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Mar 11, 2014#1

Covar

So a couple of weeks ago Google announced 34 new cities in 9 metro areas that are possible candidates for Google Fiber service next year.

One of those areas is Raleigh-Durham (or the Triangle as it's called in NC). So by late 2014 I should know if Google Fiber and it's Gigabit Internet will be coming to my city.

Well today the local news is reporting that another company, RST Fiber, has been working on laying a gigabit fiber network across the state and has just turned it on. Service to Raleigh will begin rolling out within 60 days. So hopefully this year I'll be able to get gigabit internet service for only $99 a month.

While I contemplate the feasibility of wiring ethernet through my house, is anyone else on the Google Fiber expansion list, or are able to get gigabit through another company?

Mar 11, 2014#2

Ravenpoe

As someone living in rural Florida, I've just come to accept that nothing good will ever come here. We don't even have cable tv service, much less decent internet options. If it weren't for wireless 4G, we'd have nothing at all.

Mar 11, 2014#3

ThatNickGuy

Ravenpoe said:
nothing at all.
nothing at all.
nothing at all.

Mar 11, 2014#4

Ravenpoe

ThatNickGuy said:

Stupid sexy Flanders.

Mar 11, 2014#5

PatrThom

Covar said:
is anyone else on the Google Fiber expansion list, or are able to get gigabit through another company?

Pretty much the only way anyone here in the USA ever gets gigabit service from their ISP is after Google (or the municipality itself) "threatens" to come to town, forcing the ISP to get off their ass and bump up the transmission rates. If you're not lucky enough to live in an area deemed strategic enough to attract the attention of someone like Google, however, then you don't have much hope.

--Patrick

Apr 10, 2014#6

Covar

AT&T just made a proposal to our North Carolina Next Generation Network Consortium, a group of universities and cities seeking out ultra-high speed internet for the Triangle. Apparently it will be the U-Verse Gigabit like they offer in Austin. By my count that will be 3 gigabit ISP choices for the consumer within the next 2 years. 2 of which, won't require a contract.

Hurray for competition!

Apr 10, 2014#7

Gilgamesh

Covar said:
So a couple of weeks ago Google announced 34 new cities in 9 metro areas that are possible candidates for Google Fiber service next year.

One of those areas is Raleigh-Durham (or the Triangle as it's called in NC). So by late 2014 I should know if Google Fiber and it's Gigabit Internet will be coming to my city.

Well today the local news is reporting that another company, RST Fiber, has been working on laying a gigabit fiber network across the state and has just turned it on. Service to Raleigh will begin rolling out within 60 days. So hopefully this year I'll be able to get gigabit internet service for only $99 a month.

While I contemplate the feasibility of wiring ethernet through my house, is anyone else on the Google Fiber expansion list, or are able to get gigabit through another company?

Living in Austin I'm going to be in the second city ever to get Google Fiber. I'm ecstatic. With Google Fiber on the way, AT&T and TWC have started claiming they're going to offer Gigabit but I've dealt with both of those companies in the past, and their limitations, and I'll be a happy Google customer soon enough.

Apr 10, 2014#8

Covar

Gilgamesh said:
Living in Austin I'm going to be in the second city ever to get Google Fiber. I'm ecstatic. With Google Fiber on the way, AT&T and TWC have started claiming they're going to offer Gigabit but I've dealt with both of those companies in the past, and their limitations, and I'll be a happy Google customer soon enough.

You should check out what else you have as well. One of the podcasts I listen to has a host in Austin, and IIRC he has Gigabit internet with a small local ISP.

Apr 10, 2014#9

Jay

As a Canadian watching all these places getting awesome internet...

Apr 10, 2014#10

Covar

You can move down, I know several Canadian expats. We even have a losing hockey team, so you'd feel right at home.

Apr 10, 2014#11

Dave

They have gigabit here in Omaha. Sort of. There's a company who claims to bring it, but it's in a very small area of the city and nowhere near me. And that means it's out West where the rich, white people live. I live in a more ethnically diverse part of town so I don't expect to see it any time soon.

Apr 10, 2014#12

PatrThom

Dave said:
They have gigabit here in Omaha. Sort of. There's a company who claims to bring it, but it's in a very small area of the city and nowhere near me. And that means it's out West where the rich, white people live. I live in a more ethnically diverse part of town so I don't expect to see it any time soon.

This sounds like comedy gold...with the right audience.

--Patrick

Apr 10, 2014#13

Dave

It's actually really telling if you look at a map of the city vs. racial makeup of the city. In Omaha, North-East is predominantly black, South-East is Hispanic, Central is a mix, North-West is mostly low to middle income whites, South-West is mostly middle income whites. The farther West you get the more the incomes rises.

This gigabit service is all West. In fact, it's not even CLOSE to the center of the city, let alone the (yuck!) dirty, dirty Eastern part.

Apr 10, 2014#14

Gilgamesh

Dave said:
It's actually really telling if you look at a map of the city vs. racial makeup of the city. In Omaha, North-East is predominantly black, South-East is Hispanic, Central is a mix, North-West is mostly low to middle income whites, South-West is mostly middle income whites. The farther West you get the more the incomes rises.

This gigabit service is all West. In fact, it's not even CLOSE to the center of the city, let alone the (yuck!) dirty, dirty Eastern part.

Austin is almost identically split like that racially.

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