Re:The Nintendo Switch Switch
by filoleg on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @03:08PM
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US is weirdly bipolar when it comes to internet. In some areas, you can barely get a DSL connection from a single ISP, and it will be some astronomical price of like $70+/mo (if you are lucky). If you don't like it, suck it up, because you have no other providers servicing your area. In others, you have like 4-5 ISPs, all offering fiber and at reasonable prices.
It definitely feels like it is getting better, though. Moved to Seattle and am happily paying ~$40/mo for symmetrical non-capped 1Gb fiber (both up and down). Even my family still living in suburban GA (way outside of the perimeter, not some within-the-city suburb) got fiber recently, and at a fairly ok price for the area (tho definitely way more expensive than $40/mo, and they only have a choice between Comcast and AT&T, unfortunately).
It definitely feels like it is getting better, though. Moved to Seattle and am happily paying ~$40/mo for symmetrical non-capped 1Gb fiber (both up and down). Even my family still living in suburban GA (way outside of the perimeter, not some within-the-city suburb) got fiber recently, and at a fairly ok price for the area (tho definitely way more expensive than $40/mo, and they only have a choice between Comcast and AT&T, unfortunately).