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Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something

Welp, this kinda screws over a couple family members. I know someone living in Cary (not even 20 minutes drive from Research Triangle Park) that pays something like $60/mo for a measly 6mbps home connection. For another business they were working with, they used to get DSL through a local computer shop (Intrex). Intrex stopped their DSL service. AT&T refused to service that location at the speeds Intrex would. And the local cable monopoly refuses to run lines to the business. The only saving grace would have been a municipal ISP, but this just screwed that over. Good luck being relevant to technology in ten years, North Carolina....

ChrisLTD 15y ago
I'm sure Time Warner Cable and Verizon will start using their profits to start upgrading our local network infrastructure any day now...
- mgkimsal 15y ago
  Well, they did upgrade Youngsville, NC to wideband DOCSIS 3.0. I'm not terribly happy about supporting a monopoly, but I do have 30/5 service now.
js2 15y ago
Yep, I'm in Cary (not that Cary would ever install its own broadband, but I wonder how this will impact Wilson). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544
- jonprins 15y ago
  Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in response. And yeah, I can't see Cary ever installing its own broadband. Though, the layout of the main roads (cary pkway, maynard) could make for a fairly easy rollout. Except, well, all those twisty windy mcmansion subdivisions with their eighty page home owners agreements.. :/
- sunburnt 15y ago
  From the "Save NC Broadband" blog [1]: "Greenlight has been largely exempted from the bill’s effects. If you’re one of our 5,700+ members or you live in Wilson County, you don’t have to worry about service. Greenlight is here to stay." [1]: http://savencbb.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/wilson-largely-exempted-but-nc-takes-a-big-step-backward/ http://savencbb.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/wilson-largely-exem...
robterrell 15y ago
Have you friend in Cary look into Speakeasy DSL. They'll check the line and provision it for as fast as it will go. Before I moved to my current house, Speakeasy was the best among the bad options. (My current house can't get high speed DSL despite being a thousand feet from the CO due to someone wiring 13,000 extra feet of copper in the middle somewhere.)

ChrisLTD 15y ago

I'm sure Time Warner Cable and Verizon will start using their profits to start upgrading our local network infrastructure any day now...

mgkimsal 15y ago
Well, they did upgrade Youngsville, NC to wideband DOCSIS 3.0. I'm not terribly happy about supporting a monopoly, but I do have 30/5 service now.

js2 15y ago

Yep, I'm in Cary (not that Cary would ever install its own broadband, but I wonder how this will impact Wilson). http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328544

jonprins 15y ago
Very true - I've been following the Wilson situation fairly closely. I've urged the people I know down there to contact their elected officials about it, but got mainly apathy in response. And yeah, I can't see Cary ever installing its own broadband. Though, the layout of the main roads (cary pkway, maynard) could make for a fairly easy rollout. Except, well, all those twisty windy mcmansion subdivisions with their eighty page home owners agreements.. :/
sunburnt 15y ago
From the "Save NC Broadband" blog [1]: "Greenlight has been largely exempted from the bill’s effects. If you’re one of our 5,700+ members or you live in Wilson County, you don’t have to worry about service. Greenlight is here to stay." [1]: http://savencbb.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/wilson-largely-exempted-but-nc-takes-a-big-step-backward/ http://savencbb.wordpress.com/2011/05/06/wilson-largely-exem...

robterrell 15y ago

Have you friend in Cary look into Speakeasy DSL. They'll check the line and provision it for as fast as it will go. Before I moved to my current house, Speakeasy was the best among the bad options. (My current house can't get high speed DSL despite being a thousand feet from the CO due to someone wiring 13,000 extra feet of copper in the middle somewhere.)