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Longmont, CO has municipal broadband and it is awesome. 50 USD per month for symmetric 1Gb service. Service uptime has been outstanding... much better than the
by cashsterling 6y ago
Longmont, CO has municipal broadband and it is awesome.
50 USD per month for symmetric 1Gb service. Service uptime has been outstanding... much better than the service my work gets in Boulder, CO (Comcast).
- hesdeadjim 6y agoMeanwhile Boulder voters have approved community broadband six years ago and there has been essentially zero progress. For a Boulder resident I’m lucky actually, I have access to to 100mbit VDSL and Comcast. So at least I have two shitty choices.
- oh_sigh 6y agoThey're also trying to municipalize the electricity infrastructure here(boulder). It's been 10 years, we've spent $30M, and there's been absolutely zero progress on it.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoWhat's the contention like do you actually get 1Gb sustained or is that just the syc speed. BTW my BB plus phone is $30 a month in the UK VDSL via local loop unbundling.
- lotsofpulp 6y agoI have Centurylink 1Gbps fiber, and I get 1Gbps up and down sustained. The installer said that my neighborhood had a 10Gbps connection shared between 30 houses.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoJust have to hope not all 30 take up the service :-)
- fgonzag 6y agoAre you actually willing to pay for a service that doesn't oversubscribe? 10 Gbps for 30 houses seems reasonable, as not all of them will be using the service at full speed at any given time. If you wanted 30 Gbps for 30 houses, then you'd have to pay triple. For something that you wouldn't even notice because you were probably getting 1 Gbps when you actually needed it.
- C1sc0cat 6y agoWith that contention 30:1 that's less than my guaranteed 35-38 MBS on VDSL (Vodaphone business) and I could get 70Mbs for an extra tenner.
- giantg2 6y agoI pay $50 for 10Mb down 1Mb up. It sucks. They are constantly increasing prices by improving the speed of each plan for free (until they set the prices the next year). This speed increase eliminated some of the lower priced tiers, like 25Mb. The next step up for me is I think 40Mb at $80. These no competition here since providers are forced to pay a franchise fee to the local government. With lower population towns, it's just uneconomical for a second provider to come in. Seems like the law is anticompetitive.