Google Fibre could come to UK

[barnsley]

If you are on the old 20Mb package you should call them and see why you have not been upgraded, as I think the minimum is 50mb which should give you a 5Mb upload speed.

It would mean you have to have a superhub dependent on the modem you have got, but seeing as most of the old ones are going to stop working once the work is complete you would have to get one of the superhubs anyway.

On my second super scrubhub. Very poor wireless performance. I'll give them a call when I get the option although I won't be suprised if I have been upgraded to the 50Mb package but what I get performance wise is the '50Mb' package.

As I said earlier the infrastructure around here is so bad I don't think anything has been done to it, even despite houses being built ~5 years ago. No point in me giving them even more money for exactly the same performance.

If they do upgrade me and I get what you say then I owe you a beer though :').

 

[iiBetrayforAR]

Oh fuck you google, of course they take the easy route to expand to a place that already has fiber. It would be nice of they expanded more into the U.S., but it will be decades until fiber happens in suburban places like where I live, anyway.

 

[Wraith]

Damn! You can sense the fear in all BT engineers already :lol: my exchange would have a melt down.. I'll stick with my trusty 60Mbps Plusnet Fibre thanks.

 

[WeLikeLead]

Damn! You can sense the fear in all BT engineers already :lol: my exchange would have a melt down.. I'll stick with my trusty 60Mbps Plusnet Fibre thanks.

You could always try a business grade connection



Regards,

WeLikeLead

 

[Wraith]

You could always try a business grade connection Regards,

WeLikeLead

It wouldn't make a jot of difference where we are, the last time the exchanges were upgraded, Douglas Barder still had legs and morse code was the preferred method of communication. :lol:

 

[Xrqute]

Be happy you guys still arnt using ADSL2 like the vast majority of Australia.

 

[SuB]

Internet connections should be a commodity in the same way as Water and electricity by now. And at prices that aren't so stupid.

I know the big exchanges etc cost money and Tier 1 bandwidth costs a fortune, but you have to stop and wonder.. why? Why should we have to pay for something that is literally so crucial to our lives now?

Because we're suckers and we keep paying for it... that's why.

 

[SieB]

I would be strait on this if it got released in my area. I bet it will only be in major cites at first though, London will most likely be the first.

 

[WeLikeLead]

Internet connections should be a commodity in the same way as Water and electricity by now. And at prices that aren't so stupid.

I know the big exchanges etc cost money and Tier 1 bandwidth costs a fortune, but you have to stop and wonder.. why? Why should we have to pay for something that is literally so crucial to our lives now?

Because we're suckers and we keep paying for it... that's why.

Because the infrastructure cost of setting up either a retail or enterprise/carrier grade networks cost millions (for a very small one, tens to hundreds of millions for networks the size of Level 3 and AT&T etc) the hardware costs for the equipment (CISCO, Juniper, Brocade, HP etc) plus the cost of buying the fibre itself and then physically installing it into buildings and even deploying it beneath roads, fields etc to connect all the locations are sizable. Along with the need for maintaining a work force skilled enough to operate and support such a network. But mainly you can thank the tax the UK government levies on "lit" fibre.

The internet is still a luxury good, as you do not require it to survive, unlike say... water?

"Products which are not necessary but which tend to make life more pleasant for the consumer."



Regards,

WeLikeLead

 

[SuB]

Oh i know there are costs with setting it up, but that shit should be subsidised with by all the other fucking tax we pay.

It should be a commodity to modern life, it pretty much is. Are you trying to tell me a modern consumer could exist without the internet?

 

[WeLikeLead]

Oh i know there are costs with setting it up, but that shit should be subsidised with by all the other fucking tax we pay.

Nope, they simply tax us as well.

It should be a commodity to modern life, it pretty much is. Are you trying to tell me a modern consumer could exist without the internet?

First World issues eh...


Regards,

WeLikeLead

 

[Gamepro105]

I would pay any amount of money to get away from BT they are the WORST ISP ever I us-to be on a happy 18Mbps now i'm on 2Mbps paying the same amount GO BT!
EDIT: just so you know i'm in a rural area bt have a monopoly on that.

 

[SieB]

Looks like it isn't happening
At least not anytime soon.

Claims that advertising giant Google is looking to bring its ultra-fast Google Fibre internet service provider (ISP) business to the UK have been scotched, with the company stating outright it has no serious planning discussions in place.

source - Bit-Tech

 

[Cru]

Looks like it isn't happening
At least not anytime soon.



source - Bit-Tech

yeah no shit.. there's a post on the first page about this. love how everyone ignored that

 

[SieB]

yeah no shit.. there's a post on the first page about this. love how everyone ignored that

For at start I didn't ignore it, I missed it, sue me. If I had saw it I wouldn't of made my post above. And that news article has been posted on several sites today, so I figured it was new news.

 

[Xrqute]

I did a speed test this morning on my cable @5am so there would bof been min load. Got like 21Mbps down and like 1.2Mbps up.

Rubbish.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I did a speed test this morning on my cable @5am so there would bof been min load. Got like 21Mbps down and like 1.2Mbps up.

Rubbish.

That's not that bad. The up is a little on the downside but where i live thats quite high.

 

[MadShadow]

That's not that bad. The up is a little on the downside but where i live thats quite high.

That must really suck. I also used to have really slow internet, but now I have 10 up and 10 down, so I'm reasonably pleased with that.

 

[YbrFinX]

Well, I live nowhere near UK or US but I still doubt the privacy side of this Google Fibre. You see, they have their own browser that sends all page visits to Google AFAIK. They also have the world's biggest search engine that keeps record of every search done with your IP. Also do they have Chromebooks (my gosh those are going to violate your privacy), not to mention this Google Fibre... Just think about it, your whole network connection in the hands of Google? I'm totally happy with my cable connection though, no fibre required :drool:

 

[Xrqute]

Well, I live nowhere near UK or US but I still doubt the privacy side of this Google Fibre. You see, they have their own browser that sends all page visits to Google AFAIK. They also have the world's biggest search engine that keeps record of every search done with your IP. Also do they have Chromebooks (my gosh those are going to violate your privacy), not to mention this Google Fibre... Just think about it, your whole network connection in the hands of Google? I'm totally happy with my cable connection though, no fibre required :drool:

And then there's my Galaxy S 5 that I'm posting off right now oh and my Galaxy Tab lol.

Edit: oh and I forgot about my Gmail.....Google pretty much owns me already whats an extra net connection going to get them.... nothing, they've already got it all if they really wanted.

Edit Edit:

That's not that bad. The up is a little on the downside but where i live thats quite high.

Just to clarify. I men't Megabits not Megabytes per second. I always confuse abbreviations.