[ale] All you Comcast fanboys...

[Jim Kinney]

The first pain point is access to poles or right of way for buried fiber.
Serious limits to wireless bandwidth. Long-haul open air laser is disrupted
by rain, leaves, new billboards, etc. At some point, connection to actual
Internet has to happen and that is $$$$painpoint$$$$ #2

My neighborhood had conduit in place and ready for fiber pull. The cost of
termination and splitting at the driveway and head end hardware has to be
amortized over the finance period with the hope it's paid of before it's
totally obsolete and paying users move on.

The last mile providers are in a death spiral and demand far exceeds
financial incentive to upgrade. Any talk of upgrades forced by legislation
makes some very loud people very upset.

I can see a community/hacker space run project to devise slow speed or
emergency comms for ordinary users.
On Jan 30, 2015 12:10 PM, "Michael Trausch" <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> This group surprises me.
>
> It shouldn't be hard to build an Internet where we little peoples peer
> with each other. Maybe not able to preserve 1 GBPS everywhere, but I know
> this: I will find a way out of the Comcast network. GF won't hit my area.
> That's OK, though.
>
> We can build the User Controlled Network.
>
> After all it is the only answer to the question and problem of network
> neutrality: prohibit The Man from controlling the network!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:04 AM, DJ-Pfulio <djpfulio at jdpfu.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 01/30/2015 08:41 AM, Dylan Northrup wrote:
> >> Only for customers for whom Google is an option. . . for me in Marietta,
> >> Comcast and AT&T are my only options (and DSL isn't really an option).
> Google
> >> Fiber won't be an option for quite a while, if ever.  I can only hope
> when
> >> Comcast modifies their plans to respond to Google Fiber in the areas
> it's
> >> available those modifications will be effective across all
> municipalities in
> >> the Atlanta area.
> >
> > Let's be serious.  Google Fibre won't be an option for most of the
> people in the
> > metro area for years.  Remember how long ago they announced for Austin?
> They
> > just started taking real signups last Oct. If enough of a neighborhood
> doesn't
> > sign up, they don't get it.  Google is cherry picking neighborhoods.  I
> think
> > this is more about embarrassing other providers into providing higher
> speed than
> > anything else - well - besides having router access to tracking data.
> >
> > AT&T, Comcast and Cox have 18 months to upgrade the areas where GF will
> be
> > installed to prevent subscriber losses. And that is exactly what they've
> done in
> > Austin. Places on the list for GF magically got
> > http://kxan.com/2014/11/24/google-fiber-plans-moving-forward/ higher
> speeds from
> > 3 providers and reduced prices.  None of my friends in Austin can get GF
> and
> > they aren't in areas likely to see it for yrs though they do live inside
> the
> > city limits. No TWC bandwidth change for them, at least not yet.
> >
> > In short, hope for the best, but don't hold your breath. ;(
> >
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