In my area, you’re lucky if you even get internet at all. There’s no broadband except within the towns and the fiber installations got canceled because someone sued the companies doing it for some dumb reason to make a quick buck. People around here resort to using 4G cellular modems which get around 100kbps on a good day.
Cat 3 is a thing and is basically unshielded twisted pair. You can abuse it quite a bit from its voice grade days to cram a few hundred megabits of VDSL over it if it’s only from your house to the curb.
Cat3? As in most cities in the US are limited to 10mbps?
No, the average internet download speed in the United State is about 171 Mbps.
https://www.highspeedinternet.com/resources/fastest-slowest-internet
There are certainly some areas, especially rural, that struggle though. And upload speed is often much worse unless you have fiber.
In my area, you’re lucky if you even get internet at all. There’s no broadband except within the towns and the fiber installations got canceled because someone sued the companies doing it for some dumb reason to make a quick buck. People around here resort to using 4G cellular modems which get around 100kbps on a good day.
Cat 3 isnt actually a thing, but people call house phone wiring that. Runs DSL quite well.
Cat 3 is a thing and is basically unshielded twisted pair. You can abuse it quite a bit from its voice grade days to cram a few hundred megabits of VDSL over it if it’s only from your house to the curb.
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