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

Oromashu on 26 July 2012
mysticwolf said:
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.

Even with this 1gigabit internet speed I will lag? I feel like I've been robbed.



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happydolphin on 26 July 2012
HiddenConcept said:
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.

Lol, pie didn't read the OP, but you didn't read the OP nor the comments. :D



Dragonborn_2 on 26 July 2012

and i still have a 512kbps connection with a limited 35gb cap



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NintendoPie on 26 July 2012
happydolphin said:
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.

I only read until I get bored... I guess I got bored before I got to that part.



Baalzamon on 26 July 2012

Too bad a service like that won't arrive where I live for at least 20 years. We still can't even get cable or dsl internet here. Fortunately a "neighbor" about 2 miles away put up a tower to offer wireless internet to the area.



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yo_john117 on 26 July 2012

"Google launched its 1-gigabit-per-second broadband service in Kansas City today and also unveiled a new interactive television service called Google Fiber TV, in a move it hopes will push the broadband and paid TV industries to deploy speedier networks at a lower cost."

 

Thank you so much Google! 

Both services sound amazing.



SvennoJ on 26 July 2012

That would be nice. I recently checked out Bell Fibre in Canada. Upto 175Mbps and similar awesome tv package. Only available in certain n eighbourhoods it Toronto atm though. It will probably be multiple decades before fibre reaches our town of 11k. Checking for our area only comes up with upto 5mbps availability and 65gb download cap.
Cable it is until then at 10mbps with a shitty bandwidth cap. I have to wait until next month before I can download the rest of my steam summer sale purchases and no more Netflix.



Zappykins on 26 July 2012

That is really amazingly fast - and I remember when the 'super fast' 2400 baud modems came out. I love watching the leaps and bounds with which technology expands.

And remember this is also a super high speed 1 gig upload!

Forget Blu-ray, forget 2k, you could stream a 4K movie (at 120 frames) or an 8K (@16 times 1080p) movie at 24P, or the upcoming Peter Jackson 48P 'Hobbit' movies with ease!



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

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kitler53 on 26 July 2012

two words come to mind: fuck comcast. my body is ready.



wfz on 26 July 2012
happydolphin said:
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.


You both need to stop that and get your acronyms right! You are NOT allowed to mess up acronyms in a thread where I have already explicitly described what each means. :P

lower case b = bit. Upper case B = byte.

 

Google explicitly mentions everywhere that their service is a Gb.   ---> Bit

 

EDIT: Also, Happydolphin, as I pointed out earlier, the very first sentence of this thread says "gigabit" in it. :P