Awesome potential. Meanwhile, in the US, people struggle to get broadband speeds at home..

  • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    contractors don’t know the area, they don’t know the systems, and sometimes they don’t even know the technology

    absolutely. This is the third time my fiber line has been cut by contractors doing work inside the easement lmao. I knew it was going to happen as soon as I heard them pull up, as they're laying out Google's line through the entire neighborhood/surrounding area and therefore needed six trucks to do so. I should have walked out and made sure they were aware that ATT had laid their line literally a month ago in the same spot that Google had marked, but I figured they would at least see that ATT's fiber hookup terminal/main/whatever the fuck they call it clearly is in use and realize there must be a line extending to some house...

    The icing on the cake is that they left the line out & exposed; like they buried part of it, 4pm and a bit of rain came around and thus they have left it in a pile in my drainage ditch. I should just fucking pull that shit under my crawlspace and hook it up to ATT's shit.

    RIP my gigabit speeds, somehow ATT is giving me 20mbps via my usb hotspot :corporate-art: