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by hervature
927 days ago
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In case people are curious, I had several lines of ethernet added throughout my home I wanted to add (cameras outside, ethernet port in garage, etc.) and I was charged $100 per line (they called them drops). This included going into my attic and doing as much as possible passing the ethernet inside the walls. When they went outside, they used conduit. I think most people would actually save money by dropping from 1Gbps to 200Mbps and using those savings to pay for a wired backhaul and good mesh network. |
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You're typically doing this once every what-- 20 years-- so you don't have a "default guy" and odds are you're one of maybe 3 households in your block of 450 houses who are even considering the problem, so it's not like you can ask your neighbours.
What the market needs is a national franchise, maybe implemented as a co-op model-- enforcing some basic level of "predictably not great, but not terrible", and offering a one-stop pricing and quoting system. You know they won't be the cheapest or best, but the franchise structure sells confidence. If they try to take you for a ride, you can escalate to the brand, who has leverage over them, to get satisfaction before having to duke it out with the local Contractor Licensing Authority.