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Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

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  • Presented by Jared Mauch, network architect

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Jared Mauch explains how he built his own fiber-to-the-home internet service provider in rural Michigan to bypass poor broadband options.

Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town NLNOG Live! September 2020

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What people say. Highly recommended as an inspiring and detailed case study of building a community fiber network from scratch.

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…do it for a start-up fee of $80,000 plus $1,000 a month, Patterson said. * link * link At this year's (virtual) NLNOG there was presentation from a fellow who was fed up with slow Internet options in his rural Michigan county and so setup his own ISP by having fibre optic pulled to his house and then redistributing service to his neighbours: * link to this video…
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On “A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers”

I found this comment deep in an unrelated thread 0 a couple months ago. It describes someone who created his own ISP for his neighborhood using fiber and links to a good video 1 about it. It's worth using youtube-dl to archive it. 0 link 1 link to this video
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On “Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes”

There is a good interview on YouTube with Jared Mauch. I think it may have already been posted on Hacker News previously, but I have included the link below for anyone interested. link to this video
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primitivesuaveon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)”

This ISP was actually part of a detailed study in my college class on networking. The founder created a singular example of an "open-source ISP" 1, and I am pretty sure you can find his guidance online somewhere if you were inclined to build your own. 1. link to this video
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throw0101bon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)”

He gave a presentation at NLNOG 2020, "Getting Fiber To My Town": * link to this video * Slides: link * 2020: link * He posted some replies in that discussion: link Involves trenchers. Also, at NANOG, "Starting a Telephone Company in 2019, or How I Built Fiber to my Neighbors": * link
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throw0101bon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP”

A presentation from 2020 NLNOG by Jared Mauch who did something similar in Michigan community: * link to this video 2020 NANOG: * link
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