So 10g would be $18,000 for 5 years of service. Less for 1G of course.
There were people I knew who moved to Kansas when Google installed fiber there because they wanted a lower cost of living and could work from anywhere if they had good internet service.
If someone wants a decent side hustle a service for finding places to live that have 1G+ internet + enough amenities for your typical engineering type might make decent bank with referral fees. Collecting all that into one location.
As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from.
Very true, I could have it much worse. Honestly Comcast isn't that bad, but I deeply resent their ridiculous bandwidth cap when their service is so expensive.
It still gets floated from time to time (I recently saw high speed rail maps making the rounds).
IF/ when ATL > Chattanooga > Nashville are connected by a leg, it will absolutely change the region.
I have "heard" - completely so-and-so said - that much of the needed infrastructure exists. The key is repurposing existing rail lines and getting right of way.
I think there was a study commissioned that laid out the whole plan for a (3-5 stop) between downtown ATL and Nashville with a stop in Chattanooga.
I wonder how many customers actually do the networking on their end to make sure they aren't the bottleneck (10g ports/proper cabling and switches) versus people who just think "it's a bigger number and I have the cash... Sure"
Residential Internet almost never guarantees speed to the Internet backbone, it is just advertising the Ethernet link speed. There are subscriptions with guaranteed performance, but at a different price.
My home Internet connections are 1 Gbps and 300 Mbps (2 links from 2 providers, I work from home and I need the uptime) for less than $10 each, but the transfer speeds are close to these numbers only for local servers, getting out of the country is about half these speeds.
Best internet I ever used was the municipal fiber in Wilkes County NC (a mostly rural mountain county in NW NC, it does have one larger town which is economically struggling). It was actually better performing and more reliable than the gigabit I used in a skyscraper in Seattle.
That's about the only thing Wilkes county has going for it though. Well, that and housing costs that are much more affordable than most of the more touristy mountain counties nearby.
