Albuquerque, New Mexico. Home of green chiles, 310 days of sunshine, the International Balloon Fiesta and achingly slow internet. Home internet was a two-horse race in Albuquerque for years: CenturyLink DSL and Xfinity cable. I spent decades on DSL, watching my internet speed tests march slowly up to a maximum of 20 megabits per second. Friends with faster Xfinity bemoaned the cable company’s customer service, data cap and prices, so I stubbornly stuck with CenturyLink. One day in late 2022, a T-Mobile Home Internet gateway arrived at my house. After that, I finally called to cancel CenturyLink.