It’s generally safe to assume that when moving into a new home situated within a major city that internet service will be available. This assumption, however, has proven to be a thorn in the sides of Zach Cohn and his wife, Lauryl Zenobi, a couple that purchased a house in the northern part of Seattle in Summer of 2019. After closing on the property, the two learned that it was the only residence, at least in the immediate area, which had not been integrated into the existing cable infrastructure for high-speed internet.
As first reported by Ars Technica, Cohn came to find out that the adjacent properties in the Northgate neighborhood he had just laid down roots in, were all “wired for Comcast,” after being set up by the ISP’s predecessor decades earlier.
