Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
by post_from_work on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:50AM
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>>>In Austin, you’re lucky to get 1G anywhere.
That's depressing, especially for a US "tech hub". I'm in an irrelevant-but-dense urban area of Japan and have 1G fiber @ <$40 / month.
Re:Tesla’s headquarters will move to Austin
by lotsofpulp on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:42AM
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In the entire US, you are lucky to get fiber at all. Almost all people have a choice of only garbage asymmetric over subscribed coaxial cable with no other choice. A significant portion do not even have that. So few have fiber, that I disqualified 90%+ of the houses that came up in my searches when I was searching for a home.
Otherwise, you get what little you can get and you just have to be happy with DSL because it’s still better than what you can effectively get with Spectrum, since you’re sharing that with all your 500 closest neighbors and you still have to put up with outages and throttling and being treated like trash from the “cable guy” installers who wouldn’t understand concepts like bend radius if you broke their arm at the right distances and showed them how the glass fiber also breaks when it is bent too tightly.
Yes, this is an old pet peeve.