It’s not that I don’t trust, but I want to understand. What is actually happening and how do these Repack thingies work?

And why are they called that 😂

Thanks in advance.

Edit: thanks so much for the replies all, I think I got it! :)

  • rafa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    Repacks are only useful if your internet is from third world countries, like 100Mbps

    In Europe repacks are useless

    Edit: apparently Germany doesn’t seem to have normal speeds

    • X3I@lemmy.x3i.techEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      You, my friend, have clearly never lived on the German countryside… I know plenty of people there who would probably kill for 100MBit/s

    • GregorGizeh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      German infrastructure has been neglected for several decades. In the past, the whole phone grid was nationalized under the Deutsche Telekom, which eventually got spun off into a regular company.

      For some insane reason the government basically let them keep almost all of the existing telecommunications infrastructure, giving them a quasi monopoly for many years and the lobbying power to delay upgrading the grid to modern fibre connections in favor of squeezing marginal improvements out of the old copper wires.

      Even today the upgrading is going slowly, but at least in cities the connections are reasonably fast, I have about 300 mbits in a fairly small town (about 200k people)

    • Lobohobo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Me from Germany, living in a populated city, downspeed doesn’t get higher than 60Mbits: 💀💀💀