I stopped by the library in Boise to use their wifi and their speed test changed how I think about small business internet

Dakota Wright · 2026-10-28T08:50:09.810644+00:00

I was in Boise last week visiting my cousin and had to kill a few hours, so I ducked into the downtown library to answer some emails on my laptop. I ran a speed test just out of habit and got 940 down and 920 up, which is way better than what my little print shop gets from the cable company back home. What got me was the librarian telling me the whole building runs on some kind of fiber setup the city worked out a few years back, and it costs them less per month than my 300 meg plan. I sat there thinking about how I pay about $140 a month for internet that chokes every time my wife uploads a big design file at the same time I'm sending invoices. The part that really stuck with me is that a public library has cleaner upload speeds than most of the small shops on my street. I get that residential and business plans are different animals, but it made me wonder if I've just been lazy about shopping around. Has anyone here actually switched their shop over to a local fiber co-op or a city plan and seen a real jump in upload speed?

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