Tips on getting internet run to my house

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said they could only run up to 0.5 miles,

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cant you just let them do the 1/2 mile they are willing to run and then go buy a long-arse cable and hook that to your house for the last 1/10 of a mile?

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DillHole3315

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exactly what I needed this afternoon. another reason to be pissed off at crony capitalists like ATT.

Build shed at 5/10ths.
Get cable to said shed.
Steal cable from yourself.

wouldn't it be cheaper to get the satellite internet : dishnet or something like that?

Not really hard to run conduit. The issue is the Right of Way. You would need to see if Charter can be in the ROW. Do you have power lines? Maybe they could do an overhead run, then it may just be the cost of a one time payment for them to purchase space on those poles. Any neighbors between you and the end of the shot that would split the cost? Also rather than digging, you may be able to find someone that would do a bore and not disturb the topsoil. I have made pulls from 100' all the way to 5 miles to get fiber on site for cell phone carriers......but they have deep pockets.

Take it up to city council or county/parish gov't.

I know a guy personally that got the local ISP to take action once he pulled the right strings, make it public as possible and for PR reasons they'll do it to shut you up.

PS: it also helped that a locally famous guy lived next door to him and wanted service as well.

Do you remember who the 3rd party was? I have a similar situation.

I haven't run into this situation, but years ago we moved into a new subdivision and were the first residents in there. 7 townhouses and we were on the end. Charter wouldn't come hook anything up until "half the neigbhorhood is filled" according to the several phone calls I had with them. So I got fed up one day and asked them if it was good for Charter to voluntarily give up "half the neighborhood" to Dish/DTV. You guessed it, they didn't care. The box for them to hook to was set up, and the builder had already run lines from that box into all of the houses. They didn't have to dig and bury lines, all they had to do was hook theirs from the street less than 50 yards away to this box and make the connections going to each house. I had DTV for a couple of years before I finally got rid of them for UVerse.