ᐅ Has anyone installed FTTH (fiber to the home)?

We have been considering FTTH for several weeks now. I need fairly fast internet for work. However, at the building site, the maximum available speed is only 50 Mbit. That’s not great... currently, I have 130 Mbit. That’s quite decent. The FTTH offer from the telecom provider is on the table... a €36,000 (about $39,000) upfront payment. I’m actually ready to sign... BUT: in a few years, LTE5 and better might be available, potentially offering speeds of 200 Mbit and more. With FTTH, there’s immediately 200 Mbit and next year 400 Mbit. The connection can be used for significantly higher speeds... even 10 Gbit is not out of the question yet.

Who can help me decide? The money is available... but the amount is definitely painful. After all, I need to earn almost twice as much gross to cover it.

36,000€??? Uh... I’d better not mention that I’m annoyed about the 400€ here, considering that the telecom company will make a five-figure revenue from my connection over the next decades... Oops, I just said it [emoji1]

Is it really worth considering the offer regarding upload speed? Because usually, that’s the issue. Or why do you need such a high download speed?

Steffen80 schrieb:
Who can help me decide? The money is there... but the amount really hurts. After all, I have to earn almost double gross

36,000 euros (about 39,000 USD) … if you go for it, try to rally your wealthy neighbors, as that can significantly lower the individual offer from the telecom company. Otherwise, you’ll probably have to run a business case. Really think about what you need, not just what you want. Otherwise, you might slowly get carried away...

It is "only" a co-payment. The actual costs amount to about 50,000 EUR. This includes the hardware (about 10,000 EUR) in the distribution cabinet and the hardware on our side (about 4,000 EUR). The rest is for civil engineering work, including road closures for a certain period, etc.

The upload even worked synchronously, meaning I could move all the hardware from the data center to my home. But I don’t want to. The data center provides climate control and support for an affordable price of around 200 EUR per machine. All in all, it is more a matter of "wanting" rather than "needing." In the company, I definitely won’t recover the money (except for VAT and depreciation, probably over 1,000 years).

None of the neighbors want to participate, which would of course significantly reduce the costs. These people here are not really digitally native... they are happy with 25 Mbps.