Google Building Ultra-Highspeed Internet Line in Kansas City

sune-ku

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Grogman said:
I'm pretty sure South Korea or Japan already gets speeds like that. Although I could be wrong.
They tend to average around 16-18mbps although a lot of people there have much faster like 50 or even 100mbps but I don't think even they can get this kind of speed for the average person.
 

Jamous

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Kevlar Eater said:
*makes plans to move to Kansas City* I'm already drooling at the thought of downloading Steam games in mere seconds.
Melts. Several times. Steam games in seconds... Oh GOD yes.
 

LeonLethality

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frago roc said:
Dear Google;

Please come to Canada and save us from the tyranny that is the big telecoms. That is all.

Sincerely,

All of Canada
I agree with this, I will do whatever it takes to get a better internet here with unlimited bandwidth, our telecom companies suck. Save us.

Sincerely,

More of Canada.
 

Lillowh

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Bricks have been shat.

OT: That is so unnecessarily fast it's mindboggling. I thought the 50Mbps I have was way unnecessarily fast, and this is 20 times faster!!! Just for emphasis I will restate what I said earlier: Bricks have been shat

Also, at least from what I've seen and heard, Google is a very consumer friendly company. I hope if they do start to become a big ISP, that they won't impose data caps. If that happens, please overtake Comcast or at least threaten them in enough places so they get rid of their data caps if you decide to not build here for awhile.

Sincerely,
A wishful thinker
 

BENZOOKA

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xXSnowyXx said:
You can never watch all the porn.

OT: Development is good. But that speed capped is twice faster than you could transfer to a USB 2.0 device, in practice.

I'm currently in the rather middle-of-nowhere countryside, but they recently built a cable, allowing households to get 100/100 MB connections. That's sick enough. I only got a rather high latency, 10MB at best, mobile broadband for less than 14 ? / a month, serves well enough, and is still even inside the subjective boundaries of playing some fast-paced online FPS's, if it isn't acting up.

I'm just saying there are more important things than just the record-breaking speeds. And this is Google... The first time I'll raise my eyebrows for what it has done, will be when it begins to buy whole countries in bundles, rather than one buy one.
 

wizzerd229

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Dimitriov said:
xXSnowyXx said:
You can never watch all the porn.
It's true. They produce that stuff at a rate many many times faster than you could ever watch it, even with a room full of screens...
...
OT: yeah, i dont know what i would do
 

Beastialman

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Dimitriov said:
xXSnowyXx said:
You can never watch all the porn.
It's true. They produce that stuff at a rate many many times faster than you could ever watch it, even with a room full of screens...
I got a bukkake gang bang of T-Girl asians on BBW S&M Ebony Woman on monitor 12.
 

FieryTrainwreck

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Nah, Google's actually a pretty sweet company. They regularly catch flak from investors because they keep innoventing all kinds of seemingly useless, amazingly cool new nonsense with no clear money-making angle. They seem to be genuinely interested in pushing tech forward for the sake of it rather than the profit from it, which is actually the very best way to insure that you remain viable/profitable as a company moving forward.
 

DasUberCow

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thatstheguy said:
zHellas said:
1 gigabyte per second download speed
AHEM: Gigabit, not byte

That's an eighth of the speed you're thinking of.

OT: I have a 256 kB/s DSL connection.

Fuck me.
Fuck you indeed. Haha. That's ridiculous though, where do you live?

Steady 10MB/s here, live in Norway. Never have any issues.

The point here is, that not much hardware can take that much information. This is a giant leap and technologies have to move together for them to be cost-efficient basically. I don't think this will become widespread because of that. It's great that google will invest in stuff like this though. Not saying it's a bad thing.

Hang on. After typing this i looked up hard drive typical speeds. Wikipedia says 1033MB/s is typical. Which is 1GB/s. Holy crap, this could be huge! :p
 

Nick Holmgren

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When we get to 1 tb/s (IE hologram streaming) this will seem so petty. Correct me if I am wrong but you can't stream proper holograms in mono chrome without tb's er second and full colour is just going to be insane. I dare Google to stream legit holograms over any kind of network.