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While I'm excited to see Google Fiber push into Austin, I've been very happy with my 110 mbps down / 11 mbps up from local company Grande: http://mygrande.com/i
by pretz 12y ago
While I'm excited to see Google Fiber push into Austin, I've been very happy with my 110 mbps down / 11 mbps up from local company Grande: http://mygrande.com/internet/compare http://mygrande.com/internet/compare. Austin is lucky to have actual competition among cable and ISP providers, unlike many other cities.
- jobu 12y agoIt's surprising and unfortunate that they chose Austin then. There are so many other large cities out there with limited choices for fast internet.
- GigabyteCoin 12y agoThat's probably the reason they chose Austin, surprisingly. It's a lot less legwork to setup shop in a city that doesn't already have red-tape in place.
- Dirlewanger 12y agoYup, which is precisely why Google won't ever touch anything north of the Mason Dixon line. Heads would certainly roll if they encroached on Comcast's home turf.
- lziz 12y agoFrom Google Fiber's FAQ on "Why have you chosen this list of cities?" > These cities are led by people who have been working hard to bring faster Internet speeds and the latest technologies to their residents. We believe these are communities who will do amazing things with a gig. And they are diverse -- not just geographically, but in the ways they’ll give us opportunities to learn about the wide range of challenges and obstacles that communities might face in trying to build a new fiber network. So it sounds like a combo of local government initiative & geographic diversity. But yeah - unfortunate in the respect you said
- driverdan 12y agoActually it's fortunate for Austin. It has pushed the other companies to offer much more bandwidth. Before Fiber was announced the max you could get was 50Mb down.