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They aren't pretending anything. I was stuck in DSL hell for the better part of the last decade. There was a shop running fiber all over that told me they wou
by tw04 6y ago
They aren't pretending anything. I was stuck in DSL hell for the better part of the last decade. There was a shop running fiber all over that told me they wouldn't be servicing our area until there were more Rural Broadband funds made available (to fund the ~2 mile run to our neighborhood). As of last year I'm finally on fiber... RBF works. It's just a matter of ensuring the funds get directed to ISPs that are ACTUALLY laying fiber instead of giving it to companies like Frontier.
- rhacker 6y agoWhat exactly is DSL hell?
- adamcstephens 6y agoTry 1.5Mb download. 3Mb if you’re lucky.
- tw04 6y agoFrontier - sold 7Mbit down that actually operated at about 1.5mbit during business hours and would peak at 5mbit from 2a-4am if I had to download something - that despite the modem actually syncing up at 7mbit. It was entirely their network too, my SNR was good enough to do 25mbit+ if they had offered it. Latency generally in the hundreds of ms because their network was so congested any traffic leaving it was a joke. Netflix was literally the only thing that worked for content (sometimes) and I'd assume that only worked through a combination of excellent bandwidth management on the part of Netflix and a caching server somewhere local on the Frontier network. My dial-up in the 90s was better from a reliability and consistency perspective. I ended up having to install mosh on all of my systems because SSH sessions would timeout so frequently on Frontier's garbage network.
- daniellarusso 6y ago768kbps upload bandwidth, that is closer to 500kbps.