Google's Experimental Fiber Network 363
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gmuslera writes "Not enough speed from your ISP? Google seems to go into that market too. 'We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.' The goal isnt just to give ultra fast speed for some lucky ones, but to test under that conditions things like new generations of apps, and deployment techniques that take advantage of it." If they need a test neighborhood, I'm sure mine would be willing.
Old news (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:more competition (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sure more people wish you were available to them too ;-)
Community Organization? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Old news (Score:4, Funny)
Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
I'm shocked (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm shocked (Score:2, Funny)
23 comments about a 1 gigabit home connection, and not one of them has even mentioned the word "porn"?!? Man, you guys are slipping...
I was going to post something about that earlier, but my typing hand was...otherwise occupied.
Better late than never.
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
It's a "head in the sandbox" virtual machine.
Re:It doesn't matter right now (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Google (Score:5, Funny)
Privacy protection; and ad-blocking.
Re:Old news (Score:5, Funny)
Be careful, fiber will increase the "data" flow.
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Ostrich farming.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of an ostrich carrying a pack of SSDs.
Re:meanwhile, (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Google (Score:5, Funny)
Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....
Even if that happens, we'll still be (slightly) better off. Rather than have incompetent ISPs with no competition, we'll have a competent ISP with no competition.
You can sign up for the beta here [google.com].
Re:I'm shocked (Score:3, Funny)
1Gbps connection would be overkill, as there is another bottleneck in terms of porn consumption.
Let's just say my pipe would be saturated.
Re:What is Google's interest? Data Tracking? (Score:2, Funny)
where's the like button? it's on buzz, facebook, and even twitter has RT
Re:Old news (Score:1, Funny)
Your logs should be flushed on a regular basis too.
Re:more competition (Score:4, Funny)
You do understand the concept of RTFA ... oh wait. I see.
Re:more competition (Score:5, Funny)
I would expect the service to come down with time
Well, with Comcast, the service DOES go down with time. Unfortunately the more the service goes down, the more the price goes up.
Re:Yes. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yes. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Here is what is going to happen. (Score:3, Funny)