alt Hacker NewsI can barely get 50Mbps up/down and I only have xfinity in this area. No fiber, I will pay for it, but here we are. 2025 in good ol USA. In an urban area too.
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9rx • last Saturday at 8:46 AM
> I can barely get 50Mbps up/down
La ti da. My 50Mbps in an urban area doesn't even provide 10Mbps up.
> In an urban area too.
Funnily enough, my farmland has gigabit service.
But I, unfortunately, don't live there. Maybe some day I'll figure out how to afford to build a house on that land. But, until then, shitty urban internet it is, I guess.
soared • last Saturday at 3:38 AM
What city, house or apartment? Apartments won’t pull fiber for obvious reasons
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cute_boi • last Friday at 11:02 PM
You are lucky to have 50Mbps up. I have rented in 2-3 big cities and the upload speed was maximum 20mbps.
wow
When a few years ago I moved from Eastern Europe (where I had 1GB/s to my apartment for years) to the UK I was surprised that "the best" internet connection I was able to get was about 40MBit/s phone line. But it's a small town, and during past years even we have fiber up to 2GB/s now.
I'm surprised US still has issues that you mentioned. Have you considered Starlink(fuck Musk, but the product is decent)/alternatives?