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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2026
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I'm sure this will be lost in the comments but you CAN get 25GBit here in 'murica. My ISP offers it... But this ISP is also considered one of the best in the world so... https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/#choose-your-plan
Lol $1500 a month. JFC.
Right? I'd rather get 3x10gbit and bond them together.
Just for reference Init7 offers 25 Gbit/s for 65 CHF a month. Thats about 83 USD.
They have the same monthly price for 1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s and 25 Gbit/s. Only the initial install for the higher speed optics costs 77 CHF or 222 CHF more respectively.
I'm still on their 1Gbit/s service because I'm too lazy and cheap to replace my router and LAN with 10 Gbit/s equipment.
Most hardware does 2.5Gbps out of the box these days.
I've had 1Gbps for 13 years now (in Denmark) and can comfortably say: it's plenty
True most motherboards, even the normal ones, now come with 2.5G included. But upgrading to 2.5 G feels like a wasted middle step if the next tier of external connectivity is at 10G, so I've not done that either haha
Those are insane prices. I live in Brazil and I have gigabit internet for 32-ish dollars.
It costs me $120 internet after discount for 2 gig Xfinity, and the upload isn't symmetric. America is a ripoff.
Are those converted to USD?
How much do you make in salary after taxes?
Because as far as I read everywhere about US and salaries, it's not that unusual for regular skilled jobs to achieve 6-figure yearly salaries.
This is a... very messy and complicated area to talk about and there are plenty of stats and data setsyou can cherry pick to make things sound better than they are. Consider things like median vs average, whether or not you excluded retired folks, etc.
This graphic is a decent toe in the water:
That's daylight robbery, how is that one of the best in the world ?
Dang I pay $900 for 5gbit
$30/mo for 10 Gbit here in Japan. They just started offering 25 Gbit in parts of Tokyo this month for $200/mo
I really am hoping to leave the US in the next year or so, unfortunately Japan wasn't on my list but...maybe for that...
Your casually picking a country to move to based on internet speed is nuts lol.
Why do you want a 25 gbps speed if you're not running a data centre?
Nice. Used to live in chat. Miss epb internet.