Staying for the week at an AirBnB in Rochester, MN. This is what I just found out I'm stuck with.

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How is this even possible in 2024? I realize Rochester isn't exactly a major metropolis, but we're in the middle of town! It's not like they're relying on Hughesnet or something.

Also, it's not that they're cheaping out on us either. The owners live upstairs. This is a duplex.

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I have 250Mbit/s in a really old building within a small to medium size town in Germany

one of local Ukrainian isps offered to run fiber (symmetrical 100) to the middle of nowhere. like literally, the nearest store is a couple if kilometers away, it's the last building along a road literally surrounded by a huge field, in a village with like 10 people still living in it.

(i don't need constant internet connection there tho as I'm only there occasionally, 4g is more than enough)

Here, too, in just a few weeks (at the moment I still have the 100mbit contract). And we are more or less out in the country, the next field is maybe 50m from our doorstep.