Jun 26, 2026, 4:24 AMI got a new broadband connection last weekend. It’s way better than my previous ine (although still not as good as what I had in 2016), but also more asymetrical than any I’ve had. So i’m curious: how much faster is your downlink than your uplink?
Jun 26, 2026, 12:14 PM(I should’ve set the upper bound a bit lower, but I’m observing rates over 100x as often as not.)
@a This is 1Gbps Quantum Fiber service. Pretty durn good.
Jun 26, 2026, 12:12 PM@courtney Holy crap! Very jealous over here.
@a Yeah ... it's been pretty great when it works. It's been a whole but I've had some terrible service interruptions.
Who is your provider? Is it fiber?
Jun 26, 2026, 2:07 PM@courtney Oh, *hell* no. Up until sometime in the past few months, the best available to me was 8Mbps DSL, and not even a good version of that, with ping times often measured in seconds.
there is fiber nearby, which stops about 3/4 of a mile from my house. I asked what it would take to get it to run the rest of the way; a three-year commitment totaling approximately $55,000. Which was better than the ~$60k Comcast wanted up front to run the remaining ~mile they’d need to get to me. 😳
Jun 26, 2026, 2:07 PM@courtney Sometime in the last few months (I check all the local options periodically), T-Mobile has started offering their home Internet at my house, so I now have that. I’m holding off on a full writeup until I can get an exterior antenna, but it’s already a tremendous improvement.
@a Oh. Yikes. Our national broadband policy sucks.
@fullywoolly @a That would be an answer. There are so few muni deployments, but the ones that happen seem to be smashing successes. Too bad.