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This pisses me off. There was a stronger response from Austin, and our govt. petitioned Google to do it here. What a letdown.

by devinus 16y ago

mobilemonkey 16y ago
Given the number of times people mentioned BBQ and smell in the announcement a few minutes ago, I think you had two strikes against you. buuuurrnnnnn
ihumanable 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, Austin is 10x larger than Kansas City, KS. Google is planning on jumping into this with a test group of over 100,000 people, which is ambitious. It's likely that Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach to this, like they are so famous for doing with all their products.
- devinus 16y ago
  If Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach with this, then why did they even bother asking communities if they wanted this? According to http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/list#KS http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/list#KS Kansas City didn't even bother responding.
  - arst 16y ago
    Yes they did, it just shows up as Wyandotte County. Kansas City and Wyandotte County share a unified government.
- devinus 16y ago
  Austin also sprawls very far and there's no reason they would have had to cover the entire city.
westbywest 16y ago
I work on a community wireless net in St. Louis, MO (http://gowasabi.net http://gowasabi.net) that was founded with an intention, among others, of attracting Google Fiber here, and I submitted a proposal to Google about it. Likewise, the city gov't sent in its own proposal to get fiber downtown, along with countless other local groups. http://stlcin.missouri.org/googlefiber/ http://stlcin.missouri.org/googlefiber/ I'm guessing many many other cities did the same. While Google is indeed the 800lb gorilla here, it's not the only provider out there. If you're successful in getting Google to lend you really fast Net, that's awesome. If you're successful in getting similar service on your own, i.e. by micro-trenching your own fiber or negotiating a deal with a local bandwidth broker, that's actually much better.

This pisses me off. There was a stronger response from Austin, and our govt. petitioned Google to do it here. What a letdown.

by devinus 16y ago

This pisses me off. There was a stronger response from Austin, and our govt. petitioned Google to do it here. What a letdown.

mobilemonkey 16y ago

Given the number of times people mentioned BBQ and smell in the announcement a few minutes ago, I think you had two strikes against you. buuuurrnnnnn

ihumanable 16y ago

According to Wikipedia, Austin is 10x larger than Kansas City, KS. Google is planning on jumping into this with a test group of over 100,000 people, which is ambitious. It's likely that Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach to this, like they are so famous for doing with all their products.

devinus 16y ago
If Google is taking a pragmatic engineering approach with this, then why did they even bother asking communities if they wanted this? According to http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/list#KS http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi/public/list#KS Kansas City didn't even bother responding.
- arst 16y ago
  Yes they did, it just shows up as Wyandotte County. Kansas City and Wyandotte County share a unified government.
devinus 16y ago
Austin also sprawls very far and there's no reason they would have had to cover the entire city.

westbywest 16y ago

I work on a community wireless net in St. Louis, MO (http://gowasabi.net http://gowasabi.net) that was founded with an intention, among others, of attracting Google Fiber here, and I submitted a proposal to Google about it. Likewise, the city gov't sent in its own proposal to get fiber downtown, along with countless other local groups. http://stlcin.missouri.org/googlefiber/ http://stlcin.missouri.org/googlefiber/ I'm guessing many many other cities did the same. While Google is indeed the 800lb gorilla here, it's not the only provider out there. If you're successful in getting Google to lend you really fast Net, that's awesome. If you're successful in getting similar service on your own, i.e. by micro-trenching your own fiber or negotiating a deal with a local bandwidth broker, that's actually much better.