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I love these posts. They remind me that there are places in the world where technology is moving forward. Where we live in Tennessee I have to run 2 internet co

I love these posts. They remind me that there are places in the world where technology is moving forward. Where we live in Tennessee I have to run 2 internet connections to be able to have a service when I need it. 3gb DSL and a 5gb satellite connection. The sat connection has the additional bonus of being capped at 150Gb per month. All these new streaming services may as well not even exist for those of us in rural areas.

lotsofpulp 6y ago
When I bought a home, I limited my searches to ones that had symmetric fiber connections.
- arthurcolle 6y ago
  Had to make this after seeing your post. https://i.imgflip.com/4vesal.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/4vesal.jpg
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    Haha. I have a multi generational household. 4 adults, 2 children, and we're heavy Facetime/Apple TV users. 4 to 8 HD simultaneous video streams is normal, plus the security cameras. I also wanted to be able to stream from my server at home anywhere I am. And with 2 people working from home, it was an amazing decision.
  - pbronez 6y ago
    haha I've been dreaming about a 10GB LAN setup; getting that on WAN would be awesome. I'd immediately establish elaborate multi-site NAS systems.
- SteveGerencser 6y ago
  I priced having a 10m fiber connection brought out here. I was quoted just over $5k/month with a minimum 3 year contract. I assume they were expecting me to just pay for the new service to the entire area for them to resell. Wife wanted to live out here. So we traded my being able to work easily for amazing views and lots of land. Not entirely unhappy with the trade, but there are days when I think about just renting an office in town. (30 minutes away).
  - xhrpost 6y ago
    If you search HN you will find that negotiating plays a big role in the cost of leased line access. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3892854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3892854
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    I was basically restricted to buying homes in new developments since 2010. Those all tended to have fiber, and anything before did not, and they had no plans to install it. I pay $65 per month for 940mbps up and down from Centurylink, and it's been as advertised so far. Unfortunately, the cable company usually offers some ludicrous 500mbps (burst) download / 5mbps upload connection that people are willing to accept for cheaper, so if the phone company comes in and pays to install fiber and charge accordingly for the new fiber runs, insufficient people would switch to the fiber to make the numbers work since they are okay with the shitty cable company connection.
- dudul 6y ago
  I bought a house 1+ year ago and had "good internet" connection on my must-haves. I remember visiting a house during the search and asking the listing agent about it. The guy was super candid, he basically told me no, there was no cable internet and that was the reason he knew it would be sitting on the market for a year at least.
learc83 6y ago
You should move down to Hamilton county. We have 1Gb fiber for around $60 from EPB (the municipal power company). Even out in the more rural areas.
rayiner 6y ago
I’ve got Comcast 2 gig fiber and Verizon 1 fig fiber to my house, plus 1 gig cable. I live 10 minutes from horse farms in MD. (The horse farms also have fiber.)
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
  I've never seen Comcast offer fiber, except to businesses at astronomical costs. I can't even find it on their website. Do they advertise upload bandwidth for their fiber?
  - arthurcolle 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure I have Comcast fiber, its 1Gbps down and around 750Mbps upload and there's a wire coming out of the wall into the router so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  - cobookman 6y ago
    They offer a 2Gibps fiber optic plan in certain locations for ~299$/month. https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how-to-get-xfinity-gigabit-pro-2gbps-up-down-residential-internet-42605c8e86fe https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how...
    - lotsofpulp 6y ago
      This section is an amazing indictment of the company that tens of millions of Americans have to deal with to get access to the internet. >The Important Part Because so many people had this question, and I finally talked to someone at Comcast who knew what Gigabit Pro actually is, here is how to get in touch with them:
  - rayiner 6y ago
    https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/requirements-to-run-xfinity-internet-speeds-over-1-gbps https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/requirements-to-run... It’s actually 3g up and down. It’s 10 gig Metro-E into a Juniper switch, with a 1g port and 10g port throttled to 2g.
hnuser123456 6y ago
3 gigabits per second DSL and 5 gigabits per second to a satellite? You (like the other commenter...) probably mean megabits. And also Gb is gigabits, but your cap is probably in bytes, gB or GB.

lotsofpulp 6y ago

When I bought a home, I limited my searches to ones that had symmetric fiber connections.

arthurcolle 6y ago
Had to make this after seeing your post. https://i.imgflip.com/4vesal.jpg https://i.imgflip.com/4vesal.jpg
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
  Haha. I have a multi generational household. 4 adults, 2 children, and we're heavy Facetime/Apple TV users. 4 to 8 HD simultaneous video streams is normal, plus the security cameras. I also wanted to be able to stream from my server at home anywhere I am. And with 2 people working from home, it was an amazing decision.
- pbronez 6y ago
  haha I've been dreaming about a 10GB LAN setup; getting that on WAN would be awesome. I'd immediately establish elaborate multi-site NAS systems.
SteveGerencser 6y ago
I priced having a 10m fiber connection brought out here. I was quoted just over $5k/month with a minimum 3 year contract. I assume they were expecting me to just pay for the new service to the entire area for them to resell. Wife wanted to live out here. So we traded my being able to work easily for amazing views and lots of land. Not entirely unhappy with the trade, but there are days when I think about just renting an office in town. (30 minutes away).
- xhrpost 6y ago
  If you search HN you will find that negotiating plays a big role in the cost of leased line access. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3892854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3892854
- lotsofpulp 6y ago
  I was basically restricted to buying homes in new developments since 2010. Those all tended to have fiber, and anything before did not, and they had no plans to install it. I pay $65 per month for 940mbps up and down from Centurylink, and it's been as advertised so far. Unfortunately, the cable company usually offers some ludicrous 500mbps (burst) download / 5mbps upload connection that people are willing to accept for cheaper, so if the phone company comes in and pays to install fiber and charge accordingly for the new fiber runs, insufficient people would switch to the fiber to make the numbers work since they are okay with the shitty cable company connection.
dudul 6y ago
I bought a house 1+ year ago and had "good internet" connection on my must-haves. I remember visiting a house during the search and asking the listing agent about it. The guy was super candid, he basically told me no, there was no cable internet and that was the reason he knew it would be sitting on the market for a year at least.

learc83 6y ago

You should move down to Hamilton county. We have 1Gb fiber for around $60 from EPB (the municipal power company). Even out in the more rural areas.

rayiner 6y ago

I’ve got Comcast 2 gig fiber and Verizon 1 fig fiber to my house, plus 1 gig cable. I live 10 minutes from horse farms in MD. (The horse farms also have fiber.)

lotsofpulp 6y ago
I've never seen Comcast offer fiber, except to businesses at astronomical costs. I can't even find it on their website. Do they advertise upload bandwidth for their fiber?
- arthurcolle 6y ago
  I'm pretty sure I have Comcast fiber, its 1Gbps down and around 750Mbps upload and there's a wire coming out of the wall into the router so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- cobookman 6y ago
  They offer a 2Gibps fiber optic plan in certain locations for ~299$/month. https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how-to-get-xfinity-gigabit-pro-2gbps-up-down-residential-internet-42605c8e86fe https://todayamerican.medium.com/the-definitive-guide-on-how...
  - lotsofpulp 6y ago
    This section is an amazing indictment of the company that tens of millions of Americans have to deal with to get access to the internet. >The Important Part Because so many people had this question, and I finally talked to someone at Comcast who knew what Gigabit Pro actually is, here is how to get in touch with them:
- rayiner 6y ago
  https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/requirements-to-run-xfinity-internet-speeds-over-1-gbps https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/requirements-to-run... It’s actually 3g up and down. It’s 10 gig Metro-E into a Juniper switch, with a 1g port and 10g port throttled to 2g.

hnuser123456 6y ago

3 gigabits per second DSL and 5 gigabits per second to a satellite? You (like the other commenter...) probably mean megabits. And also Gb is gigabits, but your cap is probably in bytes, gB or GB.