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How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn't exactly a major metropolis, but we're in the middle of town! It's not like they're relying on Hughesnet or something.

Also, it's not that they're cheaping out on us either. The owners live upstairs. This is a duplex.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You're in the wrong Rochester!

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have 250Mbit/s in a really old building within a small to medium size town in Germany

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

one of local Ukrainian isps offered to run fiber (symmetrical 100) to the middle of nowhere. like literally, the nearest store is a couple if kilometers away, it's the last building along a road literally surrounded by a huge field, in a village with like 10 people still living in it.

(i don't need constant internet connection there tho as I'm only there occasionally, 4g is more than enough)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Here, too, in just a few weeks (at the moment I still have the 100mbit contract). And we are more or less out in the country, the next field is maybe 50m from our doorstep.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I have 16/4 mbit in the middle of berlin :|.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mother Mayo won't let the people living here have nice things. All infrastructure funding must go to the hospital so they can stay one the top medical centers in the world, while the city around them crumbles. Everything goes to the Destination Medical Center.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

you'll be fine. I played WoW in the early 2000s with these Internet speeds.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm nearby rochester and used to have radiolink. Honestly you're lucky it works. Never had a worse experience with an isp before

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

meanwhile random residential internet speeds in tokyo beating out every consumer connection available in my area (and country I assume): librespeed result for tokyo shows 147Mbps down, 153Mbps up

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Do you mind me asking how much you pay for that? I pay $90 a month for 250mbps down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Damn 20 ms ping.

Edit: Wait, you are probably just on WiFi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is 20 bad or good? I feel like having lower ping than that is impossible in Canada

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imo it's not great but it's not terrible either.

I would personally consider it bad if I got 20 ping on my personal desktop that's using ethernet and the home is connected using fiber. I would expect something closer to 1-5 ms.

If I had 20 ms on WiFi I wouldn't complain.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Upvoted because of librespeed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Libre me daddy

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Come to rural Canada. Our internet is slower, but at least it's three times more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or it's better and even more expensive... With starlink.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, but then you're given muskrat money. Not gonna judge those with no other option though. Internet should have become a utility years ago in North America.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in the middle of nowhere and it’s been a lifesaver. The competition is good, because now satellite providers will need to up their game. It also keeps ISPs from locking down an area with insane prices and no alternatives rich is overall a great thing.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You got that going for you, which is nice.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They also have to deal with Wendigos. Not sure if slow internet or a horror beyond human imagine is scarier

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are the speeds the ISP advertises:

https://www.radiolinkinternet.com/Plans.html

I don't know much about WISP but I suspect speed will vary based on distance and line of site to towers and how congested they are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of the WISP systems I work with max out at 30 Mbps, but it's also older tech. In Rochester though there really are better options so that's kinda insane that any one would be using that, it isn't typicalky cheaper than cable at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

When I worked for a WISP, we guaranteed speeds up to 100 Mbps up and down. Most of the tests done after installation were about the same as what I get at home on cable from Xfinity (only terrestrial option here). If they weren't, it usually meant we fucked up and probably knocked the dish out of alignment while tightening it. However, at some point we lost hundreds of users because a building was constructed right in front of the tower facing all those customers and the big guys in engineering were scrambling to move the tower to the new building which was taller than the one we had our equipment on.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My solution to crappy internet while traveling (not a solution to the present moment):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09N72FMH5
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XXBQPZL

My phone provider (GoogleFi) allows you to get a free data-only SIM for your account. I put that into the ZTE USB dongle thing, and plug that into the mini router. That router can be powered by a USB battery bank, or your phone's USB-C charger, or a wall plug. It then gives you your own OpenWRT router you can use wirelessly, or via a CAT-5. I have unlimited data, so I don't get charged extra. I have the router setup with Wireguard into my house as well, so I can get adblocking through the router as well. It's all very compact/portable. I just used it on a road trip, plugged into my car's USB port, and my son streamed Netflix on his tablet.

I have also used that USB dongle directly into my Linux laptop, and it was plug-and-play as well (bypassing the need for the router).

edit: basically it's an over-engineered dedicated hotspot, but I'm a geek and like to over-do things

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They have the Spitz out now. I live rural and actually have this as my whole home modem.

I have a pfsense modem between it and my network for routing/vlan but its great! I have the modem paired with the waveform antenna on a 40ft tower. I love that it tells me connection speed to the tower similar to how your WiFi network adapter will tell you the speed between it and the WiFi access point. It will say like 200M. So I know I can get up to 200M but because of prioritization+usage on the tower my actual speeds are 80mbps during Netflix hours but closer to 200m when I first wake up.

Tldr: glinet makes some solid hardware and software. (I know openwrt did most of the heavy lifting. But its well polished. )

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