| 5/1 to rural areas? They've got to be kidding.
Make it at least 10, if not 30 down. Maybe 5-10 up. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
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| WiMAX can do 5/1. 5/1 works for 99.9% of internet applications today, even streaming HD video. 10 Mbps is much harder to do over WiMAX (though still possible). 30 Mbps would require a dedicated WiMAX circuit. 5-10 up would also require pretty much dedicated WiMAX throughput.
Fiber in rural areas? Meh, no.
Not that I wouldn't like it, but we have to be realistic here. Companies aren't going to roll out fiber to rural areas, though if someone isn't served by copper phone and they want phone service it'd be a good idea  |
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| Doesn't have to be fiber (although that would be preferable). There are plenty of rural areas served by cable that don't have advanced services. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | Makes sense. Though in rural areas where they only have analog cable, bandwidth is probably also freakishly expensive unless people actually use the internet in quantity... |
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 DeathKPremium
join:2002-06-16
Cincinnati, OH | reply to fifty nine
I'd be happy to see 5/1. I only see ~1920/812 with ADSL from Cincinnati Bell. The service is 5Mbps/768kbps, but if you live any kind of distance from your CO you won't get it. I'd love it if they were forced to get the rated speed of the service to everyone. |
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