Google confirms Austin as next Fiber city

[ryoder 1,403]

https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/

Lucky bastards

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[AggieDave 6]

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https://fiber.google.com/cities/austin/

Lucky bastards

Lot of good it'll do them after NK fires up their nuclear slingshot...



Regardless, even with Google Fiber they still won't be able to get the longhorn network in more than 2-dozen homes.

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[demon4o7 0]

I saw a screen shot of a 640mgps somewhere. The guy said he downloaded a 8.5gb game in 4 minutes. Gnarly.

[theonlyski 3]

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I saw a screen shot of a 640mgps somewhere. The guy said he downloaded a 8.5gb game in 4 minutes. Gnarly.

That's a problem we're going to be running into soon here. 2.5 gig connection from the ISP, but none of our devices support anything better than a 1g uplink.

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[FlyingRhenquest 1]

I get 20mbps through Comcast and don't even make use of that amount of bandwidth. I suppose if I streamed from Netflix or something, I might want higher speeds. Game installs from Steam take less time than it'd take to drive to the store and buy the game.

I can grab MP3s from Amazon across the cellular network faster than I could have downloaded them over the wire 6 or 7 years ago. I used to spring $200 a month for 128K ISDN service, back in the day. I'm pretty happy with where I am now! Before I switched to Comcast, I had DSL service through Qwest. That was pretty pathetic. My room mate would start up a download and my ping times would go to 2 seconds. 20mbps seems to be the sweet spot for my household.

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[ryoder 1,403]

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I get 20mbps through Comcast and don't even make use of that amount of bandwidth. I suppose if I streamed from Netflix or something, I might want higher speeds. Game installs from Steam take less time than it'd take to drive to the store and buy the game.

I can grab MP3s from Amazon across the cellular network faster than I could have downloaded them over the wire 6 or 7 years ago. I used to spring $200 a month for 128K ISDN service, back in the day. I'm pretty happy with where I am now! Before I switched to Comcast, I had DSL service through Qwest. That was pretty pathetic. My room mate would start up a download and my ping times would go to 2 seconds. 20mbps seems to be the sweet spot for my household.

I had Qwest DSL for years, but the best I can get from them at this time/location is 7Mbs.

In experimenting with a networked TV tuner (HDHomeRun), I found that the max network usage with an HD TV stream never exceeds ~14Mbps. So last year I went to Comcast and subscribed to the 16/2 Mbps service (with 24/4 Mbps burst). Currently, Comcast is offering "up to 105Mbps" in my area, which I expect is really 70Mbps *sustained* with 150% burst.

Interestingly, my VZW LTE service is 16/16 Mbps, so my iPhone has the same downstream speed, and 8x upstream speed of my residential service.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

[riddler 0]

Darn! Verizon or Google better make Denver next, is all I can say

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[ryoder 1,403]

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Darn! Verizon or Google better make Denver next, is all I can say

Seems to me Qwest needs to wake up and start replacing copper with fiber, else they will become irrelevant. When I canceled my DSL, I also canceled my POTS, so I have no account with the local telco.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.