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In the days of cheap unlimited gigabit fiber and multi-gig WiFi connections…. Does it matter?
I live in a middle of a medium sized city and rely on increasingly overloaded 4G/5G network. Given how often iOS and Mac OS overnight updates fail, it gets rather annoying.
You live in a medium sized city and have to use a cell network? You don’t even have a coaxial network available to you? Even most small boonie towns in the US have coaxial with 300+ mbps, and if not you can call and get the carrier will run a line for free if there’s enough potential customers
It's a 50s building and every other building around has at least coax if not fiber. This one seems to positioned in a quirky way.
I'm probably cursed. I had coax for couple of years but the performance degraded so much that the cable company finally broke off the contract for not being able to deliver the service. Have been on unlimited plan from a mobile carrier since then which is not great in terms of speed but at least it was rock solid. Couple of months ago that went to shit too (which really sucks since I work remote). According to government agency that keeps tabs on this there should be fiber here next year so fingers crossed.
I'm at the point where, after checking every conceivable option, I used government agency (I live in Poland) to flag that there's a white spot on the broadband coverage map and that there's demand for something better than 2mbps copper wire. Which seems to have been noticed thankfully.