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demonspork t1_irbjz5s wrote

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

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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