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Could you share more about the cable situation?

• giantg2 6y ago
  In most places you have to pay the installation cost of utilities from the road to your house. I assume that's what's he's talking about. Sewer and water are even more expensive to install.
  • uberman 6y ago
    Yes, the cost quoted was for the cable provider's "project" to string an cable a mile and a half or two from the nearest public road to our house along existing poles. Our water is a well and sewer is a sceptic tank (we have pumped out every other year) there is also no public garbage collection so we pay a private service to pick up once a week.
• uberman 6y ago
  The house came with low quality DSL access but I knew that was not going to be enough for us. The closest cable run was about about two miles away. I guess if I was patient, the low speed DSL would have been fine until the virus hit and now everyone is at home watching zoom. We limped by at first while we connected with the cable company's engineering division. They scoped out a project to run cable the remaining way to our place down an existing set of power poles. We paid for the project and if any of our neighbors tied into "our" run in the first few years they would have been forced to help offset the cost of our install. Once they started stringing line, the project was done in a few days including trenching near our house. We get good internet now and we also run an AT&T mini access point to boost our cell signal. We kept the DSL access as a backup. I have also put in for the StarLink beta program but have not been called.