This is the current connectivity situation at Castle Frostbite: 100mbit fiber with 25Mbit upstream. That’s not gigabit fiber, but it’s absolutely workable, even with two teenagers in the house and about 30 devices on the WiFi at all times.
We live out in the country, but we have the luck to have picked a town that got wired for subsidized fiber half a decade after we moved here. But that’s the luck of the draw when you move into the countryside. Before fiber got here, we were on 1.5Mbit DSL for a few years, and before that….well, satellite was “Internet” of sorts, but it was slow and had 1,000ms latency, and a 200MB/day data cap. 100mbit fiber isn’t “downtown Seoul” speed, but it’s plenty fast even in the age of 4k HD streaming video.
In other news, we made it into 2021. And the first week of the new year sure has given 2020 a run for its money, hasn’t it? But I am done with the developmental edits for CITADEL this week, and then it’s on to other things, like Frontlines #8. 2021 will be better than 2020, because I won’t give it a choice.
Unrelated to your post, but I’m going to use this as an opportunity to tell you how big of a fan I have become. I just finished ballistic, and I’ve read all of your frontlines books twice, and you are rapidly becoming my favorite current science fiction writer. I keep telling people about frontlines and how great it is, and hopefully it’s going to get picked up to be made into a TV series. I just wanted to say thanks for all the great books. I’m going to change pace and read a couple of Chandler books, but after that I’m going to re-read the frontlines series in anticipation of the next installment.
Thanks for the up-date. Yes, 2021 has definitely got a hard sense to it at this point, and I’m expecting more to come.
Thanks for your hard work: you help lighten the load–and more.
I feel your pain! A few years ago, I helped my parents obtain “Real internet” that was 20Mbit down and 1.5Mbit up, which was an improvement from our cellular hotspot which capped us at 15GB/mo, and had decent-ish speeds that I don’t recall.
Now that I’ve moved to the city, I enjoy a fiber connection that is 500Mbit/500Mbit, which blows my mind, since I’ve only had consistent internet access for about 5 years, and 3 of those were with said hotspot…so I feel like the god of the internetz now.