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General Discussion => Essentially Flyertalk => Topic started by: 06wildcat on July 26, 2012, 12:12:20 PM
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Would almost make KCK liveable.
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I'm pretty interested to see what types of jobs will be opening with Google here. They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
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No ESPN channels with the TV option. Still pretty ELITE though.
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They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
lol
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I'm pretty interested to see what types of jobs will be opening with Google here. They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
yeah, like google is going to put up with you being late all the time.
"but boss, my saturn wouldn't start!"
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it's also going to be in kcmo
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I'll be downloading this to our server, just an FYI
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I'll be downloading this to our server, just an FYI
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wow, I would kill for this. why kck but not joco :frown: dammit.
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wow, I would kill for this. why kck but not joco :frown: dammit.
move
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wow, I would kill for this. why kck but not joco :frown: dammit.
I think the plan is to eventually build it out. How fast that happens will probably be determined by demand and how much the big ISPs decide to start rough ridin' with caps.
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If I were in the area and I was poor I'd even switch. 5mbps for $25.00 a month for a year, then free for up to 6 years? That's a pretty sweet deal. I imagine quite a few people will switch from Time Warner just because of this.
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I'm pretty interested to see what types of jobs will be opening with Google here. They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
yeah, like google is going to put up with you being late all the time.
"but boss, my saturn wouldn't start!"
yup fanning, get in line now buddy because google is about to go on a massive hiring tear throughout KC. hear me now and believe me later. tons of jobs to be had at google KC chapter.
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I'm pretty interested to see what types of jobs will be opening with Google here. They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
oh man
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wow, I would kill for this. why kck but not joco :frown: dammit.
move
I would rather kill.
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I'm pretty interested to see what types of jobs will be opening with Google here. They've gotta have something for MBA grads. :gocho:
yeah, like google is going to put up with you being late all the time.
"but boss, my saturn wouldn't start!"
yup fanning, get in line now buddy because google is about to go on a massive hiring tear throughout KC. hear me now and believe me later. tons of jobs to be had at google KC chapter.
:thumbs: and also soon to be :kstategrad:
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they just added ESPN to their cable package. :dance:
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they just added ESPN to their cable package. :dance:
ESPN and NFL network? Yes Please.
RIP Time Warner KC.
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they just added ESPN to their cable package. :dance:
great news! i can't wait. imagine how great my ping will be when i'm playing MW3? me guesses me will be the host everytime me plays? :D
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also longhorn network.
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no AMC as of right now. sorry, jakesie.
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they just added ESPN to their cable package. :dance:
where are you seeing this? their website does not list espn right now
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http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/google-fiber-tv-abc-espn-disney/ (http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/12/google-fiber-tv-abc-espn-disney/)
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:thumbs:
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Wait, no FOX?
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Still missing are several big Time Warner properties including HBO, CNN and TNT and News Corp.'s FX and Fox News.
the wrath of shitty time warner
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Still missing are several big Time Warner properties including HBO, CNN and TNT and News Corp.'s FX and Fox News.
the wrath of shitty time warner
just know that it's not the same time Warner that owns the cable company. fwiw my fiber hood is one of the first going live
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How long before this makes it up to St. Joe? :drool:
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How long before this makes it up to St. Joe? :drool:
probably never
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fwiw my fiber hood is one of the first going live
is this a guess or what
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fwiw my fiber hood is one of the first going live
Must feel good.
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fwiw my fiber hood is one of the first going live
is this a guess or what
i just figured it would be. but it sounds like they're doing some KS crapfest neighborhood first.
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/
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fwiw my fiber hood is one of the first going live
is this a guess or what
i just figured it would be. but it sounds like they're doing some KS crapfest neighborhood first.
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/
Fall 2013 for me :flush:
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same. that's ok, still years ahead of anyone else, right? it's next fall!
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It will be interesting to see if this accelerates other FTTP networks.
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i doubt it. there's a lot of reasons why the monopoly has existed so long in so many parts of the country.
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Suck it, bitches.
Thanks for choosing your plan
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yeah i'm jealous. my fiberhood blows.
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I can throw a rock into the Westwood fiber hood from my house but no fiber hoods in Fairway. :cry:
Thanks to Surewest no more TW monopoly though. :dance:
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I can throw a rock into the Westwood fiber hood from my house but no fiber hoods in Fairway. :cry:
Thanks to Surewest no more TW monopoly though. :dance:
they've already announced that they're moving into Fairway, Westwood, and Westwood Hills.
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I can throw a rock into the Westwood fiber hood from my house but no fiber hoods in Fairway. :cry:
Thanks to Surewest no more TW monopoly though. :dance:
they've already announced that they're moving into Fairway, Westwood, and Westwood Hills.
You sure about Fairway? I heard about Westwood and Mission woods. I typed in my address and it said no dice. :sad:
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aah crap, sorry, no fairway. :( YET
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Suck it, bitches.
Thanks for choosing your plan
We are looking forward to bringing Google Fiber to your home. SUMMER 2013 is our current estimate for construction in your fiberhood. We'll keep you updated as we make progress and contact you when we come to your area.
You can review, switch, or cancel your plan at any time before we start construction in your fiberhood. Simply click on the Change Your Plan button below, and log in with your Google user name and password.
We look forward to bringing you 100 times faster internet and 100 times the possibilities.
Thanks,
The Google Fiber Team
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summer 2013 isn't good you dumbass, thats 26th-46th place.
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Suck it, bitches.
Thanks for choosing your plan
We are looking forward to bringing Google Fiber to your home. SUMMER 2013 is our current estimate for construction in your fiberhood. We'll keep you updated as we make progress and contact you when we come to your area.
You can review, switch, or cancel your plan at any time before we start construction in your fiberhood. Simply click on the Change Your Plan button below, and log in with your Google user name and password.
We look forward to bringing you 100 times faster internet and 100 times the possibilities.
Thanks,
The Google Fiber Team
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summer 2013 isn't good you dumbass, thats 26th-46th place.
I don't live in KCK.
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http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424127887323869604578371050381148748-lMyQjAxMTAzMDEwOTExNDkyWj.html
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This sucks. Dog SF can crap in a fiberhood yard on a short walk, but I don't have it yet and they are going to Olathe???
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that's pretty badass
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(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fsphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net%2Fhphotos-ash3%2F734307_10151498147594507_817457732_n.jpg&hash=9cb1d25947cf8a2331d39e59912e5732d60bf487)
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UH OH BUTT HURT POLICE!!! omg :lol:
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UH OH BUTT HURT POLICE!!! omg :lol:
got it from some guy from Topeka that lives in like Tampa Bay :lol:
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Nope, checked, Sarasota :lol:
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Nope, checked, Sarasota :lol:
Population of Sarasota, FL = 51,917
Population of Olathe, KS = 125,872
:lol:
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Olathe is no long indian for "duplex."
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Olathe is no long indian for "duplex."
english?
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Nope, checked, Sarasota :lol:
Population of Sarasota, FL = 51,917
Population of Olathe, KS = 125,872
:lol:
And of those 52k people only 2,500 are young enough to understand what the Internet is outside of AOL.
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Bet Olathecat is all :shakesfist: at Sarasota guy buy also :cool: because of Fiber.
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Nope, checked, Sarasota :lol:
is that what happened to Saul?
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reddit is totally butthurt about it.
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reddit is totally butthurt about it.
Does he live in my neighborhood?
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When Westwood becomes a Fiberhood in Summer 2013 I'm going to so stick it to Time Warner.
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I googled "fiber". Now what?
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I googled "fiber". Now what?
That's all you have to do. They will call you for an appt shortly.
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reddit is totally butthurt about it.
Does he live in my neighborhood?
yes
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omaha internets!
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/01/gigabit-internet-centurylink-omaha-nebraska/
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omaha internets!
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/01/gigabit-internet-centurylink-omaha-nebraska/
$150 a month for standalone service
:lol:
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Why is a $150 a month funny?
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I am going to contact the Overland Park Mayor
Contact the Mayor
When the mayor is not in his office, his executive assistant can help with:
Scheduling appointments;
Proclamation requests;
Ceremonial duties such as dedications, grand openings, ribbon cuttings, and welcomes for groups meeting in Overland Park;
Acknowledging achievements of Scouts; and
Inquiries regarding appointments to city boards and commissions.
Mailing address
City Hall
8500 Santa Fe Dr.
Overland Park, KS 66212
913-895-6000
I am going to ask him to be a ceremonial guest at our event called "WHY THE eff DOES OLATHE GET GOOGLE FIBER AND WE DON'T, GOD DAMNIT 2013"
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Why is a $150 a month funny?
Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink.
What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos). Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.
It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell. They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".
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Why is a $150 a month funny?
Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink. It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell.
Because Google is going to come back and want to sell a whole bunch of additional content. If you bundle with CTL, the 1 Gig is only $80 bucks a month. Consider that on the Enterprise side 1 Gig runs about $800 to $1200 or more a month and that's from a whole list of Telecom's and Cable Companies etc. etc.
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Google with TV is $120, still cheaper than data only from CenturyLink.
Enterprise pricing and service is different than consumer. And "ISP costs" have to be taken with a giant grain of salt, these are the companies that take broadband building grants from the feds and line their pockets with them.
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Why is a $150 a month funny?
Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink.
What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos). Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.
It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell. They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".
google's business model is much different than a traditional ISP. they're more a marketing sales company than an ISP. their cost model is subsidized very differently.
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Google with TV is $120, still cheaper than data only from CenturyLink.
Enterprise pricing and service is different than consumer. And "ISP costs" have to be taken with a giant grain of salt, these are the companies that take broadband building grants from the feds and line their pockets with them.
Uh, you don't have to tell me this SPC, I understand it completely, and the broadband grants are pretty much a joke, and only cover a fraction of the actual costs involved, if they're even available at all to companies like CTL.
It all goes back to what I've been saying, companies like Google are not "Carriers of Last Resort" and thus do not have the same cost models and regulatory requirements. They can come in and cherry pick the most lucrative potential markets and ignore others entirely and will have no repercussions whatsoever in doing so.
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Why is a $150 a month funny?
Because Google Fiber is only $70 for the same service, less than half of CenturyLink.
What will happen is barely anyone in Omaha will go for the service at that price, CenturyLink will point to the low signup numbers and proclaim that see, we were right, the average consumer doesn't want this "high end" service and will cancel all their plans to rollout fiber in other areas, which is what upper management wants because the upfront costs (CenturyLink is the old Sprint local telcos). Then later they will scratch their heads as Google expands into even more markets.
It's the establishment ISPs in a nutshell. They have decades of monopoly utility thinking still sitting in management so they're still averse to the concepts of "competition", "vision" and "risk".
google's business model is much different than a traditional ISP. they're more a marketing sales company than an ISP. their cost model is subsidized very differently.
That's what the mobile phone market said a few years ago.
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non sequiturs aside, if you don't think that google can offer sub-market rates on broadband internet service because they're selling all of the information that they collect from you using their internet and television service to marketing companies, and then using that revenue to offset any potential loss they sustain from the internet/tv business, then you're dumb
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non sequiturs aside, if you don't think that google can offer sub-market rates on broadband internet service because they're selling all of the information that they collect from you using their internet and television service to marketing companies, and then using that revenue to offset any potential loss they sustain from the internet/tv business, then you're dumb
Here you go advertisers:
-Green Egg recipes
-Video games
-Porn
I have given you all the data you need on Clams, please send me $20.
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hey, pete. when i get google fiber do you wanna come over and play with my tablet remote thing and maybe watch some boob tube?
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hey, pete. when i get google fiber do you wanna come over and play with my tablet remote thing and maybe watch some boob tube?
I have sent two sternly worded emails to Overland Park officials lately, I am going to up my volume.
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hey, pete. when i get google fiber do you wanna come over and play with my tablet remote thing and maybe watch some boob tube?
I have sent two sternly worded emails to Overland Park officials lately, I am going to up my volume.
you might try getting someone who has some major pull around OP to help back you, like Johnny Rowlands.
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non sequiturs aside, if you don't think that google can offer sub-market rates on broadband internet service because they're selling all of the information that they collect from you using their internet and television service to marketing companies, and then using that revenue to offset any potential loss they sustain from the internet/tv business, then you're dumb
I'm dumb. :cheers:
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Sorry, OP http://www.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/ShawneeCMS.nsf/vwNews/2D87A96B47778D1686257B5F0079CFF1?OpenDocument
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congrats to Grandview, MO. the latest place to get this thing or whatever.
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GRATS TO JOSH'S PARENTS!
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They are way behind on installation.
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They are way behind on installation.
yes. this prob belongs in the "ideas/inventions" thread but if you need money, learn to be a contractor for google fiber. they're about down to hiring dudes from home depot parking lots.
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Sorry, OP http://www.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/ShawneeCMS.nsf/vwNews/2D87A96B47778D1686257B5F0079CFF1?OpenDocument
I actually got into a back-and-forth with the OP Mayor's office about this. Sternly worded emails were written.
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Sorry, OP http://www.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/ShawneeCMS.nsf/vwNews/2D87A96B47778D1686257B5F0079CFF1?OpenDocument
I actually got into a back-and-forth with the OP Mayor's office about this. Sternly worded emails were written.
hop into your sent box and lets see them, tia
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Sorry, OP http://www.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/ShawneeCMS.nsf/vwNews/2D87A96B47778D1686257B5F0079CFF1?OpenDocument
I actually got into a back-and-forth with the OP Mayor's office about this. Sternly worded emails were written.
hop into your sent box and lets see them, tia
Funny you mentioned that....they just responded to another email from me and said that I should check out the KC star article from Friday, in which they note that Google regularly requires cities to agree to a non-disclosure during negotiations.....I took it to mean they are negotiating with Google right now.
Here's the article http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/03/4216254/raytown-latest-city-promised-google.html#storylink=misearch
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Send them a picture of your hog, Pete.
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Sorry, OP http://www.cityofshawnee.org/WEB/ShawneeCMS.nsf/vwNews/2D87A96B47778D1686257B5F0079CFF1?OpenDocument
I actually got into a back-and-forth with the OP Mayor's office about this. Sternly worded emails were written.
hop into your sent box and lets see them, tia
Funny you mentioned that....they just responded to another email from me and said that I should check out the KC star article from Friday, in which they note that Google regularly requires cities to agree to a non-disclosure during negotiations.....I took it to mean they are negotiating with Google right now.
Here's the article http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/03/4216254/raytown-latest-city-promised-google.html#storylink=misearch
threaten to narc them out for disclosing too much info
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On my front door
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'grats, lsoc
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So what percentage of KCK has this installed by now? Want to know the timeline for when the Austin build out starts next year. :dance:
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So what percentage of KCK has this installed by now? Want to know the timeline for when the Austin build out starts next year. :dance:
kc has nothing to do w/ it. google subcontracts it all out- which hasn't been going so great for them in the kc market
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So what percentage of KCK has this installed by now? Want to know the timeline for when the Austin build out starts next year. :dance:
kc has nothing to do w/ it. google subcontracts it all out- which hasn't been going so great for them in the kc market
I get that. I'm assuming that they are going to have the same kind of delays in Austin. I'm trying to get an idea of how long it's going to take to cover the area once they get going.
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Buddy got it Thursday. It's fine...nothing super cool. (still super pissed I'm in the only downtown neighborhood that didn't pre-qualify)
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On my front door
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Interested in splitting a cable bill in exchange for hosting a slingbox?
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Will they have fox1?
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Will they have fox1?
yes, speed will become fox sports1 and speed is currently on Google Fiber. Are you going to have it by the Ndsu game?
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You are now chatting with Courtney
Courtney: Hi! Thank you for contacting Google Fiber. How can I help?
alex: courtney. where is my fiber?
alex: ** e **rd st 64114
Courtney: Let me find it for you, just a moment
alex: your install guy came and hit my puppy with a heavy throw line 2 weeks ago, and i still dont have it. itd be easier to forgive him if I had some sweet, sweet fiber
alex: i mean, a PUPPY
Courtney: Oh my gosh! I am terribly sorry about that! Let me check on what is going on in your area.
Courtney: Looks like we are in the process of installing the outside boxes in your area. As soon as this is completed we will give you a call to schedule the installation of services inside your home.
alex: last lady told me it was the weather. pleeeease dont say the weather
alex: how soon we talking, id like to make sure my puppy is inside so your guy cant go beating her again
alex: ?
Courtney: Unfortunately I do not have an exact date as of now...
Please note: A record of this conversation may be retained for training purposes and to improve our service.
You are now chatting with James
James: Hi! Thank you for contacting Google Fiber. How can I help?
alex: can i schedule can i schedule can i schedule
alex: ****homes north
alex: its imperitive that i be the first customer in my fiberhood
alex: imperitive
alex: imperative, rather
James: We aren't yet scheduling installations in the ***** Homes North fiberhood. The deadline to register for service is 6/27. After that, construction begins. Construction includes finishing any infrastructure construction, running the fiber to the outside of all the houses that registered, then finally scheduling the in-home installation. The outside installations will start by late July. The in-home installations will start by mid August.
alex: well thats terrible news
alex: thanks james
alex: do you show that im registered though?
James: You're welcome. Is there anything else I can help with today?
alex: **********@gmail.com ### E ##rd St. 64114
James: I do show that you're registered at ### E $$rd St
alex: fair enough. just go ahead and make sure that my house is red-flagged for vip/first install status
James: We'll do our best!
alex: youre tough, james. thanks again
James: You're welcome. Have a great day!
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:D
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Fiber to Prairie Village. :thumbsup:
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WHERE'S MY FIBER
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Will they have fox1?
yes, speed will become fox sports1 and speed is currently on Google Fiber. Are you going to have it by the Ndsu game?
i don't know. it will be close. they sent an email saying they're behind.
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You are now chatting with Sherry
Sherry: Hi! Thank you for contacting Google Fiber. My name is Sherry. How can I help you today?
alex: sherry. im dying over here
Sherry: I'm sorry about that Alex.
Sherry: How can I help you?
alex: i thought you would know...
alex: i just took delivery of my 70" tv and you guys are stonewalling me on an install date
alex: i. just. want. some. fiber.
alex: 410 * **rd ***
alex: guy came and ran more lines last friday adn said it would be really soon
Sherry: Thanks! Give me one moment to look this up for you.
Sherry: Guess what, Alex?
Sherry: We're ready to schedule your installation.
Sherry: Alex, are you there still?
alex: yes
alex: yes y
alex: yes
alex: sheesh
alex: panic
alex: woohoo!
Sherry: Panic?
alex: i thought youd left
alex: can you be there in 15 minutes?
Sherry: I've got appointments available this week at either 8 am or 1 pm.
alex: 1pm today?
Sherry: I may be able to get a tech out at 1 pm today.
alex: Sherry. Can I take you out for a steak dinner?
Sherry: lol
Sherry: Give me a minute to check with my dispatch office.
alex: Can I be the first install in my neighborhood? Barring that, can you tell everyone else in the neighborhood I was first? This detail is imperative.
Sherry: lol
Sherry: Okay, I've got a 1 pm spot for you for today. I have a few questions I need to ask you.
alex: are you vetting me for our steak dinner?
Sherry: No! I'm trying to get you some fiber.....
alex: dang. fair enough. ask away
Sherry: You'll be home for the installation? Or will someone else? What is the best number for the tech to call when he's on his way, and I need to make sure you will be able to access your google fiber account during the installation.
alex: i will. 913*******. and i will.
Sherry: Okay, Alex, I have all the info I need.
alex: im blowing you internet kisses
Sherry: Is there anything else I can help you with today?
alex: nope! A++ customer service. they should keep you around. even if you don't like steak...
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:lol:
i saw a fiber truck on my street for the first time yesterday. :crossfingers:
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:lol:
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sherry is going to regret this missed opportunity for the rest of her life
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that is probably my favorite post ever
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is BigWillie actually alex? way more charming as alex for sure.
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I think if T1BW used his google fiber chat persona on message boards, he'd be a much more memorable poster.
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Well right now we're all wondering if he was the big Willie or the other Willie. Stellar move by Willie though because now he's Google Fiber Willie.
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I think if T1BW used his google fiber chat persona on message boards, he'd be a much more memorable poster.
or the persona of that facebook girl with the mites who can't get a date
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I think if T1BW used his google fiber chat persona on message boards, he'd be a much more memorable poster.
i didn't even detect a hint of racism from alex, either
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I think if T1BW used his google fiber chat persona on message boards, he'd be a much more memorable poster.
i didn't even detect a hint of racism from alex, either
Fact- Alex is a quasi minority and BigWillie is super jelly of him and his google fiber
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Well right now we're all wondering if he was the racist big Willie or the other Willie. Stellar move by Willie though because now he's Google Fiber Willie.
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They ran fiber to my house today. Took about a month after they hung it on the telephone poles.
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You are now chatting with Sherry
Sherry: Hi! Thank you for contacting Google Fiber. My name is Sherry. How can I help you today?
alex: Sherry!
alex: Pew pew!
Alex has his fiber. Pew Pew is the noise he makes playing FPS games on his new fiber. Very jealous of Alex and Pew Pew.
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as good as advertised. :dance:
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as good as advertised. :dance:
Have you done a back 2 back comparo to the over the air signal with football yet?
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as good as advertised. :dance:
Have you done a back 2 back comparo to the over the air signal with football yet?
lol wut?
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as good as advertised. :dance:
Have you done a back 2 back comparo to the over the air signal with football yet?
lol wut?
lol OTA n00b
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as good as advertised. :dance:
Have you done a back 2 back comparo to the over the air signal with football yet?
lol wut?
basically, hook up some rabbit ears and flip between your TV's built in tuner watching ABC and the google fiber ABC channel during UGA @ Clemson on Saturday night. When the camera pans for a long pass or a punt, does the picture fall apart and get "grainy"?
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as good as advertised. :dance:
I get it next Friday. A guy from work has had it for a few months and says its incredibly overrated. I'm more excited about the TV than the Internet. There are times when Time Warner's signal is lacking and it pisses me off, hopefully that will be a thing of the past. Also Time Warner's DVR is garbage.
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as good as advertised. :dance:
I get it next Friday. A guy from work has had it for a few months and says its incredibly overrated. I'm more excited about the TV than the Internet. There are times when Time Warner's signal is lacking and it pisses me off, hopefully that will be a thing of the past. Also Time Warner's DVR is garbage.
right, i should clarify. i had time warner and the internet was fine. occasionally an illegal stream would take forever to download but other than that i had no complaints. fiber internet does seem faster, who knows how much. i think you have to have a special computer or device to really experience the full capacity of the 1GB that they advertise. i have a macbook and the speedtest.net results are only marginally better than what they were with time warner.
what i love is the cable. the ability to record 8 shows at once, the basically unlimited storage space, the user interface is great. the nexus tablet is great. anything you select to record is viewable on any tv connected to the network (that's not groundbreaking technology but i hadn't had it yet so it's awesome). it just beats the hell out of what i had with time warner, and i'm not paying much more than i was before.
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Fiber is effing up about every downtown street they can find.
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Got another email from the OP folks
I am providing a link to Monday's City Council agenda. The second item listed includes a proposed agreement with Google Fiber - http://apps.opkansas.org/City-Government/Agendas-and-Minutes/City-Council/Agendas/2013/2013-09-16/agenda.html
ACTION ITEM
Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure
Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement
Policy Issue: Should the Governing Body approve the Google Network Services Agreement and
related License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement?
Staff Recommendation: NA
Background: Google Fiber Kansas has requested the City enter into a Network Services
Agreement, License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
City Attorney, Mike Santos and legal counsel, Todd LaSala, have provided an Executive
Summary regarding the documents that is attached.
Budget Impact: Unknown
Attachments:
- Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure Attachment
and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
- Executive Summary
:pray:
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Got another email from the OP folks
I am providing a link to Monday's City Council agenda. The second item listed includes a proposed agreement with Google Fiber - http://apps.opkansas.org/City-Government/Agendas-and-Minutes/City-Council/Agendas/2013/2013-09-16/agenda.html
ACTION ITEM
Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure
Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement
Policy Issue: Should the Governing Body approve the Google Network Services Agreement and
related License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement?
Staff Recommendation: NA
Background: Google Fiber Kansas has requested the City enter into a Network Services
Agreement, License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
City Attorney, Mike Santos and legal counsel, Todd LaSala, have provided an Executive
Summary regarding the documents that is attached.
Budget Impact: Unknown
Attachments:
- Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure Attachment
and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
- Executive Summary
:pray:
Sweet infant baby Jesus wrapped in white cloth let Google Fiber come to OP! If that actually goes through and gets announced, I might have to consult Steve Dave in order to have the public indecency charges dropped for streaking through the streets in joy.
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as good as advertised. :dance:
yeah, its pretty insane
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I would be interested in Kstate hd review after the game
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Not having AMC is starting to piss me off
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http://www.kansascity.com/2013/09/17/4488800/google-fiber-deal-with-overland.html
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SD and Trim,
For the love of all things purple and white, put your heads together and lawyer up to get these city councilmen to vote yes. I have no idea how this will be accomplished, but I have full faith in you guys. :crossfingers:
Sincerely,
A very pissed off resident and Slime Warner customer...
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Not having AMC is starting to piss me off
did you get the Umass game on Saturday night? If so,how was the picture quality?
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SD and Trim,
For the love of all things purple and white, put your heads together and lawyer up to get these city councilmen to vote yes. I have no idea how this will be accomplished, but I have full faith in you guys. :crossfingers:
Sincerely,
A very pissed off resident and Slime Warner customer...
yes sd, this is going to really require you to be the best lawyer you ever have been, but get it done
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SD and Trim,
For the love of all things purple and white, put your heads together and lawyer up to get these city councilmen to vote yes. I have no idea how this will be accomplished, but I have full faith in you guys. :crossfingers:
Sincerely,
A very pissed off resident and Slime Warner customer...
not that kind of lawyer, or any other kind
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you can't fight it, you're a great lawyer and you've sworn your service to the law.
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Ben Ji's got a lawyer buddy who does the negotiations between Google and all the local cities in the metro.
Basically each city that allows google fiber to come in gets like 2% of each customers bill for allowing google to come in and tear up the city putting the fiber in.
Overland Park keeps asking for 4% and Google is all like "You cereal bro? Well I guess we will just sign up every other city in the metro"
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Good for OP, Google will just get everyone hooked and then start raising rates
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Not having AMC is starting to piss me off
did you get the Umass game on Saturday night? If so,how was the picture quality?
It was not HD quality. You can have the fastest Internet in the world and it doesn't matter if the source of the signal is limited. A lot of people don't seem to realize that.
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Good for OP, Google will just get everyone hooked and then start raising rates
yup competition is an inhibitor to competition
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Lenexa :drool:
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SD and Trim,
For the love of all things purple and white, put your heads together and lawyer up to get these city councilmen to vote yes. I have no idea how this will be accomplished, but I have full faith in you guys. :crossfingers:
Sincerely,
A very pissed off resident and Slime Warner customer...
not that kind of lawyer, or any other kind
Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
...and it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! What the eff happened to the Steve Dave I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Shell Shock, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. OP City Council, they're dead men!
This city needs change and we're just the guys to do it!
LET'S DO IT!!
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SD and Trim,
For the love of all things purple and white, put your heads together and lawyer up to get these city councilmen to vote yes. I have no idea how this will be accomplished, but I have full faith in you guys. :crossfingers:
Sincerely,
A very pissed off resident and Slime Warner customer...
not that kind of lawyer, or any other kind
Over? Did you say over? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
...and it ain't over now. 'Cause when the goin' gets tough...the tough get goin'! Who's with me? Let's go! What the eff happened to the Steve Dave I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Shell Shock, we might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this. OP City Council, they're dead men!
This city needs change and we're just the guys to do it!
LET'S DO IT!!
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi1346.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp684%2FThe_Big_Train%2FLets-do-demotivational-meme1_zps5bc8136d.jpg&hash=4542f7cec47cd4ba533d49572b9126561cd98bb1)
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I don't really care much about GF other than I'd love to have even more competition in OP. Between TW, SW, uverse, and GF (not to mention sat) they'll practically be giving it away. It's good to live in a first world city.
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I fired off another email.
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Fairway just approved. :party:
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Any word on Google Fiber and Overland Park since they delayed it last month??
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Any word on Google Fiber and Overland Park since they delayed it last month??
PETE?!
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Good for OP, Google will just get everyone hooked and then start raising rates
yup competition is an inhibitor to competition
There's a reason why other various media providers require its long term users to have to proactively call in and request to get the discounts and have huge "win back" and "retention" groups. In most cases those "deals" are not given until they are asked for.
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http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/25/4575335/momentary-stall-in-overland-park.html (http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/25/4575335/momentary-stall-in-overland-park.html)
Lawyers gonna lawyer, amiright?
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Ben Ji's got a lawyer buddy who does the negotiations between Google and all the local cities in the metro.
Basically each city that allows google fiber to come in gets like 2% of each customers bill for allowing google to come in and tear up the city putting the fiber in.
Overland Park keeps asking for 4% and Google is all like "You cereal bro? Well I guess we will just sign up every other city in the metro"
It would appear your buddy is full of crap.
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Ben Ji's got a lawyer buddy who does the negotiations between Google and all the local cities in the metro.
Basically each city that allows google fiber to come in gets like 2% of each customers bill for allowing google to come in and tear up the city putting the fiber in.
Overland Park keeps asking for 4% and Google is all like "You cereal bro? Well I guess we will just sign up every other city in the metro"
It would appear your buddy is full of crap.
Regardless, OP needs to just buck up and quit acting superior for the sake of acting superior. Someone is padding the council's pockets on this one guys...
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I especially like the OP City Council's "Oh crap" moment after the fact.
Mayor Carl Gerlach said the council was surprised by Google's call for an indefinite delay at the Oct. 14 meeting. Still, the council pointedly passed a resolution calling for Google Fiber to set up shop in the city.
"Overland Park wants Google Fiber," Gerlach said this week. "the City Council is ready to sign on the dotted line. ... We're willing to wait as long as it takes."
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Surewest are all :cheers:.
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I especially like the OP City Council's "Oh crap" moment after the fact.
Mayor Carl Gerlach said the council was surprised by Google's call for an indefinite delay at the Oct. 14 meeting. Still, the council pointedly passed a resolution calling for Google Fiber to set up shop in the city.
"Overland Park wants Google Fiber," Gerlach said this week. "the City Council is ready to sign on the dotted line. ... We're willing to wait as long as it takes."
Meanwhile, Time Warner and Surewest are all :cheers:.
And the city council members are like :kstategrad: counting the money that their pockets are stuffed with...
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Ben Ji's got a lawyer buddy who does the negotiations between Google and all the local cities in the metro.
Basically each city that allows google fiber to come in gets like 2% of each customers bill for allowing google to come in and tear up the city putting the fiber in.
Overland Park keeps asking for 4% and Google is all like "You cereal bro? Well I guess we will just sign up every other city in the metro"
It would appear your buddy is full of crap.
This information was relayed to me while binging down at the zarks, maybe I heard him wrong?
Doesn't matter, 1cat.
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Thanks libtards :curse:
How Kansas Won the Google Fiber Jackpot And Why California Never Will (http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/08/04/how-kansas-won-the-google-fiber-jackpot-and-why-california-never-will/)
“Google is a big believer in protecting the environment for future generations, but certain types of state and local environmental rules make investment very difficult,” he explained. ” Laws like the California Environmental Quality Act can make it prohibitively expensive for companies to invest in new projects, such as our fiber project, within California.
“ Many fine California city proposals for the Google Fiber project were ultimately passed over in part because of the regulatory complexity here brought about by CEQA and other rules. Other states have equivalent processes in place to protect the environment without causing such harm to business processes, and therefore create incentives for new services to be deployed there instead.”
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Thanks libtards :curse:
How Kansas Won the Google Fiber Jackpot And Why California Never Will (http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseackerman/2012/08/04/how-kansas-won-the-google-fiber-jackpot-and-why-california-never-will/)
“Google is a big believer in protecting the environment for future generations, but certain types of state and local environmental rules make investment very difficult,” he explained. ” Laws like the California Environmental Quality Act can make it prohibitively expensive for companies to invest in new projects, such as our fiber project, within California.
“ Many fine California city proposals for the Google Fiber project were ultimately passed over in part because of the regulatory complexity here brought about by CEQA and other rules. Other states have equivalent processes in place to protect the environment without causing such harm to business processes, and therefore create incentives for new services to be deployed there instead.”
Exactly. I heard from a lawyer buddy of mine who does all the negotiations with Google that Kansas City went in just the opposite direction. For every 1000 feet of fiber installed, we agree to club one baby seal. Love living in a red state. It's not Texas, but close enough.
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Ben Ji's got a lawyer buddy who does the negotiations between Google and all the local cities in the metro.
Basically each city that allows google fiber to come in gets like 2% of each customers bill for allowing google to come in and tear up the city putting the fiber in.
Overland Park keeps asking for 4% and Google is all like "You cereal bro? Well I guess we will just sign up every other city in the metro"
It would appear your buddy is full of crap.
This information was relayed to me while binging down at the zarks, maybe I heard him wrong?
Doesn't matter, 1cat.
Maybe he was binging and wanted to sound like a big shot?
yup, #1cat
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Google Fiber proposal is on the table tonight for Overland Park, at the City Council meeting. (see link below under City Manager Bill Ebel). The City Manager is recommending to the Mayor and Council that it be approved.
http://apps.opkansas.org/City-Government/Agendas-and-Minutes/City-Council/Agendas/2014/2014-07-07/agenda.html
If you know a Councilman, encourage them to approve it. Or email the Mayor at [email protected]
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how are people enjoying their fiber?
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Need to know if it's worth it to switch. They recently installed all the fiber in my neighborhood. They tore the living crap out of everyone's yard and blocked every road, it was an enormous mess. I'm pretty happy with SureWest tv and internet speed, how is the fiber TV service?
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how are people enjoying their fiber?
my tenants love it
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Need to know if it's worth it to switch. They recently installed all the fiber in my neighborhood. They tore the living crap out of everyone's yard and blocked every road, it was an enormous mess. I'm pretty happy with SureWest tv and internet speed, how is the fiber TV service?
Can't speak to the service, but yes, they tear the crap out of a neighborhood. They did it to my old one days before I left.
The crew descended upon the subdivision like a bunch of locusts. There were about 6-10 crews working 10-12 hour shifts. They had it done in about three days, and they moved on.
All things considered, the crew that installed Time Warner in our old neighborhood was much, much more sloppy and took much longer. But, yes, they'll dig a bunch of holes in your yard.
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how are people enjoying their fiber?
I work with a couple of people who live on the plaza who had pretty bad install experiences, but love the speed. One guy is a pretty big torrent user, and it has been great for him. Mixed reviews on the cable, apparently it didn't have AMC or something like that, and so they could watch zombies.
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It doesn't have AMC which sucked.
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It doesn't have AMC which sucked.
but man oh man I bet it's great when they stream it on netflix
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century link laid fiber in omaha but it's like a million dollars a month I think.
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century link laid fiber in omaha but it's like a million dollars a month I think.
That's a lot of credit card points.
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Thinking about going to GF. One question, do they have FS1? I don't see it on the channel list, and that worries me.
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century link laid fiber in omaha but it's like a million dollars a month I think.
sounds major small timey. wait for Google.
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Thinking about going to GF. One question, do they have FS1? I don't see it on the channel list, and that worries me.
they have it, ch 207
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Passed unanimously!!!!
Overland Park is getting the fibes, bitches!
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I heard someone installed a virus on the google fiber network, just an FYI.
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and no hbo go. but. does have longhorn network.
:dunno:
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pete will leave OP the day fiber comes. the next day, Texas will go independent
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and no hbo go. but. does have longhorn network.
:dunno:
My downtown hood is about to get it...struggling with no remote DVR programming feature that I can find....nor AMC.
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that's weird, seems like it would be super pud for them to add that feature. i could prob do it in MS DOS :lol:
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my downtown loft has google fiber and amc and remote dvr and the best farmers market around
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my downtown loft has google fiber and amc and remote dvr and the best farmers market around
What's ur pizza situation?
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What's ur pizza situation?
oh man, funny you should ask that. they renamed my hood "pizza u" and gave me a golden key
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That's a pretty dope hood
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my downtown loft has google fiber and amc and remote dvr and the best farmers market around
:dunno:
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Is the Google TV pretty kick ass? Having a hard time deciding to buy out my current contract and go with something more expensive.
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re: HBO Go. HBO is staring a Netflix type streaming service, independent of HBO channel subscription, starting next summer, iirc. The whole does-my-cable-co-qualify question is 8 months from being moot.
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AT&T GigaFiber coming to KC. Will price match Google.
http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article10441850.html (http://www.kansascity.com/news/business/technology/article10441850.html)
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Anyone heard news regarding Google Fiber and Overland Park?
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Is google fiber preferable to most who've had u-verse for cable TV? We've reached the point of no return on scheduling our google installation. We've had mostly good experiences with U-verse.
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Is google fiber preferable to most who've had u-verse for cable TV? We've reached the point of no return on scheduling our google installation. We've had mostly good experiences with U-verse.
what the hell does any of this mean
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Is google fiber preferable to most who've had u-verse for cable TV? We've reached the point of no return on scheduling our google installation. We've had mostly good experiences with U-verse.
don't attention to 'clams, he's a n00b when it comes to networking and cable stuff.
I've never had google fiber but u-verse is ok. lots of people have had bad experiences with them but essentially they are the same thing, except AT&T did a super shitty job with theirs.
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So google fiber TV is as good as uverse?
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No AMC on google
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
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i reported my fiber cable tv being out and it took two weeks for them to figure out what to tell me, let alone send someone to fix it. so i had no tv for 15 days. i requested updates pretty much every day and not once did they reach out to me first. they're not making me pay for those days but it was not a very good customer service showing on their part.
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Blast just gets face mumped by media companies constantly :frown:
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i'm in their trusted tester program and have the new remote, it's very elite
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I just picked up my router! Now I can look down on those lesser neighborhoods that aren't fiberhoods
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the 100 series network box sucks, i have a airport extreme wired into mine
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i'm in their trusted tester program and have the new remote, it's very elite
I'm in their trusted tester program too and I never got a new remote. :frown:
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is their free internet still the 56k? :Yuck:
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i'm in their trusted tester program and have the new remote, it's very elite
I'm in their trusted tester program too and I never got a new remote. :frown:
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well, the good news is that i'm here and i have it. maybe they just trust me a little more than they trust you.
i read online that they only issued the new remote (which is very elite), to their most trusted of testers. obvs i received mine and it works like a dream! you wouldn't believe how much i change the channel since receiving the new controller.
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What's new about it? Pics?
Non-trustee here, just an amateur remote enthusiast in my free time
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it has a "live" button to return to live tv after rewinding/ff
it has a better placed mute button
one cool thing is that it has a weird sensor thing, so when the remote moves or is picked up, the backlighting comes on automatically. and then it turns itself off automatically after a few seconds.
i've never seen anything like that in a remote.
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ficdn8.digitaltrends.com%2Fimage%2Fgoogle-fiber-remote-1500x1000.jpg&hash=4cf02f58405a0a4be3cfba44b4778cd552a22038)
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That's pretty great for a standard remote.
Mine does the backlight on movement thing too, but it's an aftermarket product
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the remote is bluetooth, did i mention that? no, no i did not.
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the remote is bluetooth, did i mention that? no, no i did not.
that's my fav thing about remotes these days. don't have to remove it from under the covers.
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Now we are getting to the meat of this remote. That's a feature my aftermarket does NOT have :eek:
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good to see this technology which the early adapters have enjoyed for years finally hit the mainstream
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the remote is bluetooth, did i mention that? no, no i did not.
that's my fav thing about remotes these days. don't have to remove it from under the covers.
the google fiber guy used this exact same line when he was installing my equipment
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Hurry up and test that out trusted clams... I need some of those features (current not elite gf remote has Bluetooth though)
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the 100 series network box sucks, i have a airport extreme wired into mine
It's a 200 series fwiw. Are they any good?
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ya they are 802.11 ac
they offered to swap my 100 out with the new 200 box but i already bought a airport extreme which pushes 600 up/down via wifi
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Google Fiber signups are open for my neighborhood. I think I'm committing to not signing up.
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I had to go pick up my kid two days in a row because the GF contractor hit a gas line (TWICE!) in the sitter's front yard. Still pretty pissed about that.
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Give me a reason to sign up for Google Fiber when:
1) It will cost me $30 more a month for the equivalent CATV package I have with AT&T
2) I don't need the additional internet speed (everything I do I can accomplish with my current speed)
3) It is a 1-year commitment. Meaning I can't sign up with $10 down and change my mind before they are ready to install.
4) I don't have a need to record 8 shows at a time.
5) AT&T Fiber will also be in my neighborhood, and most likely provide competitive pricing (if not better)
6) They will have to run new cable throughout my house when currently 2/3 of my boxes are wireless.
I will be open to signing up if I have a good reason to.
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WildcatNkilt, i think you're totally justified in sticking with what you've got
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buck the system, WildcatNkilt. sounds like you're the smart one in this equation and have figured out google fiber's scheme.
it's amazing that so many fools have fallen for the google fiber pitch. fools, all of them.
at&t has long been renowned for their customer service and it alone should dictate your loyalty to them.
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buck the system, WildcatNkilt. sounds like you're the smart one in this equation and have figured out google fiber's scheme.
it's amazing that so many fools have fallen for the google fiber pitch. fools, all of them.
at&t has long been renowned for their customer service and it alone should dictate your loyalty to them.
I was royally dicked over by AT&T and will never do business with them again...TBT was witness to my rage against them on multiple occasions.
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Give me a reason to sign up for Google Fiber when:
1) It will cost me $30 more a month for the equivalent CATV package I have with AT&T
2) I don't need the additional internet speed (everything I do I can accomplish with my current speed)
3) It is a 1-year commitment. Meaning I can't sign up with $10 down and change my mind before they are ready to install.
4) I don't have a need to record 8 shows at a time.
5) AT&T Fiber will also be in my neighborhood, and most likely provide competitive pricing (if not better)
6) They will have to run new cable throughout my house when currently 2/3 of my boxes are wireless.
I will be open to signing up if I have a good reason to.
Did you see the remote clams had?
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
It also appears Google Fiber subs don't get Fox Sports Go access, is that accurate?
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
It also appears Google Fiber subs don't get Fox Sports Go access, is that accurate?
they don't. i think it's because fox go sucks and google fiber doesn't want it to hurt the image of their program.
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People in my neighborhood are going crazy on social media about people signing up. I'm fine with att now
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
It also appears Google Fiber subs don't get Fox Sports Go access, is that accurate?
they don't. i think it's because fox go sucks and google fiber doesn't want it to hurt the image of their program.
FSGo is a crappy app, how is the Google Fiber app? can you use the app on a appletv as a wireless set top box?
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buck the system, WildcatNkilt. sounds like you're the smart one in this equation and have figured out google fiber's scheme.
it's amazing that so many fools have fallen for the google fiber pitch. fools, all of them.
at&t has long been renowned for their customer service and it alone should dictate your loyalty to them.
I was royally dicked over by AT&T and will never do business with them again...TBT was witness to my rage against them on multiple occasions.
it really is something magical to behold
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
It also appears Google Fiber subs don't get Fox Sports Go access, is that accurate?
they don't. i think it's because fox go sucks and google fiber doesn't want it to hurt the image of their program.
FSGo is a crappy app, how is the Google Fiber app? can you use the app on a appletv as a wireless set top box?
google fiber's app sucks ass too, it's basically worthless. i don't know what i would use it for.
you can't watch tv on it, you can't set your dvr with it. you can't even use it when away from your home network. i guess it kind of functions as a remote control. garbage.
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my biggest complaint against Google fiber is that it doesn't have Time Warner Sports Channel so I miss out on the early season Hawks hoops games
It also appears Google Fiber subs don't get Fox Sports Go access, is that accurate?
they don't. i think it's because fox go sucks and google fiber doesn't want it to hurt the image of their program.
FSGo is a crappy app, how is the Google Fiber app? can you use the app on a appletv as a wireless set top box?
google fiber's app sucks ass too, it's basically worthless. i don't know what i would use it for.
you can't watch tv on it, you can't set your dvr with it. you can't even use it when away from your home network. i guess it kind of functions as a remote control. garbage.
you can't watch tv on it - on home wifi you can so basically worthless but I've found a couples uses for it....it's not every channel but it's a lot of them.
you can't set your dvr with it - you can
you can't even use it when away from your home network - you can look at the program guide :excited: (and schedule DVR)
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The contract with sure west (awful company) kcfdwife signed us up for two years ago is finally up. Fiber being installed on Monday! Seriously can't wait. I've been super happy with it at the brewery, glad to have it at home too!
If you ever want to have cable and Internet that constantly blacks out, has overall poor quality, and customer service that is beyond awful, sign a Contract with sure west.
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mine doesn't let me log onto it away from my home network, maybe it's b/c i use ios version, dunno. clams gf is the same.
i guess i've never tried to watch tv at home on my phone instead of tv
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mine doesn't let me log onto it away from my home network, maybe it's b/c i use ios version, dunno. clams gf is the same.
i guess i've never tried to watch tv at home on my phone instead of tv
Could be an ios thing....I'm not sure the Android version always did either. I've used the streaming feature during multiple sport event viewing at the same time.
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i get this
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are you using both bands on your airport extreme router? If your phone is on the 5 gHz band maybe try the 2.4 gHz channel.
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ya i don't think that there's an easy way to disable the 2.4 gHz channel on the extreme.
but also and more importantly, i don't understand your post
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router n00bs, smdh
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signed up for Fiber today, will report back in January.
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One month in, the plusses are: lots of dvr space, faster speed downloads, better WiFi, more coverage with WiFi.
Minuses - slow channel flipping. Like real slow. Every channel seems to need to load and be caught up. Not being able to watch channels off koru property, and not being able to set the dvr while away are also pretty terrible.
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mine doesn't let me log onto it away from my home network, maybe it's b/c i use ios version, dunno. clams gf is the same.
i guess i've never tried to watch tv at home on my phone instead of tv
That's the problem.
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
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One month in, the plusses are: lots of dvr space, faster speed downloads, better WiFi, more coverage with WiFi.
Minuses - slow channel flipping. Like real slow. Every channel seems to need to load and be caught up. Not being able to watch channels off koru property, and not being able to set the dvr while away are also pretty terrible.
a lot of users describe the slow channel flipping, but i have not experienced that. it would drive me nuts
mine is really fast, i bet it's using a quantum computing solution
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
Me eventually. Pretty excited for it.
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
Me eventually. Pretty excited for it.
Do you know when it's coming? They just got done tearing into and "fixing" my backyard, assume it's for the Gigapower upgrade to compete with Google. Website doesn't have anything yet for my address.
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Have had fiber for a week. Pretty great. Do not experience slow channel flipping. It's way faster than my old service. Internet is awesome, I avg around 400 gbps. Not bad considering I'm paying roughly the same per month but my old service had less channels and avg'd 25 gbps.
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Have had fiber for a week. Pretty great. Do not experience slow channel flipping. It's way faster than my old service. Internet is awesome, I avg around 400 gbps. Not bad considering I'm paying roughly the same per month but my old service had less channels and avg'd 25 gbps.
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the people i know that complain about slow channel flipping are on the kansas side. GF has different boxes running different software, i don't know how they have chosen to deploy it though.
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Oh. Our TV boxes are insanely small. Like the size of an old Walkman or something.
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
Me eventually. Pretty excited for it.
Do you know when it's coming? They just got done tearing into and "fixing" my backyard, assume it's for the Gigapower upgrade to compete with Google. Website doesn't have anything yet for my address.
I do not. They and GF were working in our neighborhood at the same time though. Made for a huge mess. They seem to be done with our neighborhood but still in the area.
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ya i think all of the tv boxes are small, i'm talking about the other box(es)
the network box and the storage box are combined into one with the new hardware
my friend in ks, in the guide, different stuff is colored differently- sports are green, movies are some other color, etc. his previous channel list shows up vertically, instead of horizontally across the bottom.
his guide moves slows, channels change slowly
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ya i think all of the tv boxes are small, i'm talking about the other box(es)
the network box and the storage box are combined into one with the new hardware
my friend in ks, in the guide, different stuff is colored differently- sports are green, movies are some other color, etc. his previous channel list shows up vertically, instead of horizontally across the bottom.
his guide moves slows, channels change slowly
Oh ok. My guide has different colors. Sports are green, movies are blue... At first it was annoying buy I like it now. Makes it easy to find a game etc... The rest of it works just like time warner, channels are lined of horizontally
I'd imagine some people complain because it was hyped so much, they expected it to blow their minds everytime they used the Internet/ watched TV. I'm just pleased it's well above average service with roughly average cost.
Customer service is awesome too. I love being able to chat with someone online rather than waiting on hold for 30 Minutes. I did have an issue with one of my boxes at like 9pm the second night we had it. I logged on, told them my problem, and they had someone here to change it out in 15 min. No way TWC has ever done that.
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
Me eventually. Pretty excited for it.
Do you know when it's coming? They just got done tearing into and "fixing" my backyard, assume it's for the Gigapower upgrade to compete with Google. Website doesn't have anything yet for my address.
I do not. They and GF were working in our neighborhood at the same time though. Made for a huge mess. They seem to be done with our neighborhood but still in the area.
For us as soon as GF was done and the new grass was growing AT&T came in and mumped it all up again.
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
they are getting google fiber (don't deserve it though)
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
they are getting google fiber (don't deserve it though)
It's been announced that we are getting Fiber, but the question mark is still when that date is...
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
they are getting google fiber (don't deserve it though)
It's been announced that we are getting Fiber, but the question mark is still when that date is...
Sign ups begin in 2016
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Any AT&T Gigapower users in here? :users:
Will it be an easy upgrade from uverse? (what I currently have)
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
they are getting google fiber (don't deserve it though)
It's been announced that we are getting Fiber, but the question mark is still when that date is...
Sign ups begin in 2016
:excited: :Woohoo:
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I keep thinking someone is going to post in here saying that Overland Park is getting Google Fiber :bawl:
they are getting google fiber (don't deserve it though)
It's been announced that we are getting Fiber, but the question mark is still when that date is...
Sign ups begin in 2016
:excited: :Woohoo:
So you'll get it in like, 2018.
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Google fiber went out for most of KC just prior to the first pitch through the entire 1st inning
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Crews working over the last week or so installing the fiber boxes and such in my neighborhood. How long from when the initial crews roll through to when they start bringing it to our house? I haven't had to sign up on the internet yet either.
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so apparently the free option is gonzo....unless you're poor
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or unless you're an OG :gocho:
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but it's 5 megabit down, 1 up? who has time for that bullshit? not this gigabit fiber customer.
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Can you even do email on 5megabits?
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Yes, the free option is gone unless you're grandfathered in I believe. The "Fiber 100" or whatever they're going to call it will basically take the place of it and will cost $50/mo. I pay around $65/mo for 50dn 5up and bumping to the $70/mo gigabit is a no brainer for me.
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When will the first price increase be? I'm guessing 2 years.
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
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Signed up on Friday. Excited to get the service probably in 2018
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I"ve been happy. Had it about a month now. Misplaced a remote tho :sdeek:
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I"ve been happy. Had it about a month now. Misplaced a remote tho :sdeek:
Just go to the Google store and get another one. I returned one that my dog chewed up and they handed me a new one and I left.
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Where is the store
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westport road & state line, i thought everyone knew that
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you could go get your new remote, then head on down to beer kitchen for an overpriced burger and a few beers. :drool:
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Google fiber doesn't work with the Fox Sport Go app....is that true?
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Google fiber doesn't work with the Fox Sport Go app....is that true?
yeah it does. just took them awhile to get it going, used to not work at first.
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I have the free option. (OG). One time we had an issue and I contacted them for service. Of course they fixed it in like 10 minutes and offered me a refund for the day I was without internet. They were going to credit my account like $20 before I told them my monthly bill is $0 a month :lol:
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how can you do anything on 5meg download speeds? I guess to me that feels like you don't really even have the Internet.
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I have the free internet. Last night i was streaming the royals game, spotify, and general browsing on the same computer hooked up to my tv. Never buffered or even went off the HD stream. And my computer is like 7 years old.
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And i have been doing this for years with the free 5g internet
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i should mention that i live in an apartment and the router is like 10 feet from the computer.
also i have never had to restart or unplug and replug in the router, ever. pretty great.
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
That's what I'm saying 'clams...if you're paying the $50/month for the crappy, just pay the extra $20 bucks and go gigabit.
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
That's what I'm saying 'clams...if you're paying the $50/month for the crappy, just pay the extra $20 bucks and go gigabit.
I mean, while I agree in principal with that, 100 Mbps isn't "crappy" IMHO. Still way more than most people anywhere can get.
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
That's what I'm saying 'clams...if you're paying the $50/month for the crappy, just pay the extra $20 bucks and go gigabit.
I mean, while I agree in principal with that, 100 Mbps isn't "crappy" IMHO. Still way more than most people anywhere can get.
Yeah I was paying like $60/mo for 15 mb/s before we switched. $50 for 100 is an incredible deal and you know twc is losing their minds about it.
When I called to switch twc asked what they could do keep me, I said nothing I'm getting Google. Their response "oh" *click*
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
That's what I'm saying 'clams...if you're paying the $50/month for the crappy, just pay the extra $20 bucks and go gigabit.
I mean, while I agree in principal with that, 100 Mbps isn't "crappy" IMHO. Still way more than most people anywhere can get.
Yeah I was paying like $60/mo for 15 mb/s before we switched. $50 for 100 is an incredible deal and you know twc is losing their minds about it.
When I called to switch twc asked what they could do keep me, I said nothing I'm getting Google. Their response "oh" *click*
Same with uverse
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the people on the free crap still have it for many more years, i think the original deal was a 7 year commitment from google.
just not available to new customers. i think the new plan looks pretty good but why not just spend the extra $20 a month and go full bore?
That's what I'm saying 'clams...if you're paying the $50/month for the crappy, just pay the extra $20 bucks and go gigabit.
I mean, while I agree in principal with that, 100 Mbps isn't "crappy" IMHO. Still way more than most people anywhere can get.
It's not 1999 anymore :lol: anything less than 150mbps is dead slow
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It takes like 15 Mbps to stream 4k TV. So unless you're streaming 6+ 4k movies at a time, 100 Mbps is probably sufficient.
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A guy told me his Google fiber wifi dl speed was 228 mbps and upload was 206 mbps.
Is that possible!
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ya either his computer sucks and isn't fast enough to process the speed, or his computer doesn't have a gig ethernet card, or google mumped up his install. my guess is that his computer is a pos.
i daisy chain my google network box into a apple airport extreme and get 700/600 over wifi
(https://goemaw.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FTv5dpKZ.jpg&hash=a47593d25f72ffc00b1c32896e728b13fcc9fe11)
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My god your pipe must be super girthy to fit that much bandwidth thru it.
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big time girthy, they call me el girth around the google fiber space
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Pffft...cox gigablast is having a hearty belly laugh right now
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i got a sticky note on my door this week that says they are coming soon.
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A good old fashioned gig off!
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i might just stick with TW tho, it's cheaper and there's pretty much no reason for a person to need gigabit right now. 50mbs is overkill for me already
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I would be a candidate for 2 gigs when it comes out
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you don't need it, but you already pay for more data than you need so this doesn't surprise me.
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You never know when you'll need it
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50 is way more than i need but the lowest i can go on monthly usage quota :frown:
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i hate california.
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My internet is free and i stream multiple things on my old ass imac no problem. I don't understand why anyone would want to pay when free is available
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My internet is free and i stream multiple things on my old ass imac no problem. I don't understand why anyone would want to pay when free is available
free isn't available unless you live in public housing, pocat
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Free got dropped 2 months ago
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it's $80/mo here for something better than dsl
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My statement is still valid
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I live in midtown and have had google fiber for like 3 years for free
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so if i moved next door, free internet is available is what you're saying. got it.
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Check out this amazing internet service that Centurylink charges my inlaws $85 a month for.
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Looks like a poor choice
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Got another email from the OP folks
I am providing a link to Monday's City Council agenda. The second item listed includes a proposed agreement with Google Fiber - http://apps.opkansas.org/City-Government/Agendas-and-Minutes/City-Council/Agendas/2013/2013-09-16/agenda.html
ACTION ITEM
Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure
Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement
Policy Issue: Should the Governing Body approve the Google Network Services Agreement and
related License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement?
Staff Recommendation: NA
Background: Google Fiber Kansas has requested the City enter into a Network Services
Agreement, License Agreement and Structure Attachment and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
City Attorney, Mike Santos and legal counsel, Todd LaSala, have provided an Executive
Summary regarding the documents that is attached.
Budget Impact: Unknown
Attachments:
- Google Network Services Agreement and related License Agreement and Structure Attachment
and Conduit Occupancy Agreement.
- Executive Summary
:pray:
GOOD THINGS COME TO THOSE WHO WAIT ALMOST A DECADE! Google fiber is presently being installed in my neighborhood. :excited:
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That's fantastic Pete, congratulations
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That's fantastic Pete, congratulations
I am over the moon. I'm going to get a bunch of their wifi mesh devices and just cover this god damn house.
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Also, I will probably never sell my house now. Guess I should have bought those high efficiency windows and junk a few years back.
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Also, I will probably never sell my house now. Guess I should have bought those high efficiency windows and junk a few years back.
The other good part about this is that all of your other providers will now magically be way faster and less expensive. I'll prob never leave Google because its fantastic and screw the other companies for gouging me all those years, but its nice having other options.
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Also, I will probably never sell my house now. Guess I should have bought those high efficiency windows and junk a few years back.
The other good part about this is that all of your other providers will now magically be way faster and less expensive. I'll prob never leave Google because its fantastic and screw the other companies for gouging me all those years, but its nice having other options.
Yeah, I am actually seriously considering just keeping my current cable internet service as a backup solution in addition to getting google fiber internet.
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Just had Google Fiber hooked up about a month ago. It’s great. And felt so good to mush Comcast in their fat faces once and for all.
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Very jealous of our Google Fiber. Spectrum and AT&T mushed the permitting process in Louisville. Bastards.
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I've been resisting the urge to upgrade to 2gig service because 1gig is already way too much for me but that I doubt I'll last much longer.
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Very jealous of our Google Fiber. Spectrum and AT&T mushed the permitting process in Louisville. Bastards.
My experience is that if you email the crap out of your local officials and wait 8 years, then it all works out for the best.
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
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my home app says that i have 900mbs download/upload
can't fathom needing more than that
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Honestly, what's the point? Anything you use it for, you're just going to get shoved through a much smaller nose hole at some point along the chain.
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
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Yeah, unless your job or whatever requires huge files to be downloaded or uploaded, 1 gig is more than enough. On a separate note, I got an email from them about a month or so ago saying my router was old and needed upgraded. I had that and the google pucks I got from costco spread around the house. They worked great and I never noticed any issues outside of a couple small dead zones. They sent me a new router with an extender and holy crap. Just the router and the extender hit my whole house and everywhere has at least 5 times faster speeds than I was getting. If you have an old router, i'd recommend calling them and asking for a new one.
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
I would like to qualify this by stating up front that I don't know anything about anything and am barely functionally literate, but I was once told by a network professional that the copper network cable in your house will prevent you from enjoying speeds above 1gig no matter what wild speeds your service provider is lying to you about providing to your house.
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The only time I notice anything is if we have a bunch of friends or family over and the kids are all streaming games etc and the tvs are all going.
Even then I might complain that the 4k football/basketball/soccer game is struggling.
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
I would like to qualify this by stating up front that I don't know anything about anything and am barely functionally literate, but I was once told by a network professional that the copper network cable in your house will prevent you from enjoying speeds above 1gig no matter what wild speeds your service provider is lying to you about providing to your house.
I could understand this point if you’re relying on Ethernet cables somewhere along the way, but at our house AT&T literally drilled a hole in our wall and plugged the fiber cable right into the modem/router. So idk how copper wires would work into the equation at all.
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
I would like to qualify this by stating up front that I don't know anything about anything and am barely functionally literate, but I was once told by a network professional that the copper network cable in your house will prevent you from enjoying speeds above 1gig no matter what wild speeds your service provider is lying to you about providing to your house.
I could understand this point if you’re relying on Ethernet cables somewhere along the way, but at our house AT&T literally drilled a hole in our wall and plugged the fiber cable right into the modem/router. So idk how copper wires would work into the equation at all.
yeah, pretty sure they run all new fiber cables to your house and then you just connect cat 5 or 6 from there. The old copper stuff is just chilling there not doing anything, but what do I know?
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CNS doesn't stand for Neurosurgeon, guys
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
I would like to qualify this by stating up front that I don't know anything about anything and am barely functionally literate, but I was once told by a network professional that the copper network cable in your house will prevent you from enjoying speeds above 1gig no matter what wild speeds your service provider is lying to you about providing to your house.
I could understand this point if you’re relying on Ethernet cables somewhere along the way, but at our house AT&T literally drilled a hole in our wall and plugged the fiber cable right into the modem/router. So idk how copper wires would work into the equation at all.
Are you fiber from your router to your PC? If not, are you copper? If you're wifi, that could also be limiting it. I had major service issues with AT&T about 8 yrs ago with my up and down speeds. I was buying 100g speed and was only getting 30ish. Their tech told me that the 100g is only for hard wire and that wifi was limited to approx 35ish, speed wise. So, I would assume your router could be a choke point on new systems as well :dunno:
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
It’s enough for 25 ppl to stream 4K video
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
It’s enough for 25 ppl to stream 4K video
I only have 300MB download speeds with current provider and my family streams and games simultaneously with zero issue. Maybe we will need massive dl speeds for the coming metaverse.
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Currently have at&t 300mb fiber to the home and getting Google Fiber 1G installed tomorrow mainly in the hope Google's hardware will help the soft picture i get when multiple streams are going especially when there are two 4k cfb games.
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
How does this work? I'm not a network engineer, but from my understanding even if they run fiber directly to the on premise equipment I believe your house would have to be wired with cat8 throughout. Cat8 is very new, expensive and uncommon for all but the most SD of SD's. Even with cat8, the runs would need to be less than 100 feet to reach those speeds. The max speed for the more likely Cat5e is 2.5Gbps up to roughly 300 feet or cat6 at 5Gbs. https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-choose-the-right-cable (https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-choose-the-right-cable)
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In hardwired scenarios the port speed on individual consumer devices rarely exceeds 1G. Wi-Fi 6 Enterprise level AP's can get up to 9.6G of throughput in optimal conditions, but your speed is likely choked by the capability of the end device itself.
In the aggregate, you'll need piles of users to even remotely threaten utilizing 20G's.
Google Fiber uses passive optical networking, so it's a best effort, up to network.
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That 20g will download conspiracy videos super quick tho
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
It’s enough for 25 ppl to stream 4K video
I only have 300MB download speeds with current provider and my family streams and games simultaneously with zero issue. Maybe we will need massive dl speeds for the coming metaverse.
This makes me laugh as I live alone and have gig At&t Fiberinternet. I don't think I could ever go back.
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
Goodnight, I love google fiber but that is dumb, you gotta be a business. Like many other here, 1 gb is plenty enough, I don't think I ever tax it.
Yeah, unless your job or whatever requires huge files to be downloaded or uploaded, 1 gig is more than enough. On a separate note, I got an email from them about a month or so ago saying my router was old and needed upgraded. I had that and the google pucks I got from costco spread around the house. They worked great and I never noticed any issues outside of a couple small dead zones. They sent me a new router with an extender and holy crap. Just the router and the extender hit my whole house and everywhere has at least 5 times faster speeds than I was getting. If you have an old router, i'd recommend calling them and asking for a new one.
I moved but I didn't notice a huge improvement per se in speeds, but in the next place it's definitely not centrally located it does hit a long way away. I did have a left over puck and wanted to add it just to extend out into the patio, but it didn't want to connect even after a factory reset. Oh well
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
Goodnight, I love google fiber but that is dumb, you gotta be a business. Like many other here, 1 gb is plenty enough, I don't think I ever tax it.
Yeah, unless your job or whatever requires huge files to be downloaded or uploaded, 1 gig is more than enough. On a separate note, I got an email from them about a month or so ago saying my router was old and needed upgraded. I had that and the google pucks I got from costco spread around the house. They worked great and I never noticed any issues outside of a couple small dead zones. They sent me a new router with an extender and holy crap. Just the router and the extender hit my whole house and everywhere has at least 5 times faster speeds than I was getting. If you have an old router, i'd recommend calling them and asking for a new one.
I moved but I didn't notice a huge improvement per se in speeds, but in the next place it's definitely not centrally located it does hit a long way away. I did have a left over puck and wanted to add it just to extend out into the patio, but it didn't want to connect even after a factory reset. Oh well
I had a really old router that I got right when they came to my hood. If I stood right next to it and did a wifi speed test, I would get around 100 which was plenty fast. The pucks would get me 20-25 depending on the room. If I test right next to the new router, I get 400-500 and everywhere in the house is well above 100.
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
Goodnight, I love google fiber but that is dumb, you gotta be a business. Like many other here, 1 gb is plenty enough, I don't think I ever tax it.
Yeah, unless your job or whatever requires huge files to be downloaded or uploaded, 1 gig is more than enough. On a separate note, I got an email from them about a month or so ago saying my router was old and needed upgraded. I had that and the google pucks I got from costco spread around the house. They worked great and I never noticed any issues outside of a couple small dead zones. They sent me a new router with an extender and holy crap. Just the router and the extender hit my whole house and everywhere has at least 5 times faster speeds than I was getting. If you have an old router, i'd recommend calling them and asking for a new one.
I moved but I didn't notice a huge improvement per se in speeds, but in the next place it's definitely not centrally located it does hit a long way away. I did have a left over puck and wanted to add it just to extend out into the patio, but it didn't want to connect even after a factory reset. Oh well
I had a really old router that I got right when they came to my hood. If I stood right next to it and did a wifi speed test, I would get around 100 which was plenty fast. The pucks would get me 20-25 depending on the room. If I test right next to the new router, I get 400-500 and everywhere in the house is well above 100.
Pucks at the house I could reliably get 800+, but I think they went through two version, Nest, and then Google, wifi, Nest was more smooth pucks, Google more edgy pucks, if that makes sense
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I'm jealous of your Wi-Fi speeds. Can only get 20 on a good day out in the sticks.
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https://9to5google.com/2023/12/11/google-fiber-20-gig-price/
Any of you guys going to give the new 20 gig speed a shot? I can’t really think of a non-business use case. I’ve double and triple checked our pron speed and it seems good, so I will probably stay with my current Google fiber arrangement.
How does this work? I'm not a network engineer, but from my understanding even if they run fiber directly to the on premise equipment I believe your house would have to be wired with cat8 throughout. Cat8 is very new, expensive and uncommon for all but the most SD of SD's. Even with cat8, the runs would need to be less than 100 feet to reach those speeds. The max speed for the more likely Cat5e is 2.5Gbps up to roughly 300 feet or cat6 at 5Gbs. https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-choose-the-right-cable (https://www.truecable.com/blogs/cable-academy/how-to-choose-the-right-cable)
this netgear wifi 7 mesh system can theoretically push 27 Gbps across 6,000 sq ft. the bottleneck is at the device. most everything today doesn’t go beyond 1 Gbps
https://www.netgear.com/home/wifi/mesh/rbe972sb/
the “use case” for 20 Gbps isn’t 3 people using 7 Gbps each, it’s 30 users using 500 Mbps with enough bandwidth leftover for peak bursts.
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So are you saying you'd hook that wi-fi directly up to the ONT in the garage or closet? Ohhhh, I see, you could hook a 2.5 or 5.0 Gb switch up and each keystone jack could go up to 2.5 or 5.0 Gbps until you max out at 20 Gbps for the network.
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the “use case” for 20 Gbps isn’t 3 people using 7 Gbps each, it’s 30 users using 500 Mbps with enough bandwidth leftover for peak bursts.
you can just say "steve dave"
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Even a gig seems like massive overkill for residential use
I would like to qualify this by stating up front that I don't know anything about anything and am barely functionally literate, but I was once told by a network professional that the copper network cable in your house will prevent you from enjoying speeds above 1gig no matter what wild speeds your service provider is lying to you about providing to your house.
I could understand this point if you’re relying on Ethernet cables somewhere along the way, but at our house AT&T literally drilled a hole in our wall and plugged the fiber cable right into the modem/router. So idk how copper wires would work into the equation at all.
Are you fiber from your router to your PC? If not, are you copper? If you're wifi, that could also be limiting it. I had major service issues with AT&T about 8 yrs ago with my up and down speeds. I was buying 100g speed and was only getting 30ish. Their tech told me that the 100g is only for hard wire and that wifi was limited to approx 35ish, speed wise. So, I would assume your router could be a choke point on new systems as well :dunno:
Oh I’m sure the Wi-Fi on both the router and my device is the main limiting factor. I was just making the point that I don’t think there is any inherent limitations like wiring in your house. It mainly comes down to the devices you use (and obviously how much the ISP throttles it).