Google to test ultrafast broadband to the home.

Google, never satisfied with the pace of change, plans a test that will provide 50,000 to 500,000 people with fiber-optic broadband Internet access with a network speed of a gigabit per second starting as soon as this year.

Now why would anyone want speeds like this. I can think of people that would benefit and the mpaa would not be happy at all!


Google to test ultrafast broadband to the home | Deep Tech - CNET News

I wish my net speed was that fast, everything download in a blink :P

Uber Philf said:

I wish my net speed was that fast, everything download in a blink :P

Even your e-mail

RST101 said:

Uber Philf said:

I wish my net speed was that fast, everything download in a blink :P

Even your e-mail

I don't email on a daily basis, that's old school tech mate, its Windows Live Messenger these days.

Uber Philf said:

I don't email on a daily basis, that's old school tech mate, its Windows Live Messenger these days.

which is quite happy running on dialup so again the question is why do you need a gigabit?

personally, id like to see upload speeds increased a bit.... i quite happy with my "up to 24Mb" connection which is the fastest you can get over a phone line over here, but we're still stuck on 445kbps upload speeds! id love to be able to set up a server so i can access my stuff from wherever i am, but with that sort of upload speed its not worth it, download speeds are fast enough for now, give us more upload

Uber Philf said:

I don't email on a daily basis, that's old school tech mate, its Windows Live Messenger these days.

Not if you don't have anyone to to chat with...

I personally still prefer "old fashioned e-mail" - the instant message stuff is kind of annoying.

(Particularly my neighbour, who I hear messages going off all day, every day through his stereo. At least change the damn default message notify sound MATT!)

smarteyeball said:

Uber Philf said:

I don't email on a daily basis, that's old school tech mate, its Windows Live Messenger these days.

Not if you don't have anyone to to chat with...

I personally still prefer "old fashioned e-mail" - the instant message stuff is kind of annoying.

(Particularly my neighbour, who I hear messages going off all day, every day through his stereo. At least change the damn default message notify sound MATT!)

What are the chances of him reading that? haha.

I still want fast internet, so stuff i download is much quicker.

There's no such thing as "My internet's too fast"