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Very inspiring. My wife and I are in northern Chicago suburb of Highwood, and we really aspire to move out west to a more nature-centric style of living. I li

by robabby 11y ago

Very inspiring. My wife and I are in northern Chicago suburb of Highwood, and we really aspire to move out west to a more nature-centric style of living. I like how one of the core parameters to your search was Fiber optic internet, and then spread from there. Where did you start your search?

rboyd 11y ago
There seem to be a handful of rural pockets in the US that have or are scheduled to install fiber. Our network (Co-Mo Connect) publishes network rollout status and maps at http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php Before here, we looked at WK&T (Kentucky/Tennessee) http://wktelecom.coop/ http://wktelecom.coop/ That looked promising as well. It was some work to even find these two networks, then finding homes within the service area and trying to find out if they were eligible was the next challenge. Lots of Zillow searches. If the home is pre-wired, they'll probably advertise it as such in the listing. I think the sweet spot (in terms of value) is finding a property that is eligible but hasn't had an install yet. In our case that meant eye-balling the neighborhood maps at a house-by-house level. To find similar networks in other parts of the US I would start with Zillow searches (for "fiber") or Google searches for state + fiber + rollout, state + co-op + fiber, or state + co-op + Calix. Calix is a popular FTTH equipment vendor. You could also check their (or other vendors) press releases, which they usually issue when they partner with a new co-op. See http://www.ftthcouncil.org/OurMembers http://www.ftthcouncil.org/OurMembers I wish there were a friendlier UX for this. Our search lasted about 2 months. If anyone is interested in my area, email me and I should be able to help by finding properties before they hit MLS, qualifying addresses with the contacts I've made at the service provider/installers, and of course just driving around. It would be fantastic to build a hacker community here.
pageld 11y ago
If you want one that's just rolling out, Sibley country in Minnesota is doing ftth even on farm sites. They just started the rollout and iirc it should be done at least in the towns by next summer. Rsfiber.com is the site to check out

by robabby 11y ago

rboyd 11y ago

There seem to be a handful of rural pockets in the US that have or are scheduled to install fiber. Our network (Co-Mo Connect) publishes network rollout status and maps at http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php http://usage.co-mo.coop:8080/signupstatus.php Before here, we looked at WK&T (Kentucky/Tennessee) http://wktelecom.coop/ http://wktelecom.coop/ That looked promising as well. It was some work to even find these two networks, then finding homes within the service area and trying to find out if they were eligible was the next challenge. Lots of Zillow searches. If the home is pre-wired, they'll probably advertise it as such in the listing. I think the sweet spot (in terms of value) is finding a property that is eligible but hasn't had an install yet. In our case that meant eye-balling the neighborhood maps at a house-by-house level. To find similar networks in other parts of the US I would start with Zillow searches (for "fiber") or Google searches for state + fiber + rollout, state + co-op + fiber, or state + co-op + Calix. Calix is a popular FTTH equipment vendor. You could also check their (or other vendors) press releases, which they usually issue when they partner with a new co-op. See http://www.ftthcouncil.org/OurMembers http://www.ftthcouncil.org/OurMembers I wish there were a friendlier UX for this. Our search lasted about 2 months. If anyone is interested in my area, email me and I should be able to help by finding properties before they hit MLS, qualifying addresses with the contacts I've made at the service provider/installers, and of course just driving around. It would be fantastic to build a hacker community here.

pageld 11y ago

If you want one that's just rolling out, Sibley country in Minnesota is doing ftth even on farm sites. They just started the rollout and iirc it should be done at least in the towns by next summer. Rsfiber.com is the site to check out