Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu never liked using Comcast’s cable broadband. Now, the residents of Saline, Michigan, operate a fiber Internet service provider that competes against Comcast in their neighborhoods and has ambitions to expand.
“All throughout my life pretty much, I’ve had to deal with Xfinity’s bullcrap, them not being able to handle the speeds that we need,” Herman told Ars. “I lived in a house of 10. I have seven other brothers and sisters, and there’s 10 of us in total with my parents.”
With all those kids using the Internet for school and other needs, “it just doesn’t work out,” he said. Herman was particularly frustrated with Comcast upload speeds, which are much slower than the cable service’s download speeds.