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Business vs residential service
Are they using a local ISP? Where I'm at, the fiber provider is local, so I imagine they have incentive to increase their customer base by expanding their reach. When all this started, they asked people who were interested to "sign up" for the upcoming service, and those of us who did will allegedly get fiber installed ahead of others in the county. Doesn't mean they're fast, of course. I've heard from people who have the service that they're good and responsive once you're receiving their customer. Seeing is believing, though. 🤣🤣
Best of luck to you! Fingers crossed for a November install!
There is only one wired ISP covering the whole county and along the loop run/road I live on there are only a limited number of houses so not too much incentive for them. I’m guessing without the federal grant money, there would be very little if any cost justification for the fiber installation given the number of customers they can service. The copper pairs are maxed out and I can’t get any wired service until the fiber is up, hence the Hughesnet service. I initially started with Viasat and their service was very poor here. Hughes is only slight better but the only option right now. Verizon has approval (2 years ago) for a tower nearby but no construction has started yet. That could be another ISP option down the road.
