United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to SpeedTest Global Index

Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by smoldesu on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:23AM (#28566531)

I live in a semi-rural area, on a dirt road off the highway with 15-20 other neighbors on our half-mile stretch of street. Until Starlink hit, the best internet we could get was 500kbps unmetered, and maybe 4mbps metered if you were lucky. It was genuinely that bad.

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Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by thehappypm on Friday September 17, 2021 @11:32AM (#28566648)

I think you're highlighting the huge challenge of American broadband. Every dirt road off every highway that has a dozen or two homes needs broadband -- that is an immense amount of infrastructure that's needed.

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Re:United States Broadband speed ranks 12th according to Spe... by vidanay on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:25PM (#28568193)

Do they have electricity? I'm betting "yes". This means there are either above ground poles that fiber can be hung from, or if it was constructed in the last 30 years, the ground was opened for trenching, and a fiber should have been buried along side the power (wou'da, cou'da, shou'da). Dig once policies and pole sharing policies have been fought tooth and nail by the entrenched utilities.

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