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Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by johnday »

howard941 wrote: post #104
hanklazard wrote: post #83

After many years of using Comcast because it was my only option, I recently had my breakup call with them. We have Verizon Fios as an option and at their lowest tier speeds, we get 100 mbps symmetric (and every time I've checked the speed over the past week, it has been as advertised). Our overpriced Comcast plan was giving us "up to 60 mbps" but we were getting, wait for it, 1 mbps in the last few weeks of our plan.…

Verizon offloaded their Floriduh operation to Frontier but fortunately the fios is already built and I too see the 100mbs symmetric. Unfortunately like Comcast (spit), Frontier believes in abusing its loyal customers so I'm going to revert to Comcast (spit) and play the bounce between the two every year because $230/mo is way too much to pay for cable & internet & unused landline.

Two hundred and thirty dollars? Per month? Bloody hell.

I'm on the highest consumer rate that BT offers and that costs £45/mo.

Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by josh2600 »

jkilpatr wrote: post #101
mrep wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't 5G solve that problem? Lay fiber to a bunch of 5G nodes and then you can service hundreds of customers who only need to install a wireless modem to get fiber speeds and latency.

5G (at least the high speed kind) has really really bad penetration, T-mobiles 1.9Ghz has trouble working indoors 5G's 30, 40, and 70Ghz frequencies are much worse. You will need direct line of sight to a tower optimistically a mile away. Otherwise you'll fall back to '5G' on traditional 4G spectrum and you won't get any faster speeds.

We need like 1000x more cell sites working in coordination. Think slightly bigger than picocells.

There are a bunch of proposals on how to do this (I think Artemis networks is one if I remember the name). The problem is that existing roof rights don’t map well to a bunch of microcells.

Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by thekyle »

bjelkeman-again wrote: post #88
IfOnlyYouKnew wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In addition to the cynical everyone-is-corrupt answers you've been getting, I'll add: ISPs, like mail delivery or electricity, are classical examples of "natural monopolies" where the fixed price of installing infrastructure is high, while the marginal cost of each additional customer is low. Such environments are tricky to manage: You want some market forces, because otherwise there's one lazy government-owned provi…

I really like how it is done in Sweden where the city provides the fibre but doesn’t run any service over it. We can choose from 5-10 ISPs. Much like the road.

If all the ISPs are using the same infrastructure how do they compete on internet speed?

Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by situational87 »

dfsegoat wrote: post #54

Nitpicking title: 'Town' vs. 'City', bugs me as a former CO resident. Ft. Collins is huge (~170k people compared to most CO towns which are 400-10k ppl). The title sort of leads you to believe it was a folksy, rural community effort. In reality Intel, AMD, Broadcom and a major State University are located there and that probably helped the effort substantially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,_Colorado#Maj…

Yeah but everyone in Ft. Collins is a cow herder so this town label is still appropriate.

(sorry this is a bad intra-Colorado rivalry joke, please ignore)

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Post by randomcarbloke »

dfsegoat wrote: post #54

Nitpicking title: 'Town' vs. 'City', bugs me as a former CO resident. Ft. Collins is huge (~170k people compared to most CO towns which are 400-10k ppl). The title sort of leads you to believe it was a folksy, rural community effort. In reality Intel, AMD, Broadcom and a major State University are located there and that probably helped the effort substantially. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Collins,_Colorado#Maj…

anything less than 6-7,000 people is a village.

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Post by 14 »

bencollier49 wrote: post #25
martin_a wrote: post #16

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Es ist einfach eine Frage der Höflichkeit, dass wir in der "Quasi-Weltsprache" Englisch kommunizieren. Ich denke das trägt im Internet allgemein zum Verständnis bei und sollte dementsprechend auch hier zum guten Ton gehören. Ob man es in irgendwelche Regeln schreiben muss weiß ich nicht, ich dachte ich kann ja trotzdem mal danach fragen. Better this way?

Why not? Spanish and German are widely spoken; if people want to use them to communicate, then let the market decide by virtue of the number of upvotes and responses they get.

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Re: Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

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Post by wonderwonder »

Sigh, guess its time to move to CO. If it means getting away from spectrum its worth uprooting my life. /s ... maybe

But really the inconsistent speeds provided by cable companies, crazy pricing structure that often include things such as bundling a land line that I will never use and the clear area specific monopolies they run are outrageous. If ever an industry needed to be investigated for price fixing and running monopolies its the cable industry.

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