Just got my first fiber internet last week. Here’s the best part: Another cable company laid fiber to my camp in the swamp a year before AT&T hit my hood. There’s a total of 900 souls out there, spread all over the place, and they buried fiber down our private, dirt roads, just to service a few dozen homes.
That’s actually super awesome, because DSL is painful nowadays and satellite can get right the heck outta here blagh!
One time when I lived in NE Oklahoma where it was very hilly, we paid a super small ISP that was a couple dudes who’d put a line-of-sight receiver on your house and point it at their radio tower they rented space on.
Browsing was generally fine but downloading was so slow that, I’m not even kidding, it was faster and more convenient to have someone in a metro area across the country log into my Steam account and “back up” a few games to a USB drive I mailed them, and mail it back.
I did that job in NE OK! We’d hang units on water towers and the like with a line-of-sight device on the home. Sure wish I could remember the company, but it was 25+ years ago and didn’t last.
Just got my first fiber internet last week. Here’s the best part: Another cable company laid fiber to my camp in the swamp a year before AT&T hit my hood. There’s a total of 900 souls out there, spread all over the place, and they buried fiber down our private, dirt roads, just to service a few dozen homes.
That’s actually super awesome, because DSL is painful nowadays and satellite can get right the heck outta here blagh!
One time when I lived in NE Oklahoma where it was very hilly, we paid a super small ISP that was a couple dudes who’d put a line-of-sight receiver on your house and point it at their radio tower they rented space on.
Browsing was generally fine but downloading was so slow that, I’m not even kidding, it was faster and more convenient to have someone in a metro area across the country log into my Steam account and “back up” a few games to a USB drive I mailed them, and mail it back.
I did that job in NE OK! We’d hang units on water towers and the like with a line-of-sight device on the home. Sure wish I could remember the company, but it was 25+ years ago and didn’t last.