Is Google Fiber Coming to You?

[MTI]

Google said it will provide updates on which other cities will get Google Fiber before this year is over. The 34 cities being considered are Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe in Arizona; San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, and Palo Alto in California; Atlanta, Avondale Estates, Brookhaven, College Park, Decatur, East Point, Hapeville, Sandy Springs, and Smyrna in Georgia; Nashville-Davidson in Tennessee; Charlotte, Carrboro, Cary, Chapel Hill, Durham, Garner, Morrisville, and Raleigh in North Carolina; Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, Gresham, Lake Oswego, and Tigard in Oregon; San Antonio in Texas; and Salt Lake City in Utah.

The fiber service is 1 gigabit internet for $70 a month or 1 gigabit Internet and TV for $120 a month. Imagine, Google will have faster access to your Nest thermostat and smoke detectors!

[spdrun]

I hope it doesn't go national any time soon -- too many privacy/ethical issues with Google controlling basically the entire Internet from search to backbones to the last mile. If this becomes widespread, time for an anti-trust action against Google and an AT&T style breakup (probably along the lines of service type, rather than regionally).

By ethical issues, I mean that Google will have the power to slow or block access to companies providing duplicative services AND make them invisible in searches. Same with them having a vested interest in discouraging people from hosting their own services vs drinking their kloud koolaid and using their infrastructure.

[tjts1]

I canceled my TWC internet when I realized I can tether off my phone which is faster, cheaper more reliable and a hell of a lot more portable than anything the cable company offers. I'm not switching back to a separate at home phone bill until somebody brings fiber to my door be it Google or somebody else.

The cable ISPs are dinosaurs.

[spdrun]

Originally Posted by tjts1

I canceled my TWC internet when I realized I can tether off my phone which is faster, cheaper more reliable and a hell of a lot more portable than anything the cable company offers. I'm not switching back to a separate at home phone bill until somebody brings fiber to my door be it Google or somebody else.

The cable ISPs are dinosaurs.

Really? You can get 25+ mbps downlink speed reliably with tethering with:
(1) A reasonably stable IP addy
(2) Low latency
(3) Consistent quality of service

That has not been my experience with tethering, other than in very specific locations and circumstances. Also, tethering works well so long as everyone in a given area isn't doing it. Is coaxial to the premises perfect? Hell no. Is it better than a wireless link? For sure.

[tjts1]

Originally Posted by spdrun

Really? You can get 25+ mbps downlink speed reliably with tethering with:
(1) A reasonably stable IP addy
(2) Low latency
(3) Consistent quality of service

Originally Posted by spdrun

That has not been my experience with tethering, other than in very specific locations and circumstances. Also, tethering works well so long as everyone in a given area isn't doing it. Is coaxial to the premises perfect? Hell no. Is it better than a wireless link? For sure.

I'll get back to you when I'm done with this episode of House of Cards.

[spdrun]

Terrible upload speed, d/l speed at the lower border of what a good coax connection is capable of.

[Skid Row Joe]

Originally Posted by tjts1

I canceled my TWC internet when I realized I can tether off my phone which is faster, cheaper more reliable and a hell of a lot more portable than anything the cable company offers. I'm not switching back to a separate at home phone bill until somebody brings fiber to my door be it Google or somebody else.

The cable ISPs are dinosaurs.

Who's your cell service with? Does your plan include unlimited air-time to allow unlimited Internet surfing/tethering?

[cmac2012]

Originally Posted by tjts1

I canceled my TWC internet when I realized I can tether off my phone which is faster, cheaper more reliable and a hell of a lot more portable than anything the cable company offers. I'm not switching back to a separate at home phone bill until somebody brings fiber to my door be it Google or somebody else.

The cable ISPs are dinosaurs.

Dang, I tether with T Mobile and I wish I had that kind of speed. I get right around 1 Mb for download and quite a bit less for upload.

Is it your phone or the connection that gives you the speed? Probably a silly question - hard to imagine the phone could be it.

[tjts1]

Originally Posted by cmac2012

Dang, I tether with T Mobile and I wish I had that kind of speed. I get right around 1 Mb for download and quite a bit less for upload.

Is it your phone or the connection that gives you the speed? Probably a silly question - hard to imagine the phone could be it.

I'm not really sure. My friend who also has Tmo and and IPhone is consistently slower than my nexus4 but not that slow. I have used it in Berkeley and Oakland and the speed seemed descent but I can't tell you exact numbers. Its important to have full bars for descent speed. With 2 or 3 bars it can drop under 10Mbps. I know people with nexus5 LTE phone on Tmo are getter 30Mbps+ down and 10+ Mbps upload.

[tjts1]

You can whine all you want, my phone is still faster, cheaper and far more reliable than what TWC was selling me. One of these days I might pickup an LTE phone once they get around to upgrading the cell phone towers around here to 20x20.

[spdrun]

Not whining -- your statements are just factually incorrect, especially as more people compete for over-the-air bandwidth from an LTE tower. A coax link isn't as limited by available spectrum as a wireless one.

A properly designed coaxial system will always support higher speeds than a good over the air system. That's just physics.

500 mbps over cable ... clicky:
UPC Netherlands ramps broadband to 500 Mbps

[tjts1]

Great! When I move to the Netherlands I'll be sure to check that out. Maybe you should direct that information at TWC. They're the ones no longer collecting $46/mo from me (which was going up to $60/mo as of Jan had i stuck with it) for mediocre "up to 20Mbps" cable internet service with bonus throttled video streaming.

The fact remains that tethering off my phone is faster, cheaper and more reliable than TWC even with my outdated phone.

[Simpler=Better]

Originally Posted by tjts1

Great! When I move to the Netherlands I'll be sure to check that out. Maybe you should direct that information at TWC. They're the ones no longer collecting $46/mo from me (which was going up to $60/mo as of Jan had i stuck with it) for mediocre "up to 20Mbps" cable internet service with bonus throttled video streaming.

The fact remains that tethering off my phone is faster, cheaper and more reliable than TWC even with my outdated phone.

Comcast here in Balamer, same deal. Best I can get is 1~2MBPS down, maybe 128k up, at around $80/month.

Tmob here, which is the best service(in the city) but it still goes down fairly regularly.

I can't wait to move (soooooooon)

[Botnst]

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[TwitchKitty]

Barely connected here. New place has no DSL, no Cable, no 4G. I got a no contract 3G hot spot, best option for me at the location. Satellite was not even a consideration, total BS ripoff.

For what I am doing the hot spot is a good thing.

Didn't want a smart phone but I did like the idea of tethering. Might still happen eventually.

We are now milking our own goat. Coffee is something new again.

I hate traffic, hate sitting at red lights, hate breathing exhaust fumes. Happy move.