Neat trick, but no substitute for fiber. 🙂
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/d227591a-534e-4811-a3e9-1b055d44914d
From: Friam on behalf of Gary Schiltz
Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2024 8:50 PM
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It depends on what's on the other end of your fiber connection :-) Here in
land that tech forgot, getting more than a few tens of megabits feels
luxurious. One carrier has fiber optic passing over my property, and they
offered to tap into it and give me 20 megabits for the low low price of
$100 a
What is the situation in Santa Fe now? When I left in 2018, fiber still
seemed in the distant future. Our new house in North Carolina, when
built, had two fiber boxes by the street, one for CenturyLink and one
for Spectrum. Since then, another one was added (unfortunately they
accidentally cut
I’ve never had the problems Gil has experienced with Comcast. I suspect that
because Gil lives in an older neighborhood with old and failing infrastructure.
We built our house 25 years ago in a new subdivision that required underground
utilities. That meant we have cable to the house and we’re o
Mañana. I’ve learned that it doesn’t mean “tomorrow”. It just means “not
today.” ;-)
On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:02 PM Gillian Densmore
wrote:
> Fiber is still 20 minutes into the future. Alas likely never without a
> overhaul of the "leadership"
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 8:56 AM Barry MacKicha
“Vexus” https://www.vexusfiber.com/ plans to roll out fiber to the home in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, but Mañana. That might vex us, but I have encouraged my neighbors to visit their site and check for services at their address. You will then get a chance to say you’d like to be offered service. Thi
I'm on NMSurf.com for most of a decade now, after the grant-funded San I
wireless system ground to a halt after the funding went away...  before
that I enjoyed a whole year of HughesNet satellight which was painfully
asymmetric and heavily latent. Before that dialup over the most poorly
maint
I sometimes get 300 Mbps on the older Starlink hardware supported here in
Ecuador. With the newer hardware they supply in the USA it would probably
approach 500. Even at $120 it sounds reasonable to me. Down here they don’t
seem to mind wiring a few houses together. I don’t know about up there.
On
Just for reference, the costs in India for fibre and 5G mobile data (which
many people use to hotspot)
1. Fibre 30 Mbps up/down (unlimited) along with a landline phone with
unlimited calling US$ 4.50 per month (no bundles)
2. Fibre 300 Mbps .. US$ 16 per month (bundled with free Amazon Prime,
net
We've talked about how some of us really enjoy simulated conversation with chatbots ...
"really" is an understatement ... it looks more like a fetish or a kink to me ... too
intense to be well-described as "enjoyment". Anyway, this article lands in that space, I
think:
Durably reducing conspir
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