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Lemmy, what's your internet speed in mbps? (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] 13 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.

I'm in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was...okay...but not fast enough for my needs.

I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.

I'll be paying for it for 10 years....but honestly, worth it.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    Holy shit ! you'll be paying 500$/month for ten years ? Yea, I imagine I would do that too, given the dough

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don't anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it's quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we'll see where life takes me.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Supposedly it drops to something like $60/mo (in today's dollars). The rest is actually me having agreed to subsidize the digging itself. I just looked again it's actually 8 years, so on the whole I still feel like it was worth it.

    In fact, I remember them telling me they went way over budget on the project so I'm actually underpaying (we signed agreements prior to them breaking ground). So I guess that aligns.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Good one. And your commune wouldn't pay for any of it ?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Not sure what you mean by commune?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm not sure... the town ? district maybe ?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ohhh okay, sorry, I wasn't sure if by commune you meant I lived in a multi-family commune - which I don't.

    Unfortunately, no, the actual town I live in address-wise has a whopping population of about 1000 people but that's spread out over multiple multiple acres of farmland. And on top of that I'm on the edge of said town boundaries. If I lived in the town itself I would have had access to fiber internet without having to get a line trenched, unfortunately, I don't.

    Because it only benefits my property, no subsidies or anything available.

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