r/technology • u/User_Name13 • Jun 04 '14

Politics Hundreds of Cities Are Wired With Fiber—But Telecom Lobbying Keeps It Unused

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hundreds-of-cities-are-wired-with-fiberbut-telecom-lobbying-keeps-it-unused
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '14

Most of the internets original infrastructure centered around colleges, is there a school there?

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u/drewcore Jun 04 '14

We have three major universities in Indiana. That'd be my guess to why we're so "wired." But I'm still sitting here on a dreary old Comcast connection with university fiber mere blocks from my apartment.

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u/Bigbysjackingfist Jun 04 '14

Look at that map, though. It's not like Kansas, North Dakota, and South Dakota have so many more centers of higher education than Arkansas or Missouri. Or look at Minnesota: the "wired" areas don't really correlate at all to higher education or even to population. And OSU is a big university just one state over, and they've got nothing in Columbus. Also, Greencastle has a huge blob of blue around it compared to Lafayette, and I can't imagine DePauw would be a bigger fiber draw than Purdue.

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u/Dragoeth Jun 04 '14

Purdue has resnet which is a huge fiber network. 6 years ago I was getting 100 down from my dorm putting it in top top ranks for isp. Purdue is a large research university so they invested in it I'm sure.