FAQs

If Ghost Comm Fiber is not already in your new location, contact sales@ghostcomm.com to schedule a site survey to determine if we can bring fiber into the building.

We prewire buildings, making them Gigabit ready! We are fully insured and have authorization (by means of a franchise) with Maryland and Washington, D.C. We have a simple step-by-step process that involves: a site survey, constructing fibers from street into the building, and building a fiber optic riser up the building. To get started, simply email sales@ghostcomm.com with information of the proposed property.

Yes, we are currently running a pilot program to provide Gigabit Internet for a few residential buildings in Maryland and Washington, D.C. If your building is interested in participating in the Gigabit pilot program, please have the landord or property manager contact us at sales@ghostcomm.com.

Unfortunately we do not have an agency or referral program at this time. One of the reasons why we are able to provide low-cost services is because we eliminated the potential of a commission from our budget.

No, the services we offer are not to be re-sold or re-billed.

We do not, Ghost Comm Fiber is raw (unfiltered) Gigabit Internet access to the public Internet. There are many over-the-top VoIP & TV services that can work over Ghost Comm Fiber, they include: Vonage, Packet8, Amazon, Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu.

Ghost Comm’s Gigabit Internet connection supports speeds from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps. One gigabit per second (Gbps) is a 1,000 megabits per second (Mbps) connection.

With faster internet speeds you and your colleagues will instantly experience a new perspective to time and increased work productivity. Gigabit Internet is the future.

Ghost Comm has been a local ISP for 20 years operating in Maryland and Washington, D.C. We have the experience providing stable and reliable communications services. We have hundreds of interconnections with regional and global telecoms, and with content providers. We have a fiber network that utilizes the latest in optical glass and photonic technologies. We have the best pricing plans for the highest bandwidth ever offered to businesses in Maryland and Washington, D.C.

With Ghost Comm Fiber, speeds start at 1 Gbps Up/Down and you get your own optical wavelength into our backbone. Our backbone is directly connected to hundreds of Internet networks, thus providing you a swift browsing and communication experience. Other ISPs in Maryland and Washington, D.C typically put multiple business and residential subscribers on the same communication channel all contending for the same bandwidth into and on the service provider backbone.

Email sales@ghostcomm.com with your contact information and the location you are interested in service, and our sales team will get in touch with you typically within one business day.

If Ghost Comm Fiber is already available in your building, the current lead time is between 1 and 5 business days. If Ghost Comm Fiber is not yet in your building, the current lead time is typically within 30 to 90 calendar days.

Yes. Symmetrical bandwidth means that your max upload speed and max download speed are the same.

Ghost Comm’s shared services are intended for small businesses and retailers as a drop-in-replacement for Copper, Cable and FiOS services. It is designed to group up to 16 customer connections on one backbone connection. Compared to other ISPs whose networks were designed to POOL at least 64 customers together, and some even dazy-chain many buildings along one or more street blocks increasing the customers in the pool.

Some businesses applications such as HD video conferencing, streaming and cloud computing may require a certain level of bandwidth or performance consistency in order to function properly.

Your physical interface with our service is RJ45 Gigabit-Ethernet (For Shared or Dedicated Gigital Service). We run singlemode fiber into your office, and provide a fiber optic media converter that provides the RJ45 hand-off. At this point, you can connect a computer/laptop, a router or firewall so long as it has a Gigabit-Ethernet interface. If you require a Gigabit-Ethernet router/firewall, we recommend that you search on Amazon as there are many cost-effective solutions to meet your office needs.

You may configure your office network to connect all the computers (including WiFi routers) to utilize Ghost Comm Fiber. Ghost Comm’s Shared Internet services provide only 1 IP address for the connection. For businesses require additional IP addresses or greater performance, we recommend Ghost Comm’s Dedicated Gigiabit Services.

Yes, we can provide a prefix ranging between /48 and /64-bit.

Yes, we provide a full BGP routing table at no additional charge to any customer network that has its own ASN.

Yes, we support 9K and 10K Jumbo Frames.

One of the advantages with Ghost Comm Fiber is the fact that each business is allocated a unique wavelength that connects the business to our backbone, and we make use of photonic filters that combine and split the wavelengths. This ensures that traffic is separated logically and that customers are unable to snoop for other customer traffic as each customer only receives their own wavelength.

Yes, please see the individual service page for details (e.g., on the Shared Gigabit web page.)

First verify that your equipment has power and is functioning properly, then call us at 1-800-779-6938 or email support@ghostcomm.com and we will run a series of tests to help localize the source of the problem.

In order to localize the issue, first connect a modern (fast) computer/laptop directly to the Ghost Comm Media Converter. Make sure you configure the computer using the static IP address information provided to you, and set the Ethernet port to Gigabit-Ethernet Full-Duplex Mode. You can now run various tools to test performance: speedtest.net or measurementlab.net/tools/ndt. Note that most modern laptops should be able to achieve performance around 500 to 800 Mbps easily without tuning the operating system kernel and/or software. If your test is within this range, then your Ghost Comm Fiber connection is very likely operating fine — if not email us your test results to support@ghostcomm.com so that we can investigate further.

We’re reachable 24/7 via our customer portal and at support@ghostcomm.com. If you need immediate assistance, you can call us at 1-800-779-6938, any time of day.

Depending on the nature and cause of the outage, and pursuant to our SLA, we will properly issue service credits on the monthly invoice following the time of the incident.

Your first invoice will be sent electronically to your designated billing contact after activation of your service. It will include installation fee, security deposit, monthly fee(s) and any other service fees as specified on your order form. There may also be a pro-rated monthly fee if your service is activated in the middle of the month. After then you will receive electronic invoices from us monthly. Monthly invoices are Net 30 terms.

We accept ACH or check payments. When ACH (Epay) is setup, we will automatically perform a ACH debit from your bank account 25 days from Invoice Date.

Internet and dark fiber services are currently non-taxable, per FCC guidelines. Transparent LAN Service (TLS) are subject to Federal, State and City taxes.

Yes. Our installation fee is generally between $500 to $3,000. When you make a request for service, we will let you know the estimated installation cost based on our survey of the building.

In-building fees are not common. In the case a building charges us a fee to service the building, such fees will be re-billed to its tenant. In case you are looking to relocate, in-building fee is another question to ask your commercial real estate broker.

Yes, our services are quite competitive regardless of the term you select when comparing to other dedicated ISP options. Our contract terms are typically 12 or 24 month contract terms. If for any reason you need to cancel service prior to the end of the contract term, you have the choice to pay 80 percent of the remaining months or pay back the savings you accumulated compared to a shorter term contract.

To modify or cancel your service with Ghost Comm, please contact customer support by email support@ghostcomm.com.