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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by JoeCortopassi on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:45PM (#4907408)
Is anybody really surprised by this? I mean, Google has some of the best and brightest engineers working for them, a substantial budget, a purpose other than profitable retail of their service, and a tiny town outside of major populations to work with. I would be hard pressed to find a reason why they wouldn't be faster than anyone else out there. Shoot, I bet you could find similarly sized cities were Verizon/Comcast/Charter handily beat Google Fiber. Don't get me wrong, I love that they are doing this, but everything breaks at scale

EDIT: Misread the part about it being Kansas City vs. a city in Kansas. I feel my point about scale still stands, as Kansas City in total (Missouri and Kansas) is in the 6-700,000 person range, and is still a fraction of total user base of the other ISPs mentioned

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by wmeredith on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @05:51PM (#4907447)
>Tiny Town!?

There's 2 million people in the Kansas City metro area. (I'm from Kansas City. Grumble.. grumble...)

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by w1ntermute on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:43PM (#4907683)
For many people who spend most of their time in SF, anything other than SF, LA, and NYC is "flyover country".
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by rayiner on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:45PM (#4908147)
It's absolutely hilarious to put SF in the same category as LA and NYC.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by w1ntermute on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @09:03PM (#4908204)
That's why I had the qualifier that it only applied to people in SF. Their view that SF is in the same category as LA and NYC shows how myopic and inward-looking many of the people in SF are.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by checker on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @09:21AM (#4910112)
I was wondering what the population breakdown looked like and I found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_United_States_Metropol...

Edit: This list is also interesting - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_city

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by angersock on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @09:44PM (#4908337)
As a Houstonian this amuses me greatly.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by IceyEC on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:50PM (#4908519)
And me as well.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by rat87 on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @04:10AM (#4909286)
not chicago?
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by rayiner on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @10:56AM (#4910656)
Chicago is technically flyover country. It's the capital of flyover country, but it's flyover country.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by jfoutz on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @06:08PM (#4907528)
well... it looks like the population of KS and central Kansas City MO (where google actually is) is way less than a million people. Comcast, on the other hand, covers about 100 million people. That includes those 1.5 million google skipped.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by raldi on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:06PM (#4907785)
> a purpose other than profitable retail of their service

To be clear, Google Fiber aims to be profitable:

http://gigaom.com/2012/07/26/the-economics-of-google-fiber-a...

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by bostonpete on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @07:19PM (#4907841)
I'm not sure I believe it. Whether they aim to be profitable or not, I think they have to say they that publicly or they'd be immediately accused of being anti-competitive.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by pfisch on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:06PM (#4908027)
I would kickstart it coming to my city. I think a lot of people would.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by GuiA on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @07:40AM (#4909770)
The costs probably exceed by a wide factor the sums that are typically raised through kickstarter.
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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by Retric on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @08:07PM (#4908032)
I have FIOS and it's by far the best option in my area, but only really fast in comparison to the crappy 5.3 Mbps average connection speed in the US vs say 17.5 Mbps in South Korea.
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