Hate to say it but our urban internet isn't much better.  Both Comcast and Century Link claim that our internet speed is better but both suffer greatly on speed when the kids come home from school or are off for the summer.  During the day the internet speed here in Broomfield is pretty decent but about 4:00 PM every afternoon weekdays the speed drops way off through 9 or 10 at night.  We are paying for 40 MB speed and at 5:00 PM we are only getting 2-4 MB.  

Now I have a nephew who lives in Forks, WA, a little town on the Olympic Peninsula many miles from anywhere, and there they can get 10 MB wired internet service from Comcast even though Puget Sound is between them and any major city in Washington State.  Why can't rural Colorado get that same level of internet service?