A while back I looked into getting Charter cable internet. Right now we have fixed point wireless, which isn't completely unacceptable, but latency is terrible (500-1000ms ping) and although we pay for 5mb, it usually sits around 2.5. Still, I've had worse. I constantly get mail from Charter asking me to switch, but when I first moved here I was told I was about a mile too far out.
I recently called Charter back just to see if anything had changed and they sent a tech out. At first he seemed sure there would be no problem since the school across the street used Charter. There are telephone poles laid out so it would be super easy to string a wire across the street. He told me he was going to call someone to have them come help, but that they'd have it hooked up in less than an hour after his help showed up. Five minutes later he knocks on my door, tells me it's not going to happen because "the setup is different for the school," and leaves. I don't really understand what happened and he wasn't very clear.
How different is different? Would it cost an exceptional amount to make this somehow work? I'm just curious if anyone here might know more about this since Charter wasn't the most forthcoming with details.
Here's the school on one side of the street and my house in the bottom right.
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