ThatDan
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Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Very very true. I should clarify that the map is speculative at best.
Comment · 9 years ago
Interesting. Might be underground fiber. Permits are usually the same for blocking the street for manhole access and blocking the street for a bucket truck (Temporary Occupancy) but maybe neither of this was necessary and/or the fiber was pulled when the building was built.
I'm curious to see if the block your building is on has Sonic self-reporting has having gigabit service available. The FCC has a map at https://www.fcc.gov/maps/fixed-broadband-deployment-data/ but the data is 9 months old (ISPs are given 6 months to report data twice a year and the FCC publishes it about 3 months later)
Comment · 9 years ago
Happy to see this hit the front page.
I wanted to share this with the users at https://forums.sonic.net who have been pining for maps but you need a Sonic.net account to post. If anyone is willing to share, I'd appreciate it.
Comment · 9 years ago
There are examples of complaints about this on Sonic's forums[0] If you're not parallel to a line you might be out of luck.
[0] https://forums.sonic.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=1085&start=131...
Comment · 9 years ago
Glad it worked!
I was spot-checking various addresses but Sonic's captcha makes it painful. Interestingly there seems to be no correlation to when a permit was pulled vs when service is actually available. There are addresses covered by permits from last year that aren't serviceable until 2018!
Comment · 9 years ago
There are other problems like the line that covers all of 23rd St which I don't believe is accurate and the line cutting across Golden Gate Park.
Comment · 9 years ago
Thanks!
Data is specific based on the city's permits. If Brentwood has a site similar to http://bsm.sfdpw.org/ for pulling permits that would be a start. You can always check your address at https://www.sonic.com/availability too.
Comment · 9 years ago
The data in the permits are just pairs of intersections. Sometimes there's some confusion on which part of the street is referenced in the permit vs the data from the city.
Next time around I want to use the city's street shapefile to try and fix this.
I was able to get this working recently* to get an older version of Pandora installed on an original iPhone.
Problem with this method is you're guessing at version numbers to find a version that will work, but it's neat when it does!
*The article says certificate pinning breaks this, but there's a comment about how to add Charles Proxy's certificate to your trust store which seems to circumvent this.