by Mill Valley Guest » Thu Jul 24, 2014 4:32 pm
dane wrote:
. . . it's up to you where we build, based upon the level of interest in our $40 Gigabit+Phone service in your community. We will measure that interest based upon signups for Fusion, and in areas where Fusion doesn't yet reach, based upon expressions of interest on the website.
Dane, please consider this the strongest possible expression of interest from Mill Valley 94941.
Forgive the presumption. No doubt y'all are spinning as many plates as fast as you can, but until I stumbled across a side entrance to this forum from your not-overly-informative retail site, I didn't know there was a snowball's chance in hell of getting fiber here in Mill Valley any time in this decade. Marin County never appears in any of Google's fiber announcements, and I had no idea there were any other players on the verge of entering this prime demographic.
When I moved here over a dozen years ago, mine was the only wi-fi network that registered on any of my equipment, and I enjoyed phenomenal speed from whoever it was Comcast swallowed (SPC?) in their quest for hegemony. Now there are literally dozens of networks, many unprotected, and every single one of my neighbors complains bitterly that no matter what bandwidth purchased (mostly from Comcast, but ATT as well), there might be intermittent bursts of speed, but absolutely nobody gets to watch an entire movie on Netflix without being dropped multiple times. I waste hours each day poking and prodding Comcast servers to respond. Rush hours morning and late afternoon when everyone is checking email are impossible. Ditto weekend evenings when Amazon, iTunes, Hulu and now HBOgo vie with Netflix to squeeze through the finite number of copper molecules available. The World Cup was a disgrace.
If everyone knew there was a viable alternative--better still, an ethically righteous one--I have zero doubt Sonic.net would be swamped with folks desperate to end the deplorable sub-Third World state of broadband service in this, the country's 73rd richest zip code, whence Tesla's convey many of The Valley's higher echelon technorati over The Bridge to the 280 and points South and the Sandhill Road exit in particular. A VP of Cisco bought (and majorly remodeled) one house over from mine. His kids are seriously bummed that the net here is too crappy to support MMOW's or MMUG's or whatever-the-frak 12 year-olds with state of the art Macs are into these days.
Sonic.net needs to get the message out that you are watching and waiting. Your front end is incomprehensibly lacking the banner on the top page "Tell us how bad you want fiber in your 'hood." Frequent press releases chronicling your progress would be an entirely appropriate move. It is essential that you let us know salvation is at hand--if indeed it really is. No offense, but the "real soon now's" in this thread go back to 2011.
Please?