5 More Google Fiberhoods Coming To Kansas City 80
skade88 writes "If you live in KC, Google is doing their part to make sure you get your daily fiber. They are launching their gigabit home internet service in five new areas in KC. From the article: '"In 2013, we're going to hit the ground running, finishing installations in Dub's Dread, and then quickly moving on to five more fiberhoods," the company wrote, using its invented term for zones where Google Fiber will be deployed. "Based on pre-registration results, the next fiberhoods on the list are Piper Schools, Delaware Ridge, Painted Hills, Open Door, and Arrowhead. And we have some more good news for folks in some of these areas—we've extended a few fiberhood boundaries slightly, so that more people can get Google Fiber. You can see the new boundaries below and on our website, where you can check to see if your home is now eligible."'"
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F*ck dude! you had an epiphany!!
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I see, but you do have to get over the point, carrying guns is not as acceptable option. you may evoke the amendments , or the traditions, or even a as to do so, but sometimes, it's just the time to change, stone to death womens is also a tradition in some realities, and they also have to change. it's simply not acceptable. there are no gods but we upon ourselves, and it is our sole responsibility to look upon us. As for me, on a problem there are always two guilty sides, the one that committed and the one
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Considering the statistics, one could make a better case for doing away with baseball bats than guns.
Ferran: We Must Stop Baseball Bat Violence! [federalobserver.com]
Against the gun control that won’t work [scienceblogs.com]
National Review: Gun Control Doesn't Work [npr.org]
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I live in Oklahoma,
Well, there's your problem.
GPON or Active Ethernet? (Score:5, Interesting)
For those of us in the telecommunications industry, what type of FTTH deployment are they doing? For that matter, who's gear are they using? Calix, Ericsson, Occam, Adtran, or something homegrown?
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Dub's Dread? (Score:2)
Re:Dub's Dread? (Score:5, Funny)
Man, I really want to move to Kansas so I can live in Dub's Dread. Dub's Dread: I am the law!
It'd only be cool till you realized that it's a suburb named after a golf course that's named after . . . a different golf course.
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Man, I really want to move to Kansas so I can live in Dub's Dread. Dub's Dread: I am the law!
It'd only be cool till you realized that it's a suburb named after a golf course that's named after . . . a different golf course.
That's even better! Can I send them all my hipster douchebags around here? We're all full up.
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Hipster douchebags play Frisbee golf.
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That's even better! Can I send them all my hipster douchebags around here? We're all full up.
Oh Hell yes! The West "Dot" is totally looking for some. Sushi and NASCAR, together at last!
Re:Dub's Dread? (Score:5, Funny)
Golf courses all the way down...
Lucky bastards... (Score:1)
Meanwhile Telenor (my ISP) has limited my bandwidth to 500kbps for 30+5 days because I downloaded more than 100GB in a 30day sliding window.
The world is unfair
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What did you download for 100 gigs? You're AC so don't worry about telling the world if its all furry pr0n I'm just idly curious. The largest torrent I ever downloaded was about 120 gigs of audiobooks and it took a couple months, at least a couple years ago. A somewhat overcompressed star trek series averages 50 or so gigs per series. Then again high def isn't going to make the plot of "spocks brain" or the space hippies any better. It would take me months to watch 100 gigs of stuff, even if I download
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100 gigs is nothing...with only legitimate usage i can go over that with netflix, youtube, gaming and video streaming(up/down)
its sad, really, that you have to suffer such low limits. I've got comcast with their now-unenforced 250g cap. since they said they wouldnt enforce it, i stopped metering myself and found my 'normal' usage is actually around 550gb on a normal month, or 750 if i go down the dark and shady roads.
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I work from home (connected to the work network 24/7), the kids stream Netflix all the time, the wifey is at home all day on wifi, I'm on wifi all day for personal stuff, Carbonite backups, iOS devices backing up and downloading apps, etc., etc. It's unusual for me to go over 200GB and it's usually around 180.
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http://www.tlmc.eu/ [www.tlmc.eu]
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No, just Telenor. I have Altibox and downloaded a ~500GB torrent in three days + whatever else I downloaded that month, no complaints. For the Americans I'll explain, remember those crappy monopoly/duopoly choices you have? Well, Telenor is like that except we have more choices, but some choose to use them anyway...
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They will probably offer a great service, so long as your usage of that service can be monitored.
But, on the bright side, Google doesn't seem too interested in the minority of users who are smart enough to get around it...
Other Gigabit Communities (Score:3)
Re:Other Gigabit Communities (Score:5, Informative)
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Yeah, between GE and IBM, half a dozen colleges, countless telecommuters that figured out how to get the hell out of metro Boston/NYC/etc, and the metro BTV area alone having well over a hundred thousand people, I'd say that your guessing there are ** 5 ** twitter users seems about the douchiest uninformed remark of my day.
Full disclosure: writing this from a conservative flyover state that gets this sort of mocking on a regular basis, not Vermont. Coastal provincialism is a plague -- y'all really don't se
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BTV is our airport code and a common shorthand for Burlington, Vermont. It's used as the hashtag on Twitter for our city, for example.
No one 'cept people from Burlington care, and they probably already know this.
Massive Privacy Concern (Score:2, Insightful)
Google is great and all, but I wouldn't be so quick to subscribe to their fiber service.
If you run all of your internet traffic through Google then they have the ability to mine every last ounce of data from your activity. While other ISPs might have access to the same type of data already, Google is the only one that has a business model based on targeted advertising. Google wants to know everything about you in order to sell advertisements. Other ISPs do not. If you care about privacy at all, Google s
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Or you could, *gasp*, read their privacy policy (which is really simple and easy to read) instead of stocking up on unnecessary tinfoil.
Also, you vastly overestimate how much data Google uses for ads (and you are ignoring that Google will happily let you turn *off* targeted advertising if you so choose: https://www.google.com/settings/privacy?hl=en [google.com] -> ads -> opt out)
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If you buy tinfoil... they'll know you buy tinfoil!
Then you'll get adverts for turkey and cookbooks for roasting large flightless avians!
It's too risky, man!
Can I bum some change?
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Ohhhhhhh, scarrrrrrrrrry. Targeted Ads.
Insulting coverage (Score:2)
Wake me when they decide to give the rest of the nation fiber. I'm stuck locked into my local provider, which instituted caps last year without proper notice (Charter) on their top tier residential service.
When Charter came to our town, buying the local cable outfit, they delayed the internet rollout for 4 years, even though the town was already wired and ready to go.
I'd love to have Google Fiber. Cheaper, no caps.... it would certainly force Charter to change their tune and suddenly be more affordable.
At t
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They had to find a munipality that would allow it and wouldnt have the local telco sue them to stop them like happened in a Carolina town when the LOCAL RESIDENTS tried to build/create their own fiber ISP cause the cable company's ISP sucked so bad.
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Hey Google, how about running fiber to a city with a population that appreciates the bandwidth....someplace where they believe in science.
Wish I had points. San Diego would be a good start! :)
Fiberhoods? (Score:3)
Are those them things they used to cover engines in Fast and the Furious?
fiber in silicon valley? (Score:4, Insightful)
Does anyone know of any other "official" reason why even Verizon FIOS isn't in santa clara valley? It just amazes me how shitty communication bandwidth is (wireless and otherwise) in the valley compared to podunk idaho or kansas city. What in the world is going on here?
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Last I heard, Verizon isn't building any more FIOS because they get higher ROI on mobile.
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What is the Google Strategy? (Score:1, Interesting)
I don't understand why Google is strategically selecting the areas of Kansas City with the lowest incomes and populated with the least amount of technical people. Johnson County, Kansas was ranked #9 best county to live in by Money magazine in 2012 and it looks like Google is intentionally avoiding them. I seriously don't get it.
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It makes some sense to me. What I wager they are hoping to see is substantially improved economic activity in those areas, as well as rising property values, directly attributable to the availability of cheap bandwidth.
If that happens then Google will be able to begin making a case to the public, the FCC, and politicians that the state of U.S. broadband is terrible, and that the country needs to get its act together to improve the situation. If they can point toward the economic uplift of a downtrodden ar
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Looking at this map [slashdot.org], there are a lot of poorer neighborhoods that made it. Not all, but a lot. I understand they are deploying first to those with the highest demand/met their threshhold first, which makes sense, and a lot of richer neighborhoods where among the first to qualify.
I recall more than a few charitable and NPOs stepped up to help some of those areas meet their threshhold, and Google itself worked really hard to get the word out, and explain the benefit door to door in some of those areas. T
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Perhaps as a "worst case" start? If they can do it it profitably there then they can do it anywhere, possibly inflated costs to lay fiber in high-income areas notwithstanding. And if they're sure it can be done in low-income areas then doing the initial roll out there will give them an extremely strong bargaining position against obstructionist politicians and entrenched local monopolies. I mean if they launch a media blitz saying "Look, we have proven we're able to do this profitably even in areas with s
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KCK politicians gave the best head, duh.
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The whole thing is a big test. Likely they are picking the area's based on their ability to handle the expected customers. They'll work their way from the bottom up in that situation.
Boy will NASA have egg on its face (Score:2)
Don't wait for Google (Score:2)
KC, Kansas: The armpit of the KC Metro area. (Score:2)
Just reminding folks that the "KC" which is getting the fiber is one of four separate "Kansas City"s in the KC metro area. It is the one that is in Kansas instead of Missouri, and is almost all poor neighborhoods. That is why it was chosen. It is a lot of poor people but really close to wealthier areas with good infrastructure.
I know, Missouri isn't much better politically, but I just get tired of everyone thinking that all of "Kansas City" is in Kansas just because it has "Kansas" in the name. It was calle