3 miles outside a city of about 100k in the desert southwest. We don't have cable or fiber (satellite for TV only) so it is Century Link DSL (massively overloaded), T-Mobile home internet or rooftop microwave receiver.
Actually I can get good speeds during the day up to about 20 Mbps or so. But things go down hill in the evening with speeds of 3-8 Mbps so streaming anything but 480i can lead to buffering issues. And the evening is about the only time I watch TV.
I tried T-Moble Home Internet but it was almost identical to what I currently have but a little more expensive. Verizon 4G speeds are good here but they don't offer Home Internet in this area. Starlink is over capacity in the area so they are out until at least 2023 at best and even then $700+ up front and $119/mo. for 50-100 Mbps doesn't seen like a very good value. Xfinity is suppose to be bringing fiber out here but I first heard about that last year and nothing has been done so I'm not holding my breath. They would have to cross BLM land which can take years to approved.
Actually there are still 10's of millions of people in this country without high speed access. There is supposedly money in the recently passed IRA for high speed but actually getting it built out is another matter. It seems like money flows into the ISP's never to be seen again and with very little infrastructure actually installed. My guess is Xfinity will halt any plans they have while they get in line for some free gov't. money. This is all parallels the roll out of electricity in the early 1900's. Most people were hooked up in a timely manner but it was several decades before everybody finally was hooked up.
