Google Fiber

[x0rg]

OK, guys. I love DSL and its constant speed, but.. Google Fiber is coming and I would definitely switch for extra $30 to a gigabit connection. It's going to happen. Not tomorrow, not day after, but it's going to happen one day. My question is what AT&T is going to do with upcoming technology? Are you ready to compete? You better be.

[Computer-Joe]

I think AT&T has too short an attention span to think that far into the future. By the way Verizon FIOS just came out with a 300/65 plan for a mere $205/month.

 By the way,anyone hear of Comcast doing FTTH? That's what the last D2D guy for Xfinity said. Started out with "we're all fiber here". So I asked if they were going to run fiber all the way to the side of my house to which he responded "oh yah, all the way to your house".


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Computer-Joe wrote:

I think AT&T has too short an attention span to think that far into the future. By the way Verizon FIOS just came out with a 300/65 plan for a mere $205/month.

 By the way,anyone hear of Comcast doing FTTH? That's what the last D2D guy for Xfinity said. Started out with "we're all fiber here". So I asked if they were going to run fiber all the way to the side of my house to which he responded "oh yah, all the way to your house".


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Sounds like your typical Uverse D2D rep. Did you ask him if he used to work for AT&T? 

[hpmsrm]

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x0rg wrote:

OK, guys. I love DSL and its constant speed, but.. Google Fiber is coming and I would definitely switch for extra $30 to a gigabit connection. It's going to happen. Not tomorrow, not day after, but it's going to happen one day. My question is what AT&T is going to do with upcoming technology? Are you ready to compete? You better be.

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Question:  Where will you find any data provider that can make use of that 1 gbps speed?

[oufanindallas]

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hpmsrm wrote:

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x0rg wrote:

OK, guys. I love DSL and its constant speed, but.. Google Fiber is coming and I would definitely switch for extra $30 to a gigabit connection. It's going to happen. Not tomorrow, not day after, but it's going to happen one day. My question is what AT&T is going to do with upcoming technology? Are you ready to compete? You better be.

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Question:  Where will you find any data provider that can make use of that 1 gbps speed?

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Who cares?  If it were avalible here in DFW, I'd sign up.  Would sure make Netflix and Hulu watching much easiers and smoother.  Also for those that use Skype, would make video chat much smoother as well.

[Computer-Joe]

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oufanindallas wrote:

Who cares?  If it were avalible here in DFW, I'd sign up.  Would sure make Netflix and Hulu watching much easiers and smoother.  Also for those that use Skype, would make video chat much smoother as well.

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Bandwith is not all of Skype's problem.
I just read a side-by-side review of Skype video chat with Google video chat. Google won hands down with better quality/stability, but they still picked Skype, because Google didn't have enough members to chat with.

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[Uniblurb3 ACE - Guru]

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Computer-Joe wrote:

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oufanindallas wrote:

Who cares?  If it were avalible here in DFW, I'd sign up.  Would sure make Netflix and Hulu watching much easiers and smoother.  Also for those that use Skype, would make video chat much smoother as well.

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Bandwith is not all of Skype's problem.
I just read a side-by-side review of Skype video chat with Google video chat. Google won hands down with better quality/stability, but they still picked Skype, because Google didn't have enough members to chat with.

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Do you happen to have a link to that review CJ? Also wonder if you need a gmail account to use Google Talk? I did a search comparing Skype and Google chats but couldn't find one which mentioned quality/stability.

The reason I ask is my son has a girlfriend in the Ukraine of all places. One of his best friend's wife's sister if you can figure that one out. They chat through Skype all the time and he even bought a new widescreen monitor so he could see her better. If Google has better quality/stability in audio/video I'll let him know. Thanks.

[texasguy37 ACE - Champion]

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oufanindallas wrote:

Who cares?  If it were avalible here in DFW, I'd sign up.  Would sure make Netflix and Hulu watching much easiers and smoother.  Also for those that use Skype, would make video chat much smoother as well. 

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Actually, it would not.  Those services don't use that much bandwidth and would work just as well on a 6 Mbps connection as they would on a 1 Gbps connection.

[Computer-Joe]

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Uniblurb3 wrote:

Do you happen to have a link to that review CJ? Also wonder if you need a gmail account to use Google Talk? I did a search comparing Skype and Google chats but couldn't find one which mentioned quality/stability.

The reason I ask is my son has a girlfriend in the Ukraine of all places. One of his best friend's wife's sister if you can figure that one out. They chat through Skype all the time and he even bought a new widescreen monitor so he could see her better. If Google has better quality/stability in audio/video I'll let him know. Thanks.

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It was in Maximum PC magazine, September issue IIRC. I tried to find it on their site, but couldn't.

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[Uniblurb3 ACE - Guru]

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Computer-Joe wrote:

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Uniblurb3 wrote:

Do you happen to have a link to that review CJ? Also wonder if you need a gmail account to use Google Talk? I did a search comparing Skype and Google chats but couldn't find one which mentioned quality/stability.

The reason I ask is my son has a girlfriend in the Ukraine of all places. One of his best friend's wife's sister if you can figure that one out. They chat through Skype all the time and he even bought a new widescreen monitor so he could see her better. If Google has better quality/stability in audio/video I'll let him know. Thanks.

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It was in Maximum PC magazine, September issue IIRC. I tried to find it on their site, but couldn't.

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Thanks for checking CJ and I couldn't find it on their site either.

[Escapee]

This is just a guess but Google should be smoother because the Google internal network is so big and powerful.  The data would be on that network except for the customer's ISPs at each end.  Those connecting should be fairly short.

[Computer-Joe]

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Escapee wrote:

This is just a guess but Google should be smoother because the Google internal network is so big and powerful.  The data would be on that network except for the customer's ISPs at each end.  Those connecting should be fairly short.

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Come on now, we all know it's not the last mile, it's the internet that can't handle the traffic. That's why we can't use our crappy 6Mb DSL continuously without being penalized. AT&T is valiantly trying to save the internet from our thoughtless over-usage.

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[hpmsrm]

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oufanindallas wrote:

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hpmsrm wrote:

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x0rg wrote:

OK, guys. I love DSL and its constant speed, but.. Google Fiber is coming and I would definitely switch for extra $30 to a gigabit connection. It's going to happen. Not tomorrow, not day after, but it's going to happen one day. My question is what AT&T is going to do with upcoming technology? Are you ready to compete? You better be.

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Question:  Where will you find any data provider that can make use of that 1 gbps speed?

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Who cares?  If it were avalible here in DFW, I'd sign up.  Would sure make Netflix and Hulu watching much easiers and smoother.  Also for those that use Skype, would make video chat much smoother as well.

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Well then....you may have the dollars to do that.  We don't.  Nothing we use Internet for....so far....requires anything close to that much speed.    Latest reports here are that Google is requiring entire neighborhoods to sign up....or at least the majority in a neighborhood before they will run the fiber.   In other words....the company is telling folks....if you want our service YOU go out and sell it to YOUR neighbors or we ain't gonna wire your neighborhood.  AND if you don't sell enough of them your nearby school won't get the free service we've offered.   In my mind there is something not quite right about that.  But then...that's just me.