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The plain brown wrapper on Internet services to CPN: | this page updated on 3-17-02 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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MHO Networks: Wireless high speed internet access The best guy to contact at MHO Networks is Andy Keeney; Manager of Sales and Marketing; MHO Networks; Tel: 303-584-9711 (Office); 303-669-0752 (cell); email: andy@mho.com. Word of Mouth: "Seems to have been very responsive to neighborhood people I know, me included." (Royal Hill) Their buzz says they set up most installations within 10 working days. Will try to get their service areas in CPN. So far, and your webmaster could be wrong, their transmitter is in Castle Pines Village for those who could be serviced from there. 3-17 generic update: MHO offers wireless service for homes that have line-of-sight access from a MHO transmitter to a receiver installed on the roof or exterior wall of the home. They are currently serving some CPN homes, and plan to install a new transmitter in CPN soon that will allow them to serve more homes. |
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Covad Update: DSL (3-12-02) from John Grady (Director, Tech Assistance Center at Covad): "Covad continues to provide DSL service to CPN, including those areas north of Castle Pines Parkway. Covad provides services either through other ISPs(wholesale) or directly through their own ISP arm, Covad.net. Since we are all >38k feet from the Castle Rock CO, the only wire line service is ~144kps. Several people on in CPN already have Covad (myself among them). Though I work at Covad, and therefore have a natural bias towards them, I've included a few links that will provide additional information for you to draw your own conclusions. 1) the first is for looking into pricing for Covad.net www.covad.com 2) to see how Covad stacks up vs other ISPs, try looking at www.dslreports.com Please post any questions re: Covad service, and I will response ASAP." |
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Qwest (www.qwest.com) was offering limited DSL, webmaster thinks it does not include any of us north of Castle Pines Parkway. Qwest (at the master meeting in February) has no immediate or foreseeable plans to offer bandwidth services to CPN. Because of market conditions (yada, yada) they are unable to expand as aggressively (?) as in the past. Jury is still out about their level of customer service, in any case. |
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| AT&T is willing to come talk to us about their plans for deployment to our area but they are completely planned out for this year and it would be the end of 2003 or early 2004 before they would venture into CPN to help with deploying advanced technologies.With Qwest and AT&T, consolidating our community behind either provider (through user commitments) does not seem to impact their decisions or advance us. Well, hmpff. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Suburban Broadband (www.suburbanbroadband.net) is another wireless service that uses an indoor receiver. They are currently serving the northern portion of CPN, that the eastern portion will be live the first week of June, and they're targeting the end of June to serve the southwestern portion. (from the
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Does anyone know the fate of: AirBlaster and their wireless? and this 4-13 update from resident Mark of BristleCone: "I called Airblaster last year and, in December, I received my internet access service - from MHO. I was referred by Airblaster who told me that have a joint-marketing arrangement so that they sell one another's services in order to not duplicate coverage areas around the Denver metro area." |
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| DSL service is available to some CPN residents. Qwest has to wire the "box" that your specific phone line is tied in to; this has been done for some of the boxes in CPN, but further expansion is on hold due to a corporate capital spending freeze. Contact Qwest to see if your phone line is currently set up to allow DSL service. If so, you can obtain DSL service through different Internet providers, including Qwest/ MSN and AOL. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Satellite ( www.starband.net, and www.direcpc.com) internet service is currently used by a number of CPN residents. Unlike older Satellite services, the new "two-way" satellite services do not require using a phone-line dialup connection. The two national satellite-TV companies offer the service (either on its own, or as a package deal with TV), and a local dealer installs the equipment. |
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| What about cable? CPN's cable-TV service, ATT Broadband, does not yet offer internet access service in our area, and we expect it will be at least a year or two before they do. When they do, they are likely to offer both internet and phone service. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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