Google Fiber

[Josh Weston]

Yo dawg, i hear you like your internets?

Google are starting to set up GIGABIT internet connections, starting in Kansas City.

https://fiber.google.com/about/

Pretty damn incredible.

 

[Lollipop]

Hope it comes to Denmark. Certainly looks interesting.

 

[dipzy]

i do like

Makes my 8mb connection look like dial up

 

[jits h]

This looks very promising and interesting, really do hope it goes world wide. I would love a fiber connection, but in the UK it's quite expensive

 

[CPMFW]

a dream came true

 

[VengeanceUK]

i do like

Makes my 8mb connection look like dial up

makes my 100Mb connection look like day 1 dsl (256k, lol)
I WANT!!!!!!!

 

[Yeren]

makes my 100Mb connection look like day 1 dsl (256k, lol)
I WANT!!!!!!!

What they said

 

[Solidarity]

Does anyone else see Kansas City as a very odd place to test this out?

 

[Josh Weston]

Can't say that i'm in the know on US geography, but I see no reason why Kansas City would be a bad choice?
Perhaps they just have an outstanding network infrastructure which Google can take advantage of.

 

[Sheza]

By the time this escapes the US, I think Virgin Media will have gigabit connections.

These things are going to be slow to start and will take a long time to reach outside America.

 

[VengeanceUK]

Does anyone else see Kansas City as a very odd place to test this out?

i think google have a major base in kansas and would be easy(ier) to roll out there for them

 

[Josh Weston]

Having such connections is all very good, but only if the websites that you're browsing support it. A lot of websites have bandwidth restrictions when it comes to uploading/downloading stuff

 

[Sheza]

That's true.
Still, I downloaded a game client via a web URL (Free 2 Play game, before anybody says anything!) and it maxed out the highest speed I've seen on my connection, at 14.2MB/s which I can only assume is peaking the 104Mbps fastest speed test I made (VengeanceUK is ever so slightly faster than me)

 

[Josh Weston]

I think it's time for me to move to the US.
With 1000mb/s upload, I would ALWAYS get host on CoD

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

By the time this escapes the US, I think Virgin Media will have gigabit connections.

These things are going to be slow to start and will take a long time to reach outside America.

My thoughts. We'll have gigabit wireless before this reaches Blighty.

 

[Adajer]

I was wondering if stuff like this expands geographically. I live in chicago. If it did expand geographically then it would probably move east to st louis, then memphis and maybe chicago. not much east or north of kansas city.

I didnt click on the link provided but I read that they are only charging $70 for the gigabit service. you can add $50 for television service that they provide a nexus 7 tablet to use at the remote controller and it comes with a 2tb dvr that can record 8 programs at once. They also will be offering a service that will provide free* 5megabit/s internet for 3 or 7 years ( i dont remember which). *you have to pay a one time construction fee of $300.

If all of this is true, google could be making the ISP market very competitive.

 

[Josh Weston]

As far as I know, they're owning charging that much for now, as it's basically in the 'alpha' stage. I can't imagine that they're only going to charge $70 a month for such monumental speeds, but I could be wrong.
As for how it's going to spread, I believe that they are going to get people to 'register their interest'. I guess the places with the most interest, as long as it's viable for them to do so, shall get the fiber.

 

[Damien c]

Well I see them saying it's a 1Gbp/s connection, but what's the speed that you get when it leaves the country?

Fibre City and H20 here in the UK use to offer 1Gbp/s connections but they were only running at that speed throughout the UK but, as soon as you tried to get data from outside of the UK you were down to 100Mbp/s.

If they can get the bandwidth increased on the Trans Atlantic Link, then they could offer 1Gbp/s connections to outside of the UK but that bandwidth costs a fortune.

 

[DT-525]

By the time this escapes the US, I think Virgin Media will have gigabit connections.

These things are going to be slow to start and will take a long time to reach outside America.

I think i remember reading somewhere that virgin are trying to get a gigabit by the end of 2015. I may be wrong.

 

[Damien c]

I think i remember reading somewhere that virgin are trying to get a gigabit by the end of 2015. I may be wrong.

They could do 1Gbp/s to most houses now but it would mean feeding each house with, fibre and swapping out all the kit but still people would only get 100Mbp/s when, trying to get files from outside of the UK.

Most websites run on a 100Mbp/s connection though so anything faster is almost wasted.

The issue still though with all these high speed connections is the links out of the country, because if they are not able to give that speed then its useless having such a high speed.

Then even if they were to get the links to other countries up to spec in being able to support those speeds, you then run in to the issue of having storage in a pc that is capable of keeping up with the information coming through.

I wouldn't say no to the higher speeds but I just think at the moment they are wasted.