Rural Reality: Journey to Better Internet
summary
A rural town of 970 people faces years of DSL stuck between 3 and 18 Mbps with outages up to 14 times a day, cellular hotspots and a $700 booster proving unreliable, satellite unusable for remote work, and fiber requiring ~$100k–$135k of build cost. A hand‑installed fixed‑wireless LTE link delivers about 20–40 Mbps down and 7–11 Mbps up on unlimited data, local tower deals and WISP business plans stall, and execution by providers — not ideas — determines whether the community actually gets usable internet.
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