[NCLUG] High speed internet in N. FtC

[Rich Young]

John-
	I'm in the vicinity (Irish Elementary neighborhood, west of Taft and
between Vine and LaPorte, about 18,000 line feet for DSL purposes), and the
only thing I could find is iDSL from FRII, as of almost a year ago.  It's
128k and costs about $120 per month! I have a phone date with Marty at FRII
to discuss other options tomorrow, but I'm not optimistic.
	I have my eye on Mesa Networks, but they say they're not rolling
consumer-grade svc out in our area for another 6 months.  You could check
out their biz-grade plans, though, which are roughly the same cost as iDSL
and have much better bandwidth promises.  I don't know about their
startup/equipment costs, but FRII is handling them around here.  If more of
us bug Mesa, I think they might be more likely to stop pushing back the
customer rollout.
	I've thought about cwx, but startup costs are pretty prohibitive.  Cable's
no good, as USCable is still not even sure if this internet thing is going
to catch on.  There are dish-based deals, which no longer require phone line
for upload, but I don't really know anything else about them -- they sounded
like a big initial cost, too.
	Be sure to ask lots of questions -- a lot of these people have a problem
with running servers on their networks. If you haven't already, try FRII --
they were able to get me something after literally years of being told by
Qwurst that my line was hopeless.
	Hope this helps,
--Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
John
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 6:59 PM
To: nclug at nclug.org
Subject: [NCLUG] High speed internet in N. FtC


Hello :
I was wondering if anyone could offer some suggestion on getting high
speed access in  North Ft. Collins. I live off of Overland Tr, and US
Cable is out here,but I dont't think they do the broadband thing. Qwest
DSL say's their service is in our area, but my phone line is not
qualified for it. I put in a request to get it qualed two months ago,
but have heard nothing. Sattellite is an option but I don't really want
to go there. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanx John

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