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Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!

That still seems pretty expensive. In Romania you get the same service (1 Gbps with IPv4/6) for less than $12 (45 RON).

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #101

Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!

That still seems pretty expensive. In Romania you get the same service (1 Gbps with IPv4/6) for less than $12 (45 RON).

Internet is absurdly expensive in the US for what you're getting. For instance I pay $15/month for 2mbps.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

#103

Huge fan of Webpass. 1 Gbps of IPv4/6 with great customer service for $55 a month. It can't be beat, if it's available to you. I hope this is a win for the Webpass employees, in the short and long term. Thanks for all the bits!

Is that a good deal in the US ? Wow, in France for $40 we got: - 12Gbps (100G Fiber at no additional cost in supported area) - Free landline call to a 100 countries and free cell calls to France - HD TV - and a media center with recording capabilities, a blue ray player, public FTP and network harddrive - for 3 more $, you get a cell phone line with 2 hours of communication and unlimited text, or for $20 unlimited ca…

100G fiber? I had no idea France was running 4x EDR Infiniband to their citizens' homes.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #31

God, I hope the support doesn't end up like most other Google product's support. I have webpass and my heart dropped. My project fi experience has been bad enough already.

What issues have you had with project fi? I switched to it about 6 months ago and I haven't had any problems at all.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #31

God, I hope the support doesn't end up like most other Google product's support. I have webpass and my heart dropped. My project fi experience has been bad enough already.

I work on Google Fiber. We have pretty good customer support; call us 24/7, someone in the US will help you with pretty much anything you want that's Fiber-related (WiFi too slow? TV remote not working? That sort of thing.)

But can you tell me when the Stone Oak area of San Antonio will get fiber? Sorry, but living with TWC is a bear, and am hoping an actual date that I can add to the calendar of when to cancel would make it more bearable.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

#107

Dear Google: If you fuck up Webpass, you're dead to me. p.s. I'm watching you: http://i.imgur.com/rS9LGZ6.png

What tool are you using there?

Just a little cron job shell script that dumps the results from a command-line speedtest.net client into Librato Metrics.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only complaint is that for home service there is no way to get a public IP address, so you've got to get an external server if you want to access your home computers from elsewhere on the Internet.

Do you only need access for yourself? If so, you should really check out ZeroTier. I use it on my Android phone and Linux boxes and have been really happy with it.

This; it's awesome!

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #77

Former Webpass employee here. Was one of the first software eng. hires. This is a great example of a bootstrapped business focused on customer experience that built up with no outside funding (that I know of). Congrats Charles & team.

The idea of starting an ISP without outside funding (unless you're a millionaire already) is pretty astonishing. Been researching the possibility of this myself recently and costs of infrastructure are simple astronomical.

Re: Google Fiber agrees to acquire Webpass

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post #77

Former Webpass employee here. Was one of the first software eng. hires. This is a great example of a bootstrapped business focused on customer experience that built up with no outside funding (that I know of). Congrats Charles & team.

Great work. I was a customer at 673 W Brannan in SF back in '07. Best residential internet ever.

I'm at 673 for the last few years, it's still great!
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