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Tips on getting internet run to my house
Posted on 8/6/14 at 11:58 am
Posted on 8/6/14 at 11:58 am
When I bought my Land, charter said that service was available at my location. Once I ordered service they came out and I am 0.6 miles to the nearest line run. They said they could only run up to 0.5 miles, but I could pay for it to be run which is between $2,000 - $10,000 dollars.
I've tried several times over the last 5 years with no success, in fact they removed my entire street from their available service.
Does anyone have experience trying to get a company to run lines? What works? Petitions? Letters? Etc?
We have phone lines run by AT&T, but no available DSL in the area.
I'm a systems admin for my job, and its really inconvenient having to use wifi hotspot for everything.
I've tried several times over the last 5 years with no success, in fact they removed my entire street from their available service.
Does anyone have experience trying to get a company to run lines? What works? Petitions? Letters? Etc?
We have phone lines run by AT&T, but no available DSL in the area.
I'm a systems admin for my job, and its really inconvenient having to use wifi hotspot for everything.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 12:08 pm to DillHole3315
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said they could only run up to 0.5 miles,
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?
Posted on 8/6/14 at 12:32 pm to CAD703X
I told them I would pay the cost for the last 1/10 of a mile, but they said I would have to pay for the full 6/10
I've thought about bribing the repair guy $500 bucks if he could make some magic happen. But I havent been able to catch him on my road.
I've thought about bribing the repair guy $500 bucks if he could make some magic happen. But I havent been able to catch him on my road.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 3:46 pm to DillHole3315
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DillHole3315
exactly what I needed this afternoon. another reason to be pissed off at crony capitalists like ATT.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 4:57 pm to DillHole3315
Is that six-tenths of a mile all on your property?
Posted on 8/6/14 at 6:11 pm to Layabout
Build shed at 5/10ths.
Get cable to said shed.
Steal cable from yourself.
Get cable to said shed.
Steal cable from yourself.
Posted on 8/6/14 at 7:51 pm to Layabout
It is not all my property... my property is the 6th tenth
Posted on 8/6/14 at 8:00 pm to DillHole3315
wouldn't it be cheaper to get the satellite internet : dishnet or something like that?
Posted on 8/6/14 at 8:56 pm to DillHole3315
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.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 2:27 am to DillHole3315
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.
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.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 6:18 am to DillHole3315
I had a client that had a similar issue a few years ago. Cox wanted 20k to run it to their office and AT&T said they couldn't bc it was too far. I found a third party dsl provider that said they would provide it. The funny part is that they just contracted it out and AT&T workers came out to hook up the building.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 7:21 am to ashy larry
Do you remember who the 3rd party was? I have a similar situation.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 11:24 am to Creamer
not really. it was a while back. maybe gage or preferred telephone or big networks (now skyhawk)
Posted on 8/7/14 at 4:07 pm to ashy larry
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.
Posted on 8/7/14 at 9:07 pm to TU Rob
What we do when we have a client that is out of reach of service (within reason like your situation) is ask ISP to eat cost of getting signal to said location if the client will sign long term contract. Minimum I've seen so far is 5 years but hey, I've seen it save our clients at least 5 grand in cost up front.
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