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Just look at Netherlands. No wonder they have the best prices for co-location and bandwidth.

They're planning to hook up many businesses and consumers on 1 Gb/s fiber connections next year. As this map shows the infra is already there. The flatness of the landscape and the central location between the US and EU is clearly beneficial.

"Planning to hook up 1gbps"?

A lot of people can get a gigabit (or sometimes, half a gigabit (I live in a tiny village)) for years now. In 2016, Tweak already offered 10gbps for 95 euros per month to a small region[1], and recently announced they'll expand that for 89€/month to anyone who currently has access to 1gbps[2]. Their gigabit offering currently costs 39 euros a month.

(Note that the references are unfortunately tracking-walled.)

[1] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/109195/tweak-brengt-eerste-10gbi...

[2] https://tweakers.net/nieuws/158434/internetprovider-tweak-ga...

My server in the Netherlands has had a 1gbps connection for almost a decade. I've had 1gbps at home (in Portugal) for a couple of years and I can reliably transfer at about 900mbps between home and server at any time of the day; Other tests confirm that both backbones are excellent. The Portugal connection is about 50% more expensive.

Awww man...for several years now, maybe a decade now, I've been saying to myself that living in the U.S. sucks...and here's one more reason. </sigh>

I live in the US and have Centurylink gigabit fiber at a pretty decent price. Upload speed is always as advertised, download except during evening hours

I'm glad for you...but sadly, the same experience that you've noted can not be had elsewhere in the contiguous U.s.

You missed a 0 there. Tweak is testing 10 Gb/s to consumer homes. I already have very reasonably prices 1 Gb/s for a year or 2 now.

What kind of equipment do they plan on (or maybe they are already rolling it out now?) providing customers in order to actually route that much data?

I recently upgraded to gig fibre and had to replace a bunch of my network components to in order to actually see those speeds.

The funny thing is that in the countryside or smaller cities it's easier to get fibre. In the large old cities in the west of the country, often the best you can get is cable. This is because of anticompetitive (but legal) behaviour of the incumbent telephone/DSL (not cable!) provider.

Any colo recommendations?

Do you actually want Europe or are you just looking for cheap colo with decent network? If the latter which geographic region are you (e.g. US East).

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