180 Neighborhoods Met Google Fiber Quota, Rollout Begins Next Month

Tharic-Nar · 09-14-2012, 10:31 AM

It took a mere month-and-a-half for 180 neighborhoods around the dual Kansas City's to hop on the path to become 'fiberhoods', Google has announced. The company first announced its intention to rollout its jaw-dropping 1Gbit/s Internet service in Kansas City, MO and KS, and the response was staggering right out of the gate. While it'd seem likely that every neighborhood would reach its minimum sign-up goals, only 89% actually had.

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Greg King · 09-14-2012, 01:20 PM

Plainfield, Indiana PLEASE!

Kayden · 09-14-2012, 01:54 PM

Only reason my town got lucky with FiOS is because we were the test bed for Southern Cali.

Rob Williams · 09-14-2012, 06:44 PM

The same thing happened with my town oddly enough when DSL was first hitting the scene. It was awesome being on 3Mbit/s when most people I knew were on 56K or less.

09-14-2012, 10:31 AM	#1
Tharic-Nar Techgage Staff Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: UK Posts: 1,151	180 Neighborhoods Met Google Fiber Quota, Rollout Begins Next Month It took a mere month-and-a-half for 180 neighborhoods around the dual Kansas City's to hop on the path to become 'fiberhoods', Google has announced. The company first announced its intention to rollout its jaw-dropping 1Gbit/s Internet service in Kansas City, MO and KS, and the response was staggering right out of the gate. While it'd seem likely that every neighborhood would reach its minimum sign-up goals, only 89% actually had. You can read the rest of our post and discuss here. __________________ PSU: Corsair 1000HX - Case: Thermaltake Xaser VI Full Tower - CPU: Intel Core i7 2600 @3.8GHz - Cooler: Thermaltake FRIO - Motherboard: ASUS P67 Sabertooth - Memory: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LP Arctic 1600 - GPU: 2x AMD Radeon HD 5870 - HDD: WD Caviar Black 1TB 6Gb/s - Audio: ASUS Xonar DX + Corsair HS1 USB Headset K/B: Corsair K90 - Mouse: Corsair M60 - Monitor: DELL U2410 - Speakers: Corsair SP2500 - Headset: Corsair HS1A - Mic: Blue Yeti USB Microphone - I need Fiber to fix my Irregular Bandwidth Syndrome -

09-14-2012, 01:20 PM	#2
Greg King I just kinda show up... Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 2,081	Plainfield, Indiana PLEASE! __________________ "It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan System: Intel i5 2500K \| Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 \| 16GB G.Skill DDR3 \| Crucial M4 128GB SSD WD 1TB Black x1 \| WD 2TB Green x 1 \| XFX Radeonn HD 6850 \| Corsair H80 Water Cooler Fractal Design R3 \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 \| Dell 2410 x 3 @ 1920x1200 ESXi Host: Intel i7 920 @ 3.0 GHz \| Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P \| 24GB Patriot DDR3 \| WD 1TB Black x 2

09-14-2012, 01:54 PM	#3
Kayden Techgage Staff Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: CA Posts: 709	Only reason my town got lucky with FiOS is because we were the test bed for Southern Cali. __________________ Koolance PC4-1036BK Liquid Cooled Aluminum Full Tower Case (Upgraded to displace 1320watt of heat) - Koolance 360 ver 1.2 CPU Water Block - PrimoChill ICE Non-Conductive Fluid - Asus P6X58D Premium - Intel I7 950 - Evga GTX580 FTW Hydro Copper 2 x2 in SLI - Tt SMART M1200W PSU - Mushkin Enhanced Radioactive 12GB 1600 XMP - Klipsch 5.1 THX Cert Speakers - Sata II OCZ Vertex 4 128GB, Kingston 120GB SV300, WD 2TB, 320GB & 1TB - Cyborg RAT 7 MMO Mouse - Logitech G19 - Logitech G13 Gameboard - 1-over-3 Viewsonic's VA2448M-LED 24-Inch for Nvidia Surround - Ergotech Triple Horizontal LCD Monitor Arm Desk Stand

09-14-2012, 06:44 PM	#4
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