Comment on FCC to propose a minimum 100mbps to qualify as broadband, with a future goal of 1gbps
irotsoma@lemmy.world 7 months agoGod I wish we had that here. We are pretty much stuck with Comcast as the only option. DSL is too slow in most places. Like I think I can only get 100/1 where I am now, but the last place I was at which was not exactly rural at all, was max 12m/768k. In my current place I do have one other option which is another cable provider. They offer the exact same as Comcast for slightly less money, but the primary reason I use them is because they don’t have a monthly data cap. With my wife and I working from home plus our personal streaming, we would exceed the cap and have to pay a significant amount to increase it.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah ISPs are doing rural America really dirty. I didn’t even know monthly data caps existed with home internet until somebody from a rural town mentioned it. The only internet with monthly data caps around here is cell service and even then that’s usually unlimited now.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Yar harr? Or wfh programmer?
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I have a home server which is used for quite a bit. Bunch of web apps including storage so downloading stuff to my phone over the internet means upload form my server, also multimedia too via Plex, music, and podcasts.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Ah yaeh that would do it.
irotsoma@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Yeah I mean right now I’m in a relatively major city in the US (like 750K population), and the previous place I was just inside a major suburb (like 150K population). Rural is just plain screwed.