[GRLUG] GR area ISPs

[Bob Kline]

I heard this in late 2009, and again
about a month ago.  The latest claim
was that lots of bandwidth opened up
as HD was phased in, and that
Internet speeds will roughly double.

In fact, Comcast has rolled out 50/10
in some bigger cities already.  It is
supposedly available in GR as a
business service, for about $190 a
month.  And Comcast claims it is
slowly rolling out the service. GR should
be about 500th in its list of priorities.

Contrast 50/10 for $190 a month with LUSFiber:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUSFiber>$58 a month for 50 Mbps full duplex.
Fiber to the home.
The town built its own system.  Verizon
and Cox fought it tooth and nail,  trying
to influence the state legislature, but
the courts ruled that the town could
spend its tax money as it wished.  A
precedent of sorts was thus established.

Google is now in bed with Verizon with
wireless, and appears to have lost its
zeal for 1Gbps fiber to the home.  Instead
it has a 1Gbps "research" program at
Stanford. i.e., no one will ever see it.

Comcast has a monopoly in this area
on anything approaching high speed,
and it knows it.  Oh, and it's already
been caught putting the squeeze on
Netflix.  No net neutrality here.

    -- Bob



On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Rob Steenwyk <rsteenwyk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Comcast is supposedly rolling out DOCSIS 3 in a matter of months in
> downtown GR. I heard this from a tech I had come out to look into some
> issues. Not sure what the service area will actually be, or if the guy even
> knew what he was talking about, but he seemed to be a pretty decent tech
> that knew what was going on. He stated that with the rollout there will be
> new plans up to 50Mbps down and something like 10 up.
>
> We'll see.
>
> Rob Steenwyk
> rsteenwyk at gmail.com
> 616-723-0226
>
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