What are your thoughts on fiber through the city?

After 16 years of living in my city, they will finally have city-wide fiber internet. I’m pretty stoked because the fastest internet I could possibly have is a WISP at 50gbps down and 10gbps up. Now I will finally have gigabit but it’s through the city, and I’m wondering if they will be more strict on illegal content download given a possible VPN leak. I know this is highly subjective but I want to understand all the possibilities what could happen.

ExLisper,

You poor Americans :( In Europe I can get 1Gbps for around 25 Euro/month from a local (they only operate in my town) ISP. Each town has one or two of them. On top of that you have the big ones like Orange. I could choose from probably 10 different providers. New buildings just come with fiber preinstalled. Just plug in the router and enjoy.

coldbrew,

Maybe specify the country. I lived in France and didn’t see any of that.

LarrytheLobster,

You definitely don’t live in Germany

Kazumara,

The best model in my opinion is if a municipality lays the fiber, then opens the infrastructure up for renting under FRAND terms to all ISPs. When I say infrastructure here, I mean both the fibers and the associated rack space on the other end of the fibers, including power and cooling.

Regarding the specific questions in your post body; I think you should be fine, because a smaller ISP is not as much of a target for intellectual property enforcement, and they probably won’t have a big compliance team like the big ISPs can afford.

7u5k3n,

I had gig up / gig down fiber at a previous house… it was amazing… never went down always has bandwidth no matter what I was doing or who was streaming. I (used to) do a lot of uploading to users for media and I never had a hiccup.

Get it… and get the fastest you can afford. You’ll love it.

Also no they won’t be paying attention anymore than a standard isp. Tho… if you’re.worried about it… just get a decent VPN.

Good luck op! Consider me jealous

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