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I like @syshum have access to 1 gbit fiber in my current home area. I am excited for Starlink to be able to buy a couple arces of land much further out and sti

• hedora 6y ago
  You already can buy farmland and get decent ISP coverage. In fact, there is often more competition and better service in rural areas than in places dominated by the cable and telco monopolies. I spot checked a county I’m familiar with. Population density: < 10 per square mile. Median income: 25-30K. They have fiber to the home, and offer up to 1GBit symmetric, even outside of town (where the houses are a ~mile apart). They don’t have to trench to run the fiber underground anymore. Instead, they have a roto-rooter style boring machine that installs the fiber as it builds a tunnel. They use a metal detector to figure out where to steer it.
  • ckdarby 6y ago
    I live in Canada and this is not the case at all. Plenty of the listings I look up online 40-60 mins from a city of 100k have dsl 10 mbit.