On Sep 10, 2007, at 16:48, Bruce Dawson wrote: > I seem to remember somewhere that Comcast's "available" meant you > get a > signal. This is generally possible if the wire is unbroken between the > last pole and your building entrance. However, this does not guarantee > signal quality - which is what matters here.
Right, and as I understand it, a cable signal is sufficient - if they're not connected to the Internet at the time, you don't have an outage as long as your modem can talk to your pole. > Comcast's standard answer seems to be "about $30,000" for any place > that's remotely rural and doesn't have comcast already on the > poles. You > really need to get them to come out and do a "survey" of your > location. Up here they quoted double that. Good to know about the site survey - we just balked at $60K and built our own network instead.... -Bill ----- Bill McGonigle, Owner Work: 603.448.4440 BFC Computing, LLC Home: 603.448.1668 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: 603.252.2606 http://www.bfccomputing.com/ Page: 603.442.1833 Blog: http://blog.bfccomputing.com/ VCard: http://bfccomputing.com/vcard/bill.vcf _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/