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When we bought a house, the best one ended up being literally a couple miles outside of EPB's service area and I had to switch to Comcast. I see their billboard

When we bought a house, the best one ended up being literally a couple miles outside of EPB's service area and I had to switch to Comcast. I see their billboard every time I drive home, just to rub salt in the wound.

Xeoncross 4y ago
I love how so many companies offer work-from-home now as you can literally work from anywhere in the world as long as it's only in a major city with a high bandwidth connection.
- ghaff 4y ago
  That is really not true. For most people modest speed connections are fine for working. Starlink certainly be sufficient in general.
- hedora 4y ago
  Check out this map, which doesn't seem to include starlink. Click "min price" (to make the 25+ MBPS filter appear), then click "25+ MBPS". You'll see that rural houses are likely to have access to better Internet than ones in Silicon Valley. To really light the map up, click "fixed wireless". I've had mixed luck with such ISPs, but they generally offer affordable plans that have better uplink bandwidth and ping latency than comcast. https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map
- refurb 4y ago
  Who needs a >1Gps bandwidth for work from home? I worked from home using a 4G SIM.
mikestew 4y ago
You have different parameters than I, because "the best one" has 25Gbps to the home, and not Comcast for an internet provider. :-) I know what you're saying, though. I suppose it's possible to have higher priorities than bandwidth. Personally, I'd still have to give serious thought to how much I want $FEATURE if it means having to do business with Comcast (or Comcast aside, give up 25Gbps). Backyard for the kids? They can go play in the park. :-)
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
  And here I am looking at properties that even Starlink would have trouble providing service to...
  - vlan0 4y ago
    Running away to the mountains to escape it all? Need company?
    - kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
      No, the point is to escape company! :)

Xeoncross 4y ago

I love how so many companies offer work-from-home now as you can literally work from anywhere in the world as long as it's only in a major city with a high bandwidth connection.

ghaff 4y ago
That is really not true. For most people modest speed connections are fine for working. Starlink certainly be sufficient in general.
hedora 4y ago
Check out this map, which doesn't seem to include starlink. Click "min price" (to make the 25+ MBPS filter appear), then click "25+ MBPS". You'll see that rural houses are likely to have access to better Internet than ones in Silicon Valley. To really light the map up, click "fixed wireless". I've had mixed luck with such ISPs, but they generally offer affordable plans that have better uplink bandwidth and ping latency than comcast. https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map https://broadbandnow.com/national-broadband-map
refurb 4y ago
Who needs a >1Gps bandwidth for work from home? I worked from home using a 4G SIM.

mikestew 4y ago

You have different parameters than I, because "the best one" has 25Gbps to the home, and not Comcast for an internet provider. :-) I know what you're saying, though. I suppose it's possible to have higher priorities than bandwidth. Personally, I'd still have to give serious thought to how much I want $FEATURE if it means having to do business with Comcast (or Comcast aside, give up 25Gbps). Backyard for the kids? They can go play in the park. :-)

kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
And here I am looking at properties that even Starlink would have trouble providing service to...
- vlan0 4y ago
  Running away to the mountains to escape it all? Need company?
  - kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 4y ago
    No, the point is to escape company! :)