Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not
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@dafyre said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@RojoLoco said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
Your site fails to identify many fiber circuits in this area, most from carriers that you list. Utter failure.
There's any number of reasons that could be.
yeah, this stuff is actually rather complicated.
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@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
That is actually a good idea. I wanted the email and name on there just so I could identify who and how the tool is being used as I rolled it out. Even if the point was to collect information though who cares it's free and tells you what is around. Obviously over time we would like to have more carriers available for all areas. As mentioned this focuses on major metropolitan areas though. You guys are focusing on the boonies. I will put those as optional as you say though Scott. To make everyone sleep a little easier.
I checked in my home town and got a few AT & T hits which are probably accurate... AT&T has been in the town for ages and ages. I know there's at least one other company in the area with fiber in the ground, but I don't know if they put the fiber in themselves, or if they just ride AT&T's lines.
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@dafyre That is a good differentiation Dafyre.. this information is only LECs meaning those that actually own the fiber in the ground. So you won't see the Tele Pacific's or Paetecs of the world on here because they are CLecs that ride over the top. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but generally if you go with the LEC you can get better pricing and dealing with less support people in between is better. So that is why we focused on ON Net.
For example I just quoted a Gig for a guy who found he had Wilcon outside is office building for $1k. Pretty outstanding.
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No one wants to see the Paetecs anyway.
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Why do we pronounce them PAYtech when their letters have an ashtree and should be called PEEtech?
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@scottalanmiller They got purchased buy Windstream anyways... notice they will not be on here either..... for obvious reason.
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@Buildinglit Don't PEEtech down Windstream?
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@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@scottalanmiller They got purchased buy Windstream anyways... notice they will not be on here either..... for obvious reason.
Wasn't it the other way around, Paetech both Windstream. but they went with the Windstream name to hide their shame.
Paetec is from my home town.
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@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@Buildinglit Don't PEEtech down Windstream?
There you go.
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They believe in trickle down ISPs.
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ISPees.
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@Buildinglit I don't remember you are probably right
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@scottalanmiller said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@dafyre said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@RojoLoco said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
Your site fails to identify many fiber circuits in this area, most from carriers that you list. Utter failure.
There's any number of reasons that could be.
yeah, this stuff is actually rather complicated.
Except in this area there is 50 metric shit-tonnes of fiber in the ground, including at least a half dozen AT&T installs in this building. There are AT&T markers all around, but none shown on our building (or other large tech companies on this block).
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@RojoLoco just because it exists doesn't mean that all the carriers want to report to the public where it is and whether they can get access to it. The website appears to want to help you find what carriers in your area you could get a quote from. If I were in the market I would be looking up and down my street, not just in my building.
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@RojoLoco said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@scottalanmiller said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@dafyre said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@RojoLoco said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
Your site fails to identify many fiber circuits in this area, most from carriers that you list. Utter failure.
There's any number of reasons that could be.
yeah, this stuff is actually rather complicated.
Except in this area there is 50 metric shit-tonnes of fiber in the ground, including at least a half dozen AT&T installs in this building.
And you can publicly prove that how?
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Couple of things here that @RojoLoco needs to be aware of.
- He is being a dick
- This is a self promotion category.
- The developer is participating and making changes on feedback
- This is beta/new
- See 1.
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@scottalanmiller said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
Since the info isn't necessarily real, I would make the sign up process optional. Ask for it but make a "skip" button. Working in IT we get bombarded with stuff to harvest our contact info and it's a major turn off. Putting it front and centre that you are hoping to get that info is great, but giving a clear "go ahead and skip" makes it comfortable to use. Giving fake info doesn't feel okay to do for most of us, while we know that we can, we don't like to play that game.
And I think it would be better for you, too. Because it would filter most of that out so that what info you do collect is real rather than ending up with a lot of junk that isn't useful for sales, demographics or whatever.
@Buildinglit yeah it doesn't make sense to require the Company name and Email. If someone sees an enticing carrier near them they would reasonably give you their name and email in the Quote Management page. That would also mean all the contact info you get is actionable because it means someone saw something and is really interested.
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@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
That is actually a good idea. I wanted the email and name on there just so I could identify who and how the tool is being used as I rolled it out.
That is a completely normal reaction for many people that build things to be used. They want to know who is using it.
The problem is that you are fighting a long history of shitty marketing tactics.
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@JaredBusch said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
That is actually a good idea. I wanted the email and name on there just so I could identify who and how the tool is being used as I rolled it out.
That is a completely normal reaction for many people that build things to be used. They want to know who is using it.
The problem is that you are fighting a long history of shitty marketing tactics.
It is possible to slightly increase trust by including a TOS or blurb that promises not to innundate us with spam / cold calls / sell our infor for using your service
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@dafyre said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@JaredBusch said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
@Buildinglit said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:
That is actually a good idea. I wanted the email and name on there just so I could identify who and how the tool is being used as I rolled it out.
That is a completely normal reaction for many people that build things to be used. They want to know who is using it.
The problem is that you are fighting a long history of shitty marketing tactics.
It is possible to slightly increase trust by including a TOS or blurb that promises not to innundate us with spam / cold calls / sell our infor for using your service
I would still never use it unless desperate. Hell I avoid Starwinds? (I think) because they require email to get their free tools.
