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> I'm curious why cities don't directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access. In a lot of states there is legislation banning them from doing

> I'm curious why cities don't directly lay down the infrastructure work for broadband access. In a lot of states there is legislation banning them from doing just that. Plus-- where are all the videos demoing what it's like having a fiber connection, to rouse all the people who live in internet deserts? For fuck's sake, the article references kids lurking around Taco Bell "scrounging for internet." If you are a technologist with a fiber connection, please take five minutes away from overclocking your company's attention-sucking machine to see what it's like working toward a goal that is 100% non-creepy. Edit: clarification

walterbell 6y ago
Here's a success story with photos of a customer running conduit and fiber to enable Comcast service. https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1403795 https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1403795 Is there a good place to look for similar success stories on customer-initiated extensions at the edge of rural broadband networks?
inetknght 6y ago
I found this comment deep in an unrelated thread [0] a couple months ago. It describes someone who created his own ISP for his neighborhood using fiber and links to a good video [1] about it. It's worth using youtube-dl to archive it. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24410506 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXJgvy3mEg