Because they wanted it most. I agree, though. This wonderful gift should be in my town, because at least that's where the creators of Google grew up.Ephraim J. Witchwood said:
Google Building Ultra-Highspeed Internet Line in Kansas City
- Thread starter Scott Bullock
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Oh come on! Kansas? Kansas?!? Bah, why give beluga caviar to ones who only know Starkist tuna? What will they do with all of that internet, go on Google Maps and look up "Civilization?" Use Google Images to look at places that are not empty plains of middle of nowhere-ness?
Anti-Kansas ribbing aside, super high speed internet allowing unseemly bandwidth allowance better come soon because AT&T has set their own U-Verse F-U with limitations following Comcast, who by the way happens to be damn near a monopoly, and actually is in some *lucky* areas (mine, O' happy day...). Especially because everything seems to be moving towards some online aspect for content, e.g. movie streaming, games, and ebooks.
Anti-Kansas ribbing aside, super high speed internet allowing unseemly bandwidth allowance better come soon because AT&T has set their own U-Verse F-U with limitations following Comcast, who by the way happens to be damn near a monopoly, and actually is in some *lucky* areas (mine, O' happy day...). Especially because everything seems to be moving towards some online aspect for content, e.g. movie streaming, games, and ebooks.
wait, they're putting fibers to kansas as part of 'next-gen' internet?
At our university we've had fibers for almost a decade now, connecting all universities, associated student homes etc in the country. Given, the local hubs and ethernet cables limit the speed you're getting to 100mbit/s (out of the 1gbit/s on the fiber) but even this speed is more then the average hardware can handle. Downloading at 9-10Mb/s (this is 72-80mbit/s) most computers would hang, unable to process the incoming data, and send receipt confirmation packets to the server.
Bottom line, fiber internet isn't new, it's just that it's apparently not widespread enough in the US that you guys make a big deal out of it.
At our university we've had fibers for almost a decade now, connecting all universities, associated student homes etc in the country. Given, the local hubs and ethernet cables limit the speed you're getting to 100mbit/s (out of the 1gbit/s on the fiber) but even this speed is more then the average hardware can handle. Downloading at 9-10Mb/s (this is 72-80mbit/s) most computers would hang, unable to process the incoming data, and send receipt confirmation packets to the server.
Bottom line, fiber internet isn't new, it's just that it's apparently not widespread enough in the US that you guys make a big deal out of it.
Which is a good thing, cuz otherwise it wouldn't be that interesting, as there would be no interesting new porn to watch- okay, going off on a tangent...xXSnowyXx said:
Does sounds kinda interesting though, but if this is going to be a multi-person thing, bandwidth might be an issue. I know google would take that into account, don't everybody start disagreeing with me instantly, I just think that'd take a lot.
In other news: Several mid-level Google executives have today returned safe and sound to their families. When asked where they had been for the past few months they were evasive. Eyewitnesses on the scene spotted ligature marks and smelt moonshine.
~100+ MB/s down, that would be nice... I get ~1.5-2MB/s down on a good day. I really hope Google sees the great opportunity they have to come to Canada and crush the currently reining ISP's. Google already does everything else internet related for me, why don't they provide my connection?
My internet is 300 kilobits per seconds. You have internet that is over 3 times faster than mine. So yeah, if I moved to Kansas City I don't even know what I would do with all my spare time.Irridium said:
Odd that they are not doing it in their hometown...
Well whatever as long as 1 day I get to have this crazy fast internet.
Gotta love the future.
Well whatever as long as 1 day I get to have this crazy fast internet.
Gotta love the future.
A nominal factor in where to perform these experiments would be the price of land. it's not exactly cheap to buy land in order to dig it up and then bury it again so you can put in cables.HankMan said:
Not to say Google is poor, it's to say they want to minimize the expense.
Actually, I believe it's about 7GB/s, according to a copy of nVision magazine. Not sure, but that's what I think. And they're usually streamed over a local network, via USB.Nick Holmgren said:
