Google's gigabit internet going online

[Wildtree]

Dear Google,

Please dethrone Bell and Rogers in Ontario.

Yours Truly,

A Potentially Loyal And Willing To Do Stuff For You Customer...Sex Stuff

Signed. Please add Frontier in Iowa to the list too

[Cowt]

Some offers I found looking around.

100mbit/10mbit

Net at Once: 159 SEK/month(We got this)

Assumed it was 100/100 since you did not specify.

100/10 at $24/month is still a decent deal, though.

[Mang]

Dear Google,

Please dethrone Bell and Rogers in Ontario.

Yours Truly,

A Potentially Loyal And Willing To Do Stuff For You Customer...Sex Stuff

One can only hope

[Wildtree]

To put prices in perspective.... We pay $70.00 incl taxes for 6/1 which translates into rather 3/0.5 in reality.
And are oversold, which causes horrendous latency problems on top.

[Aoyi]

I really hope this makes it to my area. Right now, I'm paying $85 a month for tv/internet and only getting 7-8Mbps download. I'd happily switch to their service for at least internet.

[Wildtree]

Great! I always wanted a huge multimillion dollar company to have access to my browser history so that it can tune it's add system on youtube, google and whatnot even more towards "my needs"

Monopolizing the internet by offering cheap and fast internet due to removal of anonymity and shitton of addrevenue!

You scared mama gets to see porn adds all of a sudden, cause you secretly surfed for it?

I always thought that only people who have something to hide have to be too concerned about anonymity within their own home.

[Deleted]

It's really quite amazing the prices they're offering for such fast speeds.

$70/month for 1000 Mbit/s internet is rather absurd.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news...s-up-to-speed/

I'm paying 400 DKK/month for my internet atm, which is roughly 68.7 USD. And I only have a 20mb connection. WTB :<

[Thes]

It's not that absurd considering you get 100mb line for like 25$ in civilized countries..

[Boricha]

I currently have 30 down in NC,US. I think we pay $130 for tv/internet/phone bundle. I would loveeeeee google fiber to come here though!

[nbm02ss]

I yearn for the day I no longer have to give my money to Comcast....

[SirRobin]

Keeping my fingers crossed for this. We are not to far from some major trunks so I could see us getting it within the next couple of years.

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You scared mama gets to see porn adds all of a sudden, cause you secretly surfed for it?

I always thought that only people who have something to hide have to be too concerned about anonymity within their own home.

Hehe... At the rate porn sites are springing up? In a decade or two there won't be room for anything else on the internet.

[Snorkle]

Seriously what's so special about this? Yeah, it's glassfiber so it's really fast. But they could make it even faster if they wanted to, the limitations aren't the wiring anymore but the computers themselves. If I understood correctly, glassfiber is a super-conductor which is able to transmit data at near light-speed. 1000Mbit/s is nothing compared to light-speed. But yeah, like I said the limitation is the computer and their chips right now.

Anyway, a large portion of my country is already using glass-fiber. They installed it before they knew it was such a good conducter, they installed it because it was the cheaper option back then. However, sadly it's just the main wiring, the house to house wiring isn't glassfiber yet. Because of that I'm stuck on 120Mbit/s currently. So yeah, I'm a little envious of 1000Mbit/s. I bet all new houses built will get glass-fiber right away though, and I hope they upgrade the old stuff soon because I like fast internet

Eh.... Yeah, that's not exactly true...Or rather, it's not true at all.

First, HFC connections which have a hybrid coax copper and fiber infrastructure have a maximum practical tested speed of 5.6 Gbps. This in 2011. Second, passive fiber (GPON) has been tested, again in real life, to a maximum practical value of 10 Gbps in 2010. Most current GPON fiber implementations can support 2.5 Gbps and are limited only at the BBRAS. Think of it as everyone simply not opening the tap completely and instead just letting things drip a bit.

The real limitation at the moment is in the core network of the ISPs. Passive fiber will increase slowly, active fiber is utopicly expensive.

Also, you might want to consider just how much you need 1 Gbps transfer... Check your regular use, and see if what percentage of that you could constantly occupy.

[Laize]

So is this with unlimited DL or is there some cap on it? Is it 1000/1000?

Also you would need some fast discs, either SSD or a raid setup, and DL at max speed a 2x7200rpm in Raid 0 will barely keep up and probably slow down your systems other functions quite significantly.

I believe it's unlimited DL. They also offer 5/1 speeds for free. Yeah it's not much but it's free dammit.

Pretty sure most serious internet users have at least one SSD nowadays. I have a 120 GB SSD coupled with a 750 GB HDD.

[Belize]

Next, they launch Skynet. Calling it.

[Laize]

It's not that absurd considering you get 100mb line for like 25$ in civilized countries..

Are you saying the United States is uncivilized?

[Belize]

I yearn for the day I no longer have to give my money to Comcast....

Comcast IS the worst of them all...

[Laize]

Comcast IS the worst of them all...

I have Comcast and I think I'm the only person who has no problem with them.

I just wish their speeds were faster and cheaper.

[fangless]

It's not that absurd considering you get 100mb line for like 25$ in civilized countries..

Not absurd? 1000mpbs for like $40 more?

That's like buying a Ferrari for the cost of a Kia.

[SirRobin]

Next, they launch Skynet. Calling it.

Google is Skynet, and their "engineers" are actually Terminators. They are "mapping" everything in preparation for "bombing" everything.

But, as long as I get good download speeds... I'm okay with that.

[Tradewind]

Are you saying the United States is uncivilized?

In the broadband availability and support market, yes. Very uncivilized.