Shirona A. Gunawardhana wrote:
Mitch Harper (city council) is working hard on getting Google to work
with For Wayne. The fiber that we currently have is mostly residential
> quality that can support up to 100Mbps but Google is talking about
I know Mitch from my track club days (we worked together on the first
track club web sites). If anyone can talk Google into coming to Fort
Wayne, it would be Mitch... ;)
commercial grade 1000Mbps. The FIOS connection I had was so poorly done
and I had to call Verizon several times (I was out of service for days
sometimes) before giving it up for Comcast. Comcast upload speeds are
not that great but it works without interruption.
But your experience may not have been the fiber itself, but the
installer, since installer quality seems to vary pretty wildly. If you
get lucky a good one finally comes to your house, sees the cable run to
your house, starts swearing to himself, and then redoes it the right
way. At least that's what happened in my case, and I've had very
fast/solid service on Verizon FIOS ever since.
Cheers,
Vern
Shirona
*From:* [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Rich Gilson
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:04 PM
*To:* Fort Wayne Linux Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [fwlug] Google gigabit access in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne actually does have fiber. How much, I don't know for sure,
but it is there.
Rich
On Feb 17, 2010 2:53 PM, "Don Pobanz" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi all,
This sounds interesting. However, to my knowledge Fort Wayne does
not own much infrastructure that could be used for this. (I have
only lived in FW a year and a half so could be wrong). They don't
have electric utilities like some municipalities nor cable TV. I
don't know if the traffic signals are connected via fiber.
I'm sure google would want fiber in place or if not in place, then
at least poles or conduit where fiber could be installed at a
minimal cost. Is there any chance that the city of Fort Wayne has that?
Don Pobanz
Former Municipality employee (working in communications) in Hastings
Nebraska.
On 2/17/2010 11:02 AM, MikeD (2) wrote:
>
> Hello Luggers,
>
> Check this out: http://www.goog...
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