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Man I really hope so. I'm in a 25/3 wasteland. My dad, a town over, is even lower. About 7/0.8.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands, I can choose between several gigabit providers. Symmetrical on fiber or asymmetrical on cable. I've been on gigabit fibre for a couple of years.
Can I have that problem instead of being stuck to a single ISP that charges more for copper wire service than they do fiber in the places they have it?
@Jamie @riotrick How much do you pay?
$55/mo
Their introductory rates for fiber, last I saw, was $30.
@Jamie Ah okay. I'm paying around 25€ per month including unlimited traffic and unlimited phone calls.
At the moment €30/month. But this was a deal for a couple of months. Regular price is €45/month. This is T-Mobile btw. When you combine it with a cellular plan. They give a discount of €5/month on the fiber and €2,50/month on the cellular plan.
The guy probably lives in a very rural area. I grew up in a rural area, and that house still only has access to dial-up internet. I shit you not.
You can access three bars of Verizon 4G if you stood in one corner of the upstairs of the house.
Meanwhile, I live about an hour away and have access to two fiber providers who provide gigabit internet.
@Jamie @riotrick I'm living in the centre of Hamburg (second largest city of Germany). For a few weeks I now have got 50/12. Before this i had been on around 25/6. And this had been the fastest speed that I was able to get. Sadly there is not that much fibre here, but mostly copper.
Beats the 1.5/0.25 centurylink provides us
I live in podunk nowhere, but if the amount of time since I've had that speed could buy things, I think it'd be old enough to buy cigarettes.
Also I'm surprised CenturyLink is even still alive.
They rebranded as Lumen, so they could provide the same shitty service to people who were already wary of them.
And rebranded their fiber AGAIN as Quantum... (And somehow got q.com... So jealous...) Presumably because even as "Lumen" they've screwed their brand...