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Out where I live, the house lots are a minimum of 5 acres, and most are 10 to 20 acres. The cable company has flat out said that they have no intention of ever running cable out to us. DSL is a laugh - most of us live too far from the nodes to have it (a neighbor of ours has DSL, but we live something like 500 feet too far from the nearest node. We tried it anyway, and the internet would disconnect every time the wind blew.)
Our option is satellite. We have pitiful bandwidth, and it costs us $10.60 every time we exceed it to reset it - and every time my daughter has a grahphics- intensive homework to do, we exceed it. Upload speeds are pathetic. But - it's the only game in town.
Yeah, I'd love it if some government mandated muni internet for us.
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