Fiber to the (weekend) home

The new fiber connection to my little cottage in the woods recently lit up!

I've had a maxed out ADSL giving me something like 8/2 Mbit/s since we bought the cottage. With ~3 km of old copper cables I couldn't get any higher bandwidth but on the other hand I got customized customer support over IRC! Thanks, Philip! Too bad my old ISP didn't get enough interest for fiber here in the woods. Telia/Skanova is increasingly abandoning the copper network under the euphemism The Network of the Future, often leaving people depending on ADSL with only capped and metered mobile network as the only alternative.

With the new fiber I could have had a full symmetric gigabit/s but it was rather expensive and most of my stuff here can't even get to those speeds over wireless, so I settled for a symmetrical 100 Mbit/s. Plenty of bandwidth for most stuff and especially the upstream (backups, anyone?) is now really nice.

It's kind of strange that I still don't have a fiber connection to my flat in the city but a fiber connection to my weekend cottage. In town we're in a house with Internet over cable TV cables. Granted, it's something like 250/10 Mbit/s, but still not fiber.

On the other hand, the new fiber connection doesn't have IPv6 and not even real v4 adresses since they use CG-NAT. I've asked the ISP about a public v4 address. Rumours has it that they even have a 6rd gateway somewhere, but of course I can't use it behind CG-NAT.

I'm trying to think about my bandwidth history at home. Something like this:

• 1987 300 b/s dial-up.
• 1988 1200/75 b/s dial-up.
• 1989—1995 2400 b/s dial-up.
• 1995—1997 9600 b/s dial-up.
• 1997—1998 19.2(?) kb/s leased line in the T1 collective shared with two others.
• 1999 ISDN (2 * 64 kbit/s) in the area 41 collective, shared with three other adults.
• 2000–2001 Telia cable TV Internet.
• 2002–2004 ADSL, something like 2/1 Mbit/s. Static IP!
• ~2004–2006 - VDSL 10 Mbit/s!
• 2006–2011 Ethernet 10 Mbit/s later upgraded to 100 Mbit/s.
• 2011–now (in town) DOCSIS cable TV 100/10, later increased to 250 Mbit/s downstreams.
• 2015–2019 (cottage) ADSL 8/2 Mbit/s.
• 2019–now (cottage) Ethernet 100 Mbit/s.

What does your Internet connection look like at home?