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I'm in Austin and have access to AT&T Fiber, Google Fiber, and I think even Grande Fiber (I live downtown). All are about the same price. Before I got Google Fi
by b3b0p 10y ago
I'm in Austin and have access to AT&T Fiber, Google Fiber, and I think even Grande Fiber (I live downtown). All are about the same price. Before I got Google Fiber I had AT&T Fiber. There is absolutely zero difference in speed up and down. I don't get the fixation of Google Fiber either. If you can get fiber from any provider at affordable pricing, jump all over it.
- spacemanmatt 10y agoI buy plenty of "bandwidth" from TWC but I do not get the streaming quality I expect from youtube or netflix. It always starts out HD enough, but it always falls back to a much lower quality after a few minutes. SpeedTest results suggest this should not happen, but I know my way around the cable company fuckery enough to see that a less-tolled route would probably be superior, even at half the max bandwidth.
- b3b0p 10y agoI had this problem with U-Verse DSL when I lived in Tulsa. I did not have this issue with AT&T Fiber in Austin. They do not appear to be throttling any services or websites like I experienced with AT&T U-Verse DSL in Tulsa.
- iainmerrick 10y agoI guess it's just a weird branding win for Google. They made such a song and dance about fiber early on, everyone assumes that Google Fiber is great and everybody else sucks. It seems like that should be a recipe for success, so I also don't understand why they're laying off staff and scaling back their rollout!