let there be light


If you’ve been following my noble quest to sit around and wait helplessly for internet, you know that I’ve been savagely beaten at every turn for 5 years. Well, it’s time for Ben to take back the night…. with light.

That’s right. Fiber optics, my friends.

To recap, there are theoretically two providers now operating in our town;
Fairpoint is our phone provider and they promised DSL at the end of summer. No deal so far.

Topsham is providing a comparatively slower and more expensive fiber optic service, but it’s been available for months now.

I had been holding out for the DSL, but I read the fine print at Topsham over the weekend and there’s no contract if you pay the installation fee. DSL uses copper wire which has been running to every house in ‘merica since Henry Ford installed it hisself back in 1742. Fiber optic internet uses… fiber optic cable, and that does not run to any house currently unless you pay someone to do it. So that’s what I’m gonna do. For $100.

Then when the DSL comes around I’ll quit fiber and recoup my $100 in the first 12 months while enjoying higher speeds. I could continue to wait indefinitely for DSL or I can take the bull by the horns. I’m tired of going without.

So I was quoted a few weeks to get up and running once they receive my paper work, which is in the mail. I was told on the phone that it might be less but I’ve hear that story so many times now I refuse to be tempted.

That’ll be $50, Shep.

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8 responses to “let there be light”

  1. Are we starting a charity fund for people to contribute to our internet? I expect amazing things with this interweb stuff.

  2. Yes, Shep is giving us $50 to make sure we don’t starve in 2011.

    Me too, I hear the Beamychron is on there!

  3. Fruit Ninja multiplayer AND voice. It’s the future, today. Or 10 years ago.

    Fruit Ninja, by the way, was purchased back in May and still in rotation. They’ve since fixed a major flaw and added lemons. They’ve also added three new game modes. One of which is a multiplayer mode. I can slice fruit vs. my brother in Atlanta even without a broadband connection. Like, it probably sounds stupid but I love it.

    With a broadband connection I’ll be able to talk on the phone while we play. It’s the simple things.

  4. When you all get carpal tunnel from videoin’ and doodlin’, don’t come crying to me. Does this interwebs thing put the laundry away?

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