AT&T announces plans for 1Gbps fiber service in Austin, Texas; Google gets immediate competition - Polidicks

[quote]Merely hours after Google and the city of Austin jointly made clear that Google Fiber would be hitting up local homes in [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/google-fiber-rollout-detailed-for-austin-due-mid-2014/"]mid-2014[/URL], Ma Bell has made public its "intent" to built a 1 Gigabit fiber network in the same area.[/quote] Source: [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/09/att-1gbps-fiber-internet-austin-texas-official/"]Engaget[/URL] [URL="http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/09/mere-hours-after-google-announces-its-plans-att-announces-its-own-plans-for-gigabit-fiber-in-austin/"]Techcrunch[/URL] [URL="http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57578699-93/at-t-follows-google-with-gigabit-network-plans-for-austin/"]CNET[/URL]

Now bring it up north to DFW :~~~)

About damn time, let the competition spread through out the country.

Wow 1gbps, I have 10 mbps ;_;

Watch the advertised speed be much lower.

[QUOTE=nomad1;40229121]Watch the advertised speed be much lower.[/QUOTE] And then watch as the actual speed is much lower than the advertised speed. I used to have AT&T. They promised 1.5 MBPS speeds when in reality I got 150 KBPS.

I'd rather trust Google with my 1gbps fiber service than AT&T.

[QUOTE=Melkor;40229295]And then watch as the actual speed is much lower than the advertised speed. I used to have AT&T. They promised 1.5 MBPS speeds when in reality I got 150 KBPS.[/QUOTE] ISPs usually advertise their speeds in megabits/sec, when you download stuff you are shown the speed in megabytes/sec. So technically they didn't lie

[QUOTE=demoTron;40229566]ISPs usually advertise their speeds in megabits/sec, when you download stuff you are shown the speed in megabytes/sec. So technically they didn't lie[/QUOTE] This is true, what I usually do is divide megabits per second by 8, that gives you your max download speed.

Isn't AT&T a really awful company though?

Any competition is good competition. If this keeps spreading around, you can expect actual competitive pricing for fast internet. It'll be great. Long overdue, local monopolization of internet is crippling to the US connectivity network.

Where I live there's only Comcast and AT&T, both are terrible services and I hope that one day we get more of a choice in our ISP's.

[QUOTE=.Isak.;40229790]Any competition is good competition. If this keeps spreading around, you can expect actual competitive pricing for fast internet. It'll be great. Long overdue, local monopolization of internet is crippling to the US connectivity network.[/QUOTE] Except is it really competition at all? It's like Steam vs. Origin, the only reason Origin has so many people is due to exclusive games, in much the same way the only reason a lot of these ISP's have so many customers is because there's no other options available. I know I would switch to Google Internet given the chance. Now, of course there's the uninformed masses, even still I would like to think most of the population isn't mindless drones. Don't get me wrong, this is a good thing, a really good thing, because maybe ISP's will start giving a shit; or perhaps they will continue to look dumb by reacting to Google rather than being proactive. But the former is unlikely; after all, if there's no threat to their market dominance then why should they care?

Even if Google didn't offer ridiculous speeds, I'd switch to them in an instant if I could, as their business model kinda depends on people using the internet as much as possible (whereas traditional ISPs want their customers to use the internet as little as possible, on the most expensive plans, with the least amount of investment (= service and infrastructure) required to keep them)

Nope. AT&T did this thing where if you wanted their service you had to pay $20 a month to Geeksquad. They just up and do it. Then when you call them to cancel it, they tell you they don't know what you're talking about, And if you call Best Buy/GeekSquad to cancel it, they say the same thing. I canceled my card and had to get a new one, and they still charged it, and the bank won't stop it either. So Fuck AT&T, and GeekSquad. It's Fraud is what it is

Like fuck is anybody going to go with AT&T.

Really, why not Dallas over Austin? The hipster homeless don't need it and the University will have their students on their service. When you actually get down to it, Austin doesn't really have as many actual residents nor a business center like DFW.

So doesn't this prove that ISP's can roll out super fast internet but just don't want to?

Man fuck AT&T. We should let Google have a monopoly over ultra-fast Internet.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40233500]Man fuck AT&T. We should let Google have a monopoly over ultra-fast Internet.[/QUOTE] Great, it'll be just like 1984. [I]Awesome.[/I]

[QUOTE=.Isak.;40229790]Any competition is good competition. If this keeps spreading around, you can expect actual competitive pricing for fast internet. It'll be great. Long overdue, local monopolization of internet is crippling to the US connectivity network.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't call this competition exactly

[QUOTE=demoTron;40229566]ISPs usually advertise their speeds in megabits/sec, when you download stuff you are shown the speed in megabytes/sec. So technically they didn't lie[/QUOTE] I don't understand why they do that. Sure megabit is a bigger number and looks prettier on ads but when a person sees 100KB/s on their download speed they will spread a lot of false claims that speeds don't match even if they do in reality. I've seen countless people that complain about their download speed without knowing the difference between bits and bytes.

[QUOTE=Karsten600;40229119]Wow 1gbps, I have 10 mbps ;_;[/QUOTE] I get 30 kbps for $60 a month.

[QUOTE=milkandcooki;40233500]Man fuck AT&T. We should let Google have a monopoly over ultra-fast Internet.[/QUOTE] AT&T will do it to themselves, they will continue to provide an utterly shit service at a terrible price. People will vote with their money.

Well hopefully now we won't have to deal with so much crappy internet access in the States now since Google is one upping all the ISP's.

[QUOTE=SGI Onyx;40233065]Like fuck is anybody going to go with AT&T.[/QUOTE] You underestimate the ignorance of the average person

I would rather have Google [editline]10th April 2013[/editline] [QUOTE=Karsten600;40229119]Wow 1gbps, I have 10 mbps ;_;[/QUOTE] I have 6

[QUOTE=Karsten600;40229119]Wow 1gbps, I have 10 mbps ;_;[/QUOTE] i have 3 mbps

My 3mbps feels bad right now.

[QUOTE=RenegadeCop;40237961]I love At&t, they give me my amazing internet speed of, drum roll please, 76kb/s![/QUOTE] KB* hi jake