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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jquery ◴[10 Aug 22 16:30 UTC] No.32414659[source]▶
Meanwhile I live in San Francisco and I still can’t get affordable symmetric gigabit fiber internet to my home.
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Ancapistani ◴[11 Aug 22 11:51 UTC] No.32424300[source]▶
That's nuts to me.

I live in a town of ~15k people in a Southern state, and I have symmetric gigabit. Granted, I pay ~$110/mo, but I have the option of symmetric 300Mbps for ~$50/mo. Neither plan has a data cap.

Then again, I chose my home based on the local ISPs' physical network topology. I didn't rely on their service maps, either - I physically went to their installation folks and got a copy of their maps.

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1. jquery ◴[11 Aug 22 17:20 UTC] No.32428953[source]▶
$110 absolutely falls under "affordable" gigabit. If I want symmmetric gigabit, I can get it, with a Comcast business plan. But last I checked it was in the $four-figure range.

I pay around $35/mo for 100Mbps symmetric using a microwave satellite on my house's roof.