• TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    As someone that lives in the rural US and has no option for internet besides Starlink, I’d much rather have fiber. Starlink isn’t bad, but it’s garbage compared to fiber.

    Plus I don’t want to give Elmo my money. I really wish I had other options.

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      15 hours ago

      Fiber is amazing. I paid $90 for 400 down and 10 up on cable… Then moved to a place with fiber. My fiber is now $49 for 1,000 down and 1,000 up.

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      1 day ago

      You’re lucky you get any channels besides Fox News. Keep complaining and you’ll go back to dialup ;) ;) ;)

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            19 hours ago

            Not even that really, you just don’t get outside communication. That type of area is getting rarer (especially after satellite TV and internet) but in some places, like for example some parts of backwoods Louisiana where I grew up, you were really just cut off. You were lucky to have a phone line. We would drive most of an hour to town to get a bunch of blockbuster tapes to keep us entertained during the week.

            Some of those places have been a bit modernized, but in a lot of areas like that across the southern and midwest USA I would not be at all surprised to hear that satellite TV and internet are still the only options available.

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              19 hours ago

              They probably don’t even know what’s going on 100 miles away from them. That…sounds wonderful.

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        23 hours ago

        Fun fact: dialup is much better than cable in many countries.

        Edit: oh no thats cat3 on DSL. Not dialup