Johannes Schmidt and his wife and two kids (now both in college and grad school) have now lived in beautiful Los Altos Hills for 25 years.  Johannes is a software guy and self-proclaimed "nerd" who has both founded a few small companies (since acquired), and worked in some of the largest silicon valley firms.  Johannes enjoys home improvement projects including electrical, plumbing, networks, home-automation, and anything else where he can learn something new.

 

When he first moved to Los Altos Hills, it was still dial-up modems but he soon moved to ISDN.  Although ISDN was not a lot faster, the "always-connected" feature was a big improvement.  Eventually AT&T was able to provide UVerse DSL, offering 50mbit/sec down and 5mbit/sec up.  This was a great improvement over ISDN, but the service has simply not kept pace with his needs for things like viewing his home-based 4K cameras from work.   The limitations have only gotten progressively more difficult with the recent work-from-home arrangement exposing problems with conference calls, downloading and uploading large work files (often takes hours -- when it succeeds), as well as broadband data caps with his family now using the internet so much more.

 

Johannes (and his neighbor) contacted both AT&T and Comcast in an attempt to get better along his street, but after some time both declined to even provide a quote.  This is why he is so excited to upgrade to a LAHCF fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) solution with incredible two-way performance, no data caps, and most importantly the ability to grow over time as his family's needs grow.

The figure below shows two neighborhood projects that he is working as champion for.  The first is his original neighborhood called Nicole Lane/Summer  hill build.  He is now is also helping as champion for the East Sunset Build.  Both of these segments will connect to the already funded segment that ends at the Old Altos Rd and Burke Rd.  Click on the links above to get more details on each of those projects.