It wasn't there Thursday. :suspect:
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It wasn't there Thursday. :suspect:
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Nice...no more 56k then?
:D
fiber, nice.
You will love it
Ours freezes up now and then but a lot more channels for less then comcast
Oh man, do want!
Jeremy
How much it that costing? I don't think it's available around my place.
Right now it's only both Kansas Cities, and Provo UT. It's expanding into the KC suburbs and Austin TX starting next year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paul
There's a bigger discussion about this 'somewhere else' :suspect:
Please come back. We miss you. :hugs:
Anyway, it's going to be $125/mo. $120 base plan for gigabit internet + TV and $5 for 2nd TV box. The package includes a Nexus 7 table to work as the TV remote. (There's also normal remotes and the remote app is available to download for iPhone and Android) They also don't "lease" you the same POS hardware for eternity. If we paid for the boxes up front, the rate would be lower. Otherwise we'll pay for them through the initial 2 year term, and when we renew, our rate will be lower because we own the equipment.
https://fiber.google.com/cities/kansascity/plans/
The in-house portion of the install is scheduled for Dec 19 @ 5pm. It's not a 4+ hour window. The installer will be here at 5. Probably a little early based on the experience we had setting my mother in law up with the 5Mbit "free" plan. ($300 install financed over 12 months = free 5 Mbit internet for 7 years)
And the point of that much bandwidth?
That sounds great, I wonder when it will be available in my area. I’m actually getting a pretty good deal right now with cable but it will go up in a year or two. Would be nice to have an alternative to Comcast and Dish.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jeff V.
:hugs: no pants
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Originally Posted by Jeff V.
We miss ya Paul. :)
That is awesome Jeff! I know a number of friends who are excited in Austin. I'm sure it will be in Dallas sooner or later. Looking forward to getting some personal comparisons against FiOS. We have been really happy with our FiOS, but Google is faster and for less, they just need some more channels. :)
-John
By itself, not much. At least it's a symmetrical 1 Gb up and down, rather than the usual cable/DSL bullshit of 15 Mb down 1.2 up, which is what we're getting today. I'd be plenty happy with a 50/50Mbit symmetrical connection. Gigabit is like having a 1000 hp car. Sure it's fun to brag about, but there's almost nowhere you can actually use it :lo5l: I'm pretty excited about getting rid of Time Warner's garbage DVR boxes though.Quote:
And the point of that much bandwidth?
I think the point Google is trying to make is that broadband in this country is a joke, and much, much higher speeds can be provided with a reasonable capital expenditure. We're held back by regional monopolies and duopolies that have virtually zero incentive to innovate and upgrade.
Time Warner's answer to this is 2x1 internet for $14.99/mo. They're pitching it as an 'upgrade' from DSL. Please... :lo5l:
Nice. I am getting 40MB fiber run to the new house soon...
STL needs this. Our only options are dish, ATT in some areas, and Charter. Charter lobbied for some kind of lockout in STL, so they are the only cable company allowed here. Means they can charge whatever they want and good luck getting real service. TV and internet is like $140 a month and price increases yearly unless you keep switching.
exactly, can't wait till the market catches up.Quote:
Originally Posted by anyonebutme
must be nice. damn legal monopolies. all i really want is 50/50/50. 50M up. 50M down. $50/month. and i don't give a flying fuck about tv.
For what it's worth... I have FIOS with TV (most channels, including HBO and Showtime, a DVR that works for the whole house, and a second box), 75/35 (Really get 80down/40up), and home phone line with unlimited calls anywhere in the US for $145/mo (thats with taxes and everything included). I don't think FIOS is that bad of a deal. Also just ran a ping on google.com, getting consistent results of 3.7-3.9ms from my Chromebook, on Wifi.Quote:
Originally Posted by IPD
Kinda curious, as I don't know. I'm in NJ, wonder if when I ping google if it goes to CA, or if they have servers closer to NJ.
You can run a traceroute and get a general idea of where the packets are going. I just did one from my Time Warner connection at home and it looks like it routes out to California. But if I do the same thing from my connection at work, it goes to Chicago. I'd guess Google has some content distribution nodes in various major cities around the country. I'm surprised TW in Kansas City doesn't route to Chicago or Dallas though.
Speaking of FIOS, Verizon has said they're not going to roll that out any further. They're going to focus on mobile options :rolleyes: Gee, could that be because it's easier to gouge mobile users on tiered/capped data plans? It's ridiculous.
AT&T is also making trouble for Google down in Austin, due to some legal BS definitions of a "telecommunications provider". AT&T owns ~20% of the utility poles in Austin. They're legally obligated to allow any telecom provider to attach to those poles at fair market rates. They're trying to say Google isn't a telecom. I guess because Google doesn't offer phone service or some shit. The Austin city government is introducing a proposal to change that definition though. Good for them :lo5l:
Seems Google could counter that argument with their "voice" offering.
Jeremy
I haven't read the legal wording behind AT&Ts complaint, but I suspect it has something to do with being able to provide traditional voice service rather than software based voice-over-IP like Google does. If Google got into that game, they'd have all sorts of new regulatory hassles, as well as needing to provide things like reliable 911 access and systems to connect old POTS phones to the network. I don't blame them for not wanting to go down that road.
Google has some massive class B networks which span the entire country. They have some load balancing and clustering setup as well as region based label switching on MPLS backbones.
2012 MacBook Pro Retina 15"
Built-in wifi
Thunderbolt GigE adapter
WiFi
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3178245765.png
Wired
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3178239246.png
Tests were done using Google Chrome. Interestingly, Firefox and Safari show slower downloads ( only ~840 Mbps :lo5l: ) but faster uploads (~930)
930-950 is about as fast as it'll ever go once you account for protocol overhead and network latency.
Wired to Google's private internal server (Chrome again)
http://result.googlefiber.net/share/19262138.png
Oh, and the TV system is pretty awesome too. :lo5l:
ugh.
i hate you. more correctly i hate the city you're in. I'd be super happy with 30 up and down.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3179007218.png
About as good as it gets for me. Wifi on my Chromebook with FIOS (75/35).
Flash based test
http://www.speedtest.net/result/3179535210.png
non-flash based
http://testmy.net/sFIZjwD.5gwmZ1d.png
Today seems a faster than usual day.