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5 More Google Fiberhoods Coming To Kansas City
skade88 writes "If you live in KC, Google is doing their part to make sure you get your daily fiber. They are launching their gigabit home internet service in five new areas in KC. From the article: '"In 2013, we're going to hit the ground running, finishing installations in Dub's Dread, and then quickly moving on to five more fiberhoods," the company wrote, using its invented term for zones where Google Fiber will be deployed. "Based on pre-registration results, the next fiberhoods on the list are Piper Schools, Delaware Ridge, Painted Hills, Open Door, and Arrowhead. And we have some more good news for folks in some of these areas—we've extended a few fiberhood boundaries slightly, so that more people can get Google Fiber. You can see the new boundaries below and on our website, where you can check to see if your home is now eligible."'"
Had fiber for two years already myself.
Now if only I could get rid of the people.
I live in Oklahoma, and the residential internet here is atrocious.
For those of us in the telecommunications industry, what type of FTTH deployment are they doing? For that matter, who's gear are they using? Calix, Ericsson, Occam, Adtran, or something homegrown?
Man, I really want to move to Kansas so I can live in Dub's Dread. Dub's Dread: I am the law!
Meanwhile Telenor (my ISP) has limited my bandwidth to 500kbps for 30+5 days because I downloaded more than 100GB in a 30day sliding window.
The world is unfair
While Google Fiber is getting most of the attention, Kansas City isn't the only place with gigabit Internet speeds. Chattanooga, Tennessee and Burlington, Vermont (my city) both have gigabit Internet via fiber-to-the-home as well as a few other places around the country. I've started an initiative in Burlington called BTV Gig (http://btvgig.org/) to try and bring attention to this and decide how our community is going to leverage gigabit.
Bradley Holt
Google is great and all, but I wouldn't be so quick to subscribe to their fiber service.
If you run all of your internet traffic through Google then they have the ability to mine every last ounce of data from your activity. While other ISPs might have access to the same type of data already, Google is the only one that has a business model based on targeted advertising. Google wants to know everything about you in order to sell advertisements. Other ISPs do not. If you care about privacy at all, Google seems like a bad ISP to use.
They will probably offer a great service, so long as your usage of that service can be monitored.
But, on the bright side, Google doesn't seem too interested in the minority of users who are smart enough to get around it...
I'm god, but it's a bit of a drag really...
Wake me when they decide to give the rest of the nation fiber. I'm stuck locked into my local provider, which instituted caps last year without proper notice (Charter) on their top tier residential service.
When Charter came to our town, buying the local cable outfit, they delayed the internet rollout for 4 years, even though the town was already wired and ready to go.
I'd love to have Google Fiber. Cheaper, no caps.... it would certainly force Charter to change their tune and suddenly be more affordable.
At the rate Google is working, I guess the rest of the nation will see Google Fiber around 2032.
Hey Google, how about running fiber to a city with a population that appreciates the bandwidth....someplace where they believe in science.
F*ck dude! you had an epiphany!!
Are those them things they used to cover engines in Fast and the Furious?
Bow before me, for I am root.
Is it any indication of how bad regulation and costs are that this sort of thing isn't a reality yet in SV, despite it being most densely populated area of nerds in the country?
Does anyone know of any other "official" reason why even Verizon FIOS isn't in santa clara valley? It just amazes me how shitty communication bandwidth is (wireless and otherwise) in the valley compared to podunk idaho or kansas city. What in the world is going on here?
And my bill for .5 up was 147 now it is 169 because I don't have a contract.
TV with HBO Showtime 3 down
It sucks being married because she wont let me kill the TV part and she rent the damn DVDs too.
Freaking two hundred bucks for shit. Once my rent was two hundred god damn dollars my income has not gone up even close to the fucking fees these assholes charge and provide shit. I want so bad for someone thing to come along and kill off their whole business model.
I don't understand why Google is strategically selecting the areas of Kansas City with the lowest incomes and populated with the least amount of technical people. Johnson County, Kansas was ranked #9 best county to live in by Money magazine in 2012 and it looks like Google is intentionally avoiding them. I seriously don't get it.
This is common in the EU. Even in Hungary you can get 50 megabit connections for ~$30 a month.
Google is more evil than Microsoft ever was.
basically the size of one of your gated neighborhoods cant you just extend it over here we will put a gate at the north south east and west of our country just to to get decent broadband, we made the mistake of trusting our government with that.
If they're wrong.
Lobby your local city and county officials to support the installation of fiber infrastructure. Along the Wasatch Front we have the excellent UTOPIA project, which brings fiber to the home. Local cities used bonds to support setting up the infrastructure, and home owners pay for the connection from the street to their house. The fiber infrastructure is treated like a utility and any ISP can compete for your business. I have a symmetric 100 MB connection for about about 1/3 less than Comcast was charging me for a 15 MB connection, and I get MUCH better service.
Just reminding folks that the "KC" which is getting the fiber is one of four separate "Kansas City"s in the KC metro area. It is the one that is in Kansas instead of Missouri, and is almost all poor neighborhoods. That is why it was chosen. It is a lot of poor people but really close to wealthier areas with good infrastructure.
I know, Missouri isn't much better politically, but I just get tired of everyone thinking that all of "Kansas City" is in Kansas just because it has "Kansas" in the name. It was called "Kansas City" because it is the city next to Kansas. Kansas City, KS came later.
Just sayin'.
I see, but you do have to get over the point, carrying guns is not as acceptable option. you may evoke the amendments , or the traditions, or even a as to do so, but sometimes, it's just the time to change, stone to death womens is also a tradition in some realities, and they also have to change. it's simply not acceptable. there are no gods but we upon ourselves, and it is our sole responsibility to look upon us. As for me, on a problem there are always two guilty sides, the one that committed and the one that let it happen. you are the US of A, you can do better than this, you are the bastion of the civilized world, please behave as so, and we the fair mans will follow. Causality can be avoided, we are the owners of our future.
Considering the statistics, one could make a better case for doing away with baseball bats than guns.
Ferran: We Must Stop Baseball Bat Violence!
Against the gun control that won’t work
National Review: Gun Control Doesn't Work