Somebody's gotta have the inside scoop on Google Fiber launching tomorrow..??

[DRU]

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.

[penguinz]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I use the SolarWinds Engineer's toolkit and also Multiping.

GF is aware of the issue, some other peeps in the neighborhood are seeing the same things (loaded Multiping), and GF is working the issue.

It's all good, I just had to convince them that we're not nuts.

Are you still using the GFNB for your wireless?

If so how is it?

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by penguinz

Are you still using the GFNB for your wireless?

If so how is it?

Yes. I'f I'm connected to the network box it's very usable. If I connect to the one other TV box that I've enabled it on (that's hard-wired back to the network box with Cat6), it performs much more poorly.

I don't have any AC laptops to connect wireless-AC to the network box with, but all the phones do, and it's very fast. When my son gets home he'll test it because his fancy-shmancy () new ASUS laptop has AC.

[Sully]

A week in, and still loving it. Only one problem, and it's not huge, but decent sized...

There doesn't exist the buffer - back when fast forwarding a show on DVR, so I have to fast forward, play, and then rewind to get to the next spot (after commercials). Kinda sucks, but I'm assuming it will be fixed.

[KCrockaholic]

Had it for over a month now. Internet, 2 thumbs up. TV, average. Maybe below average.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by KCrockaholic

Had it for over a month now. Internet, 2 thumbs up. TV, average. Maybe below average.

why is t.v. below average?


channels?
issues?
picture quality?

[KCrockaholic]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

why is t.v. below average?


channels?
issues?
picture quality?

Very slow booting. I also have an issue when I first turn on the TV, I have to switch the input to HDMI 3 every single time. No idea why. I didn't have that issue with ATT. Channels are fine. Picture quality is fine. I guess I'm still bothered by the fact I missed the Esky inside the park home run thanks to Google Fiber shitting itself 5 minutes before first pitch. I ended up having to go to the bar down the street to watch the game because I had no idea how long it would be out.

TV wise, I think I liked ATT better so far.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by KCrockaholic

Very slow booting. I also have an issue when I first turn on the TV, I have to switch the input to HDMI 3 every single time. No idea why. I didn't have that issue with ATT. Channels are fine. Picture quality is fine. I guess I'm still bothered by the fact I missed the Esky inside the park home run thanks to Google Fiber shitting itself 5 minutes before first pitch. I ended up having to go to the bar down the street to watch the game because I had no idea how long it would be out.

TV wise, I think I liked ATT better so far.

So how long does it take for the picture to show up after turning on the T.V.?

[KCrockaholic]

Originally Posted by Mr. Laz

So how long does it take for the picture to show up after turning on the T.V.?

30-45 seconds. I can get over it. But it's annoying.

[Sully]

Originally Posted by KCrockaholic

30-45 seconds. I can get over it. But it's annoying.

I don't have that issue at all, on any of my TVs. That sucks, dude.

[GloryDayz]

I'd be interested to know how other folk's experience with wireless is going? IOW, which boxes do you have wireless enabled on?

I also took some previous advice and power-cycled the slow-to-react-to-the-remote control boxes and it did seem to work for a couple of days. But it have to be a "pull the plug" power cycle, not just a "power-off using the remote" version. But after a few days it's back to taking 1-5 seconds to "wake up" to a button push. And you have to be interested/patient to actually wait 5-to-6 seconds to see if it's just slow, or was an errant button push.

FYI, pings from two hard-wired PCs - one directly connected to the network box and another daisy-chained from a personal 8-port Gig-switch to the network box - have now been stable for 36+ hours. So that's good news.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Sully

A week in, and still loving it. Only one problem, and it's not huge, but decent sized...

There doesn't exist the buffer - back when fast forwarding a show on DVR, so I have to fast forward, play, and then rewind to get to the next spot (after commercials). Kinda sucks, but I'm assuming it will be fixed.

I trust you're using the jump-back button? Not perfect, and may not apply equally based on how FF you were going, but I've found that FF at x60 then a single 15-second skip-back gets me just about right.

Oh, and the x240 FF/RW is pretty dang awesome!

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by KCrockaholic

30-45 seconds. I can get over it. But it's annoying.

Are you powering-off both the TV and the GF TV box all the time?

Just an FYI, I just powered-off the GF TV box, waited a minute, then powered it back on and it took 4 seconds for the picture to come back. I've not timed a pull-the-power-cord reset, but I'd say it's about around a minute.

Do you somehow have the cable box being powered of the TV being up? I recall that being an option (that I never used) with the TWC cable box powering the TV (I know, that would be the exact opposite of what's happening here) so I'm wondering if you GF TV box is essentially getting its power plug pulled.

[Sully]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

I trust you're using the jump-back button? Not perfect, and may not apply equally based on how FF you were going, but I've found that FF at x60 then a single 15-second skip-back gets me just about right.

Oh, and the x240 FF/RW is pretty dang awesome!

Lol
After I posted that, I thought I couldn't be the only person upset by that, so I googled it, and people talked about just that. I had never even thought to use those buttons. But I began to use them, and it's much better. Still not as good as the other dvrs, but workable.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Sully

Lol
After I posted that, I thought I couldn't be the only person upset by that, so I googled it, and people talked about just that. I had never even thought to use those buttons. But I began to use them, and it's much better. Still not as good as the other dvrs, but workable.

I get it. And being able to set them is cool, but I did like how the TWC offering had an amount it would back-up based on how fast you were FFing. I guess some people are faster than others, but I must have been their test case because it was pretty spot-on.

GF will get there I'm sure.

[Mr. Laz]

AT&T expands gigabit fiber to 23 cities starting at $70 (or $110)
Suburbs of Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami, and others lit up with "GigaPower."

by Jon Brodkin - Nov 10, 2015 9:40am CST

AT&T yesterday announced expansions of its gigabit fiber Internet service into parts of 23 cities and towns.

The new markets are mostly in the suburbs of big cities where AT&T already offered its fastest broadband. For example, AT&T previously brought its "U-verse with GigaPower" service to Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Miami, Nashville, and Orlando. The expansion this week brings the service into a bunch of cities and towns within the larger metro areas.

AT&T’S PLAN TO WATCH YOUR WEB BROWSING—AND WHAT YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT
Want to opt out? It could cost up to $744 extra per year.

Pricing for the Internet-only 1Gbps package is either $70 a month or $110 a month, depending on where you live. As we've reported previously, AT&T tends to match Google Fiber's $70 pricing, but not in areas where Google isn't offering service. Besides that, AT&T's lowest price in each city requires customers to opt into "Internet Preferences," which gives the company permission to examine each customer’s Web traffic in order to serve personalized ads.

The higher $110 gigabit pricing is used in the Chicago, Houston, Miami, and Orlando metro areas, with 300Mbps speeds costing $80 a month. The other markets in yesterday's announcements can buy gigabit service for $70 a month.

AT&T has been expanding its fiber network despite the company's previous claims that new common carrier regulations and net neutrality rules for broadband providers would stifle investment. But the expansion is not unexpected, because AT&T agreed to it in exchange for government clearance of its DirecTV acquisition.

The full list of new GigaPower cities includes the Atlanta suburbs of Alpharetta, Cartersville, Duluth, East Point, and Rome; Chicago suburbs of Bolingbrook, Mundelein, Shorewood, and Volo; the Nashville suburb of Gallatin; the Houston suburbs of Hunters Creek Village and Rosenberg; the Miami suburbs of Coral Gables, Homestead, Miami Gardens, and Parkland; the Nashville suburb of Spring Hill; and the Orlando suburbs of Oviedo and Sanford. Rounding out the list of new Gigapower markets are Clemmons, Garner, Holly Springs, and Salisbury in North Carolina.

AT&T also said it plans to make GigaPower available in parts of Munster, Indiana; Elmwood Park, Illinois; Avondale Estates and Jonesboro in Georgia; and North Miami, Florida.