I don't know if this is the correct place to post this so let me know if I have erred.
The background - We are 7 houses on a private lane just out of city limits. DSL/U-Verse, as well as the local cable company, stops just 200 yards or so north of the end of our lane. Our phone lines came in from the south and are far too distant from the CO for DSL from that direction. ATT ran fiber last year down the road that our lane intersects about a 1/2 mile past us to feed U-Verse to a larger neighborhood, but did not take the opportunity to upgrade us when they passed by. Our lane is approximately 3/8 of a mile long. I even got the local rep to come out and look things over. He said it would cost too much to extend that last 200 yards and down our lane, and they had no plans to ever connect our lane. The cable company said they wouldn't do it as the electric co charges them 15k per pole to allow them to hang the cable. Therefore, all we have the option of is $50/month for 512k/128k from a local wireless company. (double the price, double the speed on that)
We are considering building a 'pedestal' at the end of our lane, which would be about 50 feet from the ATT fiber on the other side of the road, and running our own fiber/coax/phone wire in conduit from here to each of the 7 houses. We do have the capability of doing most all of the installation ourselves.
The thought is, since ATT won't come to us, maybe we could bring us to ATT, or at least a whole lot closer... I we could get ATT to consider everything down our lane to be like an apartment/office building, with a single demarcation location for all the 'tenants'.
The question is: Costs aside, is there any chance in hell that this (or something like it) would entice ATT to patch into their fiber across the road and connect to us or am I merely on crack for even thinking such a thing?
Thanks,
Doug
↧