Starlink

[Sigarms]

just goes to figure.... i bought starlink maybe 4 months ago. i just got a call from Intermax fiber today, there going to install fiber in my neighborhood. Free install, Free router, 400 Meg speed $80/month.

i guess i can resell my starlink dish

Our notification on fiber was about 8 months before we bought Starlink LOL

You have the federal government to thank for fiber in rural areas. Grant money to telecommunications companies to run fiber in rural areas. My wife is in that industry and it's very interesting.

 

[ultrarunner]

It cost me 14k to run fiber the place in Washington…

Now I here folks are getting it at no charge.

County required mine to go underground… are you guys underground?

 

[ponytug]

It cost me 14k to run fiber the place in Washington…

Now I here folks are getting it at no charge.

County required mine to go underground… are you guys underground?

While that is an "ouch", I would thankful that it was so cheap, the quote that I got here was more than the house is worth, and some or all of it would have to be underground in the roadway, so especially pricey.

All the best,

Peter

 

[ultrarunner]

While that is an "ouch", I would thankful that it was so cheap, the quote that I got here was more than the house is worth, and some or all of it would have to be underground in the roadway, so especially pricey.

All the best,

Peter

I fought maybe 7 years… got no where.

My brothers company was doing a 600 home subdivision in the next county and in the utility planning stage.

Comcast wanted exclusive and my brother said not so sure that’s a good move and then explained how I had been trying for years to get connected because near impossible to rent without internet and TV

The deal was $330 per month for 5 years with service so I figured about 14k for the install.

Crew did a fantastic job and said they enjoyed the country setting because almost all their work is city center underground with state routes, etc.

Ironic because the first 3 years I rented to a Mormon family that unplugged it saying they don’t watch TV or use Internet!

 

[grsthegreat]

It cost me 14k to run fiber the place in Washington…

Now I here folks are getting it at no charge.

County required mine to go underground… are you guys underground?

underground thru neighborhood and underground right to the house. free modem

 

[grsthegreat]

the same company has recently hooked up a few neighboring areas near my property. i contacted them about 2 months ago and their construction manager got back to me. he had me email them a map of out 5 phase subdivision. they have agreed to start towards the end of the year. he said he might be able to start sooner, but needs to get right of ways established on the private roads first. since the minimum property out here is 5 acres, alot of them are 10-20 acre plots. i have 30 myself. so the properties are spaced quite a ways apart. im actually surprised that there going to install.....surprised by real happy.

 

[ultrarunner]

the same company has recently hooked up a few neighboring areas near my property. i contacted them about 2 months ago and their construction manager got back to me. he had me email them a map of out 5 phase subdivision. they have agreed to start towards the end of the year. he said he might be able to start sooner, but needs to get right of ways established on the private roads first. since the minimum property out here is 5 acres, alot of them are 10-20 acre plots. i have 30 myself. so the properties are spaced quite a ways apart. im actually surprised that there going to install.....surprised by real happy.

Who says there’s no Santa Claus?

 

[grsthegreat]

im super happy. ive been working with this company for quite awhile trying to get our location on their radar. a year ago i gave them a letter on business letterhead for their application package for govt funding.

i just signed a service agreement with them......but install will still be late fall. their working on the underground behind my property on the highway . their widening the road and adding turn lanes. that has to be completed first. since there has been no real winter this year, we wont have to stop work until ground thaws, and there wont be road restrictions inplace because roads have not frozen.

 

[Ken45101]

Our notification on fiber was about 8 months before we bought Starlink LOL

You have the federal government to thank for fiber in rural areas. Grant money to telecommunications companies to run fiber in rural areas. My wife is in that industry and it's very interesting.

We keep getting taxed for expanding rural Internet but I doubt I will ever see it. Just more bonus money for the overpaid executives.

Ken

 

[deserteagle71]

We keep getting taxed for expanding rural Internet but I doubt I will ever see it. Just more bonus money for the overpaid executives.

Ken

Same here. Lots of talk but no action. No fiber has been installed in my area at all yet on the news they talk about the millions of dollars spent in Nevada for "rural broadband" access.