Metros got the good stuff earlier! The little rural town in Illinois where I grew up, Bushnell, only got local dialup in early 1997, and something approximating broadband in about...2010(? I left in 2001); even that was lastmiled with wireless. I knew the guy that ran the dialup ISP. They managed to get a T1 to the bank HQ downtown and put their modem banks there. 33.6 when they launched, 53k a little later on, and I rarely saw it handshake faster than about 46k. But we were glad of every kilobit.
Even in LA I don’t think I saw much more than a brief burst of 53K. It really needed everything lined up correctly and my old building with too many party lines was a noisy mess.
