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.
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.
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.
Connect yourselves. Telecom Cooperatives have a long and successful history in developing rural telecommunications
My grandmother’s rural electric coop laid down fiber to most homes they service to. She has faster Internet than me in town.
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.
You’re lucky you get any channels besides Fox News. Keep complaining and you’ll go back to dialup ;) ;) ;)
You straight up don’t even get dial-up in some of these parts
Just tin cans and string?
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.
They probably don’t even know what’s going on 100 miles away from them. That…sounds wonderful.
Fun fact: dialup is much better than cable in many countries.
Edit: oh no thats cat3 on DSL. Not dialup
I only have one cat. But he’s fast.