The only alternative would be internet over 4G, which is supposed to be faster, but the mobile connection at home is so unreliable, it wouldn’t be worth the added cost.
I live a couple of houses down a driveway, so laying a new cable is too expensive to justify for just a few houses. This means I get to live with a cable that’s half a century old, and me and my neighbours (and others) are excluded from the recent local fiber internet initiative. Some neighbours just use Starlink, but my hatred of Elon and the sheer stupidity of using satelite internet in central Europe are stopping me.
And, while I do live in a small village, I also have friends in Düsseldorf and in Berlin with even worse internet connections.
I’d love to just switch to a faster plan. But mobile just doesn’t work here, and I’m not giving money to Elon, so … there is no faster plan.
zener_diode@feddit.org 1 day ago
There is no faster plan.
The only alternative would be internet over 4G, which is supposed to be faster, but the mobile connection at home is so unreliable, it wouldn’t be worth the added cost.
I live a couple of houses down a driveway, so laying a new cable is too expensive to justify for just a few houses. This means I get to live with a cable that’s half a century old, and me and my neighbours (and others) are excluded from the recent local fiber internet initiative. Some neighbours just use Starlink, but my hatred of Elon and the sheer stupidity of using satelite internet in central Europe are stopping me.
And, while I do live in a small village, I also have friends in Düsseldorf and in Berlin with even worse internet connections.
I’d love to just switch to a faster plan. But mobile just doesn’t work here, and I’m not giving money to Elon, so … there is no faster plan.