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> And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as lo
by nullspace 6y ago
> And yet today in the United States, it’s basically a given that you will have a fast and reliable 4G connection available throughout the entire country, as long as you’re not in literal wilderness.
Don’t have a dog in this, but just wanted to say this is not at all true. There are so many places nowhere near wilderness where you would struggle to find a useable 4g connection.
(I’ve lived near some places like this in the northeast - I have to guess that the avalys has not traveled around that much in the US)
- DoofusOfDeath 6y agoI'll second this, at least as of a few years ago. I used to regularly take the Amtrak train into Boston's South Station. The area near Mansfield, MA. had basically no signal, despite being in a suburb. Not sure if that's improved since then.
- AlphaSite 6y agoThere are plenty of deadlines even inside the Bay Area.
- microcolonel 6y agoI'll add my anecdote: last year I took a long bus journey two ways between Hamilton, Ontario and the Philadelphia area. At one of the transfer stops, Binghamton NY I think, I picked up a 14GB SIM card and activated it in my phone, and it had signal almost the whole way to Philadelphia, I was watching videos the whole way, and made two video calls. Population density on the east is higher, but it's not that high, cutting through Pennsylvania.
- lathiat 6y agoIt's pretty common for major roadways to have coverage but for that to disappear once you're off them.
- microcolonel 6y agoFor what it's worth, most of the outbound route (but not the return) was secondary motorways.