want to make good money and work from home?

step one... learn autocad or some other cad/engineering design software.

step two... find an architects firm who needs someone to make changes to plans for them.

my old high school buddy who's an architect in florida says people pay over 100k a year to people to modify cad drawings for them on short notice/quick turn around.

that seems like they at least treat business clients well. but you are paying a lot extra for reliability/service. Fairpoint always treated its business clients well at the expense of its residential clients... hopefully Consolidated didnt keep that as SOP when they took over.

back when I had Fairpoint service I couldnt get a live human to answer a call. On at least 3 occasions I had to get the PUC involved.

no worries about landlord... I own the building, tenants piggyback off my Wifi (I include it in the rent)... but they aren't around during the day (Bates students) when i'm working so they don't affect my bandwidth much.

yeah absolutely no idea why they are letting it rot. I remember going through having my street blocked for them to upgrade stuff on the poles and to pull fiber a while back so I know there is already fiber 50ft from my house on the pole. Oxford was so much better before Firstlight bought them. At that point in time I had upgraded to 150/20 DSL but when Firstlight bought them they removed that tier of service.

yeah you couldnt pay me to get spectrum. I had a friend who worked for them, and after the shit he told me there is absolutely no chance I would ever get service from them. He had service from them for free as part of his work and changed carrier because of reliability problems.

i'll def keep them in mind thanks. unfortunately they dont cover my area yet.

part of the appeal to changing service was to get more than 50/50 as the roommate games. 250/250 would work too. but for a difference of only $10 the 1GB package sounded better. and i'm fine with paperless billing and auto pay.

my cell signal is fine i've got Verizon, the issue is that I do a lot of remote desktop support, and I dont know if its reliable enough to use on any sort of regular basis for my daily tasks. In a pinch I'm sure I could use it to communicate, i just dont know about remote sessions and latency.

That is precicely why i'm investigating FirstLight told me they will NOT renew the service if I cancel it. My first plan was to see if I could upgrade bandwidth but they said no unless I switched to a business account but the pricing for that is about 6x as much as I currently pay for only a slight increase on the amount of bandwidth

FirstLight is rolling out FTTH in some locations in Maine, but they have no intentions of covering my area with that any time soon.

yikes, this is the feedback I was worried about. that sounds a lot like my Fairpoint experience.

i've so far not needed to hot spot my connection. but as i do a lot of remote desktop work as part of my WFH duties, it might do in a pinch, but its not great for long term use.

done it this way for years. Mom did this, because Grandma did it this way.