FYI: Comcast Metro ethernet to the home

[Bruce Labitt]

I'm in Nashua (north end) and have fiber.  However, this fiber was installed when Verizon owned the landlines.  But Fairpoint did the pole to house drop.  You sure there is no fiber downtown?

Best regards,
Bruce

Please excuse any typos, sent by my iPhone.

> On Jul 17, 2015, at 17:53, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at hackerposse.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2015-07-17 15:53, Matt Minuti wrote:
>> If only someone offered such nice service in auburn... I'm still on 6/1 for $60...
> 
> At least you can blame your placement out in the boonies.
> 
> I'm stuck trying to do DSL over 90-year-old copper+paper+lead telephone-lines
> that semiregularly require a bucket-truck visit because they've delaminated,
> formed a new crack, got full of either rainwater or condensation,
> and shorted themselves out... *in downtown Nashua*, because AFAICT my only
> other options are Comcast cable (and I'd prefer not to do business with Comcast),
> a high-latency Satellite link, or terrestrial wireless service via
> one of the wireless telcos--and somehow those all seem mostly worse to me.
> 
> All *I* have to blame my situation on is my own lousy personality :)
> 
> (but, really--how come fiber is available in places like Wilton and Chichester
> before it's available in here? Is it normal for cities to be the cyber-boonies?)
> 
>> On Jul 16, 2015 7:07 PM, "Ted Roche" <tedroche at gmail.com
>> <mailto:tedroche at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Not sure where your local area is, but many towns served by the telecom TDS
>>    have, or will soon have, TDSFiber available. For plain old residential
>>    service at $49+fees, they are offering 100Mbps up to 1 Gbps, triple bundles
>>    and some discounts during the rollout. A local billboard claims it's the
>>    fastest residential service in the country, though I'm not sure if that
>>    discounter Google Fiber or had some disclaimer in fine print. 
>> 
>>    https://www.tdsfiber.com/where/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>    On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Steven C. Peterson <scp at mainstream.net
>>    <mailto:scp at mainstream.net>> wrote:
>> 
>>        As an fyi for any one who wants major bandwidth at home Comcast has in
>>        our area a Metro Ethernet service for residences
>>        505/125mb.
>> 
>>        New Hampshire was the pilot test for the 1gb and 2gb services they are
>>        rolling out down south. They have told all of the new England beta tests
>>        that they will be moved to 2gb service this fall
>> 
>>         I have been on it since January and it is fantastic, catches $299 per
>>        month + tax and lease (a cienea metro e switch) 3 year contract. and a
>>        $250 installation fee
>> 
>>        Need to be with in an arbitrary distance of a Comcast splice or node (
>>        they base this on the cost to get the 12 fiber single mode run into your
>>        home)
>> 
>>        This is the same service and network they sell to enterprise customers.
>>        they include block of 5 IPv4 and a /48 IPv6 static with the service fee
>> 
>>        I have a contact in the enterprise sales that can get any one who
>>        interested getting more info
>> 
>>        --
>>        Steven C. Peterson
>>        Mainstream Technology Group
>>        scp at mainstream.net <mailto:scp at mainstream.net>
>>        Office: (603)966-4607 x 2409 <tel:%28603%29966-4607%20x%202409>
>>        Cell/SMS: (603)913-7006 <tel:%28603%29913-7006>
>> 
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>>    -- 
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