Jared Mauch - Getting Fiber To My Town (NLNOG Live! September 2020)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN points to it whenever community or DIY fiber ISPs come up, as a first-hand account of how an individual built one.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

NLNOG

Topic

community fiber isp

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2020–2025

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• > Or else cover the cost of the run as an installation fee. The community of Ammon, ID, built their own municipal fibre network because of this: > It all began about seven years ago when the city government, suffering from horrible upload speeds, wanted …

• I found this comment deep in an unrelated thread [0] a couple months ago. It describes someone who created his own ISP for his neighborhood using fiber and links to a good video [1] about it. It's worth using youtube-dl to archive it. [0] [LINK] …

• There is a good interview on YouTube with Jared Mauch. I think it may have already been posted on Hacker News previously, but I have included the link below for anyone interested. [VIDEO]