Google's experimental fiber network

[BrianWrest]

Hey James! Grand Rapids, MI would benefit greatly from a connection like this! We can only imagine how connected our medical centers and education centers could be with such high speeds. Kudos to you and Google for considering us! Thanks!

[behemoth]

We in Anna, Texas would benefit greatly by this. There is no competition in this area for high speed internet.

[LionelLaCorbiere]

Mr. Kelly I hope you and your team can offer your services in my area of the country as well as the entire nation when its in place. I live just outside Ft. Stewart and it would great to have the anticipated throughput that you guys are promising available for our consumption. This country really needs a boost in it's broadband ranking and I have faith that Google can make that happen. Thanks in advance...A loyal customer.

[Dwojy]

Century Link will be offering fiber to the Home within the next year. High speed internet for under $60. Package would include broadband, IPTV, and more.

[MikeTrieu]

And can you imagine what a multi-party 1080p videoconference call would be like? Incredible! =D

[Giraffesyo]

@Moose1207 a gigabit is 1000 megabits, which is in turn 1000 kilobits, which in turn is 1000 bits, a little different from bytes where its on an 8 scaling system, a gigabyte is 1024 megabytes.

[fortressfiles]

Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974 with the publication of RFC 675, the first full specification of TCP that was written by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, then at Stanford University.

[codsixrules]

@TheKSProduction It's 1 Gigabit not a Gigabyte. The actual transfer rate will be 125MB/second. If you want to transfer at 1GB/s, get a 8Gbps connection.

[PeterPhamouss]

it sure opens the doors for ssd's or raid configurations, it's gotta start somewhere and we all have something to gain from this venture

[daylightSWW]

Juneau, AK is the perfect location to learn a lot from your experience!

[AndresBarrios]

San Diego, California would be the perfect place for this since there is room for development. I would have also suggested the most obvious option which is San Francisco since it's silicon valley but i think that they already have an overload of tech.

[PeterPhamouss]

it depends, on the older internet architecture, distance between you and the gaming server would mean data loss. With some of the newer systems, you will experience no data loss when transferring. That means nearly no latency. Satellite has a lot of latency due to the fact that it's wireless, it takes a bit longer for each piece of data to reach you (pun intended).

[FairseasX]

@mooman219 Transmission speed is measured in bits, whereas data size is in bytes. There are 8 bits to a byte, so 1 gigabit per second is 125 megabytes per second. When data overhead and line load are taken into account though, the speed is almost never truly that speed; probably would be closer to 100 to 110 megabytes per second.

[AstralJokers]

With 1GB a sec, you won't even notice a small bit of difference, as the speed of your connection also goes with the server, if the server can only give you like 20mb/s, you won't use more than 20mb, wich means 980mb/s that you have won't be used.

[pianolounge]

:( I wish it was in canada as well. Hopefully they'll expand up to canada quickly :)

[patatowned]

@Skelymage same. and its not a april fools joke our city even signed up for it too.

[cathycarr]

romeerick you are so right EL PASO, TX is a great community for this trial!!!!

[KEMCINNIS]

This is a great development by Google and the open access model is good business and good public policy. Now for the criticism: this infrastructure won't make a dent in the demands of mobile devices since it only addresses the in the ground component--it does nothing to increase wireless bandwidth directly and that is where the user expectations are being confronted by the available wireless infrastructure limits.

[fircx]

@hockey2333 but we have got a SSD, btw some ultra fast ssd can write more than 1 GBPS.

[CarlTSpeak]

@Hardy123Zhao If you think that's the case take it up with the IETF and SI. Despite overseeing internet standards and units of measurement they are both under the obviously mistaken belief that 1 GB is 1000MB and 1Gbps (capital G for abbreviation of giga, stays capitalised whether talking about bits or bytes) is 125MB/s, They require your correction urgently.