If you live in a poor area, you can't get good internet.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/att-brings-fiber-to-rich-areas-while-the-rest-are-stuck-on-dsl-study-finds/

This is why my net connection is horrible - I'm not in one of those rich areas, and deathstar doesn't care about improving the infrastructure [ and nobody else is interested in providing service at all ]

@munin Yep. Where I am, my choices are: <5mbit ADSL, sketchy point-to-point wifi, WildBlue satellite, LTE cellphone bonding, and RFC1149.

The cellphone is the only one that doesn't crap out when it rains hard. (Go figure.)

There's a Time Warner cable demarc 1/5th of a mile away, but they won't come to me for any amount of money, and there's one plot of land between me and that road that I can't trench my own cable across.