Colorado Walks the Last Mile Glenwood Springs finishes municipal network It was a difficult battle, but Glenwood Springs, Colorado residents are the proud owners of their own last mile municipal broadband network, paid for by the city's electrical department. The town signed a contract with Aspenworks Ltd. to act as the ISP for the town's fiber, and spent much of the fall finalizing and testing network connections. Despite arguments with resellers and allegations that the city paid too much, the system has area residents pleased as punch.
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 | | Hmm... I am interested in hearing about speeds that people will get, and how much they are paying for those speeds. If I read the articles right, they are using wireless to get to the fiber backbone? So, the average user would be getting about 2mbps each way? Details man, I want details! | |
|  |  skokieHere I Go AgainPremium
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San Jose, CA | Re: Hmm... I agree details please.
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| |  dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
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Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | Probably like bredbandsbolaget. 10mbit each way but 512kbps or less out to the net. fine if you want to game or swap files with friends in your own town but MANs generally suck. I get 0.5k/s from "10000/10000 bredbandsbolaget" users | |
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 extreme50Formerly TwoKDialupPremium
join:2002-06-07
Coloma, MI | Another telco lie exposed! Wow, these guys installed a complete system covering the entire town and surrounding area from scratch for under 3 million. So how come some telco shill claims it cost 500,000 just for one neighborhood RT? Looks like another telco lie has been exposed!
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Mount Airy, MD |  Re: Another telco lie exposed!
said by extreme50:
So how come some telco shill claims it cost 500,000 just for one neighborhood RT?
Because its true. The only reason this town signed onto this project is because the cost is clearly lowballed. This is how every government project starts out. Sure the costs are supposedly low, but wait till the taxes go up to pay for this. I'm sure the residents will be quite pleased with that.
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| | | extreme50Formerly TwoKDialupPremium
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Coloma, MI | Re: Another telco lie exposed! Here you go, sir!
From »www.isp-planet.com/cplanet/tech/···002.html
First to reach rural quota
200 residents of Todmorden signed up for BT's broadband request list, and if 150 of them follow through with orders to their ISPs, BT will install a DSLAM within 3 months. The principal—that the BT will respond wherever there's sufficient demand, is both a brilliant marketing strategy and a way to diffuse the PR disaster other telcos face for not serving customers. The specified quotas are in fact disingenuous, because a $10,000 to $25,000 investment in the necessary DSLAM can be repaid with fewer than 100 subscribers, even at BT's wholesale rate of $21.
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| | Cost to build the network The cost to deploy the Glenwood Springs Broadband network was relatively low, because the City owns the Electric Utility for the community. The Electric Utility has installed extra conduit throughout the community. The Broadband facilities were able to use the additional conduit; eliminating much of the cost to deploy fiber. Most networks are more expensive because of the trenching and placement of fiber.
The network is made up of a fiber backbone, with wireless 802.11b serving the residential market. I use the wireless part of the network and although there are some issues with wireless, it is much better than what was available before -- dial up! My average speeds are currently 1.5Mbps from my home office, so I am very pleased. My monthly cost is $50 per month, and the City paid for the installation of wireless equipment (usually in the neighborhood of $400). | |
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