Clackamas County also got money from the 2009 stimulus bill to build a
publicly-owned middle mile network that runs from Government Camp to the
west end of the county near Lake Oswego and all the way to downtown
Portland. This has made extending local networks much more affordable.
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 9:43 AM Aaron Burt wrote:
> Fiber from the local telecom co-op isn't much more here in Eagle Creek,
> just west of Sandy.
>
> It feels like a dam has opened up and flooded rural America with
> Universal Service Fee money, in addition to the Infrastructure Act.
> Reliance
Fiber from the local telecom co-op isn't much more here in Eagle Creek,
just west of Sandy.
It feels like a dam has opened up and flooded rural America with
Universal Service Fee money, in addition to the Infrastructure Act.
Reliance has been begging people to get fiber; they had to bore and
https://www.ci.sandy.or.us/sandynet/page/residential-services
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:23 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
> In Sandy, you can get gigabit fiber for $60/month.
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:22 PM Michael Barnes
> wrote:
>
>> Something to be said for small town living. Here in
In Sandy, you can get gigabit fiber for $60/month.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 11:22 PM Michael Barnes
wrote:
> Something to be said for small town living. Here in Dallas we have
> Willamette Valley Fiber. 200/200 with static IP for <$70/mo. Not only is
> tech support speaking English, it is within
Something to be said for small town living. Here in Dallas we have
Willamette Valley Fiber. 200/200 with static IP for <$70/mo. Not only is
tech support speaking English, it is within walking distance. Fiber comes
right into my home office to the ONT. Outages are extremely rare. Plenty
adequate
On 4/12/24 08:24, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
>> Bottom line: after we cancel Comcast, we will pay $60 per month for
>> very fast internet, and $0 per month for a voice phone and a fax
>> phone. Much better than $170 per month for slow and intermittent
>>
On 4/12/24 01:17, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Ziply offers 100/100 consumer grade service for $45
> per month (first year is $20 per month), with support
> from an Asian call center.
On Fri, Apr 12, 2024 at 01:27:51AM -0700, Russell Senior wrote:
> Fwiw, every time I've called Zipy support (for my
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Bottom line: after we cancel Comcast, we will pay $60 per month for
very fast internet, and $0 per month for a voice phone and a fax
phone. Much better than $170 per month for slow and intermittent
Comcast. I hope - failure is (sadly) always an
On Fri, 12 Apr 2024, Russell Senior wrote:
Fwiw, every time I've called Zipy support (for my mom's residential
account), I've talked to someone with a southeastern USian accent.
Me, too. I've had better service from the Ziply business account customer
reps than I did with Frontier or Verizon.
On 4/12/24 01:17, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
The technician tested the service with his laptop; he got
330/330 mbps test results. I'm only getting 95/95 mbps
after my 24 port gigabit switch, but there may be some
slow cat5 somewhere on the path. I'll debug that soon.
Cat5 can handle gigabit
On 4/12/24 01:17, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
Ziply offers 100/100 consumer grade service for $45
per month (first year is $20 per month), with support
from an Asian call center. I wanted "no surprises"
pricing and local phone support, so instead I signed
up for 200/200 business service for $60
Decades ago, I connected to the internet through a Telebit
modem and GTE pone lines. GTE became Verizon, which offered
offered fiber. Verizon became Frontier, and service went to
hell. So, I transitioned to Comcast cable - which went to
deeper hell a few years later, bad mistake. Currently,
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