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Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
fiber to the home Hi Gordon, I was under the impression that Google put a stop to that some time ago. I don't remember why. Can't be a financial thing; they got more money than... ;) I'll have to re-google it... Have a great day! :) Siran [edit] I find that Google did stop running fiber early last year. However, I found very interesting article to read. I was impressed after reading... :) [/edit] CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Google Fiber is all but dead. The problem comes from access to poles and all the bureaucratic B.S. and infrastructure infighting about getting permission to move someone else's plant on the pole to install your own fiber. Only a few cities that were able to negotiate contracts with Google got fiber. I know Kansas City was one of the first. Google decided it wasn't profitable to compete against the CLECS and city owned networks. The biggest driver for fiber in the country today is AT&T particularly in the SouthEast. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Siran d'Vel'nahr Send message Joined: 23 May 99 Posts: 7379 Credit: 44,181,323 RAC: 238 |
Google Fiber is all but dead. The problem comes from access to poles and all the bureaucratic B.S. and infrastructure infighting about getting permission to move someone else's plant on the pole to install your own fiber. Only a few cities that were able to negotiate contracts with Google got fiber. I know Kansas City was one of the first. Google decided it wasn't profitable to compete against the CLECS and city owned networks. The biggest driver for fiber in the country today is AT&T particularly in the SouthEast. Hi Keith, I edited my post with a link to a very interesting article about Google Fiber. Read it and see what you think. :) Have a great day! :) Siran CAPT Siran d'Vel'nahr - L L & P _\\// Winders 11 OS? "What a piece of junk!" - L. Skywalker "Logic is the cement of our civilization with which we ascend from chaos using reason as our guide." - T'Plana-hath |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Thanks for the article link. Yes, a very interesting article. I don't know if I attribute the program to some high and mighty Google corporate ideal though. I think they were in it to make a profit like all corporations do. I just think they thought they would have the market all to themselves and didn't think the incumbents would get off their asses so quickly to compete against them. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
Well, I don't know what the actual deal is, locally, but there was a recent story about Google Fiber, here: http://www.wdrb.com/story/39094196/sunday-edition-or-where-is-google-fiber-mostly-in-the-highlands-records-show I've seen the cuts in the pavement, and the rubberized filler on top, but then I don't see any hubs or exit points. It's kind of mysterious. I'm on AT&T's U-Verse for internet, and I'm pretty sure it's still copper on above ground telephone poles leading to the cabinet a few streets over from me, but they might have laid their own fiber to the cabinet. I don't know. They did increase my DL speed to 25 from 6, without me asking for it, and when I called them they said it was a free upgrade for me. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
You must be relatively close to the CO or local neighborhood cabinet. Sounds like you went from a single pair at 6Mbps to 25 Mbs which would have to have been a short local loop. I just wish my exchange would allow bonded pairs so I could get something faster on the download/upload speeds. Like a 25/5 or even a 50/10 plan. Since most of my traffic is uploads I would like to get something better than my paltry 1 Mbps. I mean the unused pair is just sitting there like a dump lump of coal. Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I was out and about this afternoon, and took a picture of how Google fiber has been laying it's stuff in some streets near me. Shallow cuts(not sure how deep), covered with a rubberized compound of some sort. You can see it branches off to the curb where a house is, but I couldn't find any evidence of anybody's yards being dug up for service. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
You must be relatively close to the CO or local neighborhood cabinet. There are two cabinets near me. Both are about 3 blocks away. I think the closest CO building to me is about 3 miles away. All the service lines to the homes in my neighborhood are above ground on poles. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
Keith Myers Send message Joined: 29 Apr 01 Posts: 13164 Credit: 1,160,866,277 RAC: 1,873 |
Was just reading some more and just had my hopes dashed.
Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours A proud member of the OFA (Old Farts Association) |
TimeLord04 Send message Joined: 9 Mar 06 Posts: 21140 Credit: 33,933,039 RAC: 23 |
<<--- Original U-Verse here with TV Package... Been Upgraded over the years with U-Verse, actually started with 6Mb Internet and moved up from there... Went to 10Mb then 18Mb, then 24Mb. At 24Mb we had to move up to Bonded Pair and change the Gateway. Currently, we are at 50Mb DL/10Mb UL and still have the U-Verse U-300 TV Package. 50Mb is the fastest allowed here with the current VDSL/VDSL2 Setup. As mentioned by others, earlier, AT&T IS installing Fiber to New Construction Home Development Areas... So far, NO PLANS by AT&T NOR Comcast XFINITY to get FTTP or FTTH for existing customer base. NO other competition seems to be allowed in the City of Danville, (could also be a Statewide Limitation by State and Local Governments), so NO chance to get FIOS here... :-( I've tested our 50/10 against Comcast XFINITY's 200Mb DL Business Package. AT&T STILL beats Comcast!!! U-Verse is "Dedicated", NOT shared like Comcast. So, while Comcast still suffers between 3:30 PM/4:00 PM to 8:00 PM when kids get home from school and DEVOUR Internet Usage, I can manage SpeedTest.net Testings showing that we maintain 50/10 at 9AM, 12PM, 4PM and 9PM daily. Also, since we have the U-300 TV Package, we can have 4 TV Streams going in HD and ONLY drop to the Low 40Mb area due to HD Stream Reserve Rates... (About 2Mb DL drop per HD Stream.) Even so, we can typically record 3 HD Streams, parents can watch the 4th Live Stream in HD, and I can be on Plex pulling from a Florida Server delivering to me in California and NOT suffer lag, drops, nor screen freezes in Plex on my PC or on my MacPro 5,1. TL TimeLord04 Have TARDIS, will travel... Come along K-9! Join Calm Chaos |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
If we could revert back to testing forum code for a moment... David has tweaked again and invited further testing. As in: David Anderson wrote: The problem with excessive scrolling on phones in the presence of long [list] items.Have at it, and let us know how you get on. |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22188 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
...weird........ On my phone the forum (this thread) initially loads "correctly, but after about a second flashes to needing scrolling. Previously it went straight to needing scrolling, so "half-way" there. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14650 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Curious - I looked on my phone, and couldn't see any difference. Only problem was in scrolling through the long thread, the phone sometimes mis-interpreted the gesture as a 'zoom' rather than a 'scroll', and I had to reset. The only suggestion for your 'mode switch' I can think of might be if it reached a wide post a long way down the list, and adjusted to accommodate that? @ all - I heard some bad news overnight, which is going to keep me quite busy. Please compare notes amongst yourselves, and package together any problems (with evidence) so that I can pass it upstream easily. |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
@ all - I heard some bad news overnight, which is going to keep me quite busy. Sorry to hear that. Grant Darwin NT |
Jord Send message Joined: 9 Jun 99 Posts: 15184 Credit: 4,362,181 RAC: 3 |
Google Chrome. Not logged in. Initial load of this thread: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipOVOoAL7NYja3y8nks7lVTbzcc3RptqEDV9u8bPeyYO32-fD41qKBJ7mha7eJZSSA?key=THZMTVV4NFo0aW1KSTRqNGJuUmsyUDR1Vl8weVNR After zooming out: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM57JNFGqujAh2QOJw5ZUysgL1KpI7zlcWRDBs0OftD6THtMmTkSXxKVcopHAk4DQ?key=ZElfbHVaVjg4YW1LczVGUWctcHl5UTh2T2JEbWxn Not sure how that's readable, but okay. No change when I log in (so it isn't a cookie) Edit: in case it matters (it doesn't): Huawei P20 lite Android 8 Chrome version 69.0.3497.100 |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22188 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Now "jammed" in need to scroll mode, after accidentally doing a restart. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Grant (SSSF) Send message Joined: 19 Aug 99 Posts: 13727 Credit: 208,696,464 RAC: 304 |
This image thing really is a nuisance. Going through many older threads now is a PITA as you have to scroll back and forth to read posts that aren't wrapping due to images somewhere in that thread, that weren't a problem before. Grant Darwin NT |
Gordon Lowe Send message Joined: 5 Nov 00 Posts: 12094 Credit: 6,317,865 RAC: 0 |
I resized all my photos that I know of, but if one of mine is still causing a problem, please let me know. The mind is a weird and mysterious place |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
This image thing really is a nuisance. + 1 |
Brent Norman Send message Joined: 1 Dec 99 Posts: 2786 Credit: 685,657,289 RAC: 835 |
This is more than a nuisance! The forum has become completely unusable with IE 11 and large image sizes. |
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