Excellent. Now, even if they don't deliver to my neighborhood (which is kind of a toss up, as I'm next to a school, but also in a cluster of much older than average housing), my comcast speeds will improve. Thank goodness for some competition, and some shockingly sensible city government.
Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California
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Re: Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California
#12Hello Linkbait title! 'in California' = one lonely 8000 souls village in the outer North East Bay. Woot.
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#13I fail to see how this model works unless it's being subsidized by some other source. Fiber is not cheap to purchase, deploy or to maintain as a medium, let alone all of the equipment that lights it, routers that will route it, and upstream network to offload the traffic. I see that the city will be leasing them the conduit, which will make deployment significantly cheaper, but didn't see any details on rates. If one…
You can lease fiber. For instance Google leases fiber for their internal google-to-google network.
Re: Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California
#14Only in Brentwood, California ;)
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#15Not even $40 1Gbps internet would get me to put up with the traffic required to get to and from Brentwood. Highway 4 is the pits.
What a strange place to launch a service.
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#16I fail to see how this model works unless it's being subsidized by some other source. Fiber is not cheap to purchase, deploy or to maintain as a medium, let alone all of the equipment that lights it, routers that will route it, and upstream network to offload the traffic. I see that the city will be leasing them the conduit, which will make deployment significantly cheaper, but didn't see any details on rates. If one…
Most people won't come close to using 500Mbps at any time, let alone for 37 hours. As long as they peer with Netflix, Google/YouTube, Facebook and a few others almost all meaningful traffic will be "free".
Re: Sonic.Net Offering 1 Gbps, Unlimited Phone for $40 in California
#17I had Sonic ADSL until recently, and their customer service was excellent, but I'm just too far from the CO to get reasonable speeds, so I (sadly) switched to Comcast. I hope that some point they will start offering FTTH in my neighborhood (50 miles west of Brentwood), but who knows if local city government will ever allow it.
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#18Hello Linkbait title! 'in California' = one lonely 8000 souls village in the outer North East Bay. Woot.
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#191 Gbps down sounds nice, but what's the upload speed going to be?
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#20In Brentwood. Which happens to be a very tiny town in California.
Sonic's a darn good ISP, though. I wish they offered service in my area, I'd take them up in a heartbeat.