Don't mess with Texas ('cos it's getting Google Fiber and you're not) Another US city will be get a high-speed fiber broadband network courtesy of Google, though it is a few months late. Google's Austin Fiber website confirms that starting in December, residents will be able to start signing up for the gigabit-a-second service. The launch will make Austin the third US city to get a Google Fiber …
Mr. Coward, normally I don't respond to AC's (particularly the trollish kind), but your wail of agonized foaming hatred towards Texas (Austin included) has disturbed me deeply.
I'm not from there, but I've seen it and I can attest that it's not as bad as your diatribe would suggest. Perhaps you should travel to Texas some day. Who knows, a bit of exposure to people with minds of their own (not govt. approved ones like yours), might do you a power of good.
"I lived in Texas for a few decades and I can attest it's worse than AC describes."
I must say that's impressive. You spent nigh onto half your life in that awful place? It's a wonder you're still sane. To think of all the unsavoury practices you must have witnessed, like church-going, straight lifestyles, and (gulp) voting Republican!!! Gad!
I have had Gigapower since December and pleased with the results. My firewall just cannot keep up; it can support a max of 650Mbps and I have over 625Mbps; going direct to the RG does give me more speed. Nothing like attaching a file to an email and poof, it is done no matter what the size.
Cloud backup services are actually an option. I had to do some patching and each patch was over 1GB in size and done in seconds; I swear the install took longer than the download.
How much of that lovely data going down those beautiful fat pipes is used for their Data Slurping and sent back to the user as 'Targetted Adverts'?
What is the Divorce rate in areas served by Google Fibre? Has there been an increase in sudden divorces as... well you know those adverts for certain semi legal services start appearing when the lady of the house goes online to buy something girly? (Or the other way round...)
The speed might be great but there has to be a downside if Google is involved isn't there...
If Google kicks ISPs asses, and they do and will, it's the ISPs fault. When Tech/Engineering companies became ruled by MBAs and Accountants their eventual downfall was guaranteed. They've cut Engineering in most of these companies to the bone. Engineering departments can no longer innovate and are afraid to take chances so they stay with good enough, but expensive equipment, instead of developing their own. We can see that the large social media companies develop their own switches and routers on the cheap. Not many ISPs have that expertise anymore.
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