The maps are just such a joke. I put in my rural home (not that rural---about 90 minutes outside of a major west coast city but whatever) and it shows:
1) Coax with 250 down - no coax at all in the entire neighborhood. Don't know what they're smoking.
2) Starlink - correct, but the surrounding trees make it borderline useless, and the cell is full anyway, so you can't sign up.
3) Viasat - not usable because of the trees and also a total joke of an ISP that's effectively useless even when you have LOS.
4) ADSL with 30 down 1.5 up - CenturyLink is no longer allowing new DSL signups (and even so it's a joke at about 900kbit down).
5) Hughes - more useless than viasat
6) Fixed Wireless by something called "telephone and data systems inc."). Fixed wireless does not exist; it's almost impossible even to get a faint cell signal. Again, no idea what they're smoking with this one.
7) VSAT systems - whatever it is, it's definitely not usable and the FCC even shows it as having only 2mbit down. I don't think it even exists.
So, according to the FCC I'm in dark-blue territory with 7 competitive broadband providers and 250mbit internet. In reality, the only providers that you currently could sign up for are Viasat and Highesnet, which is true everywhere in the US and are both absolute garbage.
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The maps are just such a joke. I put in my rural home (not that rural---about 90 minutes outside of a major west coast city but whatever) and it shows: 1) Coax with 250 down - no coax at all in the entire neighborhood. Don't know what they're smoking. 2) Starlink - correct, but the surrounding trees make it borderline useless, and the cell is full anyway, so you can't sign up. 3) Viasat - not usable because of the trees and also a total joke of an ISP that's effectively useless even when you have LOS. 4) ADSL with 30 down 1.5 up - CenturyLink is no longer allowing new DSL signups (and even so it's a joke at about 900kbit down). 5) Hughes - more useless than viasat 6) Fixed Wireless by something called "telephone and data systems inc."). Fixed wireless does not exist; it's almost impossible even to get a faint cell signal. Again, no idea what they're smoking with this one. 7) VSAT systems - whatever it is, it's definitely not usable and the FCC even shows it as having only 2mbit down. I don't think it even exists. So, according to the FCC I'm in dark-blue territory with 7 competitive broadband providers and 250mbit internet. In reality, the only providers that you currently could sign up for are Viasat and Highesnet, which is true everywhere in the US and are both absolute garbage.