About 25 years ago, our ancient AT&T twisted pair copper line was squirrel chewed and corroded. Our early ADSL service would routinely collapse to under 1 MBps. It took so many calls to get the damn company to do anything about it we finally switched to Comcast to get Internet and phone service over coaxial cable.
Now Comcast has MANY outages that last up to an hour. Since mid December, I’ve logged 40 outages totaling 732 minutes occurring in 14 different days. They offered me a paltry $20 credit! They had a tech come out and he found a bad squirrel chew on the cable at the pole and a “pull” on a connector. Fixed those but no improvement.
There is old, decrepit, unmaintained outside plant everywhere.
Ask Elon to hit you up with a complimentary Starlink terminal.
NO SUCH SERVICE WHERE I LIVE RURAL-—AND I AM NOT AS FAR OUT AS MANY OTHERS.