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Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.
by simonsarris 14y ago
Good god I hope these announcements light a fire under the butts of the other US providers.
- austenallred 14y agoI think one of the things I'm most excited for is canceling my absurd Comcast agreement.
- umsm 14y agoMe, ATT... <10Mbps is a joke....
- sterlingross 14y agoMy 2mbps internet connection and I envy all of you.
- chaosphere2112 14y agoMy last apartment had <1mbps with AT&T. I was working remotely for a company that required VPN+VNC into a linux server on their intranet to get anything done. Any time my roommates tried to watch something on hulu/netflix (frequently), our router had to be rebooted.
- wtallis 14y agoYour router was shit, then, and probably bad enough that you weren't able to measure the true connection speed. Did you let the ISP provide the router? That's always a mistake.
- chaosphere2112 14y agoIt was an exceptionally shitty router, yeah. One of my roommates wanted to be in charge of the internet connection; she went with the lowest end AT&T plan, and she had the router that they had given her in her last apartment. On top of that, the cable going into the router was practically falling apart; I didn't actually know any of this until shortly before I moved out, at which point there wasn't a lot of motivation to do anything about it. Upon moving out, I got a 18 Mbps cable subscription & a Motorola Surfboard Extreme. Now the only shitty piece of networking equipment in my setup is a Belkin wifi router that I haven't been bothered to upgrade.
- ebertx 14y agoYep. I pay 60 bucks a month for 40 Mbps, and Google offers 1 Gbps for 70 bucks a month. I pay almost the same price for 4% the speed (not to mention horrible customer service).
- SpikedCola 14y agoYou're well off. Here in Ontario, I pay ~$75 a month (after taxes & extra fees) for 25mbit. I would kill for $60 40mbit service.
- benburleson 14y agoSeriously! These people don't know how bad it can be.
- awaythrowme 14y agoDon't forget the data caps.
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- MikeCapone 14y agoHave you looked at Teksavvy? They sell a cable package in Ontario that gives you 60 mbits for a bit over 60$ (more after tax and all that)... You can get pretty decent download caps with them (it starts at 75 gigs/month, but I have upgraded to 300 gigs/month for a bit more. they also have an unlimited option).
- SpikedCola 14y agoI was with TekSavvy before I moved (2x25mbit mlppp). Everything was great, and there was even a promo for "no activation fees" when I signed up. When I moved a year later, they told me I would have to pay that activation fee again, because Bell treats move orders like setting up a new customer, and thus they can't waive the fee. I ended up going with another ISP that had a similar promo.
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- schiang 14y agoI can't wait to cancel my TWC internet. I'm paying $58/mth for a 20mbps plan but the max speed I can get is ~11-12 mbps. Can't wait for google fiber to come so I can dump TWC.
- plorkyeran 14y agoAbout a month ago Comcast doubled the speed of my connection for free (50/10 -> 105/20). I was delighted as I assumed it meant that a competitor was rolling out fiber in the area or something, and I was very disappointed when an hour scouring the internet for announcements revealed nothing. Somehow I don't think that was the intended reaction. Then again, Comcast tries to get me to "upgrade" to packages costing half as much as my current one on a regular basis, so who knows what they were going for.
- ck2 14y agoWait for the other shoe to drop. The pattern is raise the speed, then wait 60-90 days and raise all the prices.
- hasker 14y agoI totally agree. Comcast is not the worst. My parents happen to live in an area serviced by a ma and pop cable company (Service Electric Cablevision). 20/2 internet with a 200GB cap for $51 a month. Comcast, which is available to the community less than five miles away, crushes this. This is only 45 minutes from Philadelphia!
- Retric 14y agoWhat's just sad is you can hit 200GB a month with a 80kb/s connection.
- a3n 14y agoI'm not sure that speed would be enough to want me to go with Google, but I'm paranoid that way. I'd welcome the competition and the presumed price drop at Comcast. It's fast enough for me.
- glesica 14y agoFor the prices they're charging, just get a VPN, still be cheaper than cable in most places...
- 27182818284 14y agoIn non-Fiber cities, has anyone seen a change in price from the big providers like Time Warner Cable? Anecdotally, I haven't seen one.
- gtaylor 14y agoCompletely anecdotal, but Comcast just bumped me up about 30% from 15 mbps. The customer service still stinks, and the service itself is still very spotty and unreliable.
- fghh45sdfhr3 14y agoMy personal anecdote: When I lived in a small town with fios and Time Warner and Comcast, every offer was far cheaper and better than when I moved to a much bigger city with only Time Warner.
- Lambdanaut 14y agoHere's an article from somebody that claims Time Warner hacked their bill down when Google Fiber opened in their city. http://consumerist.com/2013/01/30/time-warner-boosts-my-speed-cuts-my-bill-i-just-happen-to-live-near-google-fiber/ http://consumerist.com/2013/01/30/time-warner-boosts-my-spee...
- mitchty 14y agoI don't know if it applies as I'm in one of the few markets Comcast trialed 150Meg service. But they basically bumped everyone here up to the next highest tier. So if you were paying for 100 you get 150, 50 you get 100, 30 you get 50, whatever else was lower up a bit. It was nice, but to be honest this should be happening more often not just once every... ever really.
- awaythrowme 14y agoHow could it? Google would own the infrastructure in the city making competition extremely difficult. New monopolist, same as the old monopolist.
- gtaylor 14y agoExcept that the "new monopolist" is currently thrashing the "old monopolist". It's almost like they are having to... compete. Also, they bought out a municipal fiber outfit. They're not kicking competitors out. They're just completely outclassing them.
- awaythrowme 14y agoThe problem is that when a company owns the last mile it has a natural monopoly. An incumbent being overthrown isn't the same as having long lasting competition.
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- cookiecaper 14y agoProvo actually already has a fairly significant fiber rollout from multiple failed local and municipal coalitions to bring 100Mbps+ residential connections to the area. I believe these lines are owned by the city, and that Google plans on utilizing the extant network as far as possible. It is pretty likely that this won't be the typical municipal telecom monopoly that we've seen to attract cable providers and the like.
- awaythrowme 14y agoThe point is that the lines will no longer be owned by the city.