ᐅ Is a TAE socket still required nowadays?

DerGuteTon schrieb:

Same situation here; new development area, no fiber optic, DSL up to 6 Mbit, effectively 3.7 Mbit. Now that the house connection has been installed, not even that is available anymore. The area was planned for "private sector expansion" in 2016. A third-party provider is working with vectoring but hasn’t considered all the cable branches in their planning, and the effort doesn’t seem worthwhile for individual houses arriving later.

There is LTE wireless with 21.6 Mbit/s on good days. Vodafone Gigacube would be a last-resort option. But anyone who needs a public IP address (for example, for online gaming) won’t be happy here either.

Does anyone have experience with Congstar Homespot...? Otherwise, I’m switching to carrier pigeons and signal fires.

If you have DSL IP + LTE available, you could ask Telekom about a hybrid connection. I had that in 2015. I had DSL light plus LTE (without data limits). I’m not sure if Telekom still offers it. I’ve been on VDSL for a few years now, and that solved the issue directly.

Smirnoff1983 schrieb:

If you have DSL IP + LTE available, you might want to ask Telekom about a hybrid connection. I had that back in 2015.
I had DSL light plus LTE (without a data cap).
I just don’t know if Telekom still offers that. I’ve been on VDSL for a few years now, and that solved the problem right away.

That was actually the plan. 6,000 DSL was not enough for me, and during the construction phase I was counting on the Magenta S Hybrid. My immediate neighbor, house-to-house, has it. Now, after the APL was installed and I wanted to order, they apologized that it’s no longer available. "No ports left." My neighbor effectively gets 21 Mbps download. With my landline, I can only call my mum. Because even the 6,000 DSL purely wired is no longer available.

The written complaint about this is with Telekom, as well as political pressure applied to the broadband coordinator of the district and the city/local council. Will it help? I don’t know. At least I’m looking forward to the upcoming Telekom bill of 800 euros, while I was misled about the availability of services at my location before construction and even during the construction phase until the APL was installed. Civil engineering work, multiple utility pipelines… I wouldn’t have let it become so costly if I had known that in 2020 I would effectively end up with a “can phone” in the end.

But this is probably the wrong place to vent about this. Maybe sooner or later someone here will go through something similar...

DerGuteTon schrieb:

That was actually the plan. A 6,000 DSL connection wasn’t enough for me, and during the construction phase, I planned on getting Hybrid Magenta S. My immediate neighbor, in the house next door, has it. Now, after the APL (Access Point of the Line) was installed and I wanted to subscribe, they apologized and told me it was no longer available. "No ports left." My neighbor effectively has 21 Mbit/s download speed. I can call my mom on the landline. Because the 6,000 DSL wired connection isn’t available anymore either.

A written complaint has been submitted to the telecom provider, as well as political inquiries made to the broadband coordinator of the district and the city/town council. Whether it will help? I don’t know. At least I’m looking forward to the upcoming telecom bill of 800 EUR while before the start of construction and even during the construction phase until the APL was installed, I was misled about the availability of products at my location. Civil engineering works, multi-utility trenching, … I would never have made it so costly if I had known that in 2020, I would basically end up with a tin-can phone in the end.

But maybe this is the wrong place to vent. Possibly, sooner or later, others here will go through something similar...

Then try contacting the Telekom Support Team. Maybe something is still available in booking. Often they can help where the regular hotline just says no. At least that has been my experience.

DSL Hybrid is not perfect, but with Hybrid I could at least make calls and surf. Before, only one or the other worked at snail’s pace.
I know Hybrid isn’t exactly cheap, but it’s better than nothing.

Telekom Hybrid is currently free of charge for the small S and XS plans throughout the entire contract period, starting from early August.

DerGuteTon schrieb:

The same applies here; new housing development, no fiber optic, DSL up to 6 Mbit, effectively 3.7 Mbit. Now, after the house connection was installed, it is no longer even available. The area was designated for "private sector expansion" in 2016. A third-party provider operates here with vectoring but has not included all cable branches in its planning, and the effort no longer seems worthwhile for some individual houses built later. [...]

Reading all this makes me really angry. I think it’s good that you’re also contacting the various official authorities. The pandemic should have shown even the oldest politicians (“new territory”) that it’s not “just” about 4K Netflix, adult content, and online gaming, but that essential infrastructure for working from home, emergency remote schooling for children, access to online lectures for students, telemedicine consultations, etc., is not sufficiently available.

So? The ambitious politician then goes to the telecom company and says, "Hey, biggest and best provider on the market, a citizen says they have no internet!" The telecom replies, "Of course the citizen has super-fast internet via LTE! And thanks to our amazing routers, they won’t even notice it and everything is just great!"

The fact that a few milliseconds of latency are missing for smooth gaming, the routers might barely be enough for a two-room apartment, or that you unfortunately can’t find a decent data plan for streaming, no one cares. Whether the solution is red, blue, or magenta doesn’t matter either. The fact is, you have fast internet.