Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by toast0 on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @12:21PM (#32414522)

I've considered it, but I suspect it might end up like bombcar's experience with cutting buried lines. I'm not much of a digger for the manual work either. And there's a seasonal creek to cross which seems like a lot of fun.

I'm not too worried about the overhead portion; in theory, I could group with neighbors and we all pay a share, or I could pay it and consider it a goodwill gesture to my neighbors; they wouldn't need to pay that portion if they wanted to get online (and some of them have overhead drops for electric and what not, so they'd be able to get a cheap drop for fiber, too)

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Re:Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands ... by ericd on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @01:56PM (#32415974)

Well, you'd probably start by getting Miss Utility to come out and mark your lines. I think bombcar's point was that you care a lot more about not cutting those than any contractor will, and so you're less likely to do it.

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