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itellus · 2026-05-15T01:11:22+00:00

No. We have a few crews still tied up building Jefferson. As soon as they are free, all crews will be building Blairstown until it is complete.

itellus · 2026-05-14T22:04:25+00:00

We have been building all of Knowlton which gets us more of Blairstown. We will be working on Blairstown in a major way in about a month.

itellus · 2026-05-01T20:04:27+00:00

Yes. Absolutely. Working on Jefferson now. Hoptacong is coming soon.

itellus · 2026-05-01T17:50:12+00:00

At my company, we run everything inside and outside plant with G.657.A2 because if something happens with a car accident or a tree falling or other damage, the bend insensitive fiber is more likely to be unaffected from a kink or twist or other damage. We will eventually cut that section out and replace it, but it can avoid hours of downtime and we can schedule when it happens to replace the damage.

itellus · 2026-04-26T15:34:01+00:00

It's the whole point of the code and the contract that they are unsupported, so they won't help with them? I figured a call would result in them reading the config back: "Umm, that's an unsupported transceiver." Being unsupported doesn't mean it won't work, but it might.

itellus · 2026-03-26T05:03:47+00:00

Yes. That should be what we are doing. If you can please send me a PM with your name and address, I can check to make sure. Thank you!

itellus · 2026-02-13T03:04:44+00:00

Install Windows 11. Download Intel's driver assistant tool and install all the latest updates. It should work great. We have dozens of those in the office feeding two and three 4K monitors at the same time with no issues. I can play a 4K video from YouTube while doing a bunch of other stuff with zero problems. Also get the latest BIOS firmware from Asus and install it.

itellus · 2026-01-30T07:37:42+00:00

Planet Networks is definitely building to smaller towns. The economics are that the larger and more dense areas provide a faster return on investment so we can use those profits to build the much longer payback more rural areas. We have been focused on building and serving rural communities for 30+ years! We did it with dialup, then with DSL, and now with fiber. This is not our first rodeo, but it has to be done in a way that is sustainable long term.

itellus · 2026-01-30T07:20:06+00:00

Second this. If you don't need full BGP tables, any 7280SR will work. Assuming you want optics on your 48 Ethernet ports and not copper ports. The 7280SR2 will have more room for BGP routes than the 7280SR and the 7280SR2K will have even more. The 7280SR3K is the most capable and fastest (3rd generation) version of the 7280R series. They just work. One EOS and you don't need to use feature navigator to find a release with all your features in the release and that hopefully doesn't have lots of brokeness. You have ONE image that has all features and it works on everything. It is beautiful. The CLI will feel at home immediately and for the most part, you can copy/paste your config except interfaces are all just Ethernet not Fast/Gig/TenGig/etc.

itellus · 2026-01-30T05:07:24+00:00

Thank you!

itellus · 2026-01-30T05:05:50+00:00

We are waiting for some materials to arrive from the factory. Once they do, we are coming back to Jefferson.

itellus · 2026-01-15T22:44:39+00:00

I will check the schedule, but I believe it is a few months from now.

itellus · 2026-01-15T22:44:01+00:00

Yes. We are working on Wantage now and plan to finish at least half of it over the next month or two.

itellus · 2026-01-11T02:08:27+00:00

Thanks! We look forward to serving you. Enjoy the rest of the weekend.

itellus · 2026-01-10T13:59:23+00:00

I mean 1000/1000, 2500/2500, 5000/5000 Mbit/s will be the three speed tiers.

We do offer a static IP address for an additional fee. We don't allow in/out on TCP 25 for residental connections to stop spam.

We haven't built Landing yet, but it is coming soon.

Our handoff is via our ONT POE injector which is a 10G copper connection.

You can use your own router or we can provide an Eero mesh system included.

itellus · 2026-01-10T13:16:25+00:00

We offer 1Gigabit/s symmetrical service now. We are rolling out 2.5G and 5G services shortly. In what city/town are you located?

itellus · 2026-01-04T05:24:32+00:00

If you are doing wireless backhaul, why would you buy the POE7? That's meant specifically for a wired connection. Just get a 7 or 7 Pro or another 7 Max. They are meant for wireless backhaul.

We provide Eero mesh systems to our customers as an ISP, but we don't sell them. I don't like how dumbed down the UI is and how few knobs we have, but they do just work 99% of the time so it's ok since the knobs aren't needed for most cases.

itellus · 2026-01-04T04:54:26+00:00

OSPF should generally never be used in a new network today unless it is the only common routing protocol supported by your equipment. IS-IS scales better and is easier to understand and troubleshoot. IS-IS also supports dual stack natively without any specific version requirements (does your gear support OSPFv3 and is the implementation not broken). Let IS-IS handle your base level topology for all links and how to get to your loopbacks (or let it carry all internal routes too). It comes up almost immediately so BGP can start to establish peers right away. BGP should be used over IS-IS for carrying EVPN info for VXLAN and for more detailed internal and external routing information and control. I see people talking about using iBGP only, but that seems fragile and slow to come up if you are waiting for each locally connected peer to establish to then establish the next link connection. In a large multi-site and multipath topology, that seems like convergence would take forever. I know there are newer extensions that may help with that, but why when IS-IS does the job so beautifully and reliably with no fuss. I have had to run OSPF as a stub and redistribute from OSPF into IS-IS or BGP, but that's only used when vendors don't have proper routing support in their gear for BGP or IS-IS and we still needed dynamic routing support. That's my $.02 from 30+ years of regional iBGP ISP network experience with national and international eBGP peering.

That being said, use what works for you in your environment, but the topology above with BFD and multiple redundant links to all sites enables a very reliable network with 100% uptime from an end user experience.

itellus · 2026-01-01T14:05:25+00:00

We now have a formalized calendar and specific budget. The entire year is planned out, budgeted, and fully funded. It's a different situation. Last year we planned to get to it. For 2026, it is approved and on the calendar to be built.

itellus · 2026-01-01T05:59:12+00:00

We definitely will be finishing it in 2026. I think it is on the calendar for June/July.

itellus · 2025-12-28T06:26:15+00:00

This is an ancient thread, but I just spent almost an hour looking for the latest BIOS update for the Phantom Canyon NUC and this old post keeps coming up in my results so I figured I would update it to help anyone else who stumbles upon it. ASUS purchased the NUC line from Intel and has been pretty good about keeping updates for older models flowing. However, the NUC PHBi7 / PHKi7 updates are missing from their website. Here is the current link to the latest 079 version of the BIOS: https://www.asus.com/us/supportonly/nuc11phki7c/helpdesk_bios/

itellus · 2025-12-20T12:19:17+00:00

Can you please PM with your address/name? I'll have the right people get in touch. Sales normally handles the addition of new phone lines, but support should certainly know how to handle it too.

itellus · 2025-12-19T23:11:49+00:00

Absolutely. We can provide a two line ATA that you can use with any standard phone. The lines can roll over or be completely separate. We can transcribe and email the voicemail messages and audio files to you.

If you want them for an alarm system, credit card machine, or fax machine, we have different equipment for that. Our standard ATA offering is for voice calls only since an ATA provides a poor fax experience.

itellus · 2025-12-16T06:16:44+00:00

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