This was taken from my front door looking northeast. Just to the left of the trunk of the pear tree in the center, if you look closely, you can see two white posts with orange tops.
They didn’t just install another fiber conduit, they installed a junction of some kind across the street from my house.
This is going into Eighth Amendment territory. Gigabits, possibly Terabits of connectivity in the ground across the street, and I limp along at 1.5 Megabits.
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I must be a bad person, because I’m laughing.
Not that I should. At work we’re in the same boat as you — 1.5 megabit DSL is all we can get. I can walk outside and see junction covers of the type that you show there because across the street is where Counterpane Security (Bruce Schneir’s outfit) once was located and they had fiber optic connectivity to *all* of the major backbone providers, but all I can do is stare longingly at those junction box covers, because they’ve told us that we’d have to fork over $10K just to get the fiber run to our location a full TEN YARDS from the junction boxes, ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE STREET EVEN!, nevermind the monthly charges. Which we might be able to justify if we intended to stay there for long, but we don’t, when we get venture capital (which we are going to go for after we get a few big customers in order to avoid having to give up too much of the company) we’re going to be out of there like a rocket because it’s way too cramped, we’re falling all over equipment and have no place to put additional people.
So yeah, I feel your pain. More than literally, since we have our entire office on that single 1.5Mbit line :(.
At least I don’t have to share the line, except when relatives visit and I issue them an account for my wireless.
It is possible that the new conduit is a connection paid for by someone on the main street a block away, and they are digging up my street because there is no sidewalk or paved driveways. All of the right-of-way is on the other side my street. That was done to install a large rainwater runoff line, so it is much easier to bury things over there.
Yeah, you pay for it, but it belongs to them and you have to pay rent on it every month – nice con game. It is like a condo 😈