GoogleFiber to KC MO, too!

[lukep]

Google just announced that the greater KCMO area, not just KCK, will be getting the fiber NEXT YEAR!

To stay or to go?

I've been wanting to move away from KC for a while now, possibly to Denver.

I have for a long time been planning to move away from KC, possibly to Denver.

The initial KCK fiber announcement was not enough to temp me to move up into that godforsaken slumville, I prefer it down here in OP Kansas (15 miles south, still in KCMO's greater area) where bullets don't ring out nightly and you can find things like Sushi.

But since it now looks like this apartment I'm in will be getting gigabit fiber next year, and Denver won't, I think I'd be a fool to go.

Crap. This area bores me and I can't find a lot of good products they sell in larger cities.

How long do you guys think it will take Gigabit fiber to bring in more people/businesses/cool products to make my investment in staying here worthwhile?

 

[Bofu2U]

Enjoy the new targeted ads now that they can watch your traffic on the router level. No need for toolbars ever again.

E-mail about new hondas, now your re-targeted ads about hondas.

 

[eliquid]

hmm, if you making any kind of money ( and I know you are ), dont let something as trivial as gigabit fiber keeping you somewhere you dont like.

I live in a rural area and made my first 7figs online on 56k dial up. Right now, im on some shitty low end DSL....

Live where you want.

 

[justo_tx]

hmm, if you making any kind of money ( and I know you are ), dont let something as trivial as gigabit fiber keeping you somewhere you dont like.

True dat, a significant quality of life upgrade vs saving a hundred bucks a month in an internet connection should be a no brainer.

 

[lukep]

But nonetheless I DO need more bandwidth than my stupid Time Warner Broadband connection allows. (And no, Fios nor any other Fiber outfit is available here.)

I wonder if it's possible to run TWO broadband cables in one apartment and double my bandwidth that way?

 

[Lithium.]

House/Neighbourhood/Area > Interwebz

 

[AuthorAji]

I've been wanting to move away from KC for a while now, possibly to Denver.

I have for a long time been planning to move away from KC, possibly to Denver.

 

[lukep]

LOL; There is apparently a downside to Typing too fast...

 

[AuthorAji]

LOL; There is apparently a downside to Typing too fast...

Yes, you write something. Then you decide it can be written in a better, more subtle way. So you rewrite the same something. Then you forget to delete the earlier something and go ahead and make the post/send the email.

Happens to the best of us!

 

[justo_tx]

But nonetheless I DO need more bandwidth than my stupid Time Warner Broadband connection allows. (And no, Fios nor any other Fiber outfit is available here.)

I wonder if it's possible to run TWO broadband cables in one apartment and double my bandwidth that way?

Why not run your stuff from vpses (vpii?) with uber bandwidth and just RDP into them?

 

[jenzkc]

wtf would you move somewhere just for internet service?

 

[gdubs12345]

Enjoy the new targeted ads now that they can watch your traffic on the router level. No need for toolbars ever again.

no kidding, they aren't do this just to be nice

 

[BlokBlok]

Internet speed would be my last consideration when moving, plus Denver will have fast interwebz anyway.

 

[music4mic]

But nonetheless I DO need more bandwidth than my stupid Time Warner Broadband connection allows. (And no, Fios nor any other Fiber outfit is available here.)

I wonder if it's possible to run TWO broadband cables in one apartment and double my bandwidth that way?

I've done this and got ~30Mbs each. One was dedicated to xrumer and scrapebox and the other was for normal browsing, xbox etc. This was all through Road Runner, which i believe is owned by Timewarner.

 

[Unarmed Gunman]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTNJwRTjmJM]YouTube - Kansas City Fagots(Blazing Saddles)[/ame]

 

[cougarclaws]

HI MAY I HELP YOU!!!

 

[lukep]

Why not run your stuff from vpses (vpii?) with uber bandwidth and just RDP into them?

Because when I tried there was no such thing as Uber Bandwidth; I found out the hard way that 10MBits was the cap for my account... And I'd even asked around for one with more than that.

Know of one that is powerful and offers 100MBits or more?

wtf would you move somewhere just for internet service?

I simply need more Bnadwidth for my home office, and Time Warner doesn't offer it here. Every single day I fight to get downloads in one room while the other is watching netflix video or something... It's frustrating as hell and I'm losing money in lost opportunities...

no kidding, they aren't do this just to be nice

Luckily I have a brain and know how to hide stuff from them if I want to.

For a Gigabit connection; it's worth using it.

Internet speed would be my last consideration when moving, plus Denver will have fast interwebz anyway.

I checked out some national broadband speed charts and currently Denver is rated at the low end for all the big cities!

I've done this and got ~30Mbs each. One was dedicated to xrumer and scrapebox and the other was for normal browsing, xbox etc. This was all through Road Runner, which i believe is owned by Timewarner.

What city was that? Their highest package here is 9Mbs... Although doubling to 18Mbs sounds like a dream come true to me, that would be a Lot more money for what is still less than 1/50th of Google Fiber speed!

 

[kneedeep]

Comcast does 100 down 20 up in metro areas for residential.

Ask if your current provider has business accounts (no caps)