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by chrishacken 9y ago
Interesting theory. I think that's just a mental game though; I think of myself as "healthy" when I order water when we're out. Most of my friends are also healthy individuals and will also order water though, so maybe
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by chrishacken 9y ago
| The biggest deterrent, for me at least, is not the price but the need to switch platforms. I'm already annoyed when I have to go from Netflix to Amazon to find a movie/show I want to see but can't remember where it is. No c
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by chrishacken 9y ago
We're nearly 100% Juniper on the network side. The PtP and PtMP equipment we were using from Ubiquiti is now 95% Mimosa. The only Ubiquiti products that I like are Airfiber 24's and that's only because no one else offers an
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by chrishacken 9y ago
We removed almost every piece of Ubiquiti equipment from our network because of the quantity and severity of bugs in their products. For example: Disabling a port on Edgerouters will grey out the port in the UI, but it doesn't actuall
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by chrishacken 10y ago
You can't really compare the "F-Series" with a single car. A more accurate comparison would probably be all sedan's with the F-Series. But yes, trucks are on the rise again.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Close to 200,000 Prius's are sold each year. While that's no where near the "best selling" car, their Camry (400,000 cars a year), that's substantial.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Unless I open up the device, there's nothing to attach ground wire to. The device is constructed primarily of plastic. Grounding the dish wouldn't do anything, would it?
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Becoming a CLEC does classify you as a "utility" though, which has other benefits.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Their rates are surprisingly reasonable. For example, I mentioned that leasing conduit from the utility here is $3/ft/yr; those rates are as low as $0.6909/ft/yr, significantly cheaper.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Interesting; that clears things up. Thanks!
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by chrishacken 10y ago
> No. And the reality is that IP connectivity is not much different to these other utilities. I understand where you're coming from, but it is different. You have ample power to power your home; utilities can fulfill whatever your
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by chrishacken 10y ago
They probably ran a 48-144 strand backbone so they'd be able to splice off a strand here and there. Another possibility is they reserved 5-10 strands for GPON; which basically allows you to use a single strand for up to 32 or 64 subsc
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by chrishacken 10y ago
That would depend entirely on who's fiber is installed in your building and where you're located. If it's Fios or Comcast in a major metro market, you could probably get a residential or business line for as low as a few hun
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by chrishacken 10y ago
> They do not do that. It's illegal under federal law. They definitely do. Our city has a franchise agreement with the incumbent cable provider; they're the only company allowed to provide cable television service. ~10 years
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by chrishacken 10y ago
"perhaps" intended to mean, among the top* But that's still debatable depending on what level of scale you're talking. Deploying fiber throughout the entire United States, to every single household, would be near or exce
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by chrishacken 10y ago
I have a /24 from Zayo and a /23 from ARIN for IPv4. For IPv6 I have a /32 IPv6 from ARIN.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
That's in the works.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Thanks, fixed. I just got around to setting this up yesterday so the site itself isn't https yet and I just put // instead of the full path for the form POST.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
That'd be great! Shoot me over an email: chris (at) nepafiber.com Sorry in advance if I don't get back to you right away.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
The majority of our customers are businesses paying >$100/m. Aside from that, I still work full-time as a Systems Engineer at USPS +$3,400/m after taxes.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
I've had several meetings with a District Rep, who contacted his government rep at the utility for the area, who leaned into them. They said they would contact me; 3 times, and never did.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
It's in their agreement, which is available publicly online. I managed to get 2 or 3 email responses, but they go dark for 2 months at a time. https://www.dropbox.com/s/wcd5z1itzu141ky/Screenshot%202017-...
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by chrishacken 10y ago
That's exactly where it's from! Amazing place.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Of course; chris (at) nepafiber.com
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by chrishacken 10y ago
The answer to some of those questions are complex. I was trying to keep the length of this post to a minimum, so I decided to keep that information out, but I'll try to provide some of the details you asked about. The cost of equipmen
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by chrishacken 10y ago
It's not that the bandwidth is expensive; it's the cost to deploy everything. If there was preexisting conduit/fiber in the ground and all we had to do was plug two cables together, I'd be able to charge $25/m too.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Renting duct is $3/ft/year. That's $15,840 per mile per year. That's not including ~$30,000 to contract out the work (I was quoted $7/ft) and $5,000 that the utility charges to have someone on-site to oversee the
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by chrishacken 10y ago
That sounds like a great idea. I've actually debated doing this before, but I wasn't sure if the service disruption was worth it considering it happens maybe once every other month and sporadically at that.
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by chrishacken 10y ago
Thank you. I obviously completely agree; we tried relentlessly to contact our local utilities to gain access to their underground conduit and was never able to get someone on the phone or even much of a response. I eventually got to the po
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