Google Building Ultra-Highspeed Internet Line in Kansas City

[Baneat]

Oh come on, Kansas!?

 

[Baneat]

The greedy fucking telecoms won't upgrade their lines, but they'll let Google do the work and then use it to charge you out the ass for access. Try 100+ bucks a month with a 20-60 GB cap

Haha £20 a month, 500GB (fair use policy) cap,

but only 17 megabit

 

[Taxman1]

Call me a pessimist but once everyone has this ultra high speed internet, it would no longer be ultra high speed. But for now, I envy those at Kansas City.

 

[icyneesan]

Watch ALL the porn!? DEAR GOD MAN!

Now imagine that red blood stain was white and you'd have my face.

 

[TheWeis]

Kansas City isn't in Kansas. It's in Missouri. Out of 4 pages, a lot of you are Americans and nobody said anything about that? Fast internet is coming to Missouri. L2 maps

 

[tehweave]

Awesome! I live in KC!

 

[Alar]

Kansas City isn't in Kansas. It's in Missouri. Out of 4 pages, a lot of you are Americans and nobody said anything about that? Fast internet is coming to Missouri. L2 maps

Kansas City is in both Missouri and Kansas. I should know, I've been there multiple times and live near there.

Tada!

 

[Awexsome]

Aw, come on google... missed me by only a few hours drive... Granted my little college town of Ames probably isn't high on ANYONE's priority list... but still...

 

[Scrythe]

Imagine.

Imagine how beautiful torrents will be with this.
Imagine full-length HD-quality streaming videos and webcam.
Imagine near-seamless online gaming.
Imagine god-tier dedicated servers.

Now imagine all of that lasting only a week, because we're all going to fuck it up [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_effect_(conservation)].

Build a better internet, and we'll just load more onto it. Remember how amazing DSL was up until every web page and social network profile had to have 10+ flash videos, 100+ pictures, and about 30 YouTube links? Now crank that to 11.

 

[NezumiiroKitsune]

To say the least it makes me pretty excited for the future of the internet.

 

[teknoarcanist]

They're doing stuff like this in Pittsburgh too.

Oy. Male escapists. Look here if you remember your household before there was internet in it. Now raise your hand if you ever used dial-up to painstakingly search for compressed jpegs of playboy spreads. Now raise your other hand and make the same face you made the first time you realized streaming video (porn) was a thing which existed.

Now wave both arms and go "ohhhhh shiiiiiiit" if you're flabbergasted by the advance of technology.

 

[cystemic]

in twenty years time people will look back and think "ppffffff one gig per second? how did they deal with the lag?"
here's to the constantly evolving speed of technology

 

[ultimateownage]

it is looking at bringing the extremely fast network to other cities around the country.

Bollocks. Why does Britain never get cool shit like this?
;_;

 

[Bobbity]

My internet speed usually sits around 120kb/s. I don't know if it's that crappy because the modernised world hates Australia, or it's just that my internet provider hates me, but either way, that would be absolutely fucking brilliant.

Kansas city, here I come!

 

[Tomo Stryker]

Coming NEVER to a town near you.

So true, you know you couldn't get this to happen even if you had a Genie with indefinite wishes. This is only comparable to winning the lottery and then not having to pay taxes in that same year. Hopefully the rest of the world will catch up and I won't have to compensate for lag on my PC and Xbox.

 

[DTWolfwood]

How much $$? is it. my 50mb cost me 100. to up that to 1000mb/s should be like $1000 a month no? XD. (i went from $4/mb to $2/mb so next up should be $1/mb )

if its around $200 a month or less, ME WANT. Need to move to kansas city! >.<

 

[SirCannonFodder]

Guess who's in luck?


it's me

So... need a housemate?

 

[MrTub]

Hasn't this been done already? Too bad it will be several years before it comes to Sweden, even though Google have all their servers here >.<

and watch all the porn.

I lol'd.

You can actually get Gigabit network as a private person. My mothers boyfriend is getting 1gbit/s soon

(In sweden)

 

[smartengine]

here are a few jokes and slogans for Kansas City, KS:

Kansas City, KS: Lag free zone
Kansas City, KS: Why even bother to code buffers?
Kansas City, KS: Second life is playable here!
Kansas City, KS: Our right hands are OP
Kansas City, KS: 4320p FTW!
Kansas City, KS: 125MB per second
Kansas City, KS: Too far away...