It's not as if Brett is doing the public a service. There is Charter Cable and CenturyLink DSL available in Laramie. He's just a wireless provider with some crappy infrastructure that's bitter that he can't "borrow" bandwidth from the University of Wyoming anymore, resulting in a loss of his 100% margin on the service.
You're not a charity that's providing internet access to the poor ignored rural folks like you claim, you're a competitive overbuilder. You give the little boys who are deploying service where the big guys won't a bad name. Drive slow, Paul On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 4:20 AM, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > >> On Jul 17, 2014, at 5:19 AM, Jared Mauch <ja...@puck.nether.net> wrote: >> >> The problem is partly a technological one. If you have a fiber span from >> east<-> west it doesn't make sense to OEO when you can just plop in a bidi >> amplifier. > > Almost certainly, most of the fiber going through the building just hits an > amplifier (or nothing and isn't broken out there). Yes. > > But they quoted a price for access, and some research turned up signs other > people are doing big fiber out of that location, so my assumption at this > point is that at least one pair each direction down the fiber is terminating > in some router there. Possibly a fiber level wave device but seems more > likely a router. > > Unless that assumption is not true, this comes down to "We don't want your > antenna on our roof*, come in via fiber like everyone else" and not having > met the right Layer 3 reseller yet. It's not sounding at all like "we have > to break open a fiber for you and put in a router". > > (The rest of this indirectly aimed back at Brett, not Jared ) > > It's not 1995. Even little ISPs need to get aware and step their game up. > Treating transit or uplink like a 1995 problem IS a short road to damnation > now. > > Seriously. The net is changing. The customers are changing, the customers > uses and expectations are changing. Change with it, or step out of the way. > You are not an exception because you're rural. You've just got a density and > size lag. That is temporary at best. Keep up. This is critical national > telecommunications infrastructure. Modern teens have mostly never used > landline phones and are not OK with inadequate bandwidth at home or on the > road. > > Being in Laramie is not a shield against change. > > > * probably expands to "...you aren't big enough for me to bother working with > my facility staff and filling out the paperwork to get an exception or lease > amendment or permit and let you put an antenna on our roof, sorry", but this > is an educated guess not informed. > > > George William Herbert > Sent from my iPhone
