It also checks within 500 ft of the address. You may be able to trench a fiber line out yourself at that distance.
Even better, you can download the maps and load them into GIS software. I grab listings from real-estate portals then load them into QGIS, where I intersect them with zoning maps, fiber coverage, noise maps and public transit isochrones. I can then filter them at will.
[0]: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swiss...
[1]: https://map.geo.admin.ch/?topic=ech&lang=en&bgLayer=ch.swiss...
I've known a few folks who've got their own dark (or point to point wireless) to colos in downtown areas where they and their friends will rent half a rack or less to drop in a router and buy cheap transit and become their own little ISP.
http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com/nbnmtm.html
Unofficial, maintained for years by some awesome guy. Govt refuses to share.
If you are lucky enough to move house, right next to a purple dot you can save $many $thousands getting FTTP because your neighbour has already paid for it, and houses nearby that want FTTP will still be up for a few grand but not ten grand plus, like your neighbour already paid.
Sucks that Abbott the onion muncher lied and spent $10 billion more on copper (than fibre would have cost) plus took 4 years longer than promised to deliver slow copper MTM NBN because he blocked the just-begun original FTTP NBN rollout (with lackey Turncoat effectively spruiking that nobody will ever need more than 25Mbps)
Except they are politicians and we have the "The Game Of Mates"
FTTP would have devalued Murdoch's 25 year old Foxtel copper that we are partially using for slow NBN that drops out when it rains.
Would love to see Abbott and Turncoat fully ICACked for their plethora of dodgy favours to donor mates, detrimental to everyone (except them and their donors).
Don't even get me started on Pyne (the fixer) and his $200Bn diesel MTM submarines.
Seems highly inaccurate for the somewhat rural addresses I’ve checked in Pennsylvania.
I think I'd pay for a service that did this.
Monitoring that checkbox if available would require access to an rss feed for the listings. Or potentially a realtor to set up an email alert (no contract would be required)
Not sure where they pull their data from but it seems quite inaccurate. Max CLink has offered me for over a decade is 15mbps down.
(I know it’s not your fault)
You may even be disappointed if a carrier promises service at a location, since some ISPs have been known to renege on offers at a later date.
The only way to be sure of service availability is to order service and have somebody turn up and actually install service.
The only thing the FCC data will tell you is that service ISN’T available at a certain location.
For my area in Denver it has been quite accurate. I recently found a 5 acre homestead property with fiber next door. I ended up trenching a line myself and I have gigabit speeds!
1) where fiber may be run but not offered for residential service. E.g., future offerings.
2) where business fiber is offered. This would cover the dedicated internet (DIA) option.
You can get some of it from Fiberlocator. Subscriptions to their service is $3,800 per year.
Edit: yuge suggestion: make the results linkable. I wanted to share them with friends and had to make a screenshot, so you're missing out on visits.
I actually used the tool myself for my own house hunt. I disliked all the tools out there for the reason you mentioned. I will write an article about my journey in the future.
Would be good to know a bit more about this tool. I'd love to get FTTP!
I’d also love FTTP, but the state of affairs in the UK seems really disappointing at the moment. If you run a business and live in a rural area then the Government will contribute £3500 to the cost of an FTTP-on-Demand build. Unfortunately, Openreach’s engineering costs are so ludicrous that (in my experience) it’s still not a realistic prospect.
DSL (running on the shitty, rusty phone lines) is allowed to be sold as fiber because fiber is involved at some point in the transmission (up to the DSLAM). By that standard, even 56k dial-up could be called fiber because there would be fiber somewhere in the datacenter on the other end.
HFC (Virgin Media cable) is also called fiber even though it's fiber to a certain point and then you're sharing a coax loop with dozens or even hundreds of people. It's even worse because the shared bandwidth can be saturated and the connection becomes unusable because of packet loss (could technically happen with DSL if the exchange's uplink saturates, but I've never seen it happen compared to cable networks).
There's also a naming convention of "superfast", "ultrafast", etc which creates more confusion. If you want to express speeds, how about you just quote the raw numbers?
Maybe this all will change when there is more Working From Home to be happening the coming years.
https://www.choose.co.uk/guide/exchange-only-line-fibre-broa...
Going by https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband - I see "Good news – we'll be upgrading your area to Full Fibre (Fibre to the Premises - FTTP) soon."
Anyone know how soon "soon" is?
Get a quote for a mains gas connection or an electrical connection and you'll find it in the same ballpark.
I wasn't aware that electrical connections were done for free - Citizensadvice [0] calls out that for gas if the connection is far enough away you'll have to pay for it. I've heard anecdotal costs of <£1000 for a straightforward connection that doesn't involve digging up a road.
[0] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/consumer/energy/energy-sup...
The quote for getting fibre to the office was £9.5k + VAT (i.e. US$15k). And remember: this is for infrastructure which is long-lived, and which Openreach will have to install anyway, sometime over the next decade or less.
They ended up installing it separately, and it looked like it took them about a week.