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That's not true. Except for rural areas, most of the US has broadband internet, typically from their cable company.

by jpindar 6y ago

zbrozek 6y ago
If only. Despite having a franchise agreement to make service available at every residence in town, it's impossible to actually get broadband at many homes here. I just cut a large check and signed some papers to be the first community fiber island here, with a microwave link to get us service. Los Altos Hills, CA
mjayhn 6y ago
You're not wrong, I forget the Gov calls 100Mbps broadband (thankfully up from 10Mbps). I wasn't specific enough. I personally, and I do move every few years to new States/Cities (and recently trying to move to smaller mountain/woodsy towns) and wfh and have to actually have 100Mbps+ internet or I think I'll melt. Most of the towns I looked were vdsl/DSL only except for a few who had gone the muni route or had an executive from Xfinity living there. 300mb+ is still pretty hard to get outside of cities. I've actually spent ~$20k before to get Spectrum to cable an old house in the middle of a huge city.
lotsofpulp 6y ago
I don't consider internet via coaxial cable with 300mbps download and 5mbps upload to be broadband. It's probably split between too many houses, and they boost your bandwidth to 300mbps for a minute or two to make it seem like it's fast, but they won't sustain it. I also don't trust the economic incentives of a company that makes more money selling media than it does proper broadband service. Dealing with fiber to the home providers is much nicer, with symmetric 1Gbps down and up connections. You can feel the connection is much snappier, have multiple FacetimeHD and HD video streams going, and you don't even notice. And I can stream from my devices at home when I'm away because there is actually available upload bandwidth.

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That's not true. Except for rural areas, most of the US has broadband internet, typically from their cable company.

by jpindar 6y ago

That's not true. Except for rural areas, most of the US has broadband internet, typically from their cable company.

zbrozek 6y ago
If only. Despite having a franchise agreement to make service available at every residence in town, it's impossible to actually get broadband at many homes here. I just cut a large check and signed some papers to be the first community fiber island here, with a microwave link to get us service. Los Altos Hills, CA
mjayhn 6y ago
You're not wrong, I forget the Gov calls 100Mbps broadband (thankfully up from 10Mbps). I wasn't specific enough. I personally, and I do move every few years to new States/Cities (and recently trying to move to smaller mountain/woodsy towns) and wfh and have to actually have 100Mbps+ internet or I think I'll melt. Most of the towns I looked were vdsl/DSL only except for a few who had gone the muni route or had an executive from Xfinity living there. 300mb+ is still pretty hard to get outside of cities. I've actually spent ~$20k before to get Spectrum to cable an old house in the middle of a huge city.
lotsofpulp 6y ago
I don't consider internet via coaxial cable with 300mbps download and 5mbps upload to be broadband. It's probably split between too many houses, and they boost your bandwidth to 300mbps for a minute or two to make it seem like it's fast, but they won't sustain it. I also don't trust the economic incentives of a company that makes more money selling media than it does proper broadband service. Dealing with fiber to the home providers is much nicer, with symmetric 1Gbps down and up connections. You can feel the connection is much snappier, have multiple FacetimeHD and HD video streams going, and you don't even notice. And I can stream from my devices at home when I'm away because there is actually available upload bandwidth.