Yes, I know, a long ways and $$$. I'm working with a couple great local CC guys who are really working hard to get this done for me - they're really going above and beyond. Hoping it works out, but I'm understanding if we can't make it work.
The original quote was for about 3500' of underground fiber, a new node, and then about 2500' of aerial copper. $$$
The construction manager and a business class salesman (the two guys referenced above) met me at my place this past Friday afternoon and the construction guy was talking about doing it all copper. He said they've really been on him about installing new amps (he said some of the old Adelphia-built areas are 19 deep in my county), but may be able to get the engineers to sign off on it, which would bring the cost down significantly.
My question is this and probably more for the techs that hang out here...how many amps/LEs do your local systems allow for? The construction guy said they can go about 2100' between amps using 875. That would put me at 3ish amps if they use 875 the whole way. He sounded like it was a 50/50 proposition of it getting through engineering. The 6000' is straight from a node. No existing LEs in the path. I'm not a HFC expert, so I'm oversimplifying things. Sorry in advance.
I live in a rural area. The node I'd be hanging off of currently serves about 10 homes (smallest node in the county). If they install a new node for me, there'd be 6 (potential) homes on the new one.
Just curious to how CC operates in other areas.
Thanks.
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