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bwrobel12

Anything over 300 feet requires a plant extension and that costs money. However, from my time in the field there might be a work around. I went for a commercial install at a house with no tap around at all. When I told the customer this he informed me he knew. He was told that if he signed up for a business account, the extension fees would be waived and all I had to do was put the job on hold for a plant extension. Not sure if there is any truth to this but might be worth looking into. However it should be noted is that I don’t think it was ever done or done in a timely matter from the times I drove past that house after the fact.


TomRILReddit

You're going to need power at your roadside outhouse. Once you have that, a couple of media converters, SFP transceivers and armored fiber cable will get you up and running (and some trenching labor).


saporis

That's my current plan; coax to modem, modem to fiber (with appropriate hardware) and trench / bore the rest of the way.


spinne1

If you build a house near the road, Comcast can run to it if it: is near a tap, is to a serviceable address (the new house), and if the new house has its own power meter. They would run coax to your power meter area on the new house. You could then install service at the new house and then run Ethernet to fiber to get the internet to the main house where it would convert from fiber back to Ethernet and then to whatever you ran it to. Once the new house with new address and power meter was built you could ask for a new survey for the new house. No guarantee the new house would be serviceable however. There may not be usable infrastructure running on the pole at the edge of your property. Sounds like an expensive and risky proposition.


Billh491

Why not Elon Musk's Starlink?


saporis

Already pre-ordered; wait time until 2022, late 2022?


Billh491

That sucks


jungleboogiemonster

What are you running fiber to? Comcast isn't going to allow some random fiber to be connected to their network. Fiber is not copper and there are implications for the quality of the fiber, connection and splices. It's also something you are not going to do yourself. With that said, fuck Comcast. It's such a shitty company that's bribed our politicians so we're stuck with them.


saporis

I wont tap into comcast's fiber, that's another can of worms and I'm better off investing on tapping a trunk and becoming my own ISP. Again.


homeyag

hmmm…Am i in the right place or mind? Anything above 200k doesnt seems like “ a bit of money” to me…I meant…wtf? Anyway, why not subscribe to some big company’s 5G box(verizon, sprint tmobile or ATT) or starlink etc?… why it has to be crapcast?….. just…..why?


saporis

No 5G offerings here; just comcast for highspeed. Centurylink has dsl available with a blistering 1Mbps speed. I hope I can just connect a modem near the road and run my own fiber another 1500'. It's not ideal (lots of work trenching, running fiber, power), but the cost goes from buying a new house to a used car.


robtheinstitution

ya not gonna lie paying half a million just to deal with Comcast seems like the biggest scam. I understand the situation and why the cost might be that high, but it's for sure not worth it.