Moving is a PITA

[Snaggletiger]

So.....your friend is going to run fiber to your house? From just somewhere where the internet is? And then, he is going to run lines from your house, to every one of your customers that want to run it?

yeah....I think you are fucking with us...

He's bona fide

[Ranger12]

As somebody who used to work in quality assurance for DirecTV, let me second the notion of telling them that it looks like you are going to have to go with whatever cable company serves the area. Doesn't matter if there are no lines there, DirecTV doesn't know that. DirecTV trains their customer service to transfer to their SAVE group (customer retention) at the mention of leaving DirecTV for cable. That group can get some magical things done and I would be surprised if they can't get you an installer out there within a few days.

[bottomfeeder]

Hell, you could have hired me with my bad shoulder for a couple of McDoubles and a bottled water or two.  I would have helped you move your shit.

[bottomfeeder]

He's bona fide

We have these new things on the market called wireless routers.

[Saniflush]

He's bona fide

He's a suitor.

[Kaos]

Dude.  I'm a money-raining machine.  Yes. I am gonna get fiber run to the house.  I've already talked to two different companies that can do it and have a conf. call with a third in 30 minutes. 

From there, I'm trusting my friend to set up the infrastructure to make it happen.  It's what he does. 

It's not like I'm moving to the ends of the earth or some backwater burg.  Metroish area. 40+ houses in the neighborhood.  Four subdivisions within two miles with hundreds of houses.  Less than a mile off a state road.  He's not going to have to magically yank Internet out of his butt. 

Plus, I already know how to make this happen.  I do have a t1 run to an office building that's a good 60 miles in the woods.  Had to negotiate that thing and it WAS yanking Internet out of the butt. 

[Kaos]

As somebody who used to work in quality assurance for DirecTV, let me second the notion of telling them that it looks like you are going to have to go with whatever cable company serves the area. Doesn't matter if there are no lines there, DirecTV doesn't know that. DirecTV trains their customer service to transfer to their SAVE group (customer retention) at the mention of leaving DirecTV for cable. That group can get some magical things done and I would be surprised if they can't get you an installer out there within a few days.

I'm not worried about DirecTV.  I know what buttons to push.  Will call and advise them that I'm switching to Dish/Mediacom/antenna or whatever.  The guy will be out that day. 

Just a pain in the butt to have to talk to them. 

[Godfather]

Why don't you just get together with your neighbors and have them run fiber for free?

[Kaos]

Why don't you just get together with your neighbors and have them run fiber for free?

Because I like money.  And I don't know any of them yet.

[wesfau2]

Why don't you just get together with your neighbors and have them run fiber for free?

An Amish network-raising?  How very Rumspringa.

[Saniflush]

An Amish network-raising?  How very Rumspringa.

[wesfau2]

Just wait til Brother Hezekiah Munson shows up to milk the cow.

[Godfather]

Just wait til Brother Hezekiah Munson shows up to milk the cow.

We only have a bull

[DnATL]

I would have helped you move your shit.

will help pack his shit

[DnATL]

We only have a bull

much different technique

[wesfau2]

We only have a bull

Nasty cheese-gratin incident as a child...

[Vandy Vol]

[RWS]

Dude.  I'm a money-raining machine.  Yes. I am gonna get fiber run to the house.  I've already talked to two different companies that can do it and have a conf. call with a third in 30 minutes. 

From there, I'm trusting my friend to set up the infrastructure to make it happen.  It's what he does. 

It's not like I'm moving to the ends of the earth or some backwater burg.  Metroish area. 40+ houses in the neighborhood.  Four subdivisions within two miles with hundreds of houses.  Less than a mile off a state road.  He's not going to have to magically yank Internet out of his butt. 

Plus, I already know how to make this happen.  I do have a t1 run to an office building that's a good 60 miles in the woods.  Had to negotiate that thing and it WAS yanking Internet out of the butt.

Southern Light is pretty good down here, and they have fiber everywhere it seems.  It only cost the municipality that I work for around $10,000 for a splice.  But then again, than involved boring under two roads, and adding a jump from the main splice to a location across a street.

[Vandy Vol]

Southern Light is pretty good down here, and they have fiber everywhere it seems.  It only cost the municipality that I work for around $10,000 for a splice.  But then again, than involved boring under two roads, and adding a jump from the main splice to a location across a street.

You're also forgetting about the portion of money that went to the mayor's pocket.