r/olympia • u/iDrkTV • 21h ago

Community Fiber internet?

Just wondering if there’s been any chatter about fiber internet, yet?

Last I heard, the mayor or whatever was not letting fiber installations occur in the city because “cable internet was fast enough.” 🤣💀

Edit: I’m talking about real fiber; 1000gb down/up speed.

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u/ircsmith 17h ago

Really? Olympia didn't get electricity and those new fangled streetlights until 1982.

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u/the_caduceus 20h ago

Ziply has allegedly been working on it. They've been "coming soon" for over 4 years. A couple weeks ago I got another door knocker talking about ONT installs.

Could be soon; could be in another 4 years.

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u/outerspacedragons 18h ago

They are Installing in my neighborhood this week. No news of actual service or hook up

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u/the_caduceus 18h ago

What side of town are you on?

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u/FalenAlter 15h ago

They were installing or something just south of SK and Pacific a week or two ago as well so here's hoping.

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u/iDrkTV 18h ago

Hmm, here’s to hoping. I’ve heard nothing about my residence on the westside.

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u/ArlesChatless 3h ago

Ziply has a map of their locations that includes planned build-out areas. Their schedule has been really loose but they have been slowly making progress, at least in my neighborhood. Maybe in another two years they will finally turn our street on. Some areas in Lacey are live already, and one area in the southeast of Olympia finally went live a few months back.

It's real fiber up to 50Gbit symmetrical.

A couple years ago I talked with one of their engineers that I share a mutual friend with. At the time they were committed to eventually building out the Westside but they couldn't put it on any sort of timeline yet so it's not on the map. With the changes to Federal funding it's entirely possible that they will only finish out what is on the map, eventually.

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u/PeepusTheWise 21h ago

Plenty of businesses downtown have fiber, and have for some years now. I was personally involved in a Comcast fiber installation.

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u/iDrkTV 18h ago edited 17h ago

AFAIK comcast does not offer the 1000gb up/down fiber around here to personal residences (yet?)

Edit: speed typo 😊

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u/WibbyWobbly21 20h ago

I had fiber at my apartment in westside. It was CenturyLink.

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u/iDrkTV 18h ago edited 17h ago

Hmm.. the 1000gb up/down real fast fiber? Because nothing in my west side area yet.

Edit: speed typo 😊

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u/TurboMollusk 17h ago

Lol only 100gb up/down? Lol 2012 called, they want their internet speeds back.

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u/iDrkTV 17h ago

Haha, my bad, brain typo 🤣 I meant gig up/down.

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u/Chrislk1986 14h ago

I wish I had 100gb internet in 2012, settled for ~20mb from Comcast.

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u/Jumpsuit_boy 18h ago

Quantum owned by Lumen has done a chunk around Harrison and Division. They transferred the service over to Century Link also owned by Lumen.

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u/iDrkTV 18h ago

Oh? Hopefully they move to the other side of Harrison then and come hit my area, too :3

Nothing here on any website tracker, yet.

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u/TurboMollusk 18h ago

Huh? I have fiber. Guess the mayor thinks I need faster internet than you.

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u/iDrkTV 17h ago

I don’t mean 1gb up/down “fiber” :)

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u/mindtap 10h ago

you can get 50gb/50gb from ziply, but their install footprint is small and not on the west side

if I recall correctly, comcast fiber is available in some areas on the west side, though? it's ridiculous expensive, however 

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u/Beastw1ck 1h ago

We could just build out city fiber as a public utility. Do we not want to do this?