I just had a customer on our 1Gbps service keep complaining that his wireless was only 250Mbps on his iPhone.
He was asking why he even bothers paying $70 for 1000Mbps when he only sees 100-250Mbps. This guy has an netgear router that isn’t even connected to anything. It’s all wireless. I went over, plugged in my Surface to his Netgear and showed him 950Mbps up and down on speedtest.net. Still didn’t get it. Said we were falsely advertising “Up to 1000Mbps” on our web site because it never gets to 1000Mbps. I wanted to shoot myself at that point. Fortunately, I don’t get many of these people. From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH My question is, who is running around complaining that their 1 Gbps Internet sucks? "Oh my god! My Internet is SO SLOW! Someone needs to give me 10Gbps!" On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 12:28 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I would like to see these hippie google bastards tooling around in east st louis, Alphabet would have to generate a body armor company On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 10:42 AM, <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: East St. Louis... -----Original Message----- From: Ken Hohhof Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 9:33 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH This is the New Economy, we don't need no stinkin' profits. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/shinal/2015/10/15/square-ipo-filing-shows-fast-growth-consistent-losses/73985492/ And in the case of Google Fiber, how would we know if it was profitable? Unless Alphabet intends to split off companies to stand on their own. I do find it interesting that everyone focuses on the last mile bandwidth, as if that's the whole story. At least with business service, you don't have the ridiculous scenario of someone running their 10 Gbps residential Internet into an AC3200 router and doing speedtests on their iPad. But if they sell 10 Gbps business service at lower than datacenter bandwidth pricing, what happens if businesses start actually using it like DIA or datacenter bandwidth? Like someone decides to sell cloud gaming or streaming video or some business model that involves hundreds of screens streaming 4K video? Maybe some real time medical imaging application. And all this gigabit activity in cities doesn't really prove much about less populated or economically distressed areas. If Google's intent is to prove something, rather than cherry-pick, I'd still like to see them wire Detroit or Newark. Not the wealthy suburbs or select "fiberhoods". Do the whole city and show how it sparks an urban revival. Or go do a small rural town or a tribal reservation. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 10:20 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH And, they are operating the system at a profit, right...? -----Original Message----- From: Travis Johnson Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 8:52 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [AFMUG] 10Gbps FTTH Does Google know they are getting out played by a small city? :) http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/10/10gbps-internet-offered-by-city-fighting-anti-muni-broadband-laws/ Travis -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
