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Kinetic Windstream speeds 2025-10-24

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So far, this seems pretty reliable:

[740 Mbps up, 598 Mbps down, 2025-10-25, 08:39:18, speedtest.net, Kinetic Windstream]
740 Mbps up, 598 Mbps down, 2025-10-25, 08:39:18, speedtest.net, Kinetic Windstream

That’s 598 Mbps down and 740 Mbps up. Yes, faster uplink than downlink. Both more than half a gigabyte.

There were some issues getting the fiber 2,000 feet up our driveway. But, unlike AT&T many years ago, we did not have to pay for that.

If you have one of these flowerpots next to the road at your driveway in an unincorporated area of Lowndes County, Georgia, you may be next. Continue reading →

Videos: Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes @ LCC 2021-09-28

Two weeks ago, the Lowndes County Commission approved everything unanimously, except 6.c. Consideration of Service Delivery Strategy Agreement Language, for which Commissioner Clay Griner voted against. He didn’t say why.

[Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes]
Motorola, Library, SDS, Leadership Lowndes

Below are links to each LAKE video of each agenda item, followed by a LAKE video playlist. See also the agenda and board packet, and the draft minutes of the previous morning’s Work Session and of this Regular Session.

SDS county road agreement, library, Georgia Forestry @ LCC 2021-09-27

At least part of the long-contentious Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) has been resolved between Lowndes County and the City of Valdosta. The county has agreed not to fund county roads using property taxes from incorporated taxpayers, that is, taxpayers within city limits of any of the five cities in the county.

Plus the county is spending a million dollars on communications equipment, road graders, and an architect for a library addition.

[County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes]
County roads not to be paid out of city property taxes

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