Re: A "big" PC (compared to a "smart" phone).

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 07:36:33 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

    Without accurate depictions and data on how residents in rural,
    urban, and tribal lands are adversely impacted by the lack of
    available and sufficient high-speed broadband, certain populations
    will be left without sufficient online connectivity and remain on
    the wrong side of digital opportunities, particularly those
    populations already impacted by a range of historic and systemic
    inequalities throughout America’s rural South and Black Belt
    regions.

"More specifically, the legislation emphasizes the importance of
prioritizing build-out and deployment in these areas, and goes as far as
setting speed guidelines for locations by ranking projects higher if they
target areas that are “unserved,” with under 25 Mbps downstream and three
Mbps upstream (or 25/3 Mbps) broadband speeds"

According to https://fiber.google.com/speedtest/

DOWNLOAD  28.2  Mbps
UPLOAD    4.1   Mbps

Gee, I guess I'm 'served'.  That's on a good day; before I rebooted the
wireless mode4m it was 4.1 Mbps download and it didn't come up with an
upload speed. I'm not using wireless because it is inexpensive, fast, and
reliable. The other option would be StarLink.  Other satellite providers
have very poor reputations.  Last time I looked this was the rural North.

That still doesn't answer the question of where the 42 billion
appropriated by the Biden administration went. Studies by their cronies to
conclude the 'black belt' was unserved?