• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social
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    12 hours ago

    Sometimes it’s not about what you can do now, but in the future.

    Some months ago I’ve watched a documentation about a small village in Germany with abysmal internet access and how how multiple companies there struggled to do any work beyond being a bakery.

    There was a construction company pre-building blocks for houses out of lumber and their CNC machining required stable internet access. They weren’t able to work for days because of fluctuations.

    I have a one gigabit line here at my home and even I struggle sometimes uploading bigger assets to my company’s servers.

    I like the approach Switzerland went with. If you tear up the road, put down the most modern infrastructure available at the moment. Don’t bother with “good enough for the moment”.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 hours ago

      Bet that bakery didn’t have a measly 1gb fiber though, so it’s not really relevant IMO.