Google to test ultrafast broadband to the home.

[RST101]

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

 

[Uber Philf]

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

 

[brady]

why settle?

 

[RST101]

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

Even your e-mail

 

[Uber Philf]

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

Even your e-mail

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

 

[severedsolo]

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

 

[smarteyeball]

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!)

 

[Uber Philf]

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"

 

[seekermeister]

Chances are, that it will be too expensive for me. Unless they go pro bono, like Gmail.

 

[jfar]

Ok. I will turn it down now, Sorry.

 

[valtonray]

while a single user may not need 1gb per second i can see where it would be beneficial to some families. for instance i grew up with 3 sisters, my brother, myself, and my parents all in one house sharing one dreadfully slow 56k connection. fast forward to today a family my size with 5 teenage children, im'ing, playing on youtube and facebook as well as gaming, listening to music on pandora and streaming movies through netflix or hulu while 2 parents are trying to get actual work done the added speed would be very beneficial

 

[RST101]

The pirates will love. A full game/film/album in the blink of an eye.

 

[RawrAdam]

What makes me laugh, people in the newly devoping countries have faster internet than people in like England, US, AUS etc

 

[Bootz]

What kind of speeds do these developing countries get?

 

[seekermeister]

If I'm understanding what "newly developing" means, I imagine that it would not be common for a person to have their own computer, and would access them via a communal center. If this is so, they would need a lot of bandwidth to serve the terminals.

Then again, I may be wrong, recalling a recent charity commercial, purporting that they provided computers to children...somewhere in Africa...I think, maybe it not as uncommon as I think.

 

[DarkPhoenix]

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

Er.. How do you get a 24 megabyte download connection over a standard phone line? I didn't think that was possible. The fastest AT&T puts out for DSL is 6 MB and that's with fiber optic which they don't have in most places..

Did you mean 2.4 or 24 mega bits?