I recently moved from Everett Washington (still have a rented place to empty out) to Desert Shores, California and before I even closed I found an old document saying that Frontier had been approved to bring Fiber to Desert Shores and then Salton Sea Beach to start with. The info was a few years old.
One day out of the blue, I saw a Frontier Van parked near my house and asked the person driving if he was looking for a particular address, he said no, "I'm going to send my crew out tomorrow morning to run some fiber to your neighbor's house, are you interested"? Of course I said yes. The house next door just sold and a lady in Real Estate bought it to rent it out and she wanted the fiber drop to be to the house before her tenants move, so far no fliers from Frontier announcing this. The driver who I believe is a foreman of sorts or supervisor immediately got me in touch with the right people to set it up. The next Monday the crew came and ran the fiber to two phone poles, the one nearest each house (the same pole as the electricity) and then from there to the area near where the power comes to the house.
Meanwhile I had an appointment and the technician named Kenny who is stellar, showed up and I had him run another length of fiber to my den and through the wall so the Ont and Power Supply are indoors right where I need them. When he went to the equipment to plug me in somehwere in this small town he came back and said that I am the first person to be plugged into this brand new equipment. I went for Business Fiber at 500mbs both directions, 1gbs for business is over 200. Residential has 1gbs fiber for under 100. I needed static IP addresses and priority so I pay for it plain and simple. I used the Ookla Speedtest client from command line first inside my BSD based Router (OPNSense) and then from my mail server (yes I have a backup on a 6 dollar instance at a datacenter with no frills. just store and forward if down) and I am actually getting getting slightly over 500mbs in each direction depending on test server with jitter that is always under 1 millisecond so I added a PBX and used one of the static IP addys for that just like the mails server and firewall/router itself.
Meanwhile I had been using service called Jetwire that uses an encrypted microwave link which works really well but the highest speed tier is 30mbs in each direction and I had static IP addresses there as well. My 500gbs fiber with a block of 5 IP addys is 20 dollars cheaper than my 30mbs microwave link. There was a small amount of jitter with the microwave link but not bad. VOIP MOS scores could sometimes reach 4.50 which is the top, but they varied between 4.30 to 4.49 from jitter but never saw packet loss.
The kicker to all this is that in South Everett Washington, I could only get DSL or Comcast Cable even now yet I am in the middle of the desert and have Fiber. I also had Fiber at a temporary assignment I did in Moses Lake Washington for Boeing where Grant County put the fiber in themselves and allowed several ISPs to sell service on it. That was also in the middle of the Desert part of Washington, I could smell cows and crops yet had had fiber and lived on well water. Not Everett which is a dense area. How unlikely this would all sound.
Here is a Speedtest run:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/90084367-74ca-436e-b2ec-14e2ed3c62ea
I used the Anaheim server for the test. This was command line from within one of my servers.
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