I heard about this at school in my CST class. Can't wait for those speeds!

yeah i heard this....they're actually thinking of putting it in my town

i hope its true, we need a competitor to up against comcast....their prices are ridiculous

That and just avoiding the issues interent speed that fast brings.

Think what happens if the ability to download a movie becomes analgous or video game becomes analgous to downloading a song.

Intellectual IP companies are going to harass IP companies and force them to impement much more stringent meausres on the average user adding most unrest between the consumer and IP provider, and causing more work for the IP provider.

What if IP providers are forced to hire people like companies do?  To watch everyones interent, or at least randomly selected peoples internet to make sure they aren't downloading anything IP Protected?

Now we only need faster Hard Drives to support that kind of speed...Current Hard Drives have an average of 40MB-60MB depending on the buffer. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Except at a gigabit/second you'll have other bottelnecks that can't handle the data so you'll never achieve those rates. Granted if you have 4-5 PCs all downloading data you can take advantage of GbE.

Verizon is already offering Fiberoptic right to your door, so I really don't care about google doing it too. The only thing I hope for is $30/month for 15mbps/5mbps. Currently to get that it is ~$55/month which is too high. They'll give it to you for $45 if you sign a year long contract, and they'll give you another discount if you pay for their overpriced phone service.

Listen, my connection already nabs like 10mbps/1mbps, and that feels pretty insane. I'm just saying, more than that? Really insane.

Back in 2004 I downloaded the high-res version of the direct-feed Twilight Princess reveal trailer. It was 90 megabytes. If I remember, it took about six hours. Nowadays I can do it faster than it takes me to get up, tell my wife I'm downloading a Zelda trailer, get a glass of water, and come back.

We already live in the future.

Hopefully this spreads further over the years. It takes forever for me to download HD videos, let alone games.

Sounds good to me. I wonder how much their services will cost monthly.

it's gonna take years for computers and components to come out thast could even handle those speeds. stuff like faster harddrive read/write speeds, faster ram, faster wired/wireless connections (how fast is ethernet?), ect.

plus i cannot comprehend something that fast. that would support something like dozens/hundreds of people streaming hd video at the same time 0.0

EDIT: i guess you could run a website off of that kind of connection.

They should try it first at universities mostly since Im at one =) Will make my normal wait for downloading a major game into just 5 sec instead of five minutes.