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> My ISP plans on proving 100gbits in about 2 years so I don’t need pull new fiber if I decide to upgrade.

Jesus. Meanwhile, here in Germany, right in the center of Munich the best I can get is 100/40, because while there is FTTB buildout, the last 20m in the building go through the telephone wiring from the late 80s.



If you really want it, and are willing to pay, you can often negotiate with the building owner to get the last 20m run (up to and including conduit hidden on the outside of the building, etc).

If enough people in the building care, it might even be relatively cheap.


The latter is the problem. Half the people in the building are old, the other half of them are happy with the way it is - I'm the only IT guy. Might be possible to pull fiber through the conduits, but not sure if the Mnet FTTB box can actually give me fiber - I think it's a miniature DSLAM only.


Mnet should be able to CWDM (of they don't just have a fiber to spare for it) you a link on the DSLAM's fiber uplink. Provided the building owner allows the fiber from the DSLAM to you. They could also put an Ethernet switch needy to the DSLAM so more people could share one uplink connection.




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