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You don't need to get nearly that far out to be without reasonable internet. I just looked at a property this week that's 15 minutes from a major regional hosp
by lostapathy 6y ago
You don't need to get nearly that far out to be without reasonable internet.
I just looked at a property this week that's 15 minutes from a major regional hospital and has no access to reasonable wired internet.
- ghaff 6y agoMy dad's property in Maine is similar. 15 minutes outside of a small city which has a perfectly good hospital etc. He gets about 1Mbit broadband--so you basically can't use for video--and very marginal cell service. And houses further down the road can't get broadband at all. I think a lot of people here assume you're either in Manhattan/SF or in some remote section of Wyoming. But, as you say, you don't need to get far away from dense civilization for broadband to be problematic. I live about 40 miles outside of a major city off a somewhat main road. While I do get Comcast, Verizon FIOS isn't available at my address (in site of the fact that they constantly send me mailings).