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Wow $70 for 1Gbit U/D from Google, or $240 for 500mb from FIOS with customer service that is disappearing. No wonder they want it stopped.
 
Gibsons said:
What neighborhood, where did you hear the rumor? I must know!
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Bouldin in particular, but basically all of 78704 is getting wired up first, if you believe the rumors.

The first permits pulled for the work were all for the sites in 78704 getting the free connections(schools, libraries, etc.) as well as for the rights-of-way down S. Lamar, S. 1st, and S. Congress.

One would think you would be applying for permits in roughly the order you would be doing the work.... so fingers crossed.
 
silverpig said:
Man, I feel just like I did back in 1998 when I was still on 33.6k and people on forums were showing how fast they could download movie trailers with their new cable connections.
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Haha I remember that feeling. When ADSL came out here, it was incredible to be able to download at 1mbps instead of ~50k. With dialup if you were getting a solid 4KB/sec that was a good speed.

To think, that the recent fibre that came out here, which is 50/30, is literally 1000 times faster than dialup. The old ADSL equipment is still humming away in the CO, it's funny because each card can hold only 8 customers and there's like maybe 10 cards per shelf. The newest shelves, the Stingers can hold 48 customers per card, and think each shelf holds like 24 cards or something like that.

Then there's the fibre, it's literally 4 server racks, that's it lol. It does internet, phone and TV. The traditional pots phone equipment takes up a whole room. It's reliable though, uptime of 30+ years. It's interesting to see the various generations of tech and how stuff has evolved.
 
Crusty said:
One would think you would be applying for permits in roughly the order you would be doing the work.... so fingers crossed.
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Does make sense, plus 04 has a big hipness factor.

I figured they'd hit downtown/campus area first for population density, but there are some infrastructure issues downtown.
 
I expected more from Google. Their name starts with G and yet you aren't getting a Gbps download. Missed opportunity.
 
akahoovy said:
Mmm... I wish that would show up around Dallas. I could probably hear TWC shit the bed from my apartment.
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twc isn't bad, i'm in the area too and they've been solid for me. . . i have the 15/1 package... enough for three people streaming movies at the same time in HD. . .
 
The free internet package looks nice. Just pay the one time $300 installation fee. Who cares if it's only 5Mbps
 
eelw said:
The free internet package looks nice. Just pay the one time $300 installation fee. Who cares if it's only 5Mbps
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Dang you gotta pay $300 to have it installed? That might make me think twice lol. I don't need all that bandwidth to begin with.

But... I'd probably pay up let's be honest here.
 
Tweak155 said:
Dang you gotta pay $300 to have it installed? That might make me think twice lol. I don't need all that bandwidth to begin with.

But... I'd probably pay up let's be honest here.
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It's my understanding that's only if you don't want to sign up for one of their for-pay plans.

If you sign up for a premium package I think they waive the installation fee or credit it back to you over the first few months.
 
Lithium381 said:
twc isn't bad, i'm in the area too and they've been solid for me. . . i have the 15/1 package... enough for three people streaming movies at the same time in HD. . .
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No, TWC isn't that bad but DFW just doesn't have very good bandwidth for a lot of areas. I can watch Netflix during lunch at my place and get great quality, and then go home after work and watch Netflix struggle to buffer the lowest stream rates.

Really I hate the duopoly of ISP's. AT&T's customer service makes me want to hit people and TWC was kind of incompetent activating my modem when I first got them. It's been fair since.
 
akahoovy said:
No, TWC isn't that bad but DFW just doesn't have very good bandwidth for a lot of areas. I can watch Netflix during lunch at my place and get great quality, and then go home after work and watch Netflix struggle to buffer the lowest stream rates.

Really I hate the duopoly of ISP's. AT&T's customer service makes me want to hit people and TWC was kind of incompetent activating my modem when I first got them. It's been fair since.
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I experience similar issues. I've got TWC's 100 megabit package, and it's great for Steam & other assorted downloads, but at night time Hulu & Netflix still suck. I'm not a network guy, but it seems weird that I can download at 10MB/s from Steam at a time when I can't watch a Hulu stream without stops for buffering.
 
Nebor said:
I experience similar issues. I've got TWC's 100 megabit package, and it's great for Steam & other assorted downloads, but at night time Hulu & Netflix still suck. I'm not a network guy, but it seems weird that I can download at 10MB/s from Steam at a time when I can't watch a Hulu stream without stops for buffering.
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TWC throttles pretty much all streaming services. Youtube is the worst for me, forget trying to watch anything but a 360p stream.
 
Man if they had that in my area id be all over the free service. Even at 300 bucks to install thats damn cheap. Free for 7 years. Thats what 3.5 bucks a month for internet? Most of my stuff downloads at night anyways so i could careless about it taking 5 minutes vs 1 hour

But 70 bucks isnt bad either 🙂
 
That data center is here to stay, I drive by it everyday. It created a lot of jobs. And location is really irrelevant in this day and age when it comes to the NSA.
 
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