[Cialug] DSL speeds

[Ed Meacham (@work)]

@jim - just sharing what I know

PanoraTelco had two fiber lines run into town about 10 years ago. They
continue on through and to the CO in Guthrie Center, from my understanding.
They're buried in the south ditch on highway 44... from [approximately]
Grimes to Guthrie Center, that is.

I haven't seen many farms for sale ON the highway, but I don't use 44 much.
And not that "fiber" would necessarily be available, but, the potential is
there if you're willing to do some footwork and are really wanting out of
the `burbs.

I think Mr. Weis may be the best resource to invoke in finding out what
would need done. (I don't know that the folks in the office would have an
answer as quickly as Dave could - I know a few of the PanoraTelco linemen,
but not the engineers)

-emeacham (@work)

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
Of Jim Cole
Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2010 4:53 PM
To: cialug at cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] DSL speeds

While I'd agree with that, but it depends on where you live. I was
looking at a 20 acre farm in Norwalk that didnt have any internet
access other than a wireless link via com-waves:
http://www.com-waves.com/ or a T1. I contacted mediacom and it was
$100,000 to drop in the line with it too far out for DSL.  I work out
of my house via VPN with VOIP to the corp VOIP box so Hughesnet wasnt
going to work. I didnt end up buying the farm(literally) so its a
non-issue but I would have pushed that comwaves link pretty hard and
probably ticked off the whole area. Its only a T1 feeding the tower.

I currently live in Clive(right off University so essentially West Des
Moines) with mediacom cable. Its been rock solid for me at 20Mb
down(maybe on hiccup in a . DSL is 1.5Mb around here for some odd
reason.

Anyway, if WiMax was reliable and had covered that farm..I'd have been
all over it.

I wish there was a map of the fiber runs or dark fiber runs in
Iowa...I might plan to purchase my farm next to one. Every farm I
tour..its the first question I have to ask..whats the internet
connection like?

-Jim


> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:33:49 -0500
> From: Dave Weis <djweis at internetsolver.com>
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] DSL speeds
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
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> I'm not a big proponent of fixed wireless like wimax. There's a finite
amount of spectrum available and it's possible for each specific technology
to get 'full'. Look at the evolution of wifi and even cordless telephones. I
had a 49 mhz phone and it had great sound until every other house had one.
We all moved to 900 mhz and it was good for a while. Then we went to 2.4 and
5.8 ghz and the range kept decreasing and the quality kept decreasing.
>
> It's very difficult to beat the bandwidth of a (good) copper or fiber
network...
>
> dave
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