I guess not all rurals are the same.

In my parts, being rural could mean not having a 2G/3G signal until you
have to climb a tree... not literally, but you get my point.

Mark.

On 29/May/18 15:27, Matt Hoppes wrote:

> I am incredibly rural in Pennsylvania and pay about $.50 per megabit. 
>
>> On May 29, 2018, at 09:23, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> On 05/28/2018 06:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote:
>>> Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware
>>> is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic
>>> across, in Nairobi.   Yes, that's about $60,000/year.
>> I live in the US of A, and this is what 200Mb/s roughly would cost me as 
>> well here in Rural Monopoly-land.  Rural ILEC also has the CATV business, 
>> and, well, they are _not_ going to run cable up here.  I've actually priced 
>> 150Mb/s bandwidth from the ILEC over the years; in 2003 the cost would have 
>> been about $100,000 per month. As of five years ago 10Mb/s symmetrical cost 
>> roughly $1,000 per month, the lion's share of that being per-mile NECA 
>> Tariff 5 transport costs.
>>
>> The terrain here prevents fixed wireless.  The terrain also prevents 
>> satellite comms to the Clarke belt (mountain to the south with trees on US 
>> Forest Service property in the line of sight).  I get 1XRTT in one room of 
>> my house when the humidity is below 70% and it's winter, and once in a blue 
>> moon 3G will light up, but it's not stable enough to actually use; it's the 
>> speed of dialup.  If I traipse about a hundred yards up the mountain to the 
>> south (onto US Forest Service property, so, no repeater for me) I can get 
>> semi-usable 4G; nothing like being in the middle of the woods with an active 
>> black bear population trying to get a usable signal.
>>
>> I'm paying $50 per month for 7/0.5 DSL (I might add that they provide 
>> excellent DSL that has been extremely reliable) from the only ISP available 
>> in the area.
>>
>> I remember a usable web experience not too long ago on 28.8K/33.6K dialup 
>> (it was quite a while before said ILEC got a 56K-capable modem bank).  DSL 
>> started out here at 384k/128k.  On the positive side, we have a very low 
>> oversubscription ratio, so I actually get the full bandwidth the majority of 
>> the time, even video streaming. I also know all the network engineers there, 
>> too, and that also has its advantages.
>>
>> (Yes, I am aware that rural living is a choice, and there are things worth a 
>> great deal more than bandwidth, that it's a tradeoff, etc.)
>>
>> So it's not just '3rd-world' countries with expensive bandwidth.
>>
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