| ▲ | michaelcampbell 8 months ago |
| > DSL era What's this mean? |
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| ▲ | cmrdporcupine 8 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| It means I now get to feel really old for the rest of the day. |
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| ▲ | diggan 8 months ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Before we had cables dedicated to internet, we reused telephone cables for both telephone+internet, so adding digital data on top of the existing network, hence Digital Subscriber Line :) It was the fiber of the 90s. |
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| ▲ | cmrdporcupine 8 months ago | parent [-] | | Surely a large # of North American internet users are still using DSL? I mean, I live rural and even I have fiber now, but that's new. | | |
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| ▲ | diggan 8 months ago | parent | prev [-] | | The island I grew up on in Sweden (with a population of ~700) got broadband in 2007 sometime I think, and in 2013 got fiber optics. Surely most of North America has to be using better stuff than DSL at this point? Although geographically and politically it is probably a bit harder to get high performance internet access everywhere there. | | |
| ▲ | diamondage 8 months ago | parent [-] | | Starlink has created a lot of property arbitrage opportunities | | |
| ▲ | diggan 8 months ago | parent [-] | | Unfortunately for the world, it seems like it's run by some unhinged person which leads to it not being an option for many people. I personally know one family that didn't get Starlink because of that, and another that return theirs for the same reason. |
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| ▲ | cplan 8 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Digital Subscriber Line |
