A Bazillon bits per second! I have it! You don't!

[Coyote machine]

Can you post a link to your provider/service.

I'm envious!

I tried to look this up...found this link... Rural Vermont phone company offering Google Fiber-like Internet speeds for $35/mo. | VentureBeat | Business | by Tom Cheredar Are you a VTEL customer??

Yes, Vtel is one of two VT State telephone networks. It went after the available grant monies to expand rural internet availability and increased broadband speed.

 

[Coyote machine]

I'm jealous. The Penguin told the internet improvement committee they should work on faster access speeds. Used tech tech terms like symmetrical up down speeds and everything. No significant funding in his budget though.

Maine was working on internet speed and coverage but The Penguin took a five year time-out to focus on really important stuff. :laughing:

The Penguin?! Has to be some derogatory term for Obama....
Well he delivered, in VT as promised, can't speak to your issues in Maine. (And I do own property there too - full disclosure).

 

[Coyote machine]

I wish I could just get 10% of that.

With moving, I just went from 20M (with ability to go up to 50M) roadrunner, down to 6M DSL:mur:

I really wanted TWC. It was cheaper than my current Direct TV and DSL setup, with faster internet. I am only 1300' off the main state route down a little side road. They said $19,500 and they could do it for me:laughing:

ONLY $19.5K?! At that bargain price, get two!:confused2:

 

[Coyote machine]

Yeah, yeah. I've got Hughes Net baby! I actually typed this back in November and you are just now reading it.

No cell service at my house, propane no natural gas.

Flip side no building permits, burn permits, nothing permits. Not many neighbors. I can shoot off my back porch and nobody minds.

November! Now that's funny!:laughing:
If you lived in VT you can carry with NO carry permit, IIRC. And shoot off your front porch.

 

[Coyote machine]

1Gig is more than I can download in a month! BTW where did the "renewal program" get the money?

Your back pocket.

 

[texasjohn]

If it is a COMMUNITY RENEWAL PROGRAM GRANT, then it's apparently been available since 1965

https://archive.org/details/applicationforco1968bost

 

[TomSeller]

Wow, from the slums of 7 mb, I tip my hat.

 

[Coyote machine]

Your behind the game. I have had one gig from 2 providers in Rural MN for three years. Trial fro 10 GIG starting February. This is a low latency connection with direct peering to many. Netflix CDN Google CDn and Akamai CDN on network.

Did I mention it is ring fed to my house!! Well the last 1000 feet for the drop is collapsed. We ahve had fiber to the home since 2004. People are spoiled. They have never known slow internet.

Your monthly cost for your dropped service is?

 

[Coyote machine]

Regardless of allocated bandwidth spectrums...downstream feeds are limited by the capacity of the upstream pipes that www servers are capable of...i.e., you can't downstream data any faster than a server can upstream it...

Also, regardless of the available bandwidth via fiber optic pipes...Ethernet cable (i.e., cat 5-6 etc) has limitations...likewise (and more so) if you rely on economical wireless protocols...

And, so?:confused2:

 

[Coyote machine]

I can only imagine how may video games and **** videos that kind of speed will allow you to download! congrats.

Imagine! The installer said if I had 30 people at my house all downloading full HD movies, gaming and whatever could otherwise lock-up a regular connection there would be NO impact on my line whatsoever.
We strung 160' of Cat? from the fiber controller inside my garage to my fiber modem.

Here's just one speed test result I ran: ping: 3ms, down:146.05, up: 113.37 for $35/mo. Boom! Shakalaka, BOOM!