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by qaq 619 days ago
40Gbit from he is 2K so no it's not 1-2 orders of magnitude more
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I think you're trying to imply that it should be $50 for 1Gbit with that comment, but HE fiber and residential fiber aren't comparable. Apples and oranges.

HE only has to run relatively short cables within a datacenter, which is designed for running those things, while residential fiber has to be run much further through much more hostile terrain.

Residential fiber takes more total land and maintenance and has different customer density per unit laid.

Unless HE also offers residential fiber at that rate, don't think it's comparable.

I am implying dedicated lines do not cost 2 orders of magnitude more. he has POPs and provides connectivity to places other than datacenters. Also if you didn't notice many datacenters are for obvious reasons located in the boonies to begin with.