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When I bought my home in 2009 (suburbia in major metro area) - AT&T was offering a whopping 6mbps DSL connection for wired internet. At the end of 2024, they w

When I bought my home in 2009 (suburbia in major metro area) - AT&T was offering a whopping 6mbps DSL connection for wired internet. At the end of 2024, they were still only offering 6 mbps DSL. This year - they rolled out fiber. So, it only took 16 years - maybe you'll get lucky.

Alupis 1y ago
It's always been available - you just have to pay for the install. Get a quote from your local ISP and you'll realize why it took 16 years to bring fiber to your home. I received a near $100k quote to come across the street in a former building... it gets stupid expensive stupid fast.
- fn-mote 1y ago
  A sewer line is on the order of $10k. Fiber across a street should not be $100k. Maybe municipal regulations make it harder than it seems. I’m curious.
  - Alupis 1y ago
    Depends where you are and where the line needs to be run. Shutting down a busy city road? Gonna be expensive... At our current building, we just had fiber run from an in-ground vault already on premises (but not serving the building) into our MPOE - cost about $18k to go less than 100 yards... majority of-which didn't require boring. My original point was, people want fast internet out in the boonies but aren't willing to pay for it. Few residential customers are going to shell out $600+ a month for fast internet... but that's what's required for the ISP to recoup their construction costs in anything resembling a reasonable time period.
    - voakbasda 1y ago
      We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service. Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two.
      - Alupis 1y ago
        > We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service. Yes, at like $600+ a month over 6 years... you can do the math, it's nasty. > Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two ISP's aren't a charity service. Even your municipality cannot afford to run fiber to the boonies.

Alupis 1y ago

It's always been available - you just have to pay for the install. Get a quote from your local ISP and you'll realize why it took 16 years to bring fiber to your home. I received a near $100k quote to come across the street in a former building... it gets stupid expensive stupid fast.

fn-mote 1y ago
A sewer line is on the order of $10k. Fiber across a street should not be $100k. Maybe municipal regulations make it harder than it seems. I’m curious.
- Alupis 1y ago
  Depends where you are and where the line needs to be run. Shutting down a busy city road? Gonna be expensive... At our current building, we just had fiber run from an in-ground vault already on premises (but not serving the building) into our MPOE - cost about $18k to go less than 100 yards... majority of-which didn't require boring. My original point was, people want fast internet out in the boonies but aren't willing to pay for it. Few residential customers are going to shell out $600+ a month for fast internet... but that's what's required for the ISP to recoup their construction costs in anything resembling a reasonable time period.
  - voakbasda 1y ago
    We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service. Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two.
    - Alupis 1y ago
      > We will pay for it over the course of the years of paying for the service. Yes, at like $600+ a month over 6 years... you can do the math, it's nasty. > Plus, the economic benefits of enabling remote production/consumption of digital services probably outweighs the cost by an order of magnitude or two ISP's aren't a charity service. Even your municipality cannot afford to run fiber to the boonies.