kunstlinger

did that make the final cut?

edit: about the titty

Dear Mr. Huval and Mr. Duvel,

First off allow me to express my appreciation for your foresight and hard work over the years to get this project off the ground successfully. As a network engineer by trade I am a current LUS Data subscriber and I have to say you offer a superior product compared to local competitors. I appreciate you guys fighting the good fight, especially at the beginning of the project when big telecom was against you. LUS and LCG truly paved the way in terms of a model for other cities to follow, and let's hope that they do.

Here are my questions:

• 1) I'm buying a new house in a newly developed subdivision in Lafayette off of Congress near Guilbeau. LUS Fiber service is not offered there, I assume due to the subdivision being relatively new (one or two years old). I've unfortunately had to make the switch to Cox as an ISP. Are there plans to expand LUS fiber into areas like mine where the houses were built post initial rollout? I really hope so, because I want to upgrade to gigabit residential.

• 2) Are there plans to offer true Gigabit to Gigabit between residential connections city wide without having to subscribe to the gigabit plan? Right now it is 100Mb between residential users.

Your website states:

All Internet service packages include: 1,000 Mbps Peer-to-Peer Community Intranet

That however is not true, since my linerate coming from my ONT is only 100Mb. My router (Ubiquiti ERLite3) facing the ONT is a gigabit interface. I'd need a different ONT for the statement on the site to be true. I've also heard that this statement only applies to business packages. In that case, the wording on the site is very confusing. I'm not saying gigabit intranet is a necessity, it's just a nice thing to have and is what seems to be advertised. Not to mention there was lots of press about Lafayette being the first city to offer gigabit between users, which seems to be only true for gigabit subscribers.

• 3) Any plans to offer IPv6 addresses to residential subscribers?
• 4) What measures have been taken to prevent the DNS failure that occured in the recent past?
  
• 5) Google fiber is $70/month, do you have plans to adjust the price of the gigabit internet only package price of $109?
• 6) What's in store for LUS Fiber in the next 5 to 10 years?

Possible? Yes, feasible, no. You need to have a good reason to use 1Gb fully, much less 2. Going 2Gb requires a more advanced setup than 1Gb. It either requires 2 1Gb connections combined, or a traffic shaped/rate limited 10Gb interface slowed down to 2Gb/s.

You could theoretically do this with the right equipment if you could purchase 2 residential circuits from LUS at 1Gb each and then combine/load balance (Round robin with fair queue) them to 2Gb.

The VA threatened you? WTF Bro it's none of their business. Do they UA you? I looked at the regs hard when I got out to see if smoking would screw with my benefits, and I couldn't find anything that would trip me up. I however am not in your situation, and I rarely have to seek treatment from the VA. Also on a personal level, I spent a good bit of time in Baghdad and surrounding areas as well. I've been reading your stories and I've had to smile at a few (especially the one about the wild dogs).

Like others are saying, try to set your mind free of the past. Talking things over helps for me, but it depends who I talk to. I can't talk about shit with my fiance, usually I go find one of my old army buddies on facebook or something and I bitch about stuff to them for a while and I feel better. Another thing that I've done to move on has been education. I've been keeping really busy in college, doing computer science, and it helps too.

edit: I kept reading and saw you've used your GI Bill. Did you use your MGIB or Ch 33 post 9/11? I've seen people exhaust their Ch 31 and then start drawing Ch 33. I'm not sure if this is an option available to you or not, or if those people cheated the system. I however do personally know one someone who was given this consideration after they used their Ch 31. He is currently at my university doing computer science as well.

I know my situation doesn't apply to you. I chose to leave the service and pursue my degree, etc. I know that might not have been your original plan, but it is definitely worth considering. Best of luck to you bud.

it's technically 10Gb, and is only used in the commercial realm or special setups like stadiums or large businesses.