Comments on: Hot Donkey! Thomas Hawk is Getting Fiber! Internet is Gonna Fly Baby!

By: wtf

wtf — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:01:35 +0000

wtf is this crap 1.5mbs up? lame that is not fiber…that is limitations not really fast at all, Us or not like killercup said, this is crap. 10mbs up/down is bare minimum fiber. you are capped horrifically wtf is this crap

By: Quikboy

Quikboy — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:13:00 +0000

U-verse? That's awesome!

I've tested out the U-verse TV experience, and it just rocks. I never though a TV provider could ever come up with a decent interface, but AT&T; proved me wrong. I love the slick TV interface, the DVR ability, and all that for one solid price. The interface is also pretty interactive, and the channel preview thing works great.

Interesting to note that U-verse utilizes IPTV (or Microsoft Mediaroom to be exact), which to me, is TV of the future. Great to hear you got U-verse in you area.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 20:30:00 +0000

I have uverse as well. Be aware this is only fiber to the node not the premise. The run from the node to your
property is the same wire. I hated the DVR since it barely worked missed recordings and there was only 1 HD stream. The Internet is ok but for the price I can’t complain since it is half the price of comcast. They don’t support the Hd Tivo or Hd tuner cards from a media center. I ended up staying with directv’s Hd Dvr but it is only ok when compared to my Directv TiVo powered Hd DVR.

By: torh

torh — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:44:00 +0000

10 Up and 10 Down baby… and that was the cheapest plan available in my area. There is no way back now

By: killercup

killercup — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:59:00 +0000

Wow, seems to be a big thing for you, Thomas! I really can’t unterstand what’s going on with internet broadband services in the USA. In Germany that kind of broadband is a higher standard, I have 16Mb/s with 1Mb/s for less than 30 Euro per month.

By: Oona =^..^=

Oona =^..^= — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:18:00 +0000

Mr Hawk,
I sent you an email concerning one of your photos that I had seen an artist had made a ‘painting’ of and sell it, but the email came back. I thought you might want to view the website it is on:

http://sandraspeight.com/interest.htm [home page]
http://sandraspeight.com/Rainy%20Night%20in%20San%20Francisco%20(Small).jpg [painting]

It did not seem fair to me that she had done this.

I love that photo of yours.

By: Denton Gentry

Denton Gentry — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:33:00 +0000

Fremont! I hope they light up Fremont soon.

By: Jesse Stay

Jesse Stay — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:56:00 +0000

Now your iPhone 3G will seem slow again

By: JeffH

JeffH — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:47:00 +0000

Hey congrats on scoring some really fast Broadband! Welcome to the 21st century. I suffered with Sprint Wireless Broadband for years and at the beginning of the year switched to Comcast. (No fiber available in my area yet). I got the Business class service. Service is guaranteed to be 8Mbit down and 800KB up, but I’m getting 16-18Mbit down and 1.5Mbit up!! Plenty of bandwidth to stream full HD video! I’ve seen upload speeds as high as 20Mbit in the early AM. I’ve been really happy with the service so far. The customer service for business class is top notch and is 24/7, they will even come out on Sunday to fix things if necessary.