Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Common House Technology Cost Savings

[Tim Mensch (tim-coho-l]

Robert Heinich wrote:
> ...So we have cable internet service (5 Mbs) for every home and the Common 
> House for $29/month.
>   a.. Cost savings: > $60/month and enable us to implement the phone service 
> cost savings noted above.
>   
At Pleasant Hill Cohousing, we have a single business Internet 
connection that we distribute to all 32 households. The 6Mbps connection 
costs $180/month, so only about $5.62/household, which is just rolled 
into the HOA dues, with no cable service required (which is good because 
we have a lot of members who don't subscribe). There's another provider 
we're considering switching to that allegedly offers the same service 
for $60/month (sonic.net), but we haven't tried it yet.

As a side benefit to wiring all the households onto the same intranet, 
we share a file server that we can use to post, e.g., community photos, 
meeting minutes, etc.

Tim

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Tim Mensch

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