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Fearlessleader85 t1_itqrhks wrote

Reply to comment by myaberrantthoughts in Rather than heralding a new era of prosperity for rural and remote regions, remote working, inspired by the pandemic, is exacerbating the global urban-rural divide in the digital platform labour market by giuliomagnifico

I'm 45 minutes from my state capital, and the best internet i have available is 15 down, 3 up for $90/mo. I tried satellite, but the latency was so bad, everything timed out. It was unusable.

The frustrating part is i can see houses that have fiber from my house, but it would cost me $30k+ to get it here.

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davidellis23 t1_itqzb1g wrote

I'd run an Ethernet cable to their router and pay them.

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Fearlessleader85 t1_itqziit wrote

That's about 3/4 of a mile of ethernet cable across fields that are in use. It would have to be buried or on poles.

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Zout t1_itr10gh wrote

You could do this with a wifi bridge using some good directional antennas. Might be illegal though depending on where you live.

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Fearlessleader85 t1_itr1crk wrote

Yeah, unfortunately, I'm not good enough friends with any of them to do that. Maybe someday...

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hypercube33 t1_iu1hf03 wrote

Find people with silos

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Fearlessleader85 t1_iu1iclj wrote

None within many miles of me. It's all feed corn or alfalfa here, and most of it is lease-farmed, so the landowners don't store it.

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ShadowDV t1_itr9jbz wrote

Siklu mmWave wireless... As long as you have line of sight, that stuff will reach miles with speed and latency of fiber. Cost a few thousand, but way cheaper than running fiber.

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socialistcabletech t1_itrxny5 wrote

Plus ethernet switches or repeaters of some sort that need their own power every 100 meters.

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Single mode Fibre cable would work though.

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tutetibiimperes t1_itr2ydv wrote

Starlink may be the best option for you if it’s available in your area.

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Fearlessleader85 t1_itr35pt wrote

I saw it's in open trial here, but what type of latency does it have? I do work from home, so i need internet.

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SFXBTPD t1_itrnf7x wrote

My buddy can play multiplayer online videogames with it. His only complaint is it can take like half an hour to restart sometimes

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Fearlessleader85 t1_itro0qv wrote

The other internet i had couldn't even do Netflix. This one does better. If starlink was decent latency, i could possibly be convinced to switch.

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InfiniteJestV t1_itrothn wrote

I'm pretty sure it's consistent <100ms latency...

I may be misremembering, but around 70ms for avg. ping.

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Fearlessleader85 t1_itrqrsl wrote

That's not that bad. I was consistently 700+.

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socialistcabletech t1_itrx738 wrote

Starlink uses satellites in low earth orbit, much less latency than something like xplornet. Around 20ms according to their own website, googling around says 50ms or so.

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