Google Fiber Hut Installed in Downtown Decatur

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Finally!  Something better than secondhand hearsay from a “survey guy” wandering the neighborhoods regarding Google Fiber!

Marcia took these photos of the arrival and installation of the Google Fiber hut in downtown Decatur last Friday.   This is definitely the most visible sign that Google Fiber is coming to Decatur thus far.

An unofficial map of permits issued for Google around Atlanta shows there are a variety of Google Fiber Huts popping up around the metro.

The Google Fiber website has Atlanta in the “construction” phase of work.   After that it’s just “Sign Up” and “Installation”, so it seems like things are truckin’ along.

16 thoughts on “Google Fiber Hut Installed in Downtown Decatur”


  2. I spent a week working in Provo a couple years back, which was one of the very first Google beta markets. They had a really well executed customer center (that felt a lot like an Apple store) right on Center Street (their Main Street). Any word on whether the mighty Goog has been scouting real estate in downtown Decatur?

    1. They have opened one in Sandy Springs:
      http://www.tonetoatl.com/2016/03/first-google-fiber-space-now-open-in.html

      I wonder if they are going to do one for each sub city.

  4. Anyone get a really aggressive Comcast sales call trying to lock you in for two years on a deal? I got one for the first time in 9 years at noon today. Coincidence in this zip code?

    1. I have received at least 3 scare-tactic postcards from Comcast in the past month, with a checklist on what Comcast offers that Google does not. The checklist failed to mention Customer Service, which is quite possibly the #1 reason why people hate Comcast.

  6. There is an Atlanta area channel line-up posted. Also, the Fiber Quick Start Guide (pdf) under “Printable Channel Guide” states “Atlanta l Winter 2016”.

    https://support.google.com/fiber/answer/2477365?hl=en

  8. So, I am paying $86 per month for ATT 75 Mbps Internet — their fastest service. Comcast has a better deal, but not interested for all the known reasons. The Google fiber page above offers 100 Mbps for $50. I suspect At&T should be rethinking their pricing strategy. Surprised I have heard zip from them.. Maybe they hope I don’t notice.

    1. There has been a lone AT&T truck working in our neighborhood installing fiber on the poles and a neighborhood cul-de-sac was dug up to install AT&T fiber, so it looks to me if AT&T is trying to beat Google into our neighborhood. The fiber cable is noticeable when you look up on the telephone poles. Google fiber will have to come along and adding their own cable to the same poles.

      1. Far from a lone truck. AT&T has been making a full-court press on CoD in recent weeks. I’ve seen truck crews running fiber all over town, including throughout our neighborhood (Clairemont/Great Lakes over to West Ponce) within the last two weeks.

        My strong preference is to sign up with Google Fiber, but if it’s going to be another two years before they’re up and running (an estimate I was given from an industry pro recently), I’ll almost certainly sign up for AT&T’s fiber service (U-Verse with GigaPower) in the interim.

  10. I suspect it will be a long time before most single family homes get service. I think in other parts of Atlanta they have been providing service to condos and apartments first, neighborhoods will trickle n much later…depending on interest in each neighborhood.

  12. My friend in real estate really got me on this one when she claimed these were model homes for the new Decatur affordable housing development – The Awesome Flotsam, fixer-upper Craftsman-style shipping containers starting in the mid-300s.

  16. Does anyone know if Google has already hung their fiber from the overhead lines or is that only AT&T’s fiber lines?

    I’ve seen the lines get thicker on Sycamore Dr and Pl and on Ponce near Glennwood Elem. already.

    The wires on the lines don’t appear as thick going down Commerce Dr from Syacamore Pl. to E. College Ave. I hope Google doesn’t forget there is a neighborhood down there and the Ice House Lofts too. It should be all of CoD not just some residential streets.

    Hurry up Google, I can’t wait to give Xfinity the boot!

    1. See my post farther up. AT&T appears to be racing to get CoD wired for fiber before Google, so I’m fairly certain all the new lines you’re seeing are AT&T’s. I haven’t seen any Google trucks actually running fiber around CoD yet. Just lots and lots of AT&T.

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