Re: Re: Connection Refused
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Thu Mar 09 2023 06:55 am

 > -=> Nightfox wrote to Brokenmind <=-
 > 
 >  Ni> Since 2015 I've been using fiber internet, which offers the same speed
 >  Ni> for both download and upload.  Having such a wide gap between download
 >  Ni> and upload speed seems weird to me now..  With fiber, even if you have
 >  Ni> speed as high as gigabit, the gigabit speed is both for upload and
 >  Ni> download.
 > 
 > I need to bite the bullet and get fiber. I'm sitting on a couple of
 > terabytes of data I'd love to sync with the cloud, but with a bandwidth
 > cap and 20 mbps upload speed on cable, it'd be painful.
 > 
 > Who do you have, and do they have monthly bandwidth caps?
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > ... Magnify the most difficult details

An electrical co-op north of me is pulling fiber into my area.  I'm waiting
now for to be run down my street.  The company is paying $75,000 a mile for
running fiber.  I think they got it through government funding during  Covid.
 My area is a broad band no man's land.  ATT won't invest in enhancing infrast 
ructure and Comcast will not spend $10,000 a mile to run cable  down a road
that has less than 20 houses per mile.  On the half mile section I live on
there are 4 houses separated by  corn fields.  I'm going to stick with
Hughesnet until the fiber is run.  Starlink has a long waiting list in my
area and the price jumps for the price of a reciver and dish.  At first they
were priced at $500 fo rthe dish, now the price has increased to $750.  At
first they said no bandwidth caps,but now in reality they say it's necessary.


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