Broadband internet availability in the foothills?

[hcpc]

Originally Posted by joshuat

Thanks for all the help and advice. We were out in the area last week looking at all the neighborhoods, and ended up making an offer on a house in Golden in Coal Creek Canyon. They have the high speed Qwest service available, so we are good to go. If closing goes well, we should be moving in by August 1st.

Congrats! - good luck!

Originally Posted by Neditate

We've been trying to get Qworst to extend DSL here for the past 12 years (we are 4 miles NE of Nederland). We've had meetings with them in the past and they pretty much laughed at us! We had some hope last year when an independent guy almost had worked out a deal, but then it fell through. Almost every year a new resident tries an email and phone campaign, and every year it's the same old story. Good luck to you!

I feel your pain - I've been dealing with "Qworst" on this topic for years and finally got through to somebody that was able to make the decision about the plant extension. What's sad is that there is fiber and open T-1 slots at our local switch about they have refused to insert the T-1 cards to 'light up' the neighborhood. They finally agreed to do it after I got 100 signatures of interest (out of the 115 homes serviced by our local switch). It has taken me years to get to this point. Getting real close - Whew!!!

[Neditate]

Originally Posted by hcpc

I feel your pain - I've been dealing with "Qworst" on this topic for years and finally got through to somebody that was able to make the decision about the plant extension. What's sad is that there is fiber and open T-1 slots at our local switch about they have refused to insert the T-1 cards to 'light up' the neighborhood. They finally agreed to do it after I got 100 signatures of interest (out of the 115 homes serviced by our local switch). It has taken me years to get to this point. Getting real close - Whew!!!

Good for you! Keep me posted, would like to know when it happens. Qworst says that "there is not enough copper" between Ned and our local box and there's no fiber. We did the signature thing years ago to no avail. We also had an email campaign. We'll leave it to the new residents and keep hoping!