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I personally don't hate 20 Mb service and I don't think it is the problem except for streaming video. The problem is the metastasis of ridiculous dynamic conte
by varelse 5y ago
I personally don't hate 20 Mb service and I don't think it is the problem except for streaming video.
The problem is the metastasis of ridiculous dynamic content that is driving up bandwidth requirements and latency and delivering a reduced quality Internet experience in return, not because dynamic content is intrinsically bad, but because of how it's being utilized.
But in both situations I've lived through recently, the fiber has been just out of reach along main roads for some time now. And I know a bunch of people in similar situations on side streets where AT&T and XFinity declined to extend service after building the infrastructure along main roads to do exactly that.
Anecdote: during 2019's power shut offs because of high winds, my house lost power for 3 days, but my neighbor 25' from me did not lose power. Seems like a similar situation in some ways. Both of our houses were on hills served by separate power lines less than a quarter mile from a main road. The only qualitative difference I can think of is that the last 200 ft to my house is below ground.
- vl 5y agoI live in a community, where Verizon FIOS (later sold to Frontier) put down fiber in the ground, and then didn’t connect houses! So this fiber is there for 10 years now, unconnected…