Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP in America"

Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by georgemcbay on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @10:34PM (#4908471)

I wish you were right.

My ISP (Time Warner Cable) is basically openly hostile towards its customers and can afford to be since it has a de facto monopoly position where I live. I'm pretty sure this Netflix report will do nothing to get them to fix their many, many problems.

I'm very hopeful that in the long term Google Fiber will make a big impact on the ISP landscape here in the United States, but I think it is going to take a very long time and the entrenched players are going to have to be dragged into the present kicking and screaming (and lobbying) and Google is going to have to expand a LOT more before the other guys start making real changes.

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by politician on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @11:12PM (#4908595)

Is CLEAR (4G WiMax) an option for you? It works pretty well here in Austin, and by well I mean streaming video with minimal buffering.

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by georgemcbay on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @12:56AM (#4908856)

I haven't tried it but probably not. I do a lot of Xbox Live gaming and I've heard bad things about Clear wrt/ gaming latency (though I've heard it is nice for lots of other use cases).

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by untog on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @01:21AM (#4908910)

A friend here in NYC tells me that the CLEAR service often gets terrible at peak times.

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Re:Netflix says Google Fiber is "most consistently fast ISP ... by evoxed on Wednesday December 12, 2012 @03:18AM (#4909182)

Pretty much everything gets terrible at peak times in NYC.

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