The cost of the labor is less than one might think. I've found it's
cheaper to train young people in the trades to do this work vs using an
overpriced company that mostly targets "rich corporations."
It's also a golden egg or geese that can lay golden eggs thing. Let's
train our youth well here. Some of us will be pushing up daisies before
they finish. None of us have a guarantee of tomorrow.
Bob
I've never met a Comcast sales person who was able to operate at the
level you're talking about. I think you would do better with a smaller
company.
I think you were also unrealistic if not disingenuous about lives put
at risk. Alarms do not require more than 300 baud.
Comcast would actually like to sell individual internet service for
each of the five units. That's what they're geared to do. You're not
going to get that very high speed rate for that ridiculously low price
and fan it out to five domiciles. They would offer that for a single
home and the users that could be expected in a single home, or maybe a
small business but I think they would charge a business more. I pay
Comcast more for a very small business at a lower rate.
I think realistically the fiber connections you're talking about at
the data rate you request in the privilege of fanning out to five
domiciles should cost about $2400 per month.
I get the complaint about wires on the outside etc. But who are you
expecting to do that work? If you expect Comcast and their competitors
to do that as part of their standard installation, you're asking for
tens of thousands of dollars of work, and if that is to be the
standard then everyone must pay much more than today. Nobody wants
that, and most folks don't care about the current standard of
installation. If this mattered enough to your homeowners association,
they could pay for it.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2023, 12:39 rjmcmahon via Starlink
<starl...@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
Hi All,
I've been trying to modernize a building in Boston where I'm an HOA
board member over the last 18 mos. I perceive the broadband network
as a
critical infrastructure to our 5 unit building.
Unfortunately, Comcast staff doesn't seem to agree. The agent
basically
closed the chat on me mid-stream (chat attached.) I've been at this
for
about 18 mos now.
While I think bufferbloat is a big issue, the bigger issue is that
our
last-mile providers must change their cultures to understand that
life
support use cases that require proper pathways, conduits & cabling
can
no longer be ignored. These buildings have coaxial thrown over the
exterior walls done in the 80s then drilling holes without
consideration
of structures. This and the lack of environmental protections for
our
HOA's critical infrastructure is disheartening. It's past time to
remove
this shoddy work on our building and all buildings in Boston as well
as
across the globe.
My hope was by now I'd have shown through actions what a historic
building in Boston looks like when we, as humans in our short lives,
act
as both stewards of history and as responsible guardians to those
that
share living spaces and neighborhoods today & tomorrow. Motivating
humans to better serve one another is hard.
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