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Hi guys,

Sorry to resurrect this old thread, but many new changes implemented and thanks to some of your comments. Take a look if you have some time. We are adding fiber maps to the tool.. XO right now is the most extensive.. you can literally see all the data center buildings nationwide on their map.. there are several others as well.. we have added about a 100,000 on net buildings as well and made the tool more user friendly with sharing of search results capability in the URL.

Hope you guys like.

www.buildinglit.com

@JaredBusch

Hi Jared.. btw way the toggle highlights like you wanted were added tonight too. Thanks for that helpful idea.

By the way guys we will be constantly updating this. By the way per your request we have added some of the Verizon On Net Buildings data that we have. It is just for California right now. If you follow us on any of our social media pages or blog you will see updates there so you know when we are covering more in your areas.

@Dashrender said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:

he bottom over the map itself wit

You know I was thinking of doing that. We could probably float that UI over the top of it and create those hide / drag windows out of that instead. Part of the problem is this site is using a Bootstrap framework which is becoming the standard for web dev but I am not good at it at all yet and don't know the tools I am supposed to work with on it so it's difficult to make some basic edits on some things.

Well I am trying to save some space on the top for some ads to keep the site alive if it ever gets there where enough people use this but ya it does just look like white space now.

Ya good note.. you are correct we can work on that. The system does resize for different browsers and screen resolution sizes. You are using a smaller resolution than what we would consider normal at this time for PCs... bigger resolutions it looks great, but there was a middle size with the media screens that looked a little funky which is what you are seeing and then it gets bigger again for IPAD/Tablet and Mobile phone devices.

Not sure if you can go to a higher resolution but that would help a lot. Above 1600 pixel width it really opens up and looks nice.

Ok guys.. the required fields were removed in general. Just use the tool how you would like to use it. It helps us though to keep track of things by filling in that information. Ultimately I would like to put in a place where if you build your quotes here you can become a referral partner and add your information and get paid for checking addresses and building quotes in the back end. The contract / quote management is pretty sweet.

As for Rojoloco it isn't a big deal I don't mind him being blunt, but he is wrong when he thinks im just some sales puke ahole. I built this so you guys could get away from having to deal with those guys.

@Buildinglit I don't remember you are probably right

@Buildinglit Don't PEEtech down Windstream?

@scottalanmiller They got purchased buy Windstream anyways... notice they will not be on here either..... for obvious reason.

@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.

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.

@RojoLoco Ok I give up you guys are trolls.

@Jason Are you not seeing that the tool actually works? Not sure why you guys are being so ridiculous. There's no info to gather you can put in fake email and fake company name and get results back. I am in this field and I even have been using this even though I have access to countless tools because nothing is organizing this many locations in the US in one place.

So what the contact page went to contact.html instead of contact.php? It is built from the ground up with regular CSS HTML Javascript, PHP, XML, Jquery, etc... Not on some dumb CMS tool that we are all used to seeing on the web now. So what happened though? We forgot to change one .html to .php and you tell me this is a brown list shit list tool? Ya I am the one who is unprofessional. Go ahead and try to find this information for free somewhere else.

@scottalanmiller Thank you

I would like to do globe at some point, but at this time just focusing on the US as that is where we have the majority of our connections.

@RojoLoco said in Awesome new tool for checking if your building is lit with fiber or not:

shit list. as in "do not use these vendors EVER!" How do you expect to start a business not kno

Oh well your comment just went in my shit list. Like don't listen to your advice ever.

@marcinozga Working on it... have a meeting with some people about that this week.

@RojoLoco WTF is a brown list?

@RojoLoco There is no address for the company yet.. this is a start up. Not sure I guess I can go get a P.O. box but my assumption is anyone using this isn't really going to be sending me any mail.