[olug] Jag Wireless?

[Dan Linder]

Obi-Wan and AKennyKant - thanks for the note on FutureTK and PrarieINet,
I'll have dad talk to them too.

Rob - thanks for the extra info on SEI-Security.com.

Rob and Obi-Wan - If I can convince my dad to retire completely, he might
take up the charge to get a community ISP setup, but neither of us have the
business background to feel comfortable going it alone.  Funny you mention
Longmont, my dads parents use to live there in the 80's and my company is
building a big data center there too, so I guess the price for data
connectivity there is pretty competitive.

We'll see how the pre-existing ISPs fare in his area before we go down the
full "build your own ISP" route. :)

Thanks again guys!  Great info!

Dan

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Obi,   I guessed your mail reader missed this part of the thread by Dan:
>
> What I'd really like to do is help him setup a community ISP system out
> there - there is enough density that I'd hope they could get traction...
>
> And this news:
>
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/35kned/communityowned_nonprofit_in_longmont_co_now_2nd/
> On May 12, 2015 1:24 PM, "Obi-Wan" <obiwan at jedi.com> wrote:
>
> >  Dan, are your parents interested in moving to Colorado?
> >
> > On 05/12/2015 01:23 PM, Rob Townley wrote:
> >
> > Speaking of forming their own ISP, Longmont, CO community ISP has faster
> > avg speeds than google.
> >  On May 12, 2015 1:12 PM, "Obi-Wan" <obiwan at jedi.com> <obiwan at jedi.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >  It looks like Future Technologies (http://www.futuretk.com) covers
> > Plattsmouth.  I've been using them at my acreage outside Eagle, and so
> far
> > (3 months in) I've been happy.  For $60/mo, I get about 11.5 Mbps down &
> > 1.1 Mbps up, even in thunderstorms.  I haven't done a speed test during
> > heavy blizzards or fog yet.
> >
> > Don't trust the coverage map on their web site.  It's pretty out of date.
> > Call them and have them check the street address in question.
> >
> > Do you parents sit up high enough to have an unobstructed view of a water
> > tower to their south?  Or can they put up a small tower?
> >
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