls throughout most of Europe+Canada+US (incl. roaming) plus unlimited 5G in Switzerland plus 40GB of data roaming throughout Europe (not only EU)+Canada+US for 35-45 CHF/month. These are sales that happen 3-4 times a year, e.g. via qoqa.ch or on wingo.ch. I have two of those from two different providers.
Regular prices for such plans are CHF 100-130, which I also do not find overly expensive compared to US.
In Switzerland, it is forbidden to be poor and it is forbidden to be foreign. That's from one of John le Carré‘s books. Not verbatim. I think it was The Perfect Spy.
I live in Bucharest, Romania and I pay $9/mo for 1Gbps FTTH (fiber into my flat, with an ISP-provided fiber terminal).
This offering is available from digi.ro pretty much throughout most major cities (so city area doesn't matter unless you go outside, into suburbs and villages - not sure how far the fiber penetration reaches).
They announced 10Gbps a few months ago, for only a 25% price increase (someone else linked the announcement already) - but I'm still on the waiting list, and I'm not sure what their deployment progress is like.
I wish I could offer real numbers for 10Gbps - for 1Gbps I remember getting:
* >900Mbps download locally (P2P, fast.com, etc.)
* 300-500Mbps both directions, across Europe (e.g. to Hetzner servers)
* not sure about intercontinental, but I suspect latency could be more of a problem there, depending on your usecase
(Frankly, consumer networking equipment has been getting in the way of reliably maxing out what the ISP offers, in a multi-device environment, and I've been procrastinating getting more professional hardware since the difference is mostly only visible when measuring it explicitly)
As for affordability: you can live here decently for around $1k/mo, maybe a bit more depending on rent, so if you have an international source of income (or a good chunk of savings), you could easily spend years here.
(Most of my monthly costs go towards food, and I don't have good points of reference for that - I can't remember what it was called, but there was at least one website for breakdowns of living costs in various parts of the world)
One downside is you may need to learn a bit of the language, depending on how much you need to interact with the average person that might not know any English (but this has gotten easier with e.g. using delivery during lockdowns).
OTOH, English has been permeating a lot more, starting with millennials, so you could get lucky.
Have fun! (though realistically there are likely more convenient options)
Culture shock isn't the only thing that factors into quality of life though. There's a lot of places in the US you could go that you might dislike living in but wouldn't necessarily introduce a significant culture shock compared to a foreign country.
Just wanted to point out that out, as I've lived in Asia and Eastern Europe and despite the greater culture shock in the former, still preferred it as a long term residence. One's personal preferences and expectations for life can affect that a lot.
New Zealand has 8G/8G to some homes within bigish cities for around $270nzd/mo (~180usd/mo)[1] and most of the population has access to at least 1000up/500down fibre for about $100nzd/mo (~65usd/mo).
It how ever is not the cheapest country in the world, so it somewhat depends on your definition of affordable
Sometimes a git clone can take a little while. Streaming a 4k movie is about 0.02 Gbps. Latency matters for gaming but what else?
I suppose you could do things that normally wouldn't make sense like having a fully cloud remote development environment. I tried out RubyMine's Remote Development (beta) and I thought "who could possibly use this with the entire JVM of the IDE running in the cloud with only the graphics displayed locally?" I think I found the crowd.
I think it's just a measuring contest. 99.9999% of people have no use for anything over like 300mbps (multiple 4k streams while gaming). Ok maybe like a photo/vid backup once a year or something would be nice on the 25Gbps.
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https://fiber.salt.ch/en/home/internet
It is possible also to get 25G for the same monthly rate, but you need your own hardware.
https://www.init7.net/en/
Oh, and a lot things like infrastructure actually work out cheaper because of the massive investment sunk in up front. It is a case of spending more now, to save more in the long run.
Regular prices for such plans are CHF 100-130, which I also do not find overly expensive compared to US.
This offering is available from digi.ro pretty much throughout most major cities (so city area doesn't matter unless you go outside, into suburbs and villages - not sure how far the fiber penetration reaches).
They announced 10Gbps a few months ago, for only a 25% price increase (someone else linked the announcement already) - but I'm still on the waiting list, and I'm not sure what their deployment progress is like.
I wish I could offer real numbers for 10Gbps - for 1Gbps I remember getting:
* >900Mbps download locally (P2P, fast.com, etc.)
* 300-500Mbps both directions, across Europe (e.g. to Hetzner servers)
* not sure about intercontinental, but I suspect latency could be more of a problem there, depending on your usecase
(Frankly, consumer networking equipment has been getting in the way of reliably maxing out what the ISP offers, in a multi-device environment, and I've been procrastinating getting more professional hardware since the difference is mostly only visible when measuring it explicitly)
As for affordability: you can live here decently for around $1k/mo, maybe a bit more depending on rent, so if you have an international source of income (or a good chunk of savings), you could easily spend years here.
(Most of my monthly costs go towards food, and I don't have good points of reference for that - I can't remember what it was called, but there was at least one website for breakdowns of living costs in various parts of the world)
One downside is you may need to learn a bit of the language, depending on how much you need to interact with the average person that might not know any English (but this has gotten easier with e.g. using delivery during lockdowns).
OTOH, English has been permeating a lot more, starting with millennials, so you could get lucky.
Have fun! (though realistically there are likely more convenient options)
1k a month isn't bad at all. I imagine if I had a million dollar saved up in 10 years, I could just move there.
And then live forever off my investments, plus as you've already mentioned, many younger people know some English.
I'm guessing for an American Eastern Europe would be less of a culture shock than say Thailand
Just wanted to point out that out, as I've lived in Asia and Eastern Europe and despite the greater culture shock in the former, still preferred it as a long term residence. One's personal preferences and expectations for life can affect that a lot.
It how ever is not the cheapest country in the world, so it somewhat depends on your definition of affordable
[1] https://www.orcon.net.nz/hyperfibre/
Sometimes a git clone can take a little while. Streaming a 4k movie is about 0.02 Gbps. Latency matters for gaming but what else?
I suppose you could do things that normally wouldn't make sense like having a fully cloud remote development environment. I tried out RubyMine's Remote Development (beta) and I thought "who could possibly use this with the entire JVM of the IDE running in the cloud with only the graphics displayed locally?" I think I found the crowd.
https://sumofiber.com/internet/utah/