Google Fiber: Why does Kansas City get to go high-speed?
Super high-speed Internet comes to Kansas City, courtesy of Google. Business leaders hope lightning fast connections with spur innovation and jobs. Google looks to be expanding further from its original business of Internet searching.
The Google project will also be the cheapest super-fast connection in the country, and Google has added other enticements such as high-speed access for people that don’t have it, about one-quarter of Kansas City’s population. Anyone who doesn’t want to pay $70 a month for the one gigabit per second connection can pay $300 to connect their home to the network and then have free access to the Web at the current US average speeds for seven years – which Google says should increase property values.
Gigabit + TV $120/mo $300 waived construction fee
Gigabit Internet $70/mo $300 waived construction fee
Free Internet $0/mo $300 construction fee
(one time or $25/mo for 12 mo)
What would be the usefulness of 1 Giga second to 99% of human beings ?
It may be useful to the military or to big company's analyzing use chunks of data in real time...but hell the common user wouldn't notice the difference !
My remark was on the side that either you won't have time to go through all that data it if you keep downloading at that speed or a slower speed would very much do the same job well enough if you don't spend 24/7 downloading...I have a 100 mega internet connection and quite happy with it...
At best, I can get bursts of 18 to 19 MbPS but that's merely bursts. I would love 100 MbPS in terms of Netflix and Hulu streaming to my BluRay as it doesn't cache very much video so the speed is necessary to keep the streaming from being choppy.
The thing is, Google Fiber will have a much higher rate of speed and still be cheaper then everyone else. I'd even consider using their TV service as well.
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tsarstepan
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Thu 18 Apr, 2013 06:21 am
@margo,
margo wrote:
Want fast fibre - eat more bran!
I always known that Google can help me lower my cholesterol levels!
One concern I have is that they don't offer voice. At 1 Gbps, I can probably just get a 3rd party VoIP system and not have to worry about traffic prioritization, though.
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