I've been driving around my rural hometown of Rice Lake, WI and it seems CenturyLink has been installing new cabinets all over the place. One even went up near my brother's dairy farm, within 150m of his house. He texted me today telling me they're out burying fiber on his road today to this new cabinet.
I did a little googling and it looks like out in rural areas they're using a FTTC/FTTN strategy with G.fast to shorten the length of copper to boost speeds for DSL service (currently at his place he gets an awful ~2Mbps through DSL due to distance from the CO). I know there is a newer subdivision downtown that has CenturyLink FTTH that offers gigabit speeds, and I've been reading that G.fast can theoretically achieve gigabit speeds over short loops, but I'm assuming that the G.fast DSL service won't be comparable to FTTH even for short loops.
Can someone inform me what kind of expectations to set for the folks living near this cabinet who have been asking me? Any ballpark figures for what kind of plans will be possible (I assume it's distance-from-cabinet-dependent)? Will folks living nearer the cabinet be able to get higher speed plans than folks living further away, or does the guy living a mile down the road lock everyone else on the cabinet to the their (lower) speed tier?
Thanks in advance.
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