[Cialug] [Slightly OT] High-speed DSL availability in DSM metro

[Scott Prader]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:

>
> It seems the best way to get more broadband would be for the cities to
> establish municipal broadband service. I know there are many communities
> in Iowa that have done this such as Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Indianola,
> Spencer, etc.
>
> Eric
>
>
Even the municipalities have competition from the big boys.  After living in
Spencer for a few years, a trend was firmly established - if SMU customers
had a speed issue, they'd send someone out to work on the lines - the same
lines that Mediacom worked on.  This would, in turn, cause issues for the
Mediacom customers, thus leading the Mediacom techs to arrive to work on the
lines, and so it keeps going back and forth, back and forth, until
everyone's using one provider and not the other.  Of course, that'll never
happen, but ultimately the connection stayed up and going strong rather
well.

-- 
Scott Prader
Undergraduate Electrical Engineer
CARC, SSCL
sprader at iastate.edu
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