On 21 July 2014 18:25, Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > goe...@anime.net wrote: >> >> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Miles Fidelman wrote: >>> >>> - the anti-muni laws hurt small localities the most, where none of the >>> big players have any intent of deploying anything >> >> >> This is exacatly why ashland fiber network came to be. Because no provider >> was willing to step up and provide service. So the city did it. >> >> If there were laws against it there, then ashland would still have no >> service at all to this day. >> > > Is that Ashland, Oregon? I did some consulting on that project. The way it > started was: > - They needed to run a pair of fibers from City Hall to an out-building > - US West (I think) quoted $5k/month/fiber, at which point, > - the Mayor asked the director of the muni electric utility "what would it > cost to run some fiber" > - after some head scratching and some research, it came down to $100,000, > one time - mostly for the tooling and some training (they had the poles, > bucket trucks, linesman who were rated to work near live electric wires who > were sitting around waiting for the next storm to hit) > - after that, it was a no-brainer to start expanding the network > > The cool thing about the project: > - Ashland has a bunch of places that do Hollywood post-production - they eat > up tons of bandwidth shipping stuff around - really great for that segment > > Cheers, > > Miles
Cool story, however, http://www.ashlandfiber.net/productcenter.aspx#residential ... is nothing to brag home about. 5Mbps uploads max? Meh, I get more with mobile phone, plus my data is actually unlimited. C.
