Good luck David. Even up here in the Chicagoland Comcast footprint, I had a horror story when I moved into my home in 2002 wrt ATT. Anyway, I’m not sure how far you are from Ocala, but they do offer residential internet via their municipal fiber. https://www.ocalafl.org/government/city-departments/telecommunications/resid... $60/month for 300 Mbps… ------- Greg Kovich Director, Global Education Sales Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise ALE USA 3015 Abby Lane | Suite 301-B Schererville, IN 46375 t: +1-818-878-4667<tel:+1-818-878-4667> m: +1-219-276-2320<tel:+1-219-276-2320> e: Greg.Kovich@al-enterprise.com<mailto:greg.kovich@al-enterprise.com> w: www.al-enterprise.com<https://www.al-enterprise.com/en> @ALUEnterprise [LinkedIn]<https://www.linkedin.com/company/alcatellucententerprise> [Twitter] <https://twitter.com/aluenterprise> [YouTube] <https://www.youtube.com/user/EnterpriseALU> [Facebook] <https://www.facebook.com/ALUEnterprise> [Rainbow] <https://web.openrainbow.com/app/1.31.7/index.html#/login> [https://www.al-enterprise.com/en/-/media/assets/internet/images/logo.png]<https://www.al-enterprise.com/en> The Alcatel-Lucent name and logo are trademarks of Nokia used under license by ALE. This communication is intended to be received only by the individual or entity to whom or to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged/confidential or subject to copyright. Any unauthorized use, copying, review or disclosure of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please delete this message from your e-mail box and information system (including all files and documents attached) and notify the sender by reply email. On Mar 27, 2019, at 7:00 AM, nanog-request@nanog.org<mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org> wrote: Message: 7 Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 01:30:34 -0400 From: Ross Tajvar <ross@tajvar.io<mailto:ross@tajvar.io>> To: Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com<mailto:mikebolitho@gmail.com>> Cc: david raistrick <drais@icantclick.org<mailto:drais@icantclick.org>>, "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org<mailto:nanog@nanog.org>> Subject: Re: residential/smb internet access in 2019 - help? Message-ID: <CA+FDdDR-8teoFrGCuWGzN4WWdJv8ZgjsuKUFAMJ8Qo2m7C+wqw@mail.gmail.com<mailto:CA+FDdDR-8teoFrGCuWGzN4WWdJv8ZgjsuKUFAMJ8Qo2m7C+wqw@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 12:30 AM Mike Bolitho <mikebolitho@gmail.com<mailto:mikebolitho@gmail.com>> wrote: Agreed....this is why monopolies are bad and municipal fiber is good. It's not like municipal fiber has some magic spell to make last mile affordable though. On OP's instance he would run into the same issue and would be paying that five figure amount to bring FTTP. Municipal fiber is only good if you happen to live where a municipality has already buried conduit. I'm not saying we should support monopolistic practices, but "municipal fiber everywhere!" isn't necessarily the answer either. That's fair. What I really meant, and didn't take the time to think through and express properly, was this: financing a large fiber buildout like it's a long-term investment, rather than something that should make back its capital cost in 1-3 years, gets fiber to more people. Most commercial ISPs do not want to do this because they want immediate profit. Municipalities are used to making long-term infrastructure investments (like bridges, etc.) and are more amenable to doing it with fiber. Even if there were a municipality which had done a fiber buildout near OP's desired house, he may have still run into the same issue of no fiber being close enough to be financially viable. But the more fiber plant there is, the less likely that scenario becomes.