The power companies in my area started installing fiber on the power lines and running their own ISPs.
No data caps or anything, I’m raw dogging these torrents at like 80 megabytes a second, I even started running my own home server
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Imprudent3449@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The cable lobby loves to bring up rural areas but when we gave them millions to build out they just took the money, said fuck it and did jack shit. I’m beginning to think that they prefer to under serve those areas and then use that as a bargaining chip to get everything they want.
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 months ago
sqibkw@lemmy.world 5 months ago
80 megaBYTES? What part of the US are you in?
AdmiralShat@programming.dev 5 months ago
Mississippi
I absolutely refuse to measure speeds in bits.
sqibkw@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah I’m just surprised how fast that is, dang
Speculater@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I almost feel bad for rural people until I realize they’re the ones voting for the people who make sure rural people don’t get services. Redneck America wants to close the USPS for fuck sakes.
KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
My parents live in butt fuck nowhere and are in a fiber co-op paying like $70/month for unlimited 1gbps up/down.
Meanwhile I live in the (extremely left) Capitol City of my state and pay Comcast $165/month for like 175mbps capped at 1TB, with some absurd overage fee like $10/5GB over until I hit $100 over and then it’s “unlimited” but seems throttled.
Aecosthedark@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In Australia we watched American ISPs do exactly that and then we did the exact same thing with the exact same result because our politicians are corrupt pieces of shit with no backbone, integrity or ethics.
Kiosade@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The dumbasses that gave them the money should have made it so the companies did the work FIRST, then get reimbursed when they could prove they finished it. Whole thing was stupid.
foggy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I am in New England. Looking to buy a home. The amount of area that is not covered at 100/10 is fucking criminal. Like, they upped my price this year. For what? Transferring packets didn’t get more expensive. Did you go e your employees raises? No? Are you expanding your infrastructure? No?
Like what the fuck.
tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Numerous places I’ve lived had contracts with Comcast so there was no option but them, and the speed is shit, maybe they needed to raise prices to pay for their forced monopolies.