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Re:25 Gigabit Linux internet router PC build by walrus01 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @03:09PM (#27795682)
Solving the last mile facilities based isp problem in detached houses in the USA and Canada is a hard one. In most places with aerial Telecom and power infrastructure, you will have three things coming to a house. Electricity, obviously. And then whatever is the local phone company, and the local incumbent cable TV company.

If you're unlucky enough to live in a place where the phone company is operating old degraded DSL on copper phone lines, and doesn't care to overbuild it with single mode fiber for GPON, and the cable TV company is also something similarly large and slightly evil like Comcast, you're almost out of luck. This is a political and regulatory problem that allows the local franchise agreement for the phone company and cable tv company to be renewed in perpetuity without demanding solid metrics for improvement of service.

If you are very fortunate, there will be an entirely single mode fiber-based third-party provider which competes with the previous two mentioned things. Doing what's called and "overbuild" as a new entrant for this is very capital intensive and requires a lot of physical outside plant cabling work and infrastructure at layer 1 in the OSI model. It also requires appropriate cooperation from whichever local entity owns and controls the wood utility poles (again, a political problem).

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