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I live in middle America and oddly enough the rural areas have started getting fiber from utility companies. I live in a town of about 40,000 and the best you can hope for is either DSL from AT&T which is maybe 25Mbps with perfect conditions or Optimum Cable internet which is sold as "Gigabit" that never breaks 400Mbps and cost about $120/mo. I've also had to file multiple complaints with the FCC to have issues resolved. My connection for about 6 months was completely unusable when it rained and even after "fixing" the issue I have severely reduced speeds when it rains. It's an absolute joke and nothing is in place to protect consumers from any of this BS.