<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">what insurance cost?</p>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">William Yang <wyang@gcfn.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">The $20 may be right, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't include the necessary<br />insurance cost for having a wire or strand on a pole or in a conduit...<br /><br /> -Bill<br /><br />On 02/13/2014 10:43 AM, Jeff Frontz wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br /> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Rob Funk <rfunk@funknet.net<br /> <mailto:rfunk@funknet.net>> wrote:<br /> <br /> Are there any options for internet connections around here other than<br /> Time-Warner, AT&T, or (if you're lucky) WoW?<br /> <br /> <br /> How close are you to your local CO? Over the years, I've toyed with<br /> forming a neighborhood "ISP" and getting a fiber pulled from our CO (less<br /> than a mile away). At some point in time, I talked with a guy who I think<br /> said that the cost for doing something like that would be on the order of<br /> $20/ft -- which I t!
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included the use of the right-of-way on the telco<br /> poles (Is that even in the neighborhood of being correct)? I'm not sure<br /> there are enough geeks in my neighborhood who'd chip in to get gigabit<br /> access…and I'm not sure I'd want to do the customer service ("have you<br /> tried rebooting?"). But every time I have to contend with TWC, the thought<br /> of being my own ISP crosses my mind.<br /> <br /> Jeff<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><hr /><br /> colug-432 mailing list<br /> colug-432@colug.net<br /> <a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a><br /> <br /></blockquote><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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