Ask HN: What cities have gigabit fiber internet access?

[drudru]

Here is a question I haven't seen asked.

What cities on the planet have good gigabit fiber internet access?

1. The access should be generally available to anybody in the community, or within a large area of the community.

2. Speeds should be 1 gigabit or higher and symmetric.

3. It would be really good if consumers were allowed to run servers (web, irc, etc.)

4. Access should not be limited to regions. For example, if there are nation state firewalls, you should mention that.

5. Static IP addresses are not a requirement. Static IPv6 would be nice though.

6. Please mention price.

[malux85]

London, hyperoptic, unlimited gigabit (1gn up and down)

There have been months when I’ve pulled terabytes (deep learning datasets in and out of London datacenter to home)

About £60ish a month

Static IP available for small amount

Not over entire city but expanding

Very happy with service (no affiliation)

No downtime

Not sure what their policy is on running servers, but I had to ask them to enable something their side before I could ssh home, so there might be restrictions

[w4tson]

London, Community Fibre.

Very similar company and expanding all the time.

I tried their 1Gb service. It’s very impressive. £50 a month.

No affiliation

[ropiku]

Happy with 1G Hyperoptic too. There's IPV6 or £5/month if you want your own IPv4 otherwise it's CGNAT.

[sbfeibish]

You supposedly can get 10GB near Minneapolis,MN. I checked Chatanooga,TN (municipal broadband) years ago. You can get what you want. It'll cost you more for business service.

1. Herndon/Oak Hill, VA (1st city to get Verizon FIOS) 1a. I get a Service Level Account (SLA) at my home

2. FIOS is symmetric 2a. My sister, who lives a block away, says she gets residential FIOS at an advertised 1 gigabit 2b. I would get an SLA just to be sure. 2c. I was told I could get 2 or more lines

3. I was told I could run a web server. Note that this was years ago.

4. N/A

5. I seem to remember you being able to get a static IP address. Naturally, it costs more. I just use DHCP and AWS. Zero to global reach in no time.

6. I don't know if Verizon would be upset if I mention price. So I won't. I really, really like my Verizon FIOS & AWS service.

Hyderabad, India has 1gb now.

[jsax]

York, UK currently has 1Gb coverage across about a 1/4 of the city, with the rest being connected in the next year I believe. Only £25 ($32) a month.

[simon_acca]

Zurich, via init7: https://www.init7.net/en

[pointsphere]

Nearly all „large“ cities in Switzerland now have fibre.

Symmetrical 1GBit/s is pretty much standard, price is between 60 and 120 CHF (about 60-120 USD)

You can run anything on it as long as it‘s not commercial, there are no filters or blocks on it as far as I know.

[aarongolliver]

I've been able to get gigabit everywhere I've lived so far in Seattle (through either Wave-G or CenturyLink), but I only have a sample size of '3 addresses in 2 neighborhoods'.

Cost was around $80-100/month.

Symmetric

Dynamic ip address, but CenturyLink link did not support IPv6.

have had no issues hosting web services.

[dylz]

Wave and Atlas are effectively condo/apartment only, I don't think I see them servicing houses.

Centurylink does seem to serve houses.

Webpass also does gigabit now. Their local connectivity leaves quite a bit to be desired though.

[Spooky23]

Most Verizon FIOS markets have gig access. They don’t like cities, so you’d need to look at close suburbs.

[chriscaruso]

Seattle, Bellevue $80/month

[jeffal]

Huntsville, Alabama has google fiber for $70/month.

[InGodsName]

I moved from Singapore (where i had 250mbps down /150mbps up) to Mumbai briefly and I've got 1gbps connection from local operator called Jio Fiber.

There is some local filter but it's on DNS level only. If you change DNS to something which is outside the country, you have everything available without any firewall.

It's free for a year or something afaik, i don't know what will be the future charges.

[nojvek]

Jio is amazing. It really made me feel India won’t be left too behind. In a tiny village which had no reception 5 years ago, I got 6gb for 100rs ($1.5) at 40Mbps on the phone via LTE. That’s better than T-mobile and AT&T.

Really running circles around stagnant US companies.