Phase III Pre-Registration Continues

West Johnson County, KS signups will open on October 1st, 2015 at 9am and close on November 19th.

Stop by an event to learn more:

Shawnee Great Grillers
September 25th
5 p.m. - 10 p.m. CST, Shawnee Town Hall
and
September 26th
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. CST, Shawnee Town Hall

Shawnee Oktoberfest
October 2nd
5:30 p.m. - 10 p.m. CST, Shawnee Civic Centre

Lenexa Enchanted Forest
October 22nd
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. CST, Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park

Phase III Pre-Registration Continues

Olathe East sign-ups opened today August 11th and will close on September 24th.

All fiberhoods in Olathe East have met their goals!

Google Fiber Expansion

On August 5th Google Fiber announced one more metro area: San Antonio.

Here's the link to follow progress with each city:
https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

Google Fiber's blog post about Salt Lake City:
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/san-antonio-fiber.html

Google Fiber Routing and Latency

When I first got Google Fiber I noticed the latency to some locations was higher than expected. After poking around with traceroute it was easy to see why. The path traffic was taking out of Google Fiber's network was much longer than it needed to be. Going to a location in Kansas City from my KC Google Fiber, it would route through San Jose. Other cities around the US had similar odd routing, except for locations near San Jose.

Early in the morning on March 19th, 2015 Google Fiber made routing changes that have now significantly improved latency for all the test locations I'd been monitoring that were higher than they should've been.

Note: All of these monitors are to Hurricane Electric core routers, so the loss statistics aren't necessarily accurate. (ICMP is low priority to respond to.)

The jump in latency in KC is the most staggering. From 33.3 ms average to 8.6ms.

To the person at Google Fiber made this change: I want to buy you a beer for making my latency in games that much better!

Google Fiber Expansion

On March 24th Google Fiber announced one more metro area: Salt Lake City.

Here's the link to follow progress with each city:
https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

Google Fiber's blog post about Salt Lake City:
http://googlefiberblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/google-fiber-is-coming-to-salt-lake-city.html

Areas Opened for Sign-ups Indefinitely in Kansas City

As of today Kansas City, KS, KC Central, MO, and the South Kansas City, MO areas have been opened for sign-ups indefinitely. Only fiberhoods that met their goals during one of the previous rallies in those areas are eligible to signup though.

This change may have been because of this letter that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) sent to Larry Page (CEO/cofounder of Google) on February 5th, 2015.

http://cleaver.house.gov/sites/cleaver.house.gov/files/Letter%20-%20Close%20Digital%20Divide.pdf

This news site made the link that these two events might be related:
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/237472-after-dem-reps-request-google-reopens-local-fiber-signup

Phase III Pre-Registration Continues

Lee's Summit sign-ups opened yesterday March 10th and will close on April 30th.

If you have a contract with your current provider, think about signing up for the free plan until your current contract is over. If your fiberhood doesn't meet it's signup goal then no one will be getting Google Fiber in your neighborhood until signups reopen again.

Updated 5-5-2015:

All but four fiberhoods met their signup goals.