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As someone who has been tangentially involved in this process in the past, what you describe seems super weird to me. Getting upgrades to business internet acc
by slg 8y ago
As someone who has been tangentially involved in this process in the past, what you describe seems super weird to me. Getting upgrades to business internet access is shockingly expensive when you are accustomed to purchasing consumer internet, but there has always been multiple companies willing to lay new cable for us at a price that is well within the budget of a multi-billion dollar company.
As a general rule, most ISPs stink, but they still are businesses. It seems strange for them to literally refuse your money. Is your office in some remote location or is there some legal restriction that prevents one of these companies from doing the work at any price?
- toomuchtodo 8y agoIndeed. I have never had a problem getting commercial gigabit fiber pulled when the business was willing to spend $20k-$50k up front and a few thousand a month. And at enterprise scale, those costs are minimal.
- djhn 8y agoAm I misunderstanding American internet service completely, or is this as obscene as it sounds? I pay 40€ a month for a gigabit connection to my flat in 18th-19th century built neighbourhood. 25€ for unlimited 400 Mbit/s to my phone. Actual speeds match what is promised.
- Jonnax 8y agoNo. Your connection is not a business broadband connection. You pay that much to get guaranteed throughout and bandwidth at the max whenever. Guaranteed with an SLA. Your residential broadband is contented, you share a pipe with multiple households. Like with GPON passive optical, your connection to the exchange point may be shared with 32 homes and is a 2.5 Gbps downstream and 1.25 Gbps link.
- swebs 8y agoYou don't have a gigabit connection, your building does. You split the cost and bandwidth with all other residents.