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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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03-12-2016, 01:50 PM | #811 |
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Guys ran the cable from the street to my house on Thursday. Instead of running it from the south side, where this is a connection at the street, they ran it from the far side all the way around and through my back yard from the connection in my neighbor's yard. Frustrating. That said, I assume that means I'll have Google Fiber in 5-10 days?
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03-12-2016, 06:23 PM | #812 | |
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Make sure you let them know you want more than one drop in the house or you'll end up like me with them running only one. But it's all good, I got to teach the kids in the neighborhood about drill through floors, pulling cable, crimping RJ45s, and installing drops in walls. Lemons meet lemonade. |
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03-12-2016, 06:52 PM | #813 |
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Is anyone actually getting 1 gigabit per second?
I moved to 100 Mbps from 50 last week through Time Warner and it's awesome. I can jump to 300 for $20 more or 200 for $10 more. I can't even imagine 1 gigabit. Google fiber is supposedly coming to LA soon, although I highly doubt the infrastructure will be in place for my home any time soon. |
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03-12-2016, 07:22 PM | #814 | |
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I bought the linksys ea6900, but that was over a year ago, may be better WAN to LAN routers out there now. Im also not on google fiber, but different gigabit fiber. And yes, its real, and its fantastic. |
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03-12-2016, 07:24 PM | #815 | |
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03-12-2016, 07:38 PM | #816 | |
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All-in-all I've not seen it be any different in terms of day-to-day Internet experience from when Time Warner bumped me to 60Mbps, but on those mornings when I feel like it, I can run the test and feel better. With what Time Warner is offering now, after the year is up I might go back to Time Warner if it costs less. From the previous channel that I think blows (because it doesn't record the previous channel while you were on the other channel, to the pic-in-a-pic that doesn't exist, to the "wireless in every TV box (that you need on every TV) that they wait until they install to tell you isn't really working yet (so you might not want to do it), to the remote being a slow dog (sometime 6 seconds for the TV box to respond).....since the Internet performance doesn't seem to be any better I'll probably make my decision on price and TV functionality. But yes, you do get almost all of the Gig to the test sites. |
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03-12-2016, 08:23 PM | #817 | |
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To each their own...the great thing about having competition for these services is that providers will have to innovate and provide better service to keep their customers. It is certainly best to exam what your needs and expectations are and pick the provider that meets them. Now with cable companies, at&t, google fiber, etc. all trying for your business, it is the best time ever to get what you want and expect from these services.
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03-12-2016, 08:49 PM | #818 | |
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But you're right, to each their own. I was just expecting going from 60 to ~1000 to be an eye-opener. I guess Time Warner was better than I thought. And if nothing else, I like how GF has made TW drop their rates.. LONG overdue. |
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03-12-2016, 08:56 PM | #819 | |
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My dad recently got Fiber and I watched the Big 12 Championship there earlier... great picture, there were some minor annoyances, like all the wasted space when viewing the guide with the useless 1x1 picture in the corner, he went back 10 seconds at one point and it jumped back like 10 minutes... but, I'd expect things like that to get better over time. Overall though, they've already done what they set out to do... TWC and others have taken their foot off the hose and can all of a sudden afford to offer 100mbps+... weird how quickly that happens when customers flock elsewhere.
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04-12-2016, 06:29 AM | #820 | |
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Google Fiber is ending a free-Internet offer in its first city
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04-12-2016, 06:44 AM | #821 | |
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Perhaps to up-spend on contracts so that you can stream at least a few things when not at home! Maybe to fund a fix so you can really enable WiFi on all the TV boxes without hearing them say, "well we really don't recommend doing that quite yet." Or maybe to fund having 5Ghz wireless in the TV box too. I know, perhaps to fund a real Picture in a Picture feature... LOL, it's all good.. |
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04-12-2016, 07:20 AM | #822 |
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Lulz Glory be regretting it looks like
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04-12-2016, 08:08 AM | #823 |
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Glory is not a happy google fiber customer.
Like Bwana you have a rabbit problem. Your is just the technicolor kind. Sent from my LG-D800 using Tapatalk
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04-12-2016, 08:26 AM | #824 | |
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Or to fund all the people they will be giving it free to. I am sorry but that is ****ed up. Same for when obama switched free phone service to include cellphones. Too many of the people game the system. My own shithead family does it. We cant pay for internet. But have enough money for rims on a shit vehicle, weed, smokes and alcohol. /rantover |
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04-12-2016, 09:15 AM | #825 |
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Getting Fiber installed right now. I have a Logitech Harmony remote on main TV, so hopefully the remote to box issue isn't a big deal for me (other 2 TVs are watched less).
Don't care about PIP, we'll see about the TV box as a wifi extender and whether the Network Box covers my entire house. I will miss having AMC. For me, internet speed, whole home DVR and price were my incentive to move from TWC. |
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