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Somebody's gotta have the inside scoop on Google Fiber launching tomorrow..??
https://fiber.google.com/savethedate/
Live broadcast over YouTube tomorrow. Anybody have any early news on this? Will it be available all over the Metro? How long will the waiting list be? Anybody know anything? I'm impatient. |
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Yes, they have already torn up my neighborhood. I am not too far from you, over near Miller J Fields, so hopefully soon!
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To Ookla's KC "(powered by Google Fiber point), 1 minute later, it was 750'ish down and 895'ish up. I think the key difference is that Google's internal test returns the connection's peak value during the upload/download process, Ookla's is an average/RMS of the entire window. I'll say this again.....WOW, Google has some work to do on the "watch TV on the PC" offering! Simply put, with Time Warner logged into Time Warner and you got a guide looking deal and just played what was available (at home or away did make a difference, just like with GF). With Google they give you a website with 45 links to networks you can go to, logon there (using you GF credentials), then stream from them. A shift in process that's not a shift in the right direction IMO. The PC TV watching developers need to take a lesson from their own Android/iPhone App developers... Both have work to do, but the Android/iPhone people are still way ahead of the "on the pc" people. |
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OK, more news that you might find interesting.....
1) They don't have Picture In a Picture.. LOL, I just checked my watch and it's 2015! THEY DON'T HAVE PICTURE IN A PICTURE!!! OMG!!! That just makes me laugh! 2) Google Fiber doesn't carry BEIN Sports. For soccer fans, that's not a small deal. 3) They don't carry AMC. Not that I really ever watched AMC, but some of my neighbors seem to give a shit. 4) You CAN use a IR remote! Evidently their own remote does both. 5) If you have a trainable universal remote (most of us have plenty of $10 universal remotes, but not too many of them are trainable...), you can take the Google remote out of blue-tooth mode and program (train) the universal remote to do the same things. It'll take 20-30 minutes because you have to do it key-by-key, but it beats a drive to the Google store and 50+ clams for them to give you a second remote. And it ends the "Throwing the Google remote back and fourth in the living room" syndrome. 6) If you're a geek and want to know what's going on "on your network", don't trust their web interface. First, their web interface will allow you to do plenty of specific tasks per device (static IP, port forwarding, put in DMZ, and the likes), but they forgot to add "block" to the list of options. Their answer is to just change the SSID. OK, that's a bit of a cop-out (that wouldn't work in the wired environment very well), but it is what it is. Then there's the matter of wireless devices showing up as being wired (COAX to boot!!!!) to TV boxes. Yeah, that was the point where the guy admitted their interface was still under development and needed more work. I tend to agree... But if you're an "I don't care about that geeky shit" type, none of this would concern you... Did I mention that you can tell the individual wireless antenna's MAC addresses in the network and TV boxes? Yeah, makes it sort of difficult to tell which you're connected to (if you care [and I do]). I know this, the Google lady I was talking to was writing feverishly and asked if it would be OK if a manager and senior engineer could call me "offline" to discuss some of these things. So I fear they're either interested in my questions, or about to snap my fiber! Did I mention they opted-out of Pic in a Pic? LOL! |
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I've had picture in picture for years, with AT&T and DirecTV.
I've never used it once. I wish I did, but it's just more handy to flip back and forth. |
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Watch on PC is garbage, I'll agree with that, that said, watch ESPN does work well, its just a bit inconvenient to get to...nbd. No picture in picture is not a big deal. I like the previous feature. Tracks the last 10 channels and you can rewind on any of them.
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It just strikes me as funny in 2013'ish they must have been sitting in a meeting room and decided not to have PIP. It's all good, I have a Gig.. I think my larger point is that while the Gig is awesome, GF has some dents in their armor too. I'm sure they'll work them out. |
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I know it does 10, but I'm taking the installers word that you can rewind on all of them.
The DVR is pretty robust too. 2 TB, 500 HRs of HD recording, you can really fine tune the settings too, first runs only vs all showings, you can limit a show to only 1 channel, you can limit the number of recordings it saves...I have all mine set up to only save 5 recordings at the most. Posted via Mobile Device |
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