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All we had to do was have a few meetings about community WIFI and put up a few radios and suddenly the local cable company decided that what they said would tak

All we had to do was have a few meetings about community WIFI and put up a few radios and suddenly the local cable company decided that what they said would take a decade could be done in a couple of months. I've never seen them move so fast. It was like leprechaun magic. Have a few meetings, invite your local cable representative to talk about "options". (They always send a guy to tell you how committed they are, how many new places they hooked up last year, and how your neighborhood is just too rural to serve at this time.) Once you get a T1 somewhere with a big antenna, they'll freak.

robflynn 16y ago
I'm not entirely certain that they (the cable company) cares. There's the wireless ISP in the area (what the parents currently have) and they didn't seem to fret when that came into the area. This is mostly an old, poor, mill town -- except all of the mills have long since gone away. You pretty much described exactly the kinds of things they say. When I first called on my parent's behalf in 2008, I was told it would be 2010. In 2010 I was told "maybe 2011." Here we are in 2011 and they still have no answer for me. Bell South apparently doesn't have a DSLAM near by... though my sister has DSL and lives about 6 miles from my parents. They're pretty much at the county line, so I think this has caused them to end up in a "no man's land". Time Warner can't come that last 1/4 mi and the other cable company doesn't care to come out this far. 900mhz seems to be the way to go. edit Just stumbled across this article online, written about someone in the same county: http://www.internetforeveryone.org/americaoffline/nc/day5 http://www.internetforeveryone.org/americaoffline/nc/day5