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Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes

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1135 points carride | 1 comments | 10 Aug 22 13:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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jquery ◴[10 Aug 22 16:30 UTC] No.32414659[source]▶
Meanwhile I live in San Francisco and I still can’t get affordable symmetric gigabit fiber internet to my home.
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fragmede ◴[10 Aug 22 17:57 UTC] No.32416000[source]▶
More frustrating is to chart how close you actually are to gigabyte symmetric. AT&T and Sonic has wired up large parts of the city but if they don't serve you, it's often by just a block or two, depending on where you are in the city. Rumor has it that local ISP MonkeyBrains is also getting in on the fiber game.
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1. jquery ◴[11 Aug 22 17:17 UTC] No.32428909[source]▶
Yeah. A couple blocks away Sonic has wired up the entire neighborhood. I've been begging them to wire up my street for years with no luck. I used to be a customer but switched to Monkeybrains because I couldn't take dsl speeds any longer.

Monkeybrains is my favorite ISP, I currently use them. Affordable and reliable. A couple hiccups over the past few years (my internet speed was cut by 80-90% for a day or two) but resolved with a phone call. Nothing so bad as Comcast regularly becoming nigh-unusable at peak times.