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Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by codingdave »

mmanfrin wrote: post #34

Does anyone know what it takes to start up municipal fiber? There is a dark fiber line about 4 blocks from my house (in Berkeley), I feel that if I got enough neighbors to sign on to helping fund the initial costs of piping a connection to that, we could all get much better internet service -- but I don't know where one would start with that.

If you want it to be municipal, then you start with your city council and/or planning office. They will let you know what is needed to proceed.

If you want it to be private, then you need to go find funding.

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by sureshv »

chambo622 wrote: post #74
scott_karana wrote: post #41

> Yes, San Francisco has been skipped again and I’m going to go cry into my slow internet from Comcast. I seriously still cannot get over how funny this is. SF pitches itself as the centre of the tech universe, and yet, it still hasn't "disrupted" its own crappy broadband infrastructure. (Much less the rest of the country's!) I'm sure there's many good reasons for Google passing them over, but that doesn't keep it fr…

Webpass[1] has been pretty "disruptive." It's only available in larger buildings, but the service and price point are fantastic. [1] https://webpass.net/

I paid $45 a month with Webpass for 100MB symmetrical when I lived in SF (back in '08) - pretty good deal. Looks like my old building can now get fiber with them.

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by dboreham »

jessedhillon wrote: post #87
dboreham wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only time + money. But more of both than you likely want to invest. Disclosure: built my own ISP 13 years ago after a similar "how hard can it be??" moment.

Have you written up this experience anywhere? I'd love to read that.

No. I did give a talk locally some years ago but that's all. Like most of us I have a big stack of interesting things I could write about, if I didn't have roughly 2x as much work to do as there is time in the day already... One day!

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by intopieces »

I'm still wondering if Google Fiber is a foundation for Google's ambitions to resurrect their city-wide WiFi plans that stalled in SF years back. Ever since Google-Fi rolled out, I've been more convinced that Google doesn't actually need to wire every home with Fiber, just to put it in enough places and blanket the area with their own fine-tuned data network. Then, charge people for accounts to access it.

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by thegreatpeter »

platz wrote: post #49
toomuchtodo wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://pols.uic.edu/political-science/chicago-politics > The Windy City has kept its crown as the most corrupt major city in the country over the last 40 years. But Houston is starting to give Chicago a run for its money. > According to new research released today by University of Illinois at Chicago political science professor Dick Simpson, there were 45 convictions for public corruption in 2013 (the latest year ava…

so the more convictions, the more corrupt?

I'm from Chicago. You gotta live here to understand.

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by untog »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #80
touchofevil wrote: post #21

I can't wait for this in LA. I'm currently paying $115 per month for 1Mbps/10Mbps for Time Warner "business class" internet-only service. My company does visual effects work, so I actually have to drive my video files home on a USB drive to upload them since my home connection is 20Mbps/200Mbps for $50 per month. The internet monopoly situation in the US is terrible for businesses here.

Strange—in New York I pay TWC $83 a month for 300/30. Edit: 300/20

New York is a lot more dense, it doesn't surprise me too much that the prices would be different.

Re: Chicago and Los Angeles Are Next Up for Google Fiber

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Post by platz »

thegreatpeter wrote: post #116
platz wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

so the more convictions, the more corrupt?

I'm from Chicago. You gotta live here to understand.

I'm from chicago too, so I guess I do understand by that logic.

I'm not even sure what we're arguing about, in fact

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