[gdubs]

Willamette Valley here — it's been nothing less than a game changer.

I checked the speed tests for the first week but until the brief outage yesterday I haven't thought about it. The internet just works, and we're able to stream, download, work, videoconference.

Viasat is like the Stone Age in comparison. Low data caps, very long latency, nearly twice as much money.

People don't realize that even in areas not that far from population centers connectivity can be virtually nonexistent.

[SpelingBeeChamp]

Datapoint of one here, but I recently visited a friend in Willamette Valley, and their area had fiber. Is that not an option for most people in your hood?

[gdubs]

I'm on a farm, so while there's fiber in many of the towns, if you go ten minutes drive outside of them it's not really an option. Maybe they'll get there eventually.