Originally Posted by
naiku
Look up the franchise agreement for your county. Went through this a few years back, I also work from home and was stuck with 1.5mb DSL, it's useless for anything. Comcast ran to the pole in the neighbor's yard, but they refused to extend the line to me (about 400' or so). After much back and forth, with various reasons why they could not extend it, power supplies needing to upgraded, no capacity on the line etc they agreed to install it if I paid several thousand.
Meantime, i had been looking into the franchise agreement between Comcast and the county. Eventually the county supervisor sends me a copy that basically says they have to provide access if there are more than 12 houses (might have been 8) per mile. Anyway, I basically squeaked in due to that requirement and they eventually ran the service along the entire road.
Went from less than 1mbps download to 300+ on wired connections and just now on my phone getting 165 wirelessly while the kids are streaming a video. Of course, the bad side is that i'm stuck with Comcast, although to be fair it's been reliable service, I just hate the constant creeping up of the bill. The only alternatives are 10mbps with DSL or satellite.
Might not work out for you, but worth the call to the county.