id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt arstechnica-com-6430 Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP | Ars Technica .html text/html 2029 150 79 Jared Mauch didn't have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP | Ars Technica But for one man in rural Michigan named Jared Mauch, who happens to be a network architect, the solution to not having good broadband at home was in fact building his own fiber-Internet service provider. "I had to start a telephone company to get [high-speed] Internet access at my house," Mauch explained in a recent presentation about his new ISP that serves his own home in Scio Township, which is next to Ann Arbor, as well as a few dozen other homes in Washtenaw County. As broadband technology advanced, Mauch expected that an ISP would eventually wire up his house with cable or fiber. But about four years ago, Mauch started planning to build his own provider that now offers fiber-to-the-home broadband in parts of Scio Township and Lima Township. ./cache/arstechnica-com-6430.html ./txt/arstechnica-com-6430.txt