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Yeah, would expect many options by the time these vaccines are available to me. Not a given I'll choose a new vax that has been rushed.

Am curious how Comcast Gbit service performs at long distances. That is on speedtest.net servers in cities over a thousand miles away. I have Google Fiber Gbit and it consistently performs over 940Mbps to any server around US/Canada (from KC) any time of day and 700Mbps to some test servers in...

Yeah they'll heavily market 2Gbit to uninformed consumers (and biz who can truly use it as well) as they always have. I've convinced friends who got GFBR to 'keep up with the Joneses' to downgrade to 100M when GFBR used to offer it. The only heavy hitting is video streaming for all of them...

2Gbit is overkill for most home consumers but not for small biz and orgs that use GFBR as described further up this page. More capacity for dozens to possibly thousands of users.

Not a claim, according to speedtest.net (and other test servers). I'm at my Florida place through next month, not at my KC condo so can't post a new test but I've posted long distance Google Fiber tests over the years on Ars. Even a bit better now as longhaul and peering to exchanges have been...

What happens when you do a speedtest to a server a thousand miles away? Can 'Change Server' on speedtest.net to another city anywhere. If you get great speeds on a local server but not at long distance, it's a bottleneck along the routes/exchanges on the longhaul. If that's the case, may be...

^AT&T likely had existing right of ways so much easier to deploy. Looks like GFBR deployed in mostly apt buildings in ATL. So not a lie but not as broad as most hoped for. Given struggles for single family home deployment and ROWs, looks like GFBR will only expand in new markets where the city...

AT&T... Happily exploiting those who still trust the brand. (edit: I once worked for ATT and know it's true.)

Not much overlap... Spectrum (formerly TWC) covers over 2/3 of KC metro and Comcast near 1/3 (some outer burbs). There are apparently some border neighborhoods with overlap and can order either. Supposedly Google Fiber chose KC first partly to pressure two major CableCos (plus ATT and Cox...

GFBR has a lot of small biz/org customers like coffee shops, schools, libraries, startups, etc. And maybe larger office buildings too. So 2Gb would provide better avg performance for dozens to thousands of concurrent users. And there are a handful of home power users. But is still surprising...

Love the almost ethereal low key tone.

^As mentioned, GFBR recently announced expansion in W Des Moines, though the city is laying the conduit. It appears GFBR moving forward will only expand to cities that already lay accessible fiber or conduit.

I've delved as deep as I could into GFBR architecture and from what I can tell they didn't half-ass anything. It's in fact way over-engineered in a good way. They don't put as many households on a GPON as other ISPs do (at least in KC). I live in a condo building with over 140 units (most...

Looks like moving forward GFBR will only expand in markets that build their own fiber or at least conduit for fiber, like the recent W Des Moines announcement, or the Huntsville model. In KC, Google spent over $1B and didn't get to all the burbs. And that was with huge city help, as well as...

Generally agree but GFBR has many small biz customers. I have GFBR in KC and have noticed many local places have GFBR like coffee shops, libraries, public schools, etc. The 2gbit upgrade can be useful for them. And power users like a pro video editor I know of who sends large videos to the...

Another energy saving method is underground caves, naturally 58 degrees saving cooling costs. A friend has worked in this data center, which is like an underground city with roads, streetlights, neon storefronts and even a train line goes through it... https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/arc...

Actually Tmobile users can now roam on Sprint sites as well. From what I understand it started with Pixel phones. Now iPhone TMO users are reporting they can roam on Sprint. Maybe other phones too.

Yeah Tmobile 5G on 2500Mhz can get around 400Mbps. I have a Sprint 4G phone that gets 200Mbps on same 5G sites. My AT&T 4G phone gets over 50Mbps average, which is good enough.

^You're not weird. I'm fine with 10Mbps for browsing on a phone but is impressive that 4G performance is now improving on my Sprint phone. Consistently getting 200M+ 4G speeds in many locations where Tmobile has upgraded sites to 5G. This is 2500Mhz band indoors so the latency is not as great...

The max speed depends on how wide the spectrum is within the band. LTE can do a Gbit+ if enough aggregated spectrum and bakhaul. What end users see depends on load of site and other factors of course. 5G gets even more speed or capacity than LTE within same amount of spectrum.