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[–] [email protected] 125 points 7 months ago (13 children)

The cable lobby loves to bring up rural areas but when we gave them millions to build out they just took the money, said fuck it and did jack shit. I'm beginning to think that they prefer to under serve those areas and then use that as a bargaining chip to get everything they want.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The power companies in my area started installing fiber on the power lines and running their own ISPs.

No data caps or anything, I'm raw dogging these torrents at like 80 megabytes a second, I even started running my own home server

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

80 megaBYTES? What part of the US are you in?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mississippi

I absolutely refuse to measure speeds in bits.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm just surprised how fast that is, dang

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Gigabit fiber is a thing, and not at all uncommon in a lot of places.

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