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The building I live in has decided to change the internet provider.

I should explain that I live in a block of flats where we all part own the whole building (it’s a very popular system in Denmark) and the internet and TV is provided to all flats from a central server located in the building.

I’ve been very happy with my connection, even though it’s actually shared between 218 flats, I usually get between 8-10 Mbits/s so downloading Linux iso files doesn’t take that long. A few days ago I downloaded Fedora 9 which only took around an hour or so.

However I now get to choose a package from Dansk Bredbånd (Danish link) which hopefully is as good as it looks. They use fibre that runs directly to the building which is then connected through a switch arriving through Ethernet to my flat.

The best part is that all the packages are symmetric as they have a 25 Mbits/s option (Danish link) so I get 25 Mbits/s up and down, pretty nice. On top of that the line is not shared so other users in the building do not affect my connection plus there are no download limits imposed like many providers (otherwise known as ‘traffic shaping’ in sales talk).

I’m debating about also getting a static IP address since then I can connect to my NAS device from anywhere or even login over SSH.

It gets switched over on June the 10th so I’ll post on my opinions of the service.