> > Can you provide examples? > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Twe6uTwOyJo&ab_channel=NANOG
Our good friend Jared could only get 1.5M DSL living just outside Ann Arbor, MI, so he had to start his own CLEC. I have friends in significantly more rural areas than he lives in ( Niagara and Orleans county NYS , between Niagara Falls and Rochester ) who have the same 400Mb package from Spectrum that I do, living in the City of Niagara Falls. This is not to say that rural America is a mecca of connectivity; there is a long way to go all the way around regardless. But it is a direct example as you asked for. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:57 PM Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > >There are plenty of urban and suburban areas in America that are far > worse off from a broadband perspective than “rural America”. > > Can you provide examples? > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 3:51 PM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > >> >> >> > On Jun 2, 2021, at 02:10 , Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: >> > >> > >> > >> > On 6/2/21 11:04, Owen DeLong wrote: >> > >> >> I disagree… If it could be forced into a standardized format using a >> standardized approach to data acquisition and reliable comparable results >> across providers, it could be a very useful adjunct to real competition. >> > >> > If we can't even agree on what "minimum speed for U.S. broadband >> connections" actually means, fat chance having a "nutritional facts" at the >> back of the "Internet in a tea cup" dropped off at your door step. >> > >> > I'm not saying it's not useful, I'm just saying that easily goes down >> the "what color should we use for the bike shed" territory, while people in >> rural America still have no or poor Internet access. >> > >> > Mark. >> >> ROFLMAO… >> >> People in Rural America seem to be doing just fine. Most of the ones I >> know at least have GPON or better. >> >> Meanwhile, here in San Jose, a city that bills itself as “The Capital of >> Silicon Valley”, the best I can get is Comcast (which does finally purport >> to be Gig down), but rarely delivers that. >> >> Yes, anything involving the federal government will get the full bike >> shed treatment no matter what we do. >> >> There are plenty of urban and suburban areas in America that are far >> worse off from a broadband perspective than “rural America”. >> >> Owen >> >>