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Austinite here. Here's what's available to us:

Time Warner is the most available and is the only cable option for many people.

Grande Communications is available in a few, selected areas.

Google Fiber is slowly becoming available across the city, one neighborhood at a time, but is not available to most at the moment.

AT&T U-verse is also an option, but the impression I've gotten is that Time Warner is still much faster.



The biggest bullshite in Austin is that now that Google rolls into town, Time Warner and AT&T are scared, so now they are complimentary upgrading everyone. Yes they may have made recent upgrades too, but it takes someone like Google to make them provide something better.

And even though I got a complimentary upgrade to 300mbps down, it's capping out at 100...


>And even though I got a complimentary upgrade to 300mbps down, it's capping out at 100...

Isn't a 100 Mbit router that is the bottleneck? Be sure to have Gigabit Ethernet support in your modem/router as well as your computer. Sorry if I'm stating the obvious!


That's a good question - I believe my router is good up to 300mbps but I'll double check!


Are you really complaining about your 300 mbps Internet capping out at 100 mbps? Come on... :P




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