Los Altos Hills homeowners create their own network for faster internet service - KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco

LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif. - A radical of homeowners in Los Altos, fed up with their section net provider, took matters into their ain hands and created their ain fibre optic network. They present get speeds up to 10 gigabits per second, which is faster than what immoderate different large net supplier is offering.  

Scott Vanderlip says Comcast wanted $17,000 to instal fibre optic cables he’d request to get faster net service, but helium refused to wage it. Instead, helium created a coop with his neighbors to stock the costs and recovered different institution to supply service.  

"We’re successful Silicon Valley, Los Altos Hills. People are inactive connected outer oregon point-to-point microwaves. They’re having to unrecorded with fundamentally the net ne'er arriving for them," Vanderlip said.  

Since April 2019, Los Altos Hills Community Fiber has been providing high-speed net work to its 45 subscribers done Next Level Networks. Now, they tin upload and download ample files faster, and they person 1 of the fastest residential speeds successful the country. 

"So, this is simply a aviator task and Next Level has started rolling it retired for us. They’ve really already launched aggregate different community-owned and operated fibre optic coops successful Woodside…in Santa Cruz mountains…San Jose with HOAs and everything else," helium said.

Next Level Networks, which provides fibre optic net service, was founded by Darrell Gentry. He says broadband, community-owned net work is the question of the future.  

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"We complaint a humble interest for operating the web connected their behalf and we optionally the net work provider…optionally due to the fact that it’s really an open-access architecture…multiple ISPs tin really coexist and vie implicit the fibre infrastructure. It doesn’t person to beryllium us," Gentry said.  

Currently, the work successful Los Altos Hills is astir $155 a month, and the terms decreases erstwhile much radical subscribe to stock the operational costs. Installation costs tin scope from $2000 to $13000 per home.  

"We don’t privation radical to deliberation that this is the example, oregon this is however it would look. We privation this to spell into communities that are mid-level, affordable communities…that’s our mission, to amended broadband and marque definite there’s work everyplace possible," said David Barron, CEO of Next Level Networks.    

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Next Level Networks accidental they’re besides successful talks with an out-of-state bureau to supply this work for the low-income lodging units the bureau builds and owns already.