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  • 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. 😳

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  • 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.

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  • Jun 26, 2026, 5:07 PM

    @courtney @a I don't know how many times I've written to my city asking for municipal fiber. Oddly never seems to go anywhere...

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