Submitted my comment, like Pai gives a shit.
Here’s what I’m paying for, the best I can get in my location.
Here’s what I get about half the time now.
If I upload anything (say, take a photo with my phone and it syncs to my cloud storage), all traffic stops until the upload completes due to AT&T’s crappy modem. I’ve mitigated it somewhat by getting a firewall with traffic shaping and limiting uploads to 500Kb/s so there’s room in the upstream connection for other packets.
Next week, a local fiber company is deploying infrastructure just a half mile from my house. There are only a few houses between mine and the edge of their build-out, so probably not worth them expanding this way but I’ve asked just in case.
If only there were grants and other incentives for companies like that to provide service to more people. Instead, we get proposals to walk back definitions so multi-billion dollar companies can continue to sit on their asses while we fall further and further behind. I sure am feeling great again!
