How are they so small and underfunded?

[synicalx@lemm.ee]

If you do 800TB in a month on any residential service you’re getting fair use policy’ed before the first day is over, sadly.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

I have 3 Gbps home Internet ( up and down ). I get over 300 Megabytes per second.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

I think anywhere outside the US or Australia will do.

[lefantome@programming.dev]

With my IISP, the base package comes with 4 TB of bandwidth and I pay and extra $20 a month for “unlimited”.

I am not sure of “unlimited” has a limit. It may. It is not in the small print though. I may just be rate limited ( 3 Gpbs ).

[xanza@lemm.ee]

You're completely missing what he's saying, and how that number is calculated. It's an average connection speed over time and you're anecdotally saying your internet is superior because you have a higher connection speed, which isn't really true at all.

You have residential internet which is able to provide 3Gbps intermittently. You may even be able to sustain those speeds for several days at a time. But servers maintain those connections for months and years at a time...

800TB/mo is 2.469 Gb/s sustained for 30 days. They may be on a 10Gb/s connection, but that doesn't mean they have enough demand to saturate it 100% of the time.

[synicalx@lemm.ee]

It will definitely depend on the ISP, but generally for repeated “AUP” violations they will suspend your service entirely.

Interestingly it’s often not technically the data usage that triggers this, its how much utilisation (generally peak utilisation) you cause and high data usage is a by product of that. Bandwidth from an ISP’s core network to their various POIs that customer connections come from is generally quite expensive, and residential broadband connections are fairly low margin. So lets say they’ve got 100Gbps to your POI that could realistically service many thousands of people, a single connection worth €/$10-15 a month occupying 10% of that is cause for concern.

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

That, and safe streets, kind people, clean air, clean water, gorgeous mountains, war safety, high PPP, I could go on...

[chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Yeah, I know, I am in the process of leaving where I am now (eu citizen) and its between uk, germany and the netherlands. The reason I didnt look seriously at swiss, is because of all the stories I heard about people never integrating, despite efforts.

I'm looking for my forever place, that means balls deep in every aspect.

[lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network]

I can recommend Germany and Netherlands!

I live in NL myself, even though we have complaints (high taxes, delayed trains) I don't think they're nearly as serious as I hear from other countries (like US trans people getting declined public services, people living in fear of being deported or killed)

Although we don't really have affordable housing, I would say that's a fairly big issue.

The PPP in Germany tends to be a bit better (slightly lower wages, but even lower grocery prices and rent prices), and overall it seems people follow rules and order a good deal better.

Overall, both are good countries to live in IMO.
I can't speak for the UK, though.

[chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Maybe I chose the words badly. I meant that want to live in a civilized place, i have been an expat for 10 years and I just want to put down roots with my wife. So far we have been moving with the jobs and I had enough. Thats what I meant with my colourful language.