• WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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        4 minutes ago

        oh I didn’t know there’s a fiber box in 100m at any place in the country! tell that to my ISP who cant serve any internet through the landline telephone cable because it’s too far from distribution! oh and also to all the customers of microwave wireless networks.

        and this doesn’t even need to be on the countryside! It’s a problem here even in villages that the ISP is not allowed to run any cables on the high voltage electric poles!

        • sasquatch7704@lemmy.world
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          30 minutes ago

          Obviously there is fiber, copper is usually “last mile”. Its cheaper to have a long fiber and short copper. Copper more or less anyone can install, fiber is more specialized.

          I’m not proposing to reinvent the wheel, just continue what has proven to work.

          • Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world
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            22 minutes ago

            The Australian government is heavily criticised for half-assing fibre internet because they did copper to the house in most cases. We still, a decade later, have one of the worst internet in the western world.

            I think satellites are likely much cheaper to deliver internet to a whole continent than trying to run bloody copper.