• @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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    131 year ago

    I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.

    I’m in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was…okay…but not fast enough for my needs.

    I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.

    I’ll be paying for it for 10 years…but honestly, worth it.

    • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Holy shit ! you’ll be paying 500$/month for ten years ? Yea, I imagine I would do that too, given the dough

      • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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        31 year ago

        Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don’t anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it’s quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we’ll see where life takes me.

          • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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            21 year ago

            Not close enough, no. Though I was briefly looking into offering something using some high-powered point to point hardware, just haven’t really done it yet.