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Forums - General - Google Fiber Launches right here in Kansas City - Web Speeds of 1000Mb/Sec

mysticwolf on 26 July 2012
wfz said:

1Gbps = 122MBps (Gb = GigaBIT,       MB = MegaBYTE)

Game Size: 10GB = 10,000,000 KB

Download Rate: 122MB = 122,000 KB

10,000,000KB / 122,000 KB = 80 seconds

Correct me if I'm off, this bit vs byte conversion thing gets me confused sometimes as well.


Well I'm not sure if it's bits or bytes, but the google fiber website says 1000 MB per second. I suppose that could be bits or bytes. But more likely than not it's megabits.



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NintendoPie on 26 July 2012

Holy Crap! That's extremely fast.

Why was it released in Kansas City first?



haxxiy on 26 July 2012

^^ Yeah that's what I was going to say. 1 gigabit isn't 1000 megabytes. It's impressive, but they probably are blowing some hot air on top of it because most people won't notice the difference.



 

 

 

 

 

wfz on 26 July 2012
mysticwolf said:
wfz said:

1Gbps = 122MBps (Gb = GigaBIT,       MB = MegaBYTE)

Game Size: 10GB = 10,000,000 KB

Download Rate: 122MB = 122,000 KB

10,000,000KB / 122,000 KB = 80 seconds

Correct me if I'm off, this bit vs byte conversion thing gets me confused sometimes as well.


Well I'm not sure if it's bits or bytes, but the google fiber website says 1000 MB per second. I suppose that could be bits or bytes. But more likely than not it's megabits.

First sentence in the OP: "Google launched its 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service"

gigabit.. :P

Plus, the second link that goes to the Google page that tells you all about their service, it shows "Mb" each time and states that it's 100 times faster than average internet today. Average internet today is around 1Mbps. If Google was 1GBps, that would be 800 times faster!



happydolphin on 26 July 2012
NintendoPie said:
Holy Crap! That's extremely fast.

Why was it released in Kansas City first?

Apparently it won some kind of contest.

Google, which announced the project in February 2010, began construction of the network backbone in February. The company had said it expected to launch the network this summer. The idea behind Google Fiber is for the company to build a commercial fiber-based high-speed broadband network that Google and others can use to test new business models and applications that need very fast connections -- upward of 1Gbps. Thousands of cities competed to be the home of the future network. And Kansas City won.


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Oromashu on 26 July 2012

Would be nice to have something like this. Lag-free games online. Maybe even cross continent lag-free games. A man can dream...



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TWRoO on 26 July 2012

Virgin Media's 100Mb (that's byte, not bit) fiber optic service here in the UK is much cheaper than that, and not much slower (100Mb compared to 128Mb)



happydolphin on 26 July 2012
TWRoO said:
Virgin Media's 100Mb (that's byte, not bit) fiber optic service here in the UK is much cheaper than that, and not much slower (100Mb compared to 128Mb)

I think the google one is 1Gb though.



mysticwolf on 26 July 2012
Oromashu said:
Would be nice to have something like this. Lag-free games online. Maybe even cross continent lag-free games. A man can dream...

Yeah, but it won't help at all if you aren't the person causing the lag.



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HiddenConcept on 26 July 2012
NintendoPie said:
Holy Crap! That's extremely fast.

Why was it released in Kansas City first?


LOL i thought the same thing. Im thinking because its a Big/Smaller town that was used as a test and now they can use it to get the word out.