“I work remotely so it’s really nice to have the fiber connection to just blaze through my work,” said Amrit Saini, a software developer who is in the process of moving into his apartment at Water Street.
“It’s pretty cool,” he said, as he demonstrated streaming Netflix on his laptop and his phone simultaneously, “it’s fast.”
Gigabit fiber is being offered to Water Street customers through Extra Mile Fiber for $75 a month for “warp-speed internet” and down to $25 a month for “fast internet.”
“If you’re watching a Netflix or Hulu stream and your child, in the other room, is sending an email or doing homework, or filling out something online, when that information is sent to the Internet it stops the connection from downloading. That’s where a lot of the buffering comes from,” Kingston said.
Besides the benefit to the consumer, Kingston said gigabit fiber will have a broader impact on the city as a whole.
“There are dozens of cities across the country that are doing it and they are now competing more heavily in the global economy. This is very important for Dayton, and it puts us on a level playing field with everyone else,” Kingston said.
“It’s neat that they chose a residential community to be the first place that has fiber. They can definitely spread out from here. It gets the word out,” said Erik Wood, property manager for Water Street Flats.
As for plans to expand?
“Right now, our focus is here on the residential areas in downtown Dayton. We are going to be concentrating in the Webster Station area, eventually moving throughout the rest of downtown and throughout the rest of the Dayton area,” Kingston said.
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