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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by mcny on Monday March 05, 2018 @05:36AM (#16520092)
My understanding is that homeowners in the bay area have some next level NIMBY ism that even Google can't overcome. Those fiber huts have to go somewhere...
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by BigJono on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:11AM (#16520231)
Maybe this is an overreaction to being stuck with Australian internet for the past decade, but if anyone in my neighbourhood was to resist the installation of fibre it'd be fucking on for young and old.
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by ehnto on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:46AM (#16520386)
I have my pitchfork ready, Jono.

Actually we finally got NBN on my street and I am syncing at 75mbit (paying for 100) and frankly I am over the moon. The fastest I have had previous, after living all over AU, was 14mbit down, and I was the envy of my friends for that roaring waterfall of data.

Everyone else I know is on around 8mbit even in 2018.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by Whitestrake on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:42AM (#16527103)
Hoping against hope that we get a similar result when NBN rolls around to my neighbourhood. It would be absolutely awful for them to "upgrade" our system, after waiting so long for this, to the exact same or worse speeds as the ADSL we've been stuck with all this time.
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by BigJono on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:02AM (#16527357)
That sounds like a dream. I'm sharing a 6/1 connection with 3 housemates and 2 partners. I honestly feel like I'm back in the days of dial-up.
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by avree on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:28AM (#16520309)
And yet companies like AT&T and Comcast have been able to improve their infrastructure and launch fiber in more and more areas in the Bay Area (it's more than just San Francisco, you know!)

The cause is not NIMBYism, or any other negative traits you might try to tag on to people from the Bay, but rather, the existing telecom companies and their attempts to protect their pseudo-monopoly.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/03/10/google-fights-att-com...

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by dlgeek on Monday March 05, 2018 @10:39PM (#16526695)
To be fair, AT&T and Comcast have existing infrastructure (mostly poles) they can leverage.
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by eloisant on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:06AM (#16520221)
Well, when you spend several million dollars to buy a house I understand you're likely to be afraid of anything that threaten your investment and turning NIMBY.
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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by IntelMiner on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:28AM (#16520307)
With the state of the Australian housing market, having Fiber-optic internet would likely add to the property value
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