Google’s Internet service coming to SD

[The-Shoveler]

The preliminary plan announced Thursday is aiming to bring the “Google Fiber” service to San Diego, Irvine, California and Louisville, Kentucky.

Google still must work out the logistics with government leaders before reaching a final decision on whether those three cities will join 24 other U.S. cities that already have or are scheduled to get a service that promises to deliver online content at one gigabit per second. That’s up to 100 times faster than existing Internet services.

Interesting that Irvine and SD are in the same sentence.

[spdrun]

So Google can spy on traffic at the source, not just when using their services. Lol.

[Coronita]

Cool. Should be free too.

[FlyerInHi]

[quote=flu]Cool. Should be free too.[/quote]

I like free.

Seriously, neighbors should band together and share the service and split the costs. At a couple locations, I share with my neighbors. Works out pretty good. Why pay the ISP when you can save money?

Time Warner and Cox are also increasing speeds to 300mps in San Diego. I heard it should happen within 1 year.

[poorgradstudent]

Thank god. I’m glad someone is finally competing with the cable monopolies.

[an]

Time Warner is deploying TWC Maxx next month, which is their 300Mbps service.

I hope Google get this done quickly. Competition is great and my house is already pre-wired for fiber, so it shouldn’t cost them very much to turn it on.

[FlyerInHi]

AN, I believe that the fiber in Mira Mesa belongs to ATT who laid it about a decade ago. Maybe they will lease it out.

BTW, what do you guys need super highspeed for?

For me, i feel like 15mpbs is plenty adequate, even for watching nexflix. But maybe you need multiple streams for the family.

I’m cheap and price sensitive so I wouldn’t pay much more for higher speed. But more competition is always good.

[an]

[quote=FlyerInHi]AN, I believe that the fiber in Mira Mesa belongs to ATT who laid it about a decade ago. Maybe they will lease it out.

BTW, what do you guys need super highspeed for?

For me, i feel like 15mpbs is plenty adequate, even for watching nexflix. But maybe you need multiple streams for the family.

I’m cheap and price sensitive so I wouldn’t pay much more for higher speed. But more competition is always good.[/quote]No, those fiber was laid down in the late 90s, so I don’t think it was AT&T. I also think that company went out of business. I’m not sure who own it now.

As for usage, streaming 4k videos from my cloud, uploading/downloading 19 megapixel photos, uploading my 4k videos to the cloud for back up. These are just a few I can think of on the top of my head.

[poorgradstudent]

[quote=FlyerInHi]AN, I believe that the fiber in Mira Mesa belongs to ATT who laid it about a decade ago. Maybe they will lease it out.

BTW, what do you guys need super highspeed for?

For me, i feel like 15mpbs is plenty adequate, even for watching nexflix. But maybe you need multiple streams for the family.

I’m cheap and price sensitive so I wouldn’t pay much more for higher speed. But more competition is always good.[/quote]

I don’t care too much about speed, although I wouldn’t mind if my netflix could load a hair faster. Things can get bogged down if my wife is watching something and I’m online gaming.

Mostly I’m just worried that as more and more millenials cut the cord for cable TV and only use cable internet, the cable companies will try to make up their revenue by raising rates. I don’t like being in a position where one company can more or less change me whatever they want because I “need” their service and there’s no other decent option.

[moneymaker]

Just tested my speed and I’m getting 60MHz down and 6MHz up. Plenty fast enough for me, and that’s wireless 5G. Fiber blows away coax as far as bandwidth but I suspect about time Google gets their fiber up and running someone will have a wireless option that is just as fast, things always seem to work that way. I once paid $15 more for faster speed way back in the day but ultimately felt it was not worth it( I think my speed now is faster than that premier speed back then).Pacific Bell is the one that laid all that fiber in Mira Mesa then AT&T bought them out and scrubbed the project.

[spdrun]

Fiber doesn’t run into pesky EM spectrum issues that wireless encounters.

[moneymaker]

Wireless can be done with lasers and telescopes i.e. not RF

[spdrun]

Of course, and anything disrupting line of sight (birds, dirt on the lenses, fog, smoke, drones) would be fun to deal with.

[moneymaker]

Multipath just like the internet. Granted rain or snow would be an issue but that rarely happens here in San Diego.

[spdrun]

Would multipath over-the-air optical signalling be more reliable than a strand of fiber?

SD does get dust, smoke, rain, and fog. Plus you have to keep the things aligned…

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