[JoshGlazebrook]

If you want to look at even more dysfunction turn your attention to pondering why lovely Seattle was overlooked and was even cut off of Google's map (okay that was most likely just scaling).

Gigabit Squared seems like it was destined to fail the second it was announced, and where are they now? We have all that fiber already in place and no one to use it. Could Seattle not sell it to Google? Some of kind of partnership? Something?

The last I read about what the Mayor is planning on doing is try to make the fiber initiative into a public utility[1].

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1xtsjb/why_i_oppose...

[Hydraulix989]

Seattle isn't too bad off. It has CondoInternet (the thing I miss the most since moving to the Bay Area):

http://www.condointernet.net/

[dkulchenko]

You mean that service that's only available in a few very dense high-rises around the city? Doesn't really help the vast majority of people living in the Seattle area. Still holding out hope for Google Fiber, or, really, anyone but Comcast.

[techsupporter]

If you're in the CD, Cap Hill, Belltown, most of Beacon Hill, the ID, or Rainier Valley you have Wave Broadband which is, from what I've been told, pretty good these days. Most of Cap Hill and Beacon Hill even have a choice of Wave or Comcast because the franchise areas overlap.

( The only good thing about living in Belltown, heavily outweighed by having to live in Belltown when the bars close.)

[icelancer]

Is Wave alright? I have Comcast and I'm actually pleased with the service (not the CS, but the actual product of bandwidth). Wave has bandwidth caps but I don't generally exceed 300 GB so it should be fine (and I can get 1 TB if I want), but the price is way lower.

If anyone could chime in that'd be great. The reviews of Wave on Yelp and other sites are awful, but then again, they are terrible for Comcast too.

[jseliger]

Doesn't really help the vast majority of people living in the Seattle area. Still holding out hope for Google Fiber, or, really, anyone but Comcast.

About half of Seattle is still zoned for single-family housing; the economics of attempting to wire single-family house are not good.

[zht]

the equivalent in the Bay Area is WebPass.

[jordanthoms]

And it's pretty great, if you can get it.

[rayiner]

Is Seattle dysfunctional? I had the impression that it was pretty sane. No state income tax, etc.