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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I live pretty rural and no service providers had any desire or plans to expand service to where I am. Best offering was 768kbps DSL.

I'm in a little bit of a valley with a ton of huge trees, so Starlink would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Cellular internet was...okay...but not fast enough for my needs.

I ended up paying a provider to dig a trench from a distant main road to my property and bury a fiber line direct for my use. It has a 99.99999% uptime guarantee which is nice.

I'll be paying for it for 10 years....but honestly, worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit ! you'll be paying 500$/month for ten years ? Yea, I imagine I would do that too, given the dough

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Sadly, yeah. Moved out here mid-COVID and I really don't anticipate needing to move (got a good chunk of land, it's quiet, farm animals, etc.) and I can do my job remote so the internet was definitely necessary. But we'll see where life takes me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

60K in 10 years is not very expensive if you didn’t have to pay for the digging itself. That could easily be as expensive without any service. Now I don’t know what happens after your current contract though, whether it will be reduced or if you have options to switch providers…

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Supposedly it drops to something like $60/mo (in today's dollars). The rest is actually me having agreed to subsidize the digging itself. I just looked again it's actually 8 years, so on the whole I still feel like it was worth it.

In fact, I remember them telling me they went way over budget on the project so I'm actually underpaying (we signed agreements prior to them breaking ground). So I guess that aligns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good one. And your commune wouldn't pay for any of it ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what you mean by commune?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure... the town ? district maybe ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh okay, sorry, I wasn't sure if by commune you meant I lived in a multi-family commune - which I don't.

Unfortunately, no, the actual town I live in address-wise has a whopping population of about 1000 people but that's spread out over multiple multiple acres of farmland. And on top of that I'm on the edge of said town boundaries. If I lived in the town itself I would have had access to fiber internet without having to get a line trenched, unfortunately, I don't.

Because it only benefits my property, no subsidies or anything available.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I see. Well you still made a good investment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Got any neighbours who might pay for some of that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not close enough, no. Though I was briefly looking into offering something using some high-powered point to point hardware, just haven't really done it yet.