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ISPs, let me calibrate things for you:
Basically everyone in the US would prefer to just pay the FCC or their local or state governments directly for good and cost effective broadband. We all hate you with a passion and wish you would die as companies.
Yep, I just got local county fiber installed because Comcast would go down twice a day, at least. On top of that, I was paying out the ass for shitty upload speed and to remove the 1.2TB data cap. The local ISPs are about $60/mo for 1 gig up and down, compared to Comcast's $130/month for 1 "gig" down and 30 meg up.
What's really crazy about lopsided plans like that 1Gbps/30Mbps is that a lot of the time you straight up can't use that 1 gig down because your pitiful upstream gets completely saturated just trying to keep up with the ACKs you need to send back to confirm receipt of packets. More then 30Mbps upstream is literally a requirement if you want to utilise 1Gbps of downstream over TCP.