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2023-06-25

I've written in the past about our challenges with rural broadband (here and here).

Our farm is in unincorporated rural Johnson County Missouri about 30 miles east of Kansas City.

I work from home so good internet is a necessity.

Up until early 2023 we got by with a combination of several cellular connections and Viasat for latency insensitive uses.

And Elon Musk's Starlink still isn't available here as of June 2023.

But earlier this year, thanks to the Biden administration and the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund, Spectrum built a modern fiber-optic backbone in our area.

I signed up and we got hooked up the week after the fiber backhaul along the road in front of the farm was installed.

We got fiber-to-the-house with 1-Gbps symmetric. It's amazing.