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This is actually normal. The US is huge, and outside of the major urban centers and their extended suburbs, it becomes very rural, very fast. And by "very rur
by pwg 7y ago
This is actually normal. The US is huge, and outside of the major urban centers and their extended suburbs, it becomes very rural, very fast. And by "very rural" I mean most of the amenities that urban city/suburb dwellers simply take for granted do not exist (or are a half-hour or better car ride away).
- gumby 7y agoFWIW I have a home in the rural Sierras (closest hospital is two hours away; industries are agriculture, tourism and meth) but Internet service is faster and more reliable than at my other home in Palo Alto. California at least seems to be able to get services (health care, roads, communications, power, and often water) into most of its obscure corners. Places like Montana or New Mexico may be really sparsely settled, but central Illinois seems less excusable. According to this map the described situation doesn’t exist; not sure if that’s an artifact of county boundaries or if it’s due to carriers lying to the FCC: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/map-digital-divide-leaves-millions-isolated-during-coronavirus-panic.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/27/map-digital-divide-leaves-mi...
- cbhl 7y agoIt might be that the cellular internet with data caps/metering counts as high speed internet by the FCC definition? My cellular phone is capped at ~10 GB of data; over the last month my household (with five people in it) has used ~460 GB over its landline connection.