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  • Re: Connection Refused

    From Moondog@VERT/CAVEBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Mon Apr 24 15:29:00 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Mar 09 2023 06:55 am

    Nightfox wrote to Brokenmind <=-

    Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed for both download and upload. Having such a wide gap between download and upload speed seems weird to me now.. With fiber, even if you have speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and download.

    I need to bite the bullet and get fiber. I'm sitting on a couple of terabytes of data I'd love to sync with the cloud, but with a bandwidth
    cap and 20 mbps upload speed on cable, it'd be painful.

    Who do you have, and do they have monthly bandwidth caps?





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    An electrical co-op north of me is pulling fiber into my area. I'm waiting
    now for to be run down my street. The company is paying $75,000 a mile for running fiber. I think they got it through government funding during Covid.
    My area is a broad band no man's land. ATT won't invest in enhancing infrast ructure and Comcast will not spend $10,000 a mile to run cable down a road that has less than 20 houses per mile. On the half mile section I live on there are 4 houses separated by corn fields. I'm going to stick with Hughesnet until the fiber is run. Starlink has a long waiting list in my
    area and the price jumps for the price of a reciver and dish. At first they were priced at $500 fo rthe dish, now the price has increased to $750. At first they said no bandwidth caps,but now in reality they say it's necessary.


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to Moondog on Tue Apr 25 07:02:00 2023
    Moondog wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    My area is a broad band no man's land. ATT won't invest in enhancing infrast ructure and Comcast will not spend $10,000 a mile to run cable down a road that has less than 20 houses per mile. On the half mile section I live on there are 4 houses separated by corn fields. I'm
    going to stick with Hughesnet until the fiber is run. Starlink has a
    long waiting list in my area and the price jumps for the price of a reciver and dish. At first they were priced at $500 fo rthe dish, now
    the price has increased to $750. At first they said no bandwidth
    caps,but now in reality they say it's necessary.


    AT&T FIber just moved in, but because of the street I'm on, AT&T fiber
    hangs lowest of all of the cables, and my neighbor's cable has been
    clipped by trucks thrice. It's taken 4-5 days to repair it each time -
    they roll a mid-sized pickup truck with a 6 foot ladder out with no
    chance of repairing it to meet the SLA, then call it in to escalate.



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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Apr 25 13:31:08 2023
    Re: Re: Connection Refused
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Tue Apr 25 2023 07:02 am

    AT&T FIber just moved in, but because of the street I'm on, AT&T fiber

    Interesting, I didn't know AT&T was doing fiber these days. AT&T had cable internet service in my area about 20 years ago (theirs was my first broadband internet service), and then that ended up being acquired by Comcast.

    Nightfox

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