• @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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      139 months ago

      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.

      • @Hadriscus@lemm.ee
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        9 months ago

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

        • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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          39 months ago

          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.

            • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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              29 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.

          • @Dewe@lemmy.world
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            29 months ago

            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…

            • @AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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              59 months ago

              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.