Eli5: How do large properties/campuses have such large bandwidths for internet

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How are they able to support thousands of users at one time? I do a speed test and they aren’t like fiber optics level of speeds so how can they have so many users at one time? Is it because there are so many routers placed around the area? But even when I’m on campus I don’t see any wireless routers outside.

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The fact that we have slow internet in the first place is insane. The USA paid Verizon $400 billion near 2000 to provide gigabit speed across the country and they just didn’t. Now they are charging insane rates to provide select locations those speeds.

ELI5: It’s very easy to provide that kind of bandwidth. We just don’t because internet providers in the USA are greedy fucks.

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