You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.

Where? In the US? It’s already been paid for multiple times over, through government grants and subsidies.

It’s still worthwhile.

Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.

It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.

For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.

Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.

With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40.

Man, you get 40 up? I’m stuck on 30 up. And the funny thing is that just on the other side of the creek on the other side of my street is where they stopped the fibre rollout.

somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.

But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.

It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.

Musk wants control over the entire internet.

This is the number one reason my friend and I refused to even consider StarLink. We don’t live in the US and do not want all our traffic going through there.

Technically, S0aceX should be nationalized by the US based on the volume of money they’ve received in contacts.

it’s cell internet.

Physical lines first.