Re: Re: Hello!
By: Moondog to nostalia on Thu Jun 09 2022 08:24 am
Lines were cruddy where I'm at too. I'd average 31.6k. No cable, no fiber, no DSL, No WISP.
Don't complain much. I am on Wimax.
The government paid an ISP around two million dollar to take fibre to my town. They left an access point just by the edge of it. ONly a couple of houses actually got connectivity, but the government wrote our town off as no longer excluded from the fibre network.
THe funny thing is that if you are far from the access point they won't connect you, and if you offer to pay for the connection they will refuse. ANd if you are an ISP and ask to connect from their access point (which is publicly available as per the government funding contract) they will give you an outreageous quote so you don't connect.
There is no way this fibre network is profitable at all, and it certainly is of no use since the people who got coverage are 80-year-olds who don't have computers or anything. The government paid for nothing and the ISP pocketed the money.
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