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State College -- we were never promised fiber, but the copper infrastructure is being allowed to rot nonetheless. For another PA data point, my in-laws have a house in Sullivan County where they have passable DSL with Frontier. Verizon is not available there at all.

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Agreed - State College internet is dismally slow and unreliable for a town of ~60,000 college students, grads, and employees.

Curious UK resident

Does the College itself get a government/academic feed or do academic institutions have to rely on local commercial providers?

UK has janet and UKERNA.

https://www.jisc.ac.uk/network

http://icannwiki.com/UKERNA

To overcome the limitations of our domestic ADSL (6 km from exchange over solid aluminium wire voice circuit) I sometimes run queries over an RDP session to my College PC.

Somewhere in the middle, I believe. Penn State is big enough that it's basically its own ISP. They're not buying retail internet service from Comcast, but they do pay for bandwidth. Penn State is also an Internet2 node, but that's not what carries most of their traffic.

I remember going to a few meeting back in 08/09 around Tussey Mountain about a company attempting to bring fiber to State College. I guess that never panned out.

Fun hearsay, it was said that for a period in 98/99, West Halls dorm was one of the largest usage of broadband in the country.

It would have to be there or my own alma mater, UIUC. I lived in the dorms there during same era. It was the golden age of WinAmp.

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