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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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