jaredmauch

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by jaredmauch 6y ago
No. I self financed. There was another township that did go to the voters near me. One passed and another failed.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
You too can start a telco and do this. Like I said it was just $1k to get on the list.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
The numbers are to be believed, I can tweet usage graphs aside from what's in the slides. 5Mbps per subscriber on average. Some pull as much as 20Mbps and the big peaks are when my kids download games. Customers could get that speed if
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14-By20iTnDzpNcAPFayO... Here's the slides
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
No problem, you're asking to see photos of my baby, I can talk about my baby all day :-)
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
It's pretty easy, I just sell myself an easement on the property for $1 before I sell to someone else. I can also just move the electronics somewhere else. The nice thing about fiber is the range, I can be within 25dB of here and it
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
the issue with this approach is if you depend on it, it may just go away some day, either with the police called and if they track it back to you, you may be prosecuted under the laws that protect utilities. These are less forgiving than y
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
that's what i did. there also are not poles the whole way, so with some drilling, it's easier to just drill the whole way. plus if someone digs it up, i can go after them for repair costs.. hard to go after a tree for a wind&#x2
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Yes, there's no suitable spectrum available to towers due to topography, etc.. I might have to build towers at both ends to run in a licensed range, eg: 11Ghz, and even there there's not good access. So I might still have to pay
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
you can negotiate this, it depends largely on what market you are in and what their costs are.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
yeah, i had to recover my HN account, i forgot i made one
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
can confirm the shape of this assertion. Having a 10G even if rate-limited to something just over 1G gives the burst. When my son got a new laptop pre-school starting we could see those updates and game downloads on the graph, the other ho
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
yes, because i have fiber and starlink is going to be great for people who are 1 home per square mile or less in Montana etc.. I'm also in a position to offer much higher speeds when I need to upgrade. Projections put that out after m
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
too much time.. the payback is actually reasonable (under 4 years)
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
I purchased a tk recon 2
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
I ran short distances (like my private road, or driveway crossings/private property runs under trees) with it. It has a reach of around 150-200' and is not suitable for a large project like mine that was 12-14k feet. It's a
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
The pole owner controls what is attached.. There may be pole attachment agreements you can review, but depending on the distance and complexity of the route and how many poles may need upgrades the costs still sound a bit high, but maybe th
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
our local area had to hire someone to drive all the roads and look for the telltale signs of the utilities to get an accurate map. This was taking a cross-section of a survey that went out to everyone and the FCC477 data that is filed. Th
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
I had to build it 2 miles north to a fiber rich intersection. Even with it there it doesn't mean anyone will sell to you. I kept getting results a mile east or west of where I was going. Things like fiber locator or infrarpedia can hel
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Wireless is a great solution when there is spectrum available. If you have access to low band frequencies as the cellular companies do you can blast through trees, walls, etc. Even with that they need fiber to their towers to provide the sp
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Or swapping the optics. Today they swapped from the 1G to 10G. I can use other strands or run them in the second conduit we installed.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Hah. My kid goes to school with CmdrTacos kid. His old house was not very accessible. Lightspeed - I forget who bought them maybe MEC. Try them
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
There are many parts that posed challenges. At the height of covid lockdowns - talking to contractor about if they will start at all was a big decision. Thankfully they were a family business and the work is outdoors in a rural setting so l
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Optic swap to the 10G was today. I won't disclose what the usage is but with everyone live there is tons of headroom. The redundant carrier and construction is underway as well.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
150k or so 126+ was in 2020
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Being on the poles can be more expensive than underground. Trees, cars and even bullets can damage the wiring. Underground is more expensive to start with but cheaper long term.
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Here's the slides https://nlnog.net/static/live/nlnog_live_sep_2020_jared.pdf
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
I mentioned these groups in the slides. You can find those slides on the NLNOG website. https://nlnog.net/static/live/nlnog_live_sep_2020_jared.pdf
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
Local regulatory barriers exist and if you aren't persistent you can't overcome them. There were many times where I wondered if it was a bad idea or .. what am I doing here. Being a telephone company made it easier to permit and w
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by jaredmauch 6y ago
I had to be both.

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