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Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!I'll have to check out this town in particular! | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!sounds good. about $1100 per citizen, which is more or less on par for what verizon pays to wire each home. | |
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said by Scoot_NJ:I'll have to check out this town in particular! » maps.google.com/maps?f=q ··· pedia_enYou will have to like living in a small town in the middle of nowhere. And I mean NOWHERE!! Zoom out on the map to see how isolated it is. The closest city(if you can call it that) is Billings, Montana - 96 miles away. | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!If I am within 20 miles of a Super WalMart, I will have everything I need to live my life!!!
And internet of course!
Milwaukee's Best as well! | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!said by Scoot_NJ:If I am within 20 miles of a Super WalMart, I will have everything I need to live my life!!! And internet of course! Milwaukee's Best as well! 26 miles to the nearest Walmart: » maps.google.com/maps?dad ··· pedia_en | |
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Scary though...Super WalMart... | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!Its your supermarket too ("Super" tag, same for Target). There is no other mart than WalMart I bet in the area. | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!Thus, my comment | |
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Aw, come on...Billings (as of 2006) was over 100,000...doesn't that qualify as a "city"? | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!No, because they can't count anyone who plays a banjo when trying to figure out if it's a city or not. | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!By definition, anything over 2500 people is considered urban... 4 srs. | |
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Re: Cool! I am looking to move to Wyoming!said by zjumper:By definition, anything over 2500 people is considered urban... 4 srs. The question is really density... 2500 people over 10 miles or 2500 people over 1/4 mile? | |
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A Job Done Right!!When it's all said and done.. this will offer Powell with a wonderful new option for services usually provided by monoplies. It will also be good for their school system | |
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not just big citiesthey are going to be connected better than most of the rest of the country.
they also just catapulted themselves about 5 years ahead of most of the rest of the country. | |
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Re: not just big citiessaid by nasadude:they are going to be connected better than most of the rest of the country. they also just catapulted themselves about 5 years ahead of most of the rest of the country. Very True! | |
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2008-May-28 7:37 pm
Re: not just big citiesThere is more antelope in Wyoming then people, Google it. | |
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Sweet!We are moving to Powell next week actually. I have been tracking Powellink as it is now called for a long, long time. | |
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2008-May-29 2:49 am
Re: Sweet!Palmer, Alaska has about the same population. I've heard rumors on both sides of the fence (subscribers and MTA techs) that our little podunk town is getting fiber to the home. But when I call to inquire as to the validity of the rumors, those that have the capabilities to confirm or deny remain strangely quiet.
I for one, would like to know the truth. If it turns out to be true, what a slap to the Municipality of Anchorage...population (minus the moose, of course) 265,000 +/-. | |
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SpeedI wonder what kind of speeds and caps they will offer? | |
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Re: SpeedThe speeds will start at 5Mb/s and go up to 100Mb/s, still no word on pricing though. | |
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Powell is a Cool PlacePowell is not really in the middle of nowhere by Wyoming standards, I am here to tell you if you are in to out door recreation, fishing hunting, hiking, etc Powell is right in the middle of outdoor heaven. To the east is the Bighorn mountains, to the west Yellowstone Park to the North the Beartooth Range, to the south the Wind River Range. Check out the area on Google Earth. If you are a Telecommuter this would be heaven on earth place to work. My family homesteaded on the South Fork of the Shoshone river Southwest of Cody, Wyoming. in the late 1860's so I know the area very well. | |
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Re: Powell is a Cool Placesaid by Transmaster: My family homesteaded on the South Fork of the Shoshone river Southwest of Cody, Wyoming. in the late 1860's so I know the area very well. Wow, so you are over 140 years old? | |
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Re: Powell is a Cool PlaceMy Great Grandfather Billings was the last foreman for Buffalo Bill's TE ranch in Cody, while William Cody still owned it. TE was and still is the brand for the ranch. | |
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Re: Powell is a Cool Placewow. that's kinda cool.... | |
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said by Transmaster:My family homesteaded on the South Fork of the Shoshone river Southwest of Cody, Wyoming. in the late 1860's so I know the area very well. Well, I knew you were an older and more experienced poster on the forums, but I never had any idea you were THAT old....!! | |
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2008-May-28 7:57 pm
Funny Codewords...quote: The private-public partnership ...
Sounds like how a lot of stadiums get funded these days... | |
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Re: Funny Codewords... As an investment in their future, this is a good choice (for a community this size, and location) | |
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Re: Funny Codewords...said by tshirt: As an investment in their future, this is a good choice (for a community this size, and location) Exactly right, "build it and they will come". If I where a small company that manufactured stuff like fishing rods, mountaineerings equipment, tents, etc and did most of my business via the Web this would be a good place to set up shop, Low overhead, low taxes, etc. | |
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Also check out Glen Allan, MississippiThis one has gotten zero publicity, but the Lakeside Telephone Co. in Glen Allan, Mississippi, population about 250, is currently building a FTTH network. I was there for several months caring for my dad, and I needed a temp dialup account, so I went down there to sign up. I was talking with the lady in there as I was doing the paperwork, and I jokingly told her that they should start offering cable TV, and she told me they were. She explained that they would be building a fiber network in the spring and hopefully finished with it during the summer, at which time they'd use it for phone, TV, and Internet. They've had DSL for years, but they're apparently getting ready to step things up a notch. When I left last month, they were in the process of surveying where the cables would be laid. So, if you want a place to move to, check it out. And if you like fishing, the town is right on the bank of Lake Washington, one of the largest lakes in the state. There's no airport there obviously, but there's one in Greenville, about 30 miles away, and Jackson is about 100 miles away, and you can fly out of Jackson-Evars International Airport. So Glen Allan is kind of off the beaten path, but it's not a bad place to live if you want to telecommute. And the Kountry Market makes a kick-ass cheeseburger. | |
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Re: Also check out Glen Allan, MississippiThe problem here is: Mississippi
Worst state in the union. | |
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wowWell I'm pretty sure I'm the only commenter so far that has actually BEEN to Powell and its a nice little town! Good golf course and amazing chinese buffet place its a nice little town that has seen better days but this maybe will help... but hell WY has its perks. Free college for everyone.. no sales tax.. meh | |
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Who cares....Richmond, MA has four different providers and a fiber ring for all the Town Offices. They also have free wireless for about 500 homes...and have so for years. | |
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2008-May-28 11:23 pm
Don't forget Lavaca, AR.....Lavaca, AR has had FTTH for the last year or two. Countryside won't be as picturesque as Wyoming, though. | |
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More InformationHere is some more information on Powellink from the Billings Gazette: » www.billingsgazette.net/ ··· ptic.txtCustomers who sign up for one year of combined basic phone, Internet and TV service will pay a total of about $75 per month, plus tax, according to a rate sheet TCT provided.
Internet speeds will start at around 5 megabits per second, and can be scaled up to 100 Mbps at additional cost, based on customer needs, said Rob Collingwood, a manager for TCT. Fiber drops
Work crews will begin installing "fiber drops" to homes around Powell, trenching underground cables and attaching to each house a small junction box about the size of a hardback book. It sounds like they are putting in a blank ONT on every house with the fiber already ran up to it in order to cut down the install times. | |
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2008-May-29 1:16 pm
Casper?Didn't Casper WY build a fiber network? How is that going?
All we ever hear about around here are the failures of projects like these, mostly due to the mega-corp communications providers fighting tooth and nail for their "right" to provide sub-par services without meaningful competition.
Leave it to the people of the great state of Wyoming to tell Qwest to F off. Sure wish Colorado could do the same. | |
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Re: Casper?My Uncle and Aunt live in Casper, I might have to ask them if they know anything about a fiber network next time I talk to them. | |
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2008-May-29 1:25 pm
Re: Casper?AFIK, it's been up and running for a few years now. | |
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Sweetheart dealThis project in Powell, Wyoming is overhyped, underfunded, and monopolized by a single carrier.
While there will be fiber passing the homes in the city, it won't provide more bandwidth or more or different services than the cable network there. Worse still, the network involves a "sweetheart" back room deal between the city and TCT West, a telephone company in that region. For the first 10 years of the network's existence, only TCT West will be allowed to offer services over the fiber, even though it's supposedly a municipal project. And TCT West will also have a monopoly on service to the city government -- one of the biggest customers in town. So, competitors will be strongly discouraged from entering the market. And since building the fiber network will be quite expensive, service will be expensive too. So, residents will take a bath, and so will the city government.
Our own ISP will likely never bring service to Powell, even though we have some unique service offerings and technology, because we can't get on the government-supported network and are not going to go up against government-supported competition. Powell, Wyoming can have its network... if it ever manages to pay its bills even with the high prices it has to charge. But independent ISPs like ours, which do not rely on government largesse, won't be there. | |
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