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Chit Chat / Re: Slowly catching up
Last post by Spuds -Quote from: Steeley – BTW, is that Zipply Fiber? They've been sending me stuff in the mail, salesmen to my door, etc. for months.
That took some doing as the current internet in the area is DSL via Frontier Communications. Frontier had marked this area as 25Mb on the FCC maps, so as far as the Goberment was concerned, the area was served. That FCC map has these large blocks, not sure how they arrived at the boundaries, but as long as a single household in a block could get 25Mb, then the entire area was considered served.
To override that, folks had to write in, submit speed test reports, etc to our local gov, basically showing they could not get those speeds. I could not submit an official report as when I moved here, Frontier had no taps available and would not provide a drop! Honestly that was fine as we are so far away from the central DSL building that my neighbors only get 4-6Mb ... 8-12Mb if you do a bonded pair at twice the cost. 6Mb is ridiculous, but saying 25Mb is high speed is weak gravy !
After the petitions / data was collected, the FCC was informed of their bogus maps, who in turn gave the current provider time to respond / correct. The wheels of progress turn slow.
All told, it took 4 years of on/off effort by the local gov, ben lomand, and all the households, to get the area marked as under served and eligible for a grant. So far all that has been done is install the main fiber line on the street (its all underground). Although it was fun to watch those horizontal directional boring machines work, they still make a mess of your lawn. Still 6 months to go before they splice all the fiber / connect the homes but hey its a start. At least with my setup I can get 200Mb but has a wireless latency and I'm paying to way much ... but I can stream !
What's been keeping me busy, well where to start !
I did get a smoking deal on the SAS drives via Ebay, less then a year old, low low hours.
... I do a majority of my work on a laptop and the previous one was not a favorite of mine (read the product line had been severely discontented. The previous version was nice, but they maximized profit over a decent product. Now the new laptop is flat out awesome.
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I'm currently on 50/50 balanced Starlink / ATT wireless, expensive yes, but the only way to get passable speeds out here in the 'sticks'. The new Fiber will be 1Gb up and down, sweet. My current (now old) gateway only supports 1Gb total, not 1Gb each direction. So I upgraded that gateway! Yup, a few more days down while I replaced the gateway, and hey since the new laptop is WiFi 6, update the access point(s) as well. Sold the old (7 year old) equipment on Ebay. I will say I tripled my WIFI speed going to the NAS for big files.