Broadband Fiber Deployment
Discussions focus on the availability, speeds, and limitations of residential internet services like fiber (FTTH/FTTC), DSL, cable, and alternatives such as LTE/Starlink, highlighting regional disparities, provider shortcomings, and international comparisons.
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Yep!I just got back from visiting family out in the boonies. They have had fiber on their street for more than a decade. It runs right over their drive way and down a few more telephone poles to … the dslam. The dslam which is still v1 speeds and att won’t even sell new dsl service on it / is aggressively pushing old customers out.They’ve been happy starlink users for a while now.
At least in the US "most" most definitely did not have fiber, at best maybe FTTC.
Ah understood. Perhaps bad customer service. In general we have amazing fiber penetration via https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-Fast_Broadband which is a government initiative. Much better than the NBN in Australia for example (where I'm from originally) and cheaper too. My gigabit connection is also just under $50USD a month
why not use http://www.kabeldeutschland.de/? their service is available in most rural areas and goes up to 100Mb/s. i am actually surprised the author doesn't even mention them...
It's not the DOCSIS standard, it's the providers that's holding it back.
Not when its faster than broadband :)
It's good if you have FTTC, it's very patchy if you don't
Isn't there any LTE around and what about FTTH ?
This isn't true for spectrum or Comcast. Both uss fttn nowadays.
Internet access after the telcos were forced to share their last mile fibre?