They've got a small portion of JoCo in their future plans.

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/...mmunities.html

None of it matters unless they bring it to Lee's Summit (for me at least). Hearing stories about people who can get the NFL network and faster downloads than TW Turbo/Extreme is just salt in the wound. But I love that we're on the brink of cable companies having their near-monopoly broken. That being said, I'm sure TWC will spend more time at first trying to block the effort than competing with them.

Oh well, bad day!

I always wonder about this sort of thing. What is the fastest wireless router speeds and wireless adapter speeds on laptops for example?

I have 6mps speed DSL but my wireless won't even keep up with that so why run faster?

Yeah, that's definitely an issue. Assuming you have a perfect connection, throughput on a wifi connection is usually half of what it's capable of, so a 54mbps wifi connection would only be able to get around 27mbps. You can get an 108mbps router, but the technology isn't very common on devices.

So basically, most people wouldn't get much benefit from a wifi device above 27mbps at the absolute most. However, a desktop computer could be plugged in directly (or through a gigabit router). Even in that case, though, I'd bet that the computer itself would have trouble keeping up.

This is exactly the reason I put Cat6 throughout my house when it was built. Builder tried to tell me that it was a waste of money with wireless technologies now.

City of Shawnee city council just approved a request for Google to come into the city with Fiber. I'm excited, but I was just about to pull the trigger on a TWC to DTV switch. 2 year contract there....wonder how long before GFiber would even become available (assuming they even come to Shawnee). Decisions, decisions.

use DTV for TV and gfiber for standalone internet

The Google T.V. and Internet package is such a good deal.

120 for t.v. and internet :eek:


might be worth waiting

Wow....The Have's (Kansas) and the Have Nots (Missouri) ?




http://www.kcconfidential.com/2012/0...ore/#more-5570

This map only shows the Missouri side.

If you have 6Mbps DSL and a single PC on 802.11G can't keep up, you have a problem with your wireless setup. A properly configured 802.11G setup should be able to peg a 20Mbps connection, and that's figuring in real-world conditions.

When you start to figure in all of the variables (operating systems, GigE, etc.) your average Windows PC isn't going to be about to take advantage of speeds above 100Mb with any regularity.

Depending on environmental factors and number of devices, 802.11n whether you're talking about 2-channel 2.4Ghz or 5Ghz, can provide speeds that are easily comparable to wired connections. I have a Netgear 5Ghz bridge I use for testing and I can write files to my NAS at 95Mbps over a wireless connection. That of course assumes that the NAS can write at those speeds in the first place, that I have excellent signal strength and line-of-sight between the bridge and the AP, etc.

Your builder isn't entirely wrong. By and large, while wireless isn't as good as wired, it's still "good enough".

I usually recommend that if you're building, put in wires. If you already have a house, wireless is generally a better option than fishing the walls...

Google Fiber just got ESPN...

http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/...el-lineup.html

Just need them to add Fox News & Fox Sports KC and then it will be "adios Time Warner" MetroSports would be nice too but IMO then will never happen in a million years.

So? Who's getting fiber first? Anybody else get an announcement today?

I just found this out today for my fiberhood:

Construction will begin SUMMER 2013.

Did you get an email? I haven't heard anything, but when the deadline ended, my fiberhood was 10th.

Yeah, I signed up for e-mail notifications.

You can go here and check: https://fiber.google.com/cities/#hea...52Fkansas%253F

It should tell you when.

Thanks. Summer 2013, rank #21.

I'm trying to figure out how Crown Center got 105% of households to sign up?

probably didn't know the correct # of condos initially

Time Warner, feeling the pressure, reaches an agreement to carry NFL Network.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...etwork-redzone

The National Football League reached agreement with Time Warner (TWC) Cable Inc. to carry the league-owned NFL Network and RedZone Channel, a person with direct knowledge of the situation said.

The multiyear accord may be announced later today, according to the person, who was granted anonymity because the contract hasn’t been signed. New York-based Time Warner, the second-largest U.S. cable company with about 12 million subscribers, had been the only major cable provider without the NFL Network. It isn’t known when the channels will appear on Time Warner systems, the person said.

The agreement comes about a month after the most-watched U.S. sports league reached agreement with Cablevision Systems Inc. to carry the two channels.

NFL Network airs 13 primetime regular-season games. RedZone is a game-day network that shows touchdowns and important plays inside the 20-yard line. NFL Network will carry the Cleveland Browns at the Baltimore Ravens on Sept. 27.

Time Warner spokeswoman Maureen Huff declined to comment. NFL spokesmen Brian McCarthy and Dan Masonson didn’t immediately return e-mails and phone calls seeking comment on whether an agreement had been reached.

Wow, i was starting to think it was never going to happen. This is one of the reasons ive never been a TW customer.

Looks like Google Fiber will be the next World Wide Wait....getting it! Ugh!!

next round of pre-register areas listed


Current Cities
Kansas City, KS
Kansas City, MO


Coming Next
North Kansas City, MO
South Kansas City, MO
Westwood, KS
Westwood Hills, KS
Mission Woods, KS

This is going to spread like AIDs around the KC metro area once people get their heads out of their asses. I would love to see it end up in Columbia. There are a shit ton of Hospitals for a town this size... that has to count for something!

They added all the big FOX channels now, which is big for sports.

I like that they're trying to keep it one tier + premium channels as much as possible. Still a couple big channels to add.

Cannot wait til it gets to the northland..

Who has it? How do you like it?

I believe it kicks off tomorrow.

So, is the internet still racist?

Some speed reports are around 700mbps. Anyone here got it yet?

I only know one person who has an actual installation appointment...no reports from them yet.
Posted via Mobile Device

That's because no one is on it yet.

Betrayed Bump.... I was so much looking forward to "divorcing" Time Warner this year but while I was at my condo's Super Bowl party last night I found out I would probably not be able to. Because I live in a Multi-Dwelling-Unit it turns out Google has a MUCH higher percentage within each building (70%) than in the fiberhood overall. What Google really wants is for the management/HOA in each building to pony up $300/unit (that WILL NOT happen in my building).

Moving to a house is out of the question for me because of disability.

I just which that when my "fiberhood" was pre-registering last summer Google would have come out and said the threshold for MDU's to receive the service would be so much higher. I feel so double-crossed.

Announcing plans to offer it in beautiful Olathe Ks.




http://www.kansascity.com/2013/03/19...to-olathe.html




The much-hyped barely launched Internet and TV service, which has debuted in the Kansas City market, will be discussed at tonight’s meeting of the Olathe City Council, according to an agenda for the meeting.

An agenda for tonight’s meeting of the Olathe City Council includes discussion of an agreement that would pave the way for the fiber optic network to carry Google Inc.’s first foray into selling Internet access.

The agenda says the city has made an agreement for Google to “install, maintain, and operate up to a 1 gigabit fiber network in Olathe, and, potentially, a WiFi network.”

While the deal in some ways mirrors agreements made elsewhere in the Kansas City market, the agenda said that terms struck between Google and Olathe “provide much greater detail and clarity regarding several matters, including, …and right-of-way usage conditions, Google’s responsibilities to properly install and maintain its facilities, and Google’s obligations to relocate its facilities as a result of City infrastructure projects.”
Google was expected to make an announcement of its own later today.

Google has continually been careful not to say how far it might expand its service. It’s said it wants to make an impact in the Kansas City market, but has never promised that it would reach deep into the suburbs.

The company first announced it would launch Google Fiber in this market two years ago, promising hook-ups for Kansas City and Kansas City, Kan.

While it began home installations in October, only a handful of blocks in Kansas City, Kan., have yet to tap into its lines.

At the low end, it offers relatively slow broadband free for seven years after customers pay $300 for installation. At the high end, for $120 a month under two-year contracts, it offers cable-like TV programming and Internet hook-ups capable of pushing data at rates of 1 gigabit per second. Those top speeds offer downloads 100 times faster than most U.S. home service, and uploads 1,000 times quicker than the norm.

Its move to Olathe is mildly surprising because the company has been intent on keeping costs down by keeping the service area geographically compact. Beyond the two Kansas Cities, Google Fiber has only made agreements to sell service in the smaller northern Johnson County towns of Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Woods. It has not, for instance, cut a deal yet in the seemingly lucrative market in Overland Park.

Even making a deal with Olathe hardly means Google Fiber service there is imminent. The company’s plans have fallen behind schedule several times. By its latest reckoning, construction in a large, central swath of Kansas City and across Kansas City, Kan., will stretch to the end of this year. Then it will move to southern parts of Kansas City and areas of the city north of the Missouri River.

Yet even there, Google appears to be finding that wiring a community might take longer than it expected. Last summer, Milo Medin, the company’s vice president of access services, estimated broadly that it might take four months to hook up the first 10 “fiberhoods” — Google-defined neighborhoods that average about 800 residences. Google Fiber installations began in October, but work has only begun in seven “fiberhoods” and is not yet finished in any.

Medin only made his prediction when pressed, and said at the time it would be difficult to gauge the speed of the rollout. He also said that the pace would pick up as Google’s contractor learned from experience and beefed up its crews.

So Johnson County residents might still be waiting a few years to switch to Google.
For those areas where enough people sign up indicating an interest in the service — Google calls the initial signup periods “rallies” — the company says it will come in for a single, limited period and string fiber optic lines directly to homes. Yet in its first Kansas City, Kan., neighborhood, Google is giving a second chance to consumers who didn’t sign service contracts before their first deadline.

Customers who decline installations during those special periods, Google had said previously, will not have a second chance to tap into the network later.

What effect will citywide wifi have on cell companies? I could just use skype on any wifi capable handheld device right?

C'mon St. Joe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :deevee:

Hey, just be happy you guys have a 54th Street. Baby steps.

That's what Google would like. Their goal is for you to have a device in your hand at all times connected to the internet. Their profit doesn't come from connecting you, but instead from having you connected.

I'd say stay tuned for more from this department.

worthless bastards skipped overland park and went on to Olathe

:cuss:

Olathe already has fiber ran in all the new developments. I wouldn't worry about this, just a way for google to make money quick.

awesome! suck it TimeWartner!!

https://fiber.google.com/about/poles/

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Better weather to get things set up there, ya know.

would it be considered Ironic that this video lags while streaming or just sad?

I'm guessing there was probably an incentive by Olathe or the OP government had too many demands.

It makes no sense otherwise. Overland Park should be their moneymaker. The place they go to to recoup the losses of running fiber in the inner city where their saturation will be lower.

Also they're hiring for installers, trying to find out if it's actually Google or a third party company.

its a third party. i have the contact info if anyone wants it, pm me. i already got one friend hired. pays $16-$18/hr starting.

Tuesday big Austin announcement coming.. may be that Austin will be the next Google Fiber city!

St. George, Kansas will soon have a communications infrastructure that will be the envy of people in the largest metro areas. Wamego Telecommunications Co., Inc. (WTC) has announced plans to build fiber technology to the city of St. George and the surrounding area, resulting in St. George having one of the world’s few 100% Fiber-To-The-Premise (FTTP) communication systems. In addition to Wamego and St. Marys, the St. George area will be among the privileged 10% of the nation to enjoy the amazing benefits of FTTP – state-of-the-art digital television service, high-speed Internet and phone service over a fiber network with virtually limitless capacity. WTC will begin construction in the spring of 2013 and will complete construction by the fall.



Because the bandwidth capabilities of FTTP are unlimited, WTC will be able to offer Internet speeds up to 15MB and will be able to provide over 100MB to each doorstep. FTTP will also bring new options for television service. “We will be able to offer St. George residents the best possible entertainment experience through advanced digital television services including Hi-Def, instant movie rentals through Video on Demand, Hi-Def Digital Video Recorders (DVRs) and more,” stated Jeff Wick, WTC’s General Manager. “Our decision to bring FTTP to the St. George community and surrounding area is part of our overall plan to replace our current infrastructure with technology that will meet the needs of our customers, both now and in the future.”



According to Wick, the initial construction phase will include the free installation of a Network Interface Device (NID), and fiber connection to that NID, on the outside of all homes and businesses. The NID will allow WTC to connect its fiber system to the telephone, Internet and television jacks inside a home or business.

Yep, they couldn't get through all the red tape to install in Overland Park so they are bailing out and heading to Texas

ughhhh i want

Me TOO.

Think you could run CP off a dedicated fiber line?

possibly!

Will be interesting to see how aggressive the Austin build out is. The pace has been a bit Zzzz here.


Who are the big internet/cable incumbents there?

They didn't skip over OP to go to Olathe.

Olathe:
A. The County Seat
B. Already had google laying fiber lines down last summer before the official "agreement" this year.
C. Is the home of two government contractors, Honeywell and Garmin. Whereas OP really only has Sprint, which isn't major in this case.

As explained above, it makes perfect sense why Olathe would "get" it first. Overland Park didn't make demands, in fact, Overland Park wasn't even on their radar before Olathe. On top of everything I listed, Google also ran an Ad Campaign last year when they announced KC's fiber deal. Basically, it was a popularity contest, the "next" city with the highest "sign ups" would get the fiber plan, on top of the logistics involved in getting it there.

As an example, Olathe blew OP, Lenexa, and Shawnee away in the voting, more residents from Olathe voted than those three combined.

Officially or unofficially? I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt, that there is already an agreement in place with Overland Park for Google Fiber.

Except for that isn't true. Google Fiber has been approved and agreed upon for Overland Park. It just isn't public knowledge yet, and might not be for some time now, but rest assured, it is coming, and I'll guarantee that.

Well I think Overland Park and Olathe are better thought of as suburbs of Kansas City than new launch areas for Google Fiber. Austin will be the first expansion outside of the KC area.

It's really just Time Warner. Some areas have uverse and some have a local provider called Grande.. and there is CLEAR wireless broadband. Google Fiber will absolutely DESTROY them though.

OH and just a note... Google Fiber says NO to hosting servers so no chance for me to host CP at home.

Good. **** Time Warner. Sounds about the same as here. Time Warner with uverse overbuilding.


I'm a bit surprised Time Warner hasn't reacted more here, but I'm sure that'll come when Google starts reaching more people. So far they've mostly just complained - you can tell is drives them crazy that people are actually excited about a cable/internet provider, when normally people put it up there as a necessary evil.

You're my hero.

This may have been posted earlier in the thread so forgive me if Q, but this has been one of TWC's responses. It makes me hate them more.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/01...r-google-fiber

An anonymous reader writes
" Rob is a Time Warner Cable customer, and he's received two really interesting things from them lately. First, a 50% speed boost: they claim to have upgraded the speed of his home Internet connection. That's neat. Oh, and they've also cut his bill, from $45 to $30. Wow! What has prompted this amazing treatment? Years of loyalty and on-time payments? No, not exactly. Rob lives in Kansas City, pilot site for Google Fiber. Even though they have shut off people in other states for using too much bandwidth. Is Google making them show that it's not that hard to provide good service and bandwidth?"

Officially confirmed for Austin



http://www.statesman.com/news/busine...le-fibe/nXG3g/

Why Austin, and not expand a little ways over to Lawrence? Knology/WOW and AT&T are the WORST.

heh, AT&T announces plans to build a gigabit fiber network in Austin area now.

The consumer wins!



http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pi...eless-networks


AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) said today that it is pleased to see local communities and municipalities acknowledging the promise and power of economic development associated with telecommunications investment.

“Most encouraging is the recognition by government officials that policies which eliminate unnecessary regulation, lower costs and speed infrastructure deployment, can be a meaningful catalyst to additional investment in advanced networks which drives employment and economic growth,” said Randall Stephenson, AT&T chairman and CEO.

Today, AT&T announced that in conjunction with its previously announced Project VIP expansion of broadband access, it is prepared to build an advanced fiber optic infrastructure in Austin, Texas, capable of delivering speeds up to 1 gigabit per second. AT&T’s expanded fiber plans in Austin anticipate it will be granted the same terms and conditions as Google on issues such as geographic scope of offerings, rights of way, permitting, state licenses and any investment incentives. This expanded investment is not expected to materially alter AT&T’s anticipated 2013 capital expenditures.

AT&T consistently invests in U.S. communities -- $98 billion in capital in the past five years, more than any other public company -- and remains committed to working with any metropolitan community to reach agreement on incentives to improve the climate and speed of overall telecommunications infrastructure investment – facilitating both wired and wireless broadband access. Our potential capital investment will depend on the extent we can reach satisfactory agreements

"Starting today, Google Fiber TV customers will be able to add on our new HBO package to their plan for $20/month (plus tax). The plan will include HBO, HBO2, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Latino, HBO Comedy, and HBO Zone.

Customers can also add our new Cinemax package for $10/month (plus tax), and get eight new channels, including Max, MoreMax, ActionMax, ThrillerMax, WMax, @Max, 5-StarMax, and OuterMax.

You can sign up for HBO and Cinemax starting now. Anytime before your installation date, please visit My Fiber and sign in with the Google Account associated with Google Fiber. You can make changes by clicking edit next to your plan on the your Account tab."

3rd city is now Provo, Utah
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/

Screw adding cities for google fiber until they add it my ****ing house!

Google Fiber coming to Shawnee, KS.

An agreement has been reached between Google and the city of Shawnee. There is a special city council meeting tonight to vote on the plan.

Per KC Star website

How long is it going to take to get Google Fiber to these cities once they announce the deals?

Does anyone actually have it yet?

I'm scheduled for a Summer install, but I honestly haven't heard a word from anyone actually using this yet.

This, why can't they get it every home in KC, KS before the move on............

Here's a story from the Star about some of the problems a few of the customers have had so far. Overall they are happy with it though.


http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/28...tomers-in.html

add Raytown to the list
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/05/03...ed-google.html

I'm still pissed that KC beat out Topeka.

:clap::thumb:

Cool. We live in KC, but are real close to Raytown, and close to the current boundary for google fiber. Hopefully when they expand towards Raytown, they can get our neighborhood along the way!

yeah i'm in the same situation, in KC right next to Raytown but out of their current plans. I'll be watching their updated maps, but i doubt they'll include me since my area is sparsely populated.

Eta that this reaches Olathe? Been holding out getting a contract from Comcast

According to some interactive government map I saw, my area isn't getting gigabit internet for atleast 5 years. Damnit.

You can add Grandview to the list too.

bastard beat me to it




Google Fiber Expanding To Grandview, MO
By Daniel Perez on 05/08/2013


Google Fiber has been slowly, but surely, expanding itself as Google recently announced it expects to release the service in Provo, Utah in late 2013 and Austin, Texas by 2014. A new city is being announced today as Google Fiber will now expand to Grandview, Missouri.

At this time, Google has yet to reveal when exactly Grandview will begin to get Google Fiber, although in their announcement blog post, they did say “it will still be awhile.” Prior to its expansion into Grandview, Google says they need to “plan and engineer our network there first” which for the most part means the expansion is in its confirmation stages and is nowhere near its actual implementation phase.

The confirmation of Google Fiber’s expansion was solidified on Tuesday evening as the Board of Aldermen voted to bring the service to its community. This makes us wonder what our local town representatives are doing all day as they should be calling Google day and night to get us Fiber ASAP.