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Doesn't surprise me that this was in Fremont, California at all.


Freemont has some of the cheapest, and best bandwidth on the West Coast. Hurricane Electric has 2 data centers there, one of which is a major ipv6 hub for the world.

It also happens to be one of the most active WISP communities in California due to the close proximity of the mountains/hills behind it which overshadow the city. Makes for a great P2MP setup.

There are indeed nice things in Freemont.


Doesn't surprise me that this was in Fremont, California at all.

Out of curiosity, why? (I don't know much about Fremont, other than staying there occasionally when I can't find a closer hotel to my Silicon Valley customers.)



Fremont has a scammy for profit tech school, Northwestern Polytechnic, that always seemed a bit shady. I also once worked with a grad of that school, he was a very piss poor 'senior' engineer.


You do realize these "scammy for profit tech school[s]" are everywhere? Just down the street from my workplace there is a "Tech Skills: School of Technology" which claims they will, for a hefty fee, beat anyone into sys admin shape. A company I used to work for sent me and another manager over to check them out for a possible "post-graduate" hiring process (the school wanted to guarantee X% rate of employment, and we wanted good trained employees). Needless to say, it didn't work out.




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