[lug] Advice for a incoming Colorado newbie

[Timothy C. Klein]

* D. Stimits (stimits at comcast.net) wrote:
> Jordan Crouse wrote:
> 
> Some of the new infrastructure around Longmont is fiber. But, nobody 
> gets fiber to their house, there are trunk lines that circle 
> neighborhoods, then it is copper to main boxes in neighborhoods. The 
> ideal geek would live in the industrial section and pay for a fiber 
> based T1 or better...wait, I have to take that back, true geeks can't 
> afford a private T1!

As an aside, and a bit of trivia, there are actually two places in
Colorado where Qwest owns fiber that runs all the way to the house:
houses on the old Lowry AFB and houses on the old Elitch Gardens.  Both
of these places actually have fiber all the way to the home, where it is
turned into a copper pair for the house wiring.  Paradoxically enough,
getting high speed Internet is *the most* difficult in those places!  Go
figure -- Qwest has no way to get you directly on to the fiber network.
And even if they did, the divide the fiber into 64 kbps channels anyway.

This only applies to Qwest-owned fiber, as of 2 years ago when I worked
there.  There are probably privately owned fiber runs to the home in
certain apartment complexes.  But again, that is a curse, not a
blessing.  Be careful what you wish for.

Tim
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