Came here to post a similar story. 26 miles from the white house here, but in a lower density area. My home internet comes from a T1 that runs about $500/mo to

Came here to post a similar story. 26 miles from the white house here, but in a lower density area. My home internet comes from a T1 that runs about $500/mo to provide 1.5Mbit. My other options are ISDN (128kbit) or sprint EVDO at about -100db, providing ~200-500kbit but with many, many dropouts. 5 years ago there were the same options. 10 years ago it was T1 or ISDN. 15 years ago the same. Nobody wants to serve below a certain density with anything. Comcast was asked by the county to provide a customer pays dig fees estimate. They wanted 2.2M up front. Verizon actually wants to stop maintaining the copper plant in the next few years. It's very possible that this would leave us without enough clean pairs in the neighborhood to use leased lines. They indicate that we're scheduled for FIOS somewhere around 2020.