[TriLUG] Google fiber

[Matt Whitlow via TriLUG]

ATT has been pretty solid for me as well

On Dec 3, 2020, 15:06, at 15:06, Scott Thomas via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>Wow, Dan. You must be one of the lucky ones. I'm in that group that
>includes the areas where AT&T rushed laying fiber to beat Google to
>market, and cut a lot of corners. In the last year, we've had 6 or 7
>outages, one of which took out a five-mile area around my house. I
>called them, along with some 70 other households, and they told each of
>us that they didn't see an outage reported on their monitoring systems,
>and that a tech had to come out to each of our houses, with some
>appointments being 3 days away. I complained several times that the
>techs weren't going to find anything, and that we were wasting our
>time. I finally went to Twitter and blasted them before someone
>actually looked into it, and found that a line card was out in one of
>their distribution nodes somewhere around where I live. We got back up,
>but were out for about 36 hours.
>Scott
>
> 
>
>On Thursday, December 3, 2020, 02:51:56 PM EST, Daniel Sterling via
>TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:  
> 
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 2:19 PM Wes Garrison via TriLUG
><trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> Google Fiber has been a real disappointment for a lot of folks.
>
>Google fiber's primary function has been to keep AT&T from charging
>$130 a month for their fiber in competing markets.
>
>Other than price, AT&T fiber seems the better choice, it's been
>rock-solid for me, and it's easy to swap out the AT&T CPE for your own
>linux NAT box.
>
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