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Do they have others in this same position that they also charge a $7100 hook-up fee? If so, they are abusing the process. That said, once they put it in, will t
by aurizon 5y ago
Do they have others in this same position that they also charge a $7100 hook-up fee? If so, they are abusing the process.
That said, once they put it in, will they maintain against ice/snow/etc. or will you get bills for thousands each year for weather outage?
If you put in a WISP, how many co-wispers can you arrange and who will supply your internet connection to share the cost? How long do you plan on living in that house? What will your monthly bill be? Are you allowed to subdivide your internet connection with 1 or more neighbours? If you get Starlink will it be economic on a 10 year basis if you share via WiFi with 1-10 neighbors? There is a super Starlink as well.
- kfrzcode 5y agoGreat questions. I can only assume they'll maintain it; this was quoted to me as a "construction co-pay". I would have to do some digging on if others have this high of a cost, but I'm literally two blocks from a school, there are hundreds of single-family homes around me, and I had Charter when I rented here only eight blocks up a hill. Baffling. Co-WISPers might number in the dozens if I'm lucky and ambitious; I know of some high quality colocation spots and we have a lot of line of sight opportunities but I'm sorely unqualified to actually run a WISP but out of principal I might have to just to stick it to Charter/Spectrum...... I was looking into Starlink Premium, $2500 for each hardware + $500/mo for "premium" service which looks to be for low-latency (20-40ms) around 300mb/s. Potentially could recruit some neighbors to split that cost, but I would be better off with T-Mobile-supported 5G hotspotting, which is my current approach. It's enough to get by, certainly not enough to support a significant home power user network. I purchased with the intent to live here until I'm rich enough to buy a second home cash; so, ostensibly 10+ years. It's a great neighborhood as far as all things go.
- aurizon 5y agoOK, You have the 5g fallback, you might get a 5g directional yagi that might improve your speed by a better signal to noise ratio. There are a number of cheaper home buildable kits in this search of you drill down. https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA924CA924&sxsrf=APq-WBvFXJP0kfuE3FklrgNQe50HCddjww:1644623944089&q=5g++%22DIY%22+directional+yagi+-WiFi&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjynOfP7fj1AhWMk4kEHbQ3Bn0Q5t4CegQIJBAB&biw=1097&bih=571&dpr=1.75 https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enCA924CA924&sxsrf...
- kfrzcode 5y agoSweet; this is a great tip and thread to pull on. Thx