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Old 07-26-2012, 06:45 PM   #1
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Soo, the only thing I know so far is:

  • Potential for 1GB/sec with $70/month fee
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  • Free 5Mb/sec with $300 one time fee
https://fiber.google.com/plans/residential/


http://fiber.google.com/about/


I would ditch Shaw in a second to get 5Mb/sec download speeds for a $300 fee.

Also, I have no idea if this will be available in Canada anytime soon.




Discuss.

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Old 07-26-2012, 07:00 PM   #2
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On paper, it sounds great.

But so did Google city-wide wifi in Mountain View, but in reality, it's unusable.
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Old 07-26-2012, 07:03 PM   #3
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How is their city wide Wifi unusable?
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Old 07-26-2012, 07:45 PM   #5
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$300 for unlimited 5Mbps down, 1Mbps up forever?

Give me 5 and I will bond them!
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My internet boner is pulsing.
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Old 07-27-2012, 12:08 AM   #7
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How is their city wide Wifi unusable?
Most of the times, the authentication page won't even load. The times when the authentication page loads, the request will time out. I think I've tried about 30-40 times before (over multiple days) and I've connected and access the internet once or twice (and it's very slow).
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Old 07-27-2012, 02:41 PM   #8
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They should add to your bandwidth every second like they do with Gmail... otherwise let's face it, your lifetime connection will eventually be like lifetime dial-up is now.
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Old 07-27-2012, 02:55 PM   #9
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How long till Google gets bored of this like so many of their other projects?
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Old 07-27-2012, 03:27 PM   #10
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On a side note, I don't think they have any intention of rolling it out outside of Kansas City right now.

I think it is just a way to show everyone what internet could be like if the ISP stepped up.
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Old 07-27-2012, 04:52 PM   #11
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Depends how successful they are with it. If it does well, why wouldn't they expand it?
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Old 07-27-2012, 07:01 PM   #12
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This is a pretty amazing deal for people in Kansas City.

A few other notes:

Google Fiber is 1000 mbps down/1000 mbps up. Comes with 1 TB Google Drive space.
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It's 1gigabit not byte (0.125GB)

Unless Reddit lied to me.

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It's 1gigabit not byte (0.125GB)

Unless Reddit lied to me.
Looking at the page it is 1 gigabit. Still insanely fast at a theoretical 125 Megabytes per Second or 450 Gigabytes per hour. So at full speed you could download a 1 Gigabyte file in 8 seconds. The "free" option for 300 dollars is not quite as speedy. It is 5mbps. 5 megabits per second. The conversion is 0.00488281 gigabits per second. Or 1 Gigabyte every 28 minutes vs every 8 seconds. Good for browsing the web or about 2.197 Gigabytes per HOUR. Good enough to watch an HD Netflix movie after some buffering. According to the website the "free" deal is guaranteed for 7 years with no cap. It's pure genius by Google. At this point in time, the "free" option is skimming the traditional barrier between fast and slow. Almost as fast as most ISP's. But not quite fast enough.
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Old 07-29-2012, 11:15 PM   #15
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They should add to your bandwidth every second like they do with Gmail... otherwise let's face it, your lifetime connection will eventually be like lifetime dial-up is now.
That was my first thought; and then I considered how long I have been using 5 mbps internet. At least 4 or 5 years, and I don't really need anything faster. Even when I download the files are not that big or not that urgent.

Plus I currently pay $27 per month for internet, so after 1 year I would have recovered my cost.
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Old 07-30-2012, 06:36 AM   #16
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I highly doubt this will come to Canada anytime soon... do they know how much it will cost to bring a fibre to your house?? Most new communities in Calgary and surrounding areas have FTTH already, so unless they are leasing those lines, I dont see how else they will bring a strand of glass to your house that is cost effective.
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Great project, but I don't see it getting out of Kansas City anytime soon, let alone Canada.
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That was my first thought; and then I considered how long I have been using 5 mbps internet. At least 4 or 5 years, and I don't really need anything faster. Even when I download the files are not that big or not that urgent.

Plus I currently pay $27 per month for internet, so after 1 year I would have recovered my cost.
You may not need anything faster right now, but I bet you will in a couple years. With a much faster internet connection you could stream uncompressed Blu-rays for example, instead of the compressed 720p of today.
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I highly doubt this will come to Canada anytime soon... do they know how much it will cost to bring a fibre to your house?? Most new communities in Calgary and surrounding areas have FTTH already, so unless they are leasing those lines, I dont see how else they will bring a strand of glass to your house that is cost effective.
Doesn't Google already have their own fiber network in the US? I would imagine that is what they're using as the backbone.

To the home is a different story, but they have a few billion in the bank, and being an internet/TV provider is a lucrative business once you're up and running. They could easily disrupt the entire industry if they take this the right way.
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in the states maybe....doesn't really change what's going to happen up here i'd imagine
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