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Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 10:28 pm
by perrinoia
Not from time Warner, though... I bet... There's no way that crappy company is offering gigabit, unless they're talking about the Wi-Fi from their routers.
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2016 11:12 pm
by Fixious
This may have something to do with TW offering gigabit.
https://fiber.google.com/cities/sanantonio/
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:25 am
by perrinoia
I wish Google fiber was coming to Newport.
The best we can get is Cox cable, which works, sometimes. They advertise up to 100Mbps, and their smallest plan is 25Mbps, but on the island, we can only get like 15Mbps, which drops to 3Mbps at peak hours.
Also, or modem has to be reset weekly, as it seems to get bogged down, and stops communicating. The conspiracy theorist inside of me thinks it logs everything for the NSA, on it's limited internal memory...
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 6:47 am
by KILROY
Google, ATT, and Grande all offer 1gig service here, but in limited areas, they are still installing fiber. So yes, he's not on Time Warner, they only offer 300gig for the consumer here and 400gig for business services.
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:30 pm
by perrinoia
300-400 GIG?!
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 9:04 am
by KILROY
LOL....yeah, just re-read that myself...sorry been a long week, had a Fed Ex issue I was dealing with and spent some long hours hunting down the group in the UK, spamming people around the World and using the info. they received for International theft. They are now behind bars.
But, no NOT 300 and 400 Gigs, 300 Mbps and 400 Mbps via Time Warner.
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 2:24 pm
by perrinoia
Oh, ok... I guess I'll unpack my bags then...
Was about to move over there.
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 4:17 pm
by KILROY
If you were, were you going to bring your boat? I live between 2 lakes
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 5:43 pm
by AnniDv6
Google fiber has not been doing so well. I think we are still a ways out from having good internet anywhere in the states because it takes a lot of work and money and time to install fiber in a city.
Citing sources close to parent Alphabet, tech-industry news service The Information said high costs of the current, land-based Fiber deployment and a shortfall in subscribers led Alphabet CEO Larry Page to tell Fiber chief Craig Barratt last month to "halve the size of the Google Fiber team to 500 people." Its internal target was to reach 5 million subscribers in five years of its start, but by the end of 2014, it counted only 200,000 broadband subscribers, according to the report.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016 ... /89412388/
Re: MIDAIR Kickstarter
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2016 6:33 pm
by KILROY
The mistake they are making is trying to offer wireless services. Which is what Direct TV was doing and why they ended up selling out to ATT, now ATT is suffering with their purchase. Wireless is harder to secure and drops more frequently, which is why it isn't selling well. A hard line will always out due air signals.