Google internet 1gbps speed

[Zergin8r]

It's still better then 5mbps shared among 5 people, and a monthly 120gb cap.

Yeah... go Canada lol, also the stupid latency spikes you get in rural areas.... yay 4k ms randomly while trying to play LoL.

[n0cturnal]

Chances are google are going to be sued into the ground..

Can you really get sued in the US for providing people a better service?

[Keller]

Can you really get sued in the US for providing people a better service?

Seeing the massive lack of small ISPs and the only choices are gigantic corporate services - especially with almost the whole of europe having extremely fast internet i'm guessing they can...
I wouldnt be suprised if their offering was labeled uncompetitive.

[DeltrusDisc]

1gbps both ways.

omg.... x_x *falls off chair*

[Faulty Mitchell]

$90 I pay for this. God damn you Australia! (My area specifically won't get fiber for about 5 years.....)
If this option went available I would jump on it instantly.

[Keller]

omg.... x_x *falls off chair*

Time to get a high-paying job and move to KC, no?

$90 I pay for this. God damn you Australia! (My area specifically won't get fiber for about 5 years.....)
If this option went available I would jump on it instantly.

Australia is really bad with regards to internet
So is africa. Asia is great, assuming you have money, im pretty sure japan and korea have commercial 1gbps.

[DeltrusDisc]

Time to get a high-paying job and move to KC, no?

x_x

Well, are they providing this internet from the West coast or East coast? I'm in northern Illinois nearish Chicago...

[Keller]

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Well, are they providing this internet from the West coast or East coast? I'm in northern Illinois nearish Chicago...

For the moment it's KC but assuming they have sucess, and they will, they'll probably go national, hopefully, but it's going to take time.

[MKing]

For $70/mo you get 1000mb/s internet.

For $120/mo you get the internet plus google TV.

Or

You can pay $300 once and get free 5mb/s internet for 7 years.

Also if you get the $70 a month package they give you a free nexus 7 tablet that you get to keep after a certain amount of time which also controls your modem they give you.


And here i am stuck with 7mb/s from comcast.. i hope this comes my way soon.

[n0cturnal]

For the moment it's KC but assuming they have sucess, and they will, they'll probably go national, hopefully, but it's going to take time.

Hey its Google, they will succeed.

[DeltrusDisc]

For $70/mo you get 1000mb/s internet.

For $120/mo you get the internet plus google TV.

I think my Dad will like this...

[Keller]

For $70/mo you get 1000mb/s internet.

For $120/mo you get the internet plus google TV.

Or

You can pay $300 once and get free 5mb/s internet for 7 years.

Also if you get the $70 a month package they give you a free nexus 7 tablet that you get to keep after a certain amount of time which also controls your modem they give you.


And here i am stuck with 7mb/s from comcast.. i hope this comes my way soon.

It's not just internet plus TV. You also get a 2 terrabyte storage box, a nexus 7, and oh my god, that's like the ultimate service, plus it's google, so you'd imagine it's transparent and they wont give you shi* for browsing the internet freely. You also get wireless for your nexus and or laptop that's 350mbps.

[endersblade]

If they come to Portland, OR, I'll be alllll over it. Right now, Comcast and Clear have freaking monopolies on non-dish internet services (Comcast apparently owns the majority shares in Clear lol). They can charge what they want, and we get absolutely terrible connections. There's a new service in town, Century Link, but I'd imagine I wouldn't get much better with them than what I'm getting now.

[Deleted]

Google has already stated they don't plan do expand it past Kansas City.

No. They already had it in other us cities and they will keep adding new test cities when they feel like it.

Once they got enough data and testing they'll start preparing for a national roll-out (where it's applicable).

[Seegtease]

I would, but there's no way it'll be available in my rural area.

[Duravian]

I "raced" against fiber and it only let me go as low as 5mbps. Is that the average these days? I have 150kbps, and already it was 200x faster at 5mbps. Can internet even do this? It's completely unfathomable by someone like me.

[Keller]

I "raced" against fiber and it only let me go as low as 5mbps. Is that the average these days? I have 150kbps, and already it was 200x faster at 5mbps. Can internet even do this? It's completely unfathomable by someone like me.

Copper wire can do even 100mbps. Fiber is cheaper and easier to install, aswell as offering faster speeds..

[DeltrusDisc]

No. They already had it in other us cities and they will keep adding new test cities when they feel like it.

Once they got enough data and testing they'll start preparing for a national roll-out (where it's applicable).

Yeah, after further thinking on it, I've concluded glo doesn't understand how a business, especially one as gi-frickin-gantic as Google works. If Google can reach customers (and they would, by expanding) then they will. Simple as that. Saying they "don't plan to expand" essentially, at all, would be a stupid business move and they would basically be saying "we're not even going to try and combat the horrible prices and internet speeds you all get from Comcast and such, because well, we just don't feel like it."

It makes no sense for them to not expand.

[Deleted]

It states on the website that Google are offering 1 Gigabit internet, not Gigabyte so that'd only be around 128Mb. I guess that's still faster than my current 105Mb though.

[n0cturnal]

It states on the website that Google are offering 1 Gigabit internet, not Gigabyte so that'd only be around 128Mb. I guess that's still faster than my current 105Mb though.

You need to differentiate MB from Mb.