New minimum speed for US broadband connections
Blake Hudson
blake at ispn.net
Fri Feb 11 21:51:48 UTC 2022
The house was completed a year or two before my mother's purchase and it
took Comcast another year or two to lay cable. Imagine buying a house
and waiting three to four years for internet service. That does not
qualify as "got service right away" in my mind. The frustrating part,
for me as a bystander, was that the 10-20 year old homes in the same
neighborhood had great service from several providers, while this group
of 4-5 homes had only one option. Certainly opened my eyes to the fact
that there are internet deserts in the middle of the suburbs.
Before purchasing my current home, I double checked visually that there
were at least two internet providers in the ground and at least one of
them was fiber before signing a contract. Turned out both were fiber
while a coax provider was promised and did eventually deliver. I'm happy
with my current service and its price; I attribute some of that to the
competition in the area.
--Blake
On 2/11/2022 3:42 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> I believe what he said was "Comcast did eventually lay cable". That
> was in a brand new development. It's a brand new house and got
> service right away. What more do you want from providers?
>
> Out in the country, yes, there are the 10k to 100k build out costs all
> the time. But that's the country (rural).
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 4:37 PM Brandon Svec via NANOG
> <nanog at nanog.org> wrote:
>
> Excellent example. I see this all.the.time. She could
> probably get Comcast just fine by paying $50k buildout or signing
> a 10 year agreement for TV/Phone/Internet and convincing 5
> neighbors too ;)
> *Brandon *
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 1:32 PM Blake Hudson <blake at ispn.net> wrote:
>
> My mom moves to Olathe, KS. The realtor indicated that ATT,
> Comcast, and
> Google Fiber all provided service to the neighborhood and the HOA
> confirmed. Unfortunately for her, Google fiber laid fiber ~3
> years
> before and her cul-de-sac was developed ~2 years before she
> moved in. No
> Google Fiber, no Comcast, just ATT. Both Comcast and Google
> Fiber were
> within 100 ft of her property and wouldn't serve her. Google
> has no
> plans to serve that cul-de-sac in the future. Comcast did
> eventually lay
> cable. I'm sure her and her neighbors aren't the only people
> in America
> to experience something similar.
>
> On 2/11/2022 3:14 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
> >
> > >An apartment building could have cheap 1G fiber and the
> houses across
> > the street have no option but slow DSL.
> >
> > Where is this example? Or is this strictly hypothetical?
> >
> >
>
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