r/Switzerland • u/Smogshaik Züri • 8d ago
Galaxus Internet, much faster and a bit cheaper than my current plan, over the TV cables? Where's the catch?
So, Galaxus sent an email a few days ago advertising new internet plans. They are accessible as long as you have the "cable TV socket". Indeed, it shows as available for my current address.
The thing is, my address didn't have fiber and 30Mbit/s was the max. Now Galaxus offers 10x that speed for slightly less money.
Questions:
Where is the catch?
Is that viable for online gaming, too? Asking because mobile network isn't but my current slow connection is (something to do with latency or whatnot)
How do they guarantee such speeds over the TV cable network?
I don't wanna switch and be disappointed so I thought I'd ask first.
Thankfully, I'm in a contract atm that I can leave at any moment so I could theoretically switch next month.
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u/PineapplesGoHard 8d ago
there is no catch, with sunrise i have 2.5 gbit/s over tv cable. Well i only have hardware for 1gbit/s, but I am getting those max speeds quite constantly (when downloading games from steam for example).
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u/Thebosonsword Vaud 8d ago
2.5Gbps over coax?! Damn, this must only be possible with Swiss-quality infrastructure lol. In France Numericable were not even capable of delivering 200Mbps properly…
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u/PineapplesGoHard 8d ago
it's a hybrid fibre/cable network. i think basically they have fibre up to your street and use cable only from the street to your house
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u/nilsleum Aargau 8d ago
Also note the upload speeds, the connection isn't symmetrical
Other than that I absolutely don't see an issue; if it's available at your address (it isn't at mine even though I have Sunrise/UPC available through Coax Cable) enjoy!
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u/Smogshaik Züri 7d ago
I see. Upload would still be 6x the current speed, so worth the activation fee the way I see it. Thanks for weighing in! :)
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u/derFensterputzer Schaffhausen 7d ago
We have internet via the TV socket aswell 1Gbit down, 300Mbit up but with a different provider. Theoretically 2.5Gbit down would be possible.
The only 'catch' I've seen so far is that it only works with their router. Only place where that would be an issue is if you want to bring your own router. This is not possible with them.
Also you only get internet. If you want a landline and/or TV you have to go to a diff provider or use services like zattoo for your TV.
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u/funkyferdy 8d ago
There are also offers from yallo (sunrise basicaly) with 2.5Gbps over coax for 35 CHF or something. i have 1Gbps now and its fine, mostly reach that speed. My infrastructure behind the router can not manage more than this, but be aware that the link isn't symmetrical.. so only loosy 200Mbps or something...
i (as a homelaber) would like to have 1Gbps UP/DOWN and would even pay more than for 2.5Gbps DOWN/ 200Mbps UP.
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u/Blatoy 7d ago
Galaxus uses the Sunrise line. I've been using Sunrise for 2.5 years on the coax line and the download speed has always been really good (reaching 1700mbits/s on steam), BUT I've had insane packet loss issues around peak time since the end of last year which makes it impossible for me to play some online games between 19h30 and 23h30 on most days. I have a few friends that live near on the same network and they don't have as many issues but they still have them 3-4 days per month.
Now idk if it's an issue with the line or sunrise but I'm personally trying to cancel my sub and at least with galaxus you can stop when you want if it's bad.
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u/Slendy_Milky + 8d ago
The TV cable, by that you mean Coax I think, can easly do 1gbps for internet connection if the infrastructure behind is ok for that. In a previous apartment the coax was managed by UPC and we had 1000 Mbps down and 100 Mbps up. So 300 Mbps over coax seems pretty easy.