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feralfantastic OP t1_irb8o28 wrote

Reply to comment by MyKungFuIsBest_2020 in Brightspeed — ominous signs by feralfantastic

They’re handing off operations to Brightspeed in this area. It really seems to be part of a two-stage deal where CenturyLink builds fiber as Quantum and then gives it over to Brightspeed. It isn’t yet clear if this is all part of the plan and that Brightspeed will be overseeing the network under LLU, or if something else is going on. Parts of the Brightspeed page suggest it is a wholesaler of internet access, but the website is a fucking mess and I can’t find it when I go looking for it.

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demonspork t1_irbjz5s wrote

There are more layers than that. CU/Springnet actually built out the fiber and is leasing frequency ranges to Quantum/CenturyLink/Lumen because Springnet doesn't want to handle the consumer things like customer service and deploying home routers. Now Lumen is offloading many of their last mile Internet service markets to Brightspeed.

Down the road this same fiber should support multiple ISPs just using different bands on the existing fiber, but word on the block is that the initial quantum contract was exclusive for a time, not sure how long.

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feralfantastic OP t1_irg0ail wrote

I also believe this is happening due to a prohibition in the Missouri Constitution against community-owned broadband initiatives, though I certainly understand the desire to not have a to support every device on the market that could hypothetically receive traffic.

Kind of a drag they went with the router Quantum supplied. It isn’t very good. The problems may be entirely down to software. I used VLAN 201 tag and moved it over to my PFsense whitebox.

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