Weatherman wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
I'm in a rural area, the ONLY options are either point to point
wireless or some 5G service from a cell provider. Obviously I went
with the point to point wireless option, where I'm lucky to get 75 Mb/s downloads and 20 Mb/s upload speeds. When I lived in town we did have fiber service with 300 Mb/s which I sorely miss.
I did wireless for a company back in the 2000s in Verizon territory.
Verizon was able to provide DSL to our next-door neighbor, but
determined we were not eligible.
This was in Marin county - there's a big mountain in the middle of the
county, and the wireless provider was across the street. Worked OK, but
was fidgety as hell, considering I could see the other end of the
wireless leg.
It got weird when they wanted access to my router, despite them having
an end-point. The owner kept insisting "he didn't need this job", and
he'd rather be fishing. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
I had a Netopia router with a serial interface. When we moved and went
to DSL, I reached out to them, and they sent me an ethernet interface
for the router, a new badge and renewed the warranty on the router.
Very cool. They were a local company based in Alameda, CA. I was sad to
see them go.
The current service "suffices." We're able to stream to 4 TVs in HD including one that's 4K. Gaming is usually good. I work from home,
but most of what I do is either over an ssh connection or browser based over a VLAN. For the most part it does what I need it to do. Given
the alternatives, I'd rather live out here on my 15+ acres with 50-100 Mb/s service than be in town...
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