http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/ Engadget Comments for Seattle crowned most wired city in America: where's your town? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 12:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/I was really stressing where MY town was standing by number of technologicals!
Now that i got THAT out of my system, I can finally get some sleep!]]>Jan 25th 2009 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 1:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 2:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
Agreed - just moved to Seattle from the Bay. Sitting on 280 is way easier than waiting to cross the 520 bridge. Ouch.]]>Jan 25th 2009 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 3:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/ 90 -> 405 disaster than be parked on the evergreen bridge for hours.

(note: claim of great bay area traffic does not apply to 880/east bay)]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
Im sure that cities with more than 500K people (unlike my fair city of DC) are going to have a few more taps then us. Besides, since the NSA put hub taps on the central servers of AT&T and the like, I think the whole country is pretty tapped at this point.]]>Jan 25th 2009 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
I'm a little suprised Seattle won considering we still don't have FIOS in king county]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 26th 2009 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 11:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 26th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
Verizon is the only provider in WA that can give you true Fiber To The Premises. But alas, not in Seattle, due to Qwest and Comcast's duopoly.]]>Jan 26th 2009 5:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
We got Google too.]]>Jan 24th 2009 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
Nintendo of America's headquarters, college, and software developer (NST) are, however, in the Seattle area (Redmond).]]>Jan 24th 2009 10:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
Well, okay . . . you can forget RealNetworks.

Doesn't Adobe have a satellite office down in Fremont as well?]]>Jan 25th 2009 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
not for long, they're moving to San Francisco]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Pixar's Renderman division.
Bungie.
]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/And don't forget that Amazon is headquartered here too.

And aside from UW, which has a highly ranked Computer Engineering department, there's Digipen, next to the Nintendo headquarters, which is a well known college focusing on teaching people how to make video games. (The Portal developers graduated from there).]]>Jan 25th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 9:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
This is some awesome news, but it bums me out even more seeing as how I sometimes lose all-but-emergency service in some areas of Chief Sealth's great city.]]>Jan 25th 2009 3:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
lmao jk]]>Jan 24th 2009 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 4:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
That was quite a low blow. Still funny tho :D]]>Jan 25th 2009 6:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
And as far as speeds, I'm rockin' 15Mbps down and 2Mbps up in Morrisville (and actually see those speeds, thanks Time Warner).]]>Jan 25th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
FAIL

BTW, F*** You Comcast.....at least we have Uverse now]]>Jan 24th 2009 10:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 24th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/
I want FTTP & DOCSIS 3.0, and want them ASAP.]]>Jan 24th 2009 10:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/24/seattle-crowned-most-wired-city-in-america-wheres-your-town/Jan 25th 2009 1:37AM