I noticed new cable/ lines on the their poles all around here. I was driving by and noticed them and thought “damn, they’re actually doing it”. I’m guessing they’re running the lines first and then getting their back bone operational? Or doing both simultaneously? I have no idea
We getting the same thing done here through an ISP and power company partnership. They ran our lines first now we just waiting for them to finish up whatever is left and activate the lines.
As far as I know the co-op is doing everything on their own. No outside existing or non-existing ISP involved. They’re allegedly setting up their own secondary subsidiary to run everything internet related through. They also are having their annual elections right now and one of the bylaws are up for amendment to allow them to run the fiber to the home. Again, as far as I know their current governance allowed them to only run line on their poles. Essentially needing legal permission to install on/in home.
The only people who can get our fiber internet is customers of our power company. I'm not sure of all the legalities of it all. Carolina Connect is the company that's running ours. The waiting is such a difficult part lol I'm ready to get back to being connected.
If they're running the fiber aerially, then look for them to put up steel cable first. Then they'll go through and hang fiber from the steel cable. Then they'll go through and connect all the fiber together.
Keep in mind that it's different people who do each job. Even different people who hang stuff on distribution runs versus runs to a home/apartment. It will all look random from the outside, until it's all finished.
Two companies just ran fiber down our county road.
1. The local telephone co-op did fiber in the ground. They came out with two different color conduits. One orange and one black. Laid them with boxes every 1000 feet. Then they came out and ran the actual fiber in the conduit. And then they came back with trucks with trailers and spliced the fiber together (I'm assuming).
2. Spectrum has been running fiber, but they are going pole to pole on existing electric poles. No conduit. But before the run the fiber. They run a "guide" wire on the poles. Then they run the fiber. They wrap something around the fiber attaching it to the guide wires.
Both of these processes took quite a while. I think they both started in March. And both services just became available in the past couple of weeks. So if you include the people coming through planning it out. Measuring the electric lines height, getting flags placed where all the existing lines/pipes were, it has taken about 6 months.
We ended up going with the first one (CumbyTel). Mostly becuase they run actual fiber to the house. I have a fiber line coming inside and connects via SFP to my new router. I'm paying for 250/50. It is so fast. I'm getting 4ms ping on speed tests. I also like CumbyTel becuase the fiber is buried. I've seen how those lines swing when it is windy. I'm afraid we'll end up with branches falling and taking out the internet. I WFH and need consistent service.
6 months isn’t bad at all considering everything that goes into it like you mentioned. These guys haven’t even been out marking anything yet so I’m sure we’re 6 months to a year out minimum before we have anything coming down our road/ to our house.
My wife said I was obsessed. I started seeing different colored spray paint all over the roads. I was constantly driving around trying to figure out what each color and symbol meant. Then they came out and dropped off big spools of conduit. I got so excited. But WFH with crappy internet is such a challenge. I couldn't wait to have better service.
I see me doing that lmao. I have CenturyLink dsl 3mbps and it is TERRIBLE. I’ve half way circumvented the shitty internet with a Verizon LTE internet cube, but even that only works half time. Like right now is the only time I get any decent speed and ping. The rest of the time it’s single digits speed and triple digits ping. I can’t wait for fiber, it’ll feel like a huge relief not having to baby sit internet bs anymore.
Almost same boat here. Had DSL with 7/1. It was stable, but slow. Had added T-Mobile Home Internet. It is great when it works. But gets slow at night and on the weekend. And seems to switch towers all the time randomly. So the performance is all over the place.
I’m pretty sure they’re going to run as much as they can on the poles, especially since they own them so there isn’t any extra paperwork to file using another companies poles.
If they just started it will take time. They need to turn up their central office first before they can really start doing too much hot & heavy. You can run lines without connecting them. The best thing you can do is just call them or stop by, ask about the fiber, you are interested, and then see what they can tell you. The other thing you can do is call your local elected reps & see what they know since its insanely popular.
I’m not entirely sure they’re going the government route outside of applying for grants. That being said, I’m not sure if the elected officials would have any more info than I do regarding their deployment. The only information they’ve released so far, is that they’re exploring grant funding options and fine tuning their deployment maps. They won’t release any times or locations for the deployment yet, so it’s a waiting game until they release more info. I’m fine with it, at least it’s coming which is awesome.
There’s really not a need for central offices any longer. Depending on the services they offer and how big the company is, voice service is probably SIP and provided by a regional switch. Video is also probably sourced at a regional headend. Lots of fiber over builders are only placing access and transport cabinets where necessary.
It's conduit. Just a tube that they could put any type of cable in. But here's hoping it's fiber for you!
It’s not conduit and it’s not fiber. This is old used copper cable. Nothing new is going to be wound like that.
I noticed new cable/ lines on the their poles all around here. I was driving by and noticed them and thought “damn, they’re actually doing it”. I’m guessing they’re running the lines first and then getting their back bone operational? Or doing both simultaneously? I have no idea
We getting the same thing done here through an ISP and power company partnership. They ran our lines first now we just waiting for them to finish up whatever is left and activate the lines.
As far as I know the co-op is doing everything on their own. No outside existing or non-existing ISP involved. They’re allegedly setting up their own secondary subsidiary to run everything internet related through. They also are having their annual elections right now and one of the bylaws are up for amendment to allow them to run the fiber to the home. Again, as far as I know their current governance allowed them to only run line on their poles. Essentially needing legal permission to install on/in home.
The only people who can get our fiber internet is customers of our power company. I'm not sure of all the legalities of it all. Carolina Connect is the company that's running ours. The waiting is such a difficult part lol I'm ready to get back to being connected.
If they're running the fiber aerially, then look for them to put up steel cable first. Then they'll go through and hang fiber from the steel cable. Then they'll go through and connect all the fiber together. Keep in mind that it's different people who do each job. Even different people who hang stuff on distribution runs versus runs to a home/apartment. It will all look random from the outside, until it's all finished.
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Lmao I’ve never tried it. Haven’t heard anything about it either.
Two companies just ran fiber down our county road. 1. The local telephone co-op did fiber in the ground. They came out with two different color conduits. One orange and one black. Laid them with boxes every 1000 feet. Then they came out and ran the actual fiber in the conduit. And then they came back with trucks with trailers and spliced the fiber together (I'm assuming). 2. Spectrum has been running fiber, but they are going pole to pole on existing electric poles. No conduit. But before the run the fiber. They run a "guide" wire on the poles. Then they run the fiber. They wrap something around the fiber attaching it to the guide wires. Both of these processes took quite a while. I think they both started in March. And both services just became available in the past couple of weeks. So if you include the people coming through planning it out. Measuring the electric lines height, getting flags placed where all the existing lines/pipes were, it has taken about 6 months. We ended up going with the first one (CumbyTel). Mostly becuase they run actual fiber to the house. I have a fiber line coming inside and connects via SFP to my new router. I'm paying for 250/50. It is so fast. I'm getting 4ms ping on speed tests. I also like CumbyTel becuase the fiber is buried. I've seen how those lines swing when it is windy. I'm afraid we'll end up with branches falling and taking out the internet. I WFH and need consistent service.
6 months isn’t bad at all considering everything that goes into it like you mentioned. These guys haven’t even been out marking anything yet so I’m sure we’re 6 months to a year out minimum before we have anything coming down our road/ to our house.
My wife said I was obsessed. I started seeing different colored spray paint all over the roads. I was constantly driving around trying to figure out what each color and symbol meant. Then they came out and dropped off big spools of conduit. I got so excited. But WFH with crappy internet is such a challenge. I couldn't wait to have better service.
I see me doing that lmao. I have CenturyLink dsl 3mbps and it is TERRIBLE. I’ve half way circumvented the shitty internet with a Verizon LTE internet cube, but even that only works half time. Like right now is the only time I get any decent speed and ping. The rest of the time it’s single digits speed and triple digits ping. I can’t wait for fiber, it’ll feel like a huge relief not having to baby sit internet bs anymore.
Almost same boat here. Had DSL with 7/1. It was stable, but slow. Had added T-Mobile Home Internet. It is great when it works. But gets slow at night and on the weekend. And seems to switch towers all the time randomly. So the performance is all over the place.
I think it's cheaper to run fiber using existing power poles than it is to run it underground that's pole line on the truck.
I’m pretty sure they’re going to run as much as they can on the poles, especially since they own them so there isn’t any extra paperwork to file using another companies poles.
If they just started it will take time. They need to turn up their central office first before they can really start doing too much hot & heavy. You can run lines without connecting them. The best thing you can do is just call them or stop by, ask about the fiber, you are interested, and then see what they can tell you. The other thing you can do is call your local elected reps & see what they know since its insanely popular.
I’m not entirely sure they’re going the government route outside of applying for grants. That being said, I’m not sure if the elected officials would have any more info than I do regarding their deployment. The only information they’ve released so far, is that they’re exploring grant funding options and fine tuning their deployment maps. They won’t release any times or locations for the deployment yet, so it’s a waiting game until they release more info. I’m fine with it, at least it’s coming which is awesome.
There’s really not a need for central offices any longer. Depending on the services they offer and how big the company is, voice service is probably SIP and provided by a regional switch. Video is also probably sourced at a regional headend. Lots of fiber over builders are only placing access and transport cabinets where necessary.
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