I live in the country on 8+ acres, and would happily sign a 5 year deal with Comcast if they’d put high speed internet out here.
No cable, and the telco (Frontier) won’t bother to put in ADSL, or whatever is after that, because there’s not enough home density out here.
I get it’s an investment, but rural high speed internet is a huge issue that needs to be addressed. I don’t have the million dollars to get the telco to put in routers, nor to run fiber to my house (approximately 1 mile away).
I get a blazing 1.73 Mb download (per speedtest.net).
(Note - I actually worked for Roadrunner, when they were acquired by Time Warner, and have 20+ years experience on enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, VPN, and wireless gear.)
I guess there is satellite internet, Sprint internet, or maybe waiting for Google’s project Loon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=116&v=MiEZfRh-h-s