I live in a "rural" place on one of the nation's fiber backbones, one of the top in the country due to nearby military/government facilities, and we don't even get the full 7Mbps bandwidth we pay for. And that's still $30-40/mo.

And all that is because Verizon won't upgrade their equipment to handle the congestion that happens at night. It's not that they can't, but that we're "rural".

I live on a farm in Texas. We pay $100/mo for 5mbps internet and rarely get one. (Our landline is bundled with it) Our whole internet has gone down for days multiple times.

I live in the least rural place in the country (midtown Manhattan), and that's about what I'm paying (technically it's $60 for 20 Mbps advertised[0]).

[0] Which usually gets me about 1 MB/s in practice.

I just moved from a rural property where I was paying $120/mos for 1.5mbps nominally (sometimes lower...rarely higher...).

I'm now paying $60/mos for 120Mbps down and 10Mbps up.

hmm I use a combo TMobile broadband at 45Mbps and library wifi at 2Mbps..USA is getting better at least fixed wireless is finally taking off