[TriLUG] Google Fiber

[Tim Jowers]

In Charlotte, Latency was THE showstopper with AT&T DSL. I'm talking large
fractions of a second to seconds for each request it seemed. Throughput on
uploads was consistently <100Kb/s when I tested uploading to gmail, from
what I recall.
In Wake Forest, TimeWarner has a fast offering. $99.99/month with basic
bundle. 50Mb/s pretty good.
Well, I use Gmail, Hangout, and many other Google products. I @#$ sure
don't see TWC or T doing ANY innovation!  I'd much rather line Google's
pockets as at least they are innovating.
I'd love to buy something faster up here. I thought Century or someone was
going to run fiber but guess that also did not fly. Sad since I am in a new
neighborhood not 1 mile from their office. I compete directly with people
in Austin who have 2x and soon to be 6x the bandwidth I have. But, I tell
you, at about 1:30AM things are super fast around here. Positive side of a
toothache. :-) :-)

When Google lays fiber then maybe TWC will get busy. Zero reason to have
laid cable to a brand new neighborhood other than old habits.

Bring it on Google. Yesterday already!
Tim

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Steve Burnett <burnett at pobox.com> wrote:

> I live in Raleigh and AT&T's U-verse is available, but their Giga offering
> isn't available in my area - at least not yet.
> --
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> On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Wes Garrison wrote:
>
>  Well, I would like to point out that AT&T is bringing their own Gigabit
>> fiber to the Triangle, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem.  (including Apex,
>> which apparently may be left out of the Google Fiber lovefest)
>>
>> http://www.att.com/att/gigapowercities/
>>
>> Of course, this has nothing to do with Google bringing fiber to the
>> area...
>>
>> Supposedly will be completed this year.
>>
>> -Wes
>>
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>> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Scott Chilcote <
>> scottchilcote at ncrrbiz.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  On 01/28/2015 09:06 AM, John Vaughters wrote:
>>> > I do not understand all the negative sentiments on Google. They are
>>> doing what every great American Company has done in the past. Use new
>>> ways
>>> to further their business. That's all there is to it.
>>> Hi Jonathan,
>>>
>>> It's not hard to find places to poke holes in Google's reputed
>>> greatness.  They are a company with a poor-to-nonexistent customer
>>> service record, stepping into a market where customer service competes
>>> to be the worst possible.  They are positioning themselves to be the
>>> sole communications provider for our entire region.  They will greatly
>>> increase our broadband speed, but does this mean that we need to link
>>> hands and sing their corporate anthem ("I Feel Lucky", sung to the tune
>>> of "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story) until the glow gradually fades?
>>>
>>> I don't think that anyone is opposed to Google (or any other business,
>>> great or otherwise, American, foreign, or international) furthering
>>> their stockholder's interests.  What I think that a lot of the public
>>> opposes is business that seeks to gain by using their financial might to
>>> limit the rights of their customers.  For example, the right to benefit
>>> from competition, the right to protect their privacy, or the right to
>>> develop new alternatives to the services that they control.
>>>
>>>    Scott C.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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