They could still do fiber to some central node, then point-to-point radios for the last mile. I have WebPass (webpass.net) and it's point-to-point, gigabit, and

They could still do fiber to some central node, then point-to-point radios for the last mile. I have WebPass (webpass.net) and it's point-to-point, gigabit, and latency is awesome, much better than Comcast ever was for me at the same location, or any location for that matter. My ping to 1.1.1.1 is consistently around 2-4ms. And yes, this is obviously an anycast address, going to a datacenter in my city, but still impressive: traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 0.394 ms 0.383 ms 0.470 ms 2 * * * (*) 2.460 ms 1.754 ms 2.599 ms 3 10.5.1.9 (10.5.1.9) 1.518 ms 1.424 ms 1.614 ms 4 206.51.46.41 (206.51.46.41) 1.926 ms 2.240 ms 2.138 ms 5 one.one.one.one (1.1.1.1) 1.756 ms 1.945 ms 2.015 ms I was skeptical of this over something wired, too, but it's clear that the technology has greatly improved.