Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
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Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
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Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#2Hooray! Now I have one less thing to lose by leaving Kansas City!
RE: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4917132 (from today)
Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#3I'm moving to Seattle in January and was already planning to sign up with CondoInternet. Seeing as my to-be neighborhood is one of those they say this will be offered in, I'm now wondering when this will be rolled out. Awesome news though.
Edit: "Gigabit Squared will be aggressively building, with eyes towards beginning services in the Fall of 2013."
Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#4Hurrah! I was getting worried about something Google fiber esque taking painfully long to make it here.
Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#5it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#6I'm moving to Seattle in January and was already planning to sign up with CondoInternet. Seeing as my to-be neighborhood is one of those they say this will be offered in, I'm now wondering when this will be rolled out. Awesome news though. Edit: "Gigabit Squared will be aggressively building, with eyes towards beginning services in the Fall of 2013."
Scheduled to be in by the end of 2014, so don't cancel your internet service just yet. :)
I'm very curious how the "wifi neighborhoods" will be implemented. The neighborhood somehow gets a gigabit wireless connection (which the city's press release erroneously refers to as "wireless fiber"), and clients connect via 802.11n, but what exactly is my 802.11n client connecting to and where is it?
edit: hmmm, from their technical FAQ: "Services will be available to 100,000 residents within 24 months (by year-end 2014)."
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#7Awesome news. Comcast's monopoly on broadband in certain neighborhoods has produced nothing but sub-par internet access. This should greatly improve things.
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#8it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
Private health insurance sucks ass in WA, but other than that it does look good :)
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#9What is a "fiber transmitter"?
Re: Seattle to deploy Gigabit fiber network
#10it is just getting better and better to live here in Seattle. Legalization of weed, same-sex marriage, and now high-speed internet
Private health insurance sucks ass in WA, but other than that it does look good :)
That and the transportation. Otherwise, Seattle is probably the place I like to live in the states the most.
The traffic and lack of good public transport options is a serious negative :(