Why was the report about Seattle Community Broadband such a hot potato in 2011 that it was confidential ? Did someone not want to make a big deal about a campaign promise they weren't going to be able to follow through with ?

and where is our Socialist councilmember on this ? If there's one thing you'd get broad, socialist-y support from cranks it's for building municipal broadband (many of the articles in 2009 called

http://www.seattlemet.com/news-and-profi…
http://www.seattlemet.com/publicola/arti…
McGinn, with his socialist-y agenda (building a public broadband network and taking over the schools),

It's quite evident by now that what Murray intends to do during his tenure as Mayor is appoint task forces to study some problems and hire consultants to study others. No action whatsoever but a LOT of City money expended on talk.

@1,2 you're an idiot.

I feel the need

The need for

Another study that will keep America with lower bandwidth than any first world nation.

Meanwhile my 100 GB/s port works fine and so do the 40 GB/s ports on Internet 2 ... while you mostly get speeds 1/10,000th as fast in much of Seattle ....

I'm sure we will have municipal broadband by the time .....well we can all stream the live feed of the Federation Starship Enterprise NCC-1701-J launch from Utopia Planitia. Now keep in mind at that point only part of Seattle will have access to municipal broadband. And there is no way we will be ready to show the launch of any of the earlier ships named Enterprise. Seattle process everyone, Seattle process.

"Broadband' is a marketing term and a misnomer at that. Can we please instead talk about Internet access?



After Centurylink, who talked Murray's administration into reducing restrictions on private use of the public right-of-way, came knocking in my Seattle neighborhood to notify my neighbors and me of their new service offerings, I contacted them and discovered that their 1 Gbps service is capped at approximately 33 minutes per month of full-speed transfer. What a scam. I would not expect such misleading messaging from a publicly owned and operated ISP. It's all we get out of shady operators like CenturyLink and Comcast.

Hey, young folks: Ansel is telling us you pretty much only care about how fast you can play Minecraft and download "Game of Throne" torrents. Because if only Obama had come out in favor of Net Neutrality you would have shown up at the polls! I mean, apparently he think you don't give a crap about the environment or war or education or any of that boring shit, right?

@5: FYI, this post has nothing to do with whatever you're talking about.

@8,
250 GB is where they start to contact you to suggest a business account. You know that a municipal broadband competitor, which might bill in data-increments that reflect actual cost of data, might be one force that would abolish or raise that cap, right ?

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r2934595…

Comcast helped get Ed Murray elected mayor. Now it's payback time.

@12, the implosion of gigabit squared after McGinn trotted them out to announce speed tiers and pricing in late June and his croney-ism with Hansen and the Cascade Bicycle-stapo is why McGinn is no longer mayor.

http://blogs.seattletimes.com/brierdudle…

Yeah @12, that donation to a PAC really bought the mayor. That argument is as tired as your non-stop attacks on him.



http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

The only way this will ever happen is if it becomes possible to deploy neighborhood super-high-speed wireless nodes all over the city. There are groups working on this type of thing, and its promising (requires a special wireless router).

I live in a part of NW Seattle where CenturyLink DSL isn't available - still! I'm not on Comcast (they say my address isn't in their database, even though their neighborhood "box" is out on my parking-strip). So I use WiFi that comes in from some unknown neighbor, and have an expensive Mobile WiFi HotSpot device from AT&T. I would LOVE for the City to get into the biz. Meanwhile its a godsend that Starbucks is FINALLY slowly deploying high-speed Google WiFi in some of their local stores.

This is the link I thought I was posting for @15 http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archive…

@19 He's not playing dumb. He's just a terrible reporter.

Sunset Comcast's franchise for cable unless they go to fiber. The coax hanging on the poles has been paid for many times over.

Ditto with centurylink and POTS.

How's this for an idea, get the politicians and folks at Tacoma City Light who originally developed Click! Network in Tacoma, to meet with their counter-parts here and show them how it's done? It's not that hard. Build a city-wide fiber network that the City operates, and partner with a couple of local tech companies to handle sales, customer service, email. and technical support. Granted, Tacoma did that at a perfect time, when they had several experienced dial-up ISPs begging to partner with it.

Phil @8, it looks like the CenturyLink rep gave you some bad information. Their Excessive Use Policy specifically excludes 1 Gig customers -- http://internethelp.centurylink.com/inte…

Mayor Murray is basically just a stuffed shirt with a bobble head doll perched on top. Sometimes, it talks.