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Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

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henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

This is exactly what some of my extended family uses because there’s literally no other option. Not even cellular.

This isn’t even up in the mountains or something. This is just rural Alabama where kids are struggling to do homework because they just don’t have access, and it all but guarantees that their technology skills will remain woefully outdated.

I remember when they had DSL not that long ago and I would turn off updates on everything because it was a complete waste of time to attempt.

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atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
My grandparents lived in rural OK and had dial-up until 2018 when they finally were able to get a 2mbps DSL line. It really wasn’t much faster than the dial-up.

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- amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You mean it wasn’t able to be saturated?
  
  As slow as 2MBit/s is, relatively speaking, it’s still magnitudes better than dial-up.
  
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  - atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yes, I mean it never hit its rated speed. Also that many modern sites didn’t work any better than they did on the dialup anyway.
    
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