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Plenty of CAF, RDOF, BEAD and similar program funding went to forklifting ADSL2 cabinets into rural locales to provide the service OP mentioned. These were oft
by simfree 3y ago
Plenty of CAF, RDOF, BEAD and similar program funding went to forklifting ADSL2 cabinets into rural locales to provide the service OP mentioned.
These were often back hauled by bonded SHDSL or similar Ethernet over Copper technologies, so you end up with a bunch of people on 12Mbps connections sharing a small pool of bandwidth, resulting in congestion, jitter & packet loss for everyone.
Deploying fiber would have not been as inexpensive to implement though, and for many years getting any connectivity was more important than delivering future proof connectivity.