Surely you have options though? In Rural NZ we have a choice between 4g which runs at about 50mbps and latency of about 15ms and starlink which runs at around 100mbps and has a latency of about 25ms.
I like how you're implying I haven't worked here for years and don't know the options. I have the best possible option and that system can be flaky for hours on end depending on a lot of factors.
I wasn't implying that at all, more I was shocked at how a country like America doesn't have high speed broadband ubiquitously available. So it was more rhetorical than anything.
California by itself is bigger (by population and surface area) than all of NZ, to say nothing of the rest of the US. I'm not saying that the US has done a great job with internet access, just that it's not exactly a fair comparison.
Having more people in a bigger area increases the aggregate expense, but also provides more people to spread it around (and the US also has a higher per capita GDP.)
There may be legitimate differences that make this harder for the US that aren’t simple failures, but you haven’t identified one.
I mean, they look better than your standard Mitsubishi or Panasonic heatpump, but other than cosmetics, what difference does this have from the normal sort of heatpumps that most homes have?
You might have to take a paycut even working remotely. A lot of companies now pay what you'd expect locally rather than in a tech hub. So, if you worked remotely from San Francisco you'd earn more than if you worked remotely from somewhere rural.
I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.
Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot of innovation to opensource projects and upstream back to Linux, it has a strong community and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.
I've used Fedora for years as my desktop linux distro on my laptops and CentOS or RHEL for servers.
Fedora is the desktop focussed project which is upstream from the commercial RedHat Enterprise Linux, CentOS is the community distribution of RedHat Enterprise Linux.
This is a great, stable, and feature rich ecosystem that contributes a lot to opensource and upstream back to Linux and has a long track record stretching back more than 20 years.
Where I live we have decent fiber penetration. In my appartment I can have a 1Gb/1Gb internet connection no problem.
However, I pay about 25 eur for my 5G telco (unlimited data), and 35 eur for my fiber connection (100mbit/100mbit). My telco allows dual SIM usage, so I am thinking about just cancelling my fiber connection and installing a 5G modem. The thing that is holding me back is that a good 5G modem is somewhere between 500 and 4000 eur, so it is quite an expensive experiment to do.
Outside cities, the network situation is pretty bad. I am in an affluent suburb and my only option is 4mb/200k. No that is not a typo. Broadband coverage is still pretty spotty in the usa.
Wow, we have fibre to about 90% of the population and ripped out copper a few years ago. In rural areas there is government subsidised 4g internet and in the most rural it's government subsidised satellite.
I was in Korea for work and it seemed the same there, I was even in eastern Europe visiting family and it was a pretty similar story. So I figured it was pretty universal. Although I know that Australia isn't in a good space with broadband simply because of politics and companies not wanting to work together, I'd assumed they were an outlier
Australia? NBN (National Broadband Network) is the only one I can think of...
Real Question: On paper, NBN is an insane human development achievement. Why do so many non-urban Ozzies on HN complain about lousy Internet access? Honestly, I don't believe it. Send them to Germany for a year, and they will see how bad it can be. (HN is full of funny stories from Germans about how bad is their broadband.)
