[Skybird]

I currently get 100-110 Mbit/s and a ping of 13 ms. The offer by Telekom is else comparable to what Catfish described. I pay 45 Euros per month, no data volume limitation.

since I got to these data speeds, I honestly see no need to get any faster (and costly), because right now I get instant reaction and website loading in my browser and could stream videos smooth and instantly. Any more speed I simply cannot make use of. I may see a difference in downloading huge-multi-GB file packages, but the usual patches of that size that come in are a thing of seconds right now, at best a minute if they are really huge, and how often is this beign done? Not very often.

Thats why I stick with my current contract. I may get four to six times the speed with a superior connection at only twice the cost, that sounds cheap, yes - but consideirng that I have no sue for this additional speed gain makes it indeed just a doubling of costs for no additional practical gain for me. Its like with driving a family car with 160 PS and a Lambo with 650 PS - in town it just ames no difference, you cannot make use of the additional 490 PS, and even if you get a smile price on the Lambo and pay 50% less it still is a waste of money for you. So, more speed I would only buy if it does not cost me more.

Reliability of connections and telephone VoIP is more relevant. And these have become worse with recent years, not better. Significantly worse. Not to mention that telephones both VoIP and mobile, would not work anymore in emergencies like the old copper cable networks often did with their independent power supply: even during blackouts, when lights did not work anymore, telephones still often worked.
Also, there are many maintenance downtimes in telephone VoIP and internet (its the same in the end) ovber here, the place these down hours (usually 10-60 minutes, but sometimes longer) into the wee early hours of the morning between 1 and 4 a.m., yes, but if there is a household with elder people and a medical emergency, it could make the difference between life an death. Also, I now face as many interruptions of cable telephone calls over the day as last time I used to see when I was a small boy in the 70s.Especially in summer, things (=internet) break down over here quite frequently.


No, with all good will: not everything has become better with our communication. Some things have gone back to standards seen 40 years ago. And redundancy of communication networks back then was even superior. Today, there are many options, yes: but they all root on just one basic structure nowadays. If that basic root of communications fail, then all these many shiny wonderfull playful options fail, too. There is no more redundancy worth the name. Not in my book at least.