The story of an engineer who installed a blazingly fast 25Gbps internet connection at his home



One of the things you need for a comfortable internet experience is a high-speed internet connection. A Swiss engineer has published his experience of signing up for a plan called '

Best Effort 25Gbps' with a focus on line speed, and getting the actual measured value close to 25Gbps.

My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber to the Home - Michael Stapelberg
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-04-23-fiber7-25gbit-upgrade/

Engineer Michael Stapelberg shared his experience of increasing his line speed on his own. Stapelberg liked and continued to use Init7 , an Internet service provider (ISP) with which he had a contract, but Init7 did not offer a similar plan even several years after other major ISPs began offering 'best effort 10 Gbps' plans.

Init7 finally announced its best-effort 10Gbps plan in 2020, and then actually launched it in 2021. In addition, on the same day that the best-effort 10Gbps plan was launched, it also launched a 'best-effort 25Gbps' plan.




According to Stapelberg, there was no notice that the best-effort 25Gbps plan would be offered, and he was shocked. Stapelberg, who had always been very particular about line speeds, decided to stop using the best-effort 10Gbps plan and apply for the best-effort 25Gbps plan, but at that time he decided to prepare his internet environment so that he could actually get line speeds close to 25Gbps.

So, after applying for the plan, Stapelberg quickly returned the router 'MikroTik CCR2004' that Init7 had recommended in advance, and inserted two network cards, the 25Gbps Intel XL710 and the 10Gbps Intel XXV710, into his home-built PC. He installed the SFP28 connection module that supports 25Gbps, and reconfigured it to function as a 25Gbps router.



The upgrade of Mr. Stapelberg's nearest

point of presence (PoP) was carried out one night in April 2022, and Mr. Stapelberg rushed to the site where the upgrade was being performed and watched the work with excitement.



I connected my homemade router to the upgraded home line and the migration was complete. I measured the line speed on this best-effort 25Gbps line by specifying the connection destination as the Init7 server, and the results are below. The download speed was 23,536.53Mbps and the upload speed was 23,013.10Mbps, which is close to the theoretical value of 25Gbps.



If you specify a server other than Init7 as the connection destination, the line speed will drop to 6Gbps to 9Gbps, but it is still quite fast. Incidentally, in Japan, NURO Hikari offers a 20Gbps plan for consumer lines, but the service area is limited to Toshima-ku and Minato-ku in Tokyo. For services covering a wider area, NTT 'FLET'S Hikari Cross', KDDI 'au Hikari Home 10 Giga', and So-net 'NURO Hikari 10G' offer 10Gbps plans, but these 20Gbps/10Gbps specifications are best effort, so it is important to note that the actual measured value will be much slower .

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