Seattle eager for Google fiber, other cities apt to fall in line
By Darren Murph 
posted February 12th 2010 8:14PM
posted February 12th 2010 8:14PM
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I'd be so obscenely happy if this came to Austin
@Amnesia87
Los Angeles please!!! Im tired of TimeWarner
@Amnesia87
I'd love to see it rolled out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but since that's not gonna happen how about Chicago, Illinois and it's surrounding communities (especially the following suburbs: Crystal Lake, Naperville, and Milwaukee).
@Amnesia87 Come to Houston damn it! Even a fraction of the speed!
@RKN YES, Houston is so butt-raped by Comcast in most areas, its not even funny. *crosses all appendages*
If I remember right Google said only only up to 500,000 people would get this if so if it comes to Seattle wouldn't that completely blow that figure out of the water
@Brandon95gasper they did.... none of the cities mentioned here fit the criteria unless google doesn't want to cover a whole city.
Hoping it comes to College Station.... we fit below the 500k pop limit and already have dark fiber running through the city so we have a chance.
In Redmond (actual home of MSFT) we have fios. The only places that I ever hit the max speed is bittorrent and large sites like windows update.
What would you do with 1gbps? If it's both ways I guess you could host some interesting stuff. But in reality you'd have a huge pipe that would rarely get saturated. It does open some interesting applications for home servers and placing cloud nodes in the home.
@Amnesia87
You guys already have bad ass internet in austin! It's time for something fast to come to Houston. I been so jealous that people can get verizon fios and im sitting here with comcast!
@DaveBach Ah why strictly northern and western suburbs how bout some love for the south west you selfish jerk, maybe people in Orland and Tinley would like to tap that sweet google ass?
@sotorious Uhhh, what internet are you talking about, where I live the only thing that is available is Time Warner/Road Runner. There are parts of austin where you can get ATT Uverse, but it's even slower than Road Runner.
@liftedngifted1 Google says it will be capable of delivering speeds more than 100x faster than typical U.S. Internet connections with up to one gigabit per second. It will do so at a “competitive” price.
Preview: http://bit.ly/google-isp-how-to-get-it
With Verizon FIOS breaking my heart of not being able to ditch Comcraptastic in the near future, I hope Google with come and break me free of my chains.
Google if you are listening, bring the love to "The City of Bridges"
How soon till the nutjobs start complaining about this and request the government to step in to stop it?
@DrBuzzKrill if google acts as an ILEC, and provides bandwidth to a CLEC, a la Covad to Speakeasy (where Speakeasy actually bills you, but the last mile and some equipment is actually provided by Covad), they may be able to get around some regulations.. Or they can start their own independent ISP group outside the google brand, and power it via google's fiber.. that latter one may be tricky. but who am I to say legal things.
I want Google Fiber in my town.. Too bad it'll probably never happen :(
@iFargle
You and me both, plus I live in Canada, so that's like a double negative. One that unfortunately doesn't make a positive. My town here doesn't even have 10mps internet :*(
@iFargle I live in the DC suburbs in Woodbridge. We get 50Mb FIOS here, although I have the 25Mb plan(50 is double). Hopefully this gets here!
@Cheesus Crust I hate you. : )
@iFargle It will never get to my small town, google will be too focused on using its private military to conquer the world by then
@Anthony Joel
Same. Is it me or does Google seem to ignore Canada?
@iFargle
We are willing to gladly accept Seattle right in Microsoft's backyard for the LULZ. ;)
@Jacinth Is it just me or does the WORLD ignore Canada?
eh?
Figures it'd be the large of the large cities out there to end up potentially getting this kind of stuff.
Why doesn't Google decide to, oh, I dunno, release to small communities? Take upstate-upstate New York, for example.
Sure: It's EASIER to deploy to a large city that's most likely on the backbone of a major network. But in rural areas where there's most likely 1 person for every two to three miles, it'd be a bit of a challenge and a learning experience for Google.
@dragonfli
Hah, I'm sure deploying 1Gbps fiber to people's homes is a challenge enough no matter where its deployed...
I live in Seattle! WOO! and most importantly..SCREW YOU COMCAST!!!!!!!
@yulebellow
I knew there was a reason I voted for McGinn! ... I also sent in my anti-Comcast letter to Google. Here's to hoping.
@yulebellow
Remember that it was Qwest that sued the city of Seattle a few years ago to prevent the city from installing it's own fiber. Of course, to this day they have yet to install fiber themselves, so screw Qwest too.
I love everything that Google does. I also fear everything that Google does.
@B3astofthe3ast LOL! Amen, they are so full of win... but I feel like quoting spiderman when it comes to the power they wield.
Add em as my ISP and they have my name, address, credit card number, purchase and browsing habits, all of my email from the last few years, my video uploads, and hell even a picture of my house at street level. Imagine if there were a Google and Microsoft merger.... o.O
Seattle toilets are ready for Google Fiber!!
http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
@Virus Cannon Is that for real? O_o
@Lucas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google's_hoaxes#Google_TiSP
@Ruben Yeah, I just looked it up. I never heard about those google hoaxes. Some of them would be pretty cool, though
@Lucas i thought it was real!!!!
stupid me.
@Virus Cannon I remember that. It took me a couple of minutes to realize what day it was.
Las Vegas needs it, always time for online poker haha
Yay! After Engadget had posted the article about Google's Fiber line I posted an application for my community (seattle) to get the new lines... and well will you look at that? Engadget, in the near future I may be thanking you for the fastest internet experience in America.
I really hope silicon valley gets it.
Aside from the fact that I live here, I also think that giving this to a large group of innovators will help spur the development of new applications for this kind of thing sooner, which would really help with adoption down the line.
@Taylor Yes Taylor
agreed completely
I wish they would come to LA, specifically my neigborhood. I seem to live on top of an Indian burial ground with poltergeists in my house because I can't even get 1.5mb dsl or even a decent cellphone connection. The AT&T guy told me to get fiber to fix my problem, then he laughed cause he found out I couldn't =(
Awh, I was hoping they'd blow our minds and give Canadaland some love
engadget should start a voting page to which city(ies) should get the google fibre. i vote auckland!
@shithead I can pretty much Guaranty you its not coming to the Oceania continent.
@Cheesus Crust I have a disorder that requires me to inform you that its spelled "guarantee".
@Ducman69 Thanks! I knew it looked weird..
1 Gbps would be nice as long as you don't mind Google sniffing all your packets.
@GadgetGuy The only sure way to not have someone sniffing your IP Packets is to not go online. Its not just google that might take a look at your surfing habits. Anyone that has access to the network node that you are on, end user or otherwise can sniff your packets if they want to. Personally I would trust Google more than the Black Hat Hacker living in the basement next door.
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh please.
@jayayess1190
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