Sooooo, Google is taking over the world finally?

@banishedsoul1 said:

1gbps is faster then any hardrive can write to by far. seems kinda pointless to get a connection that fast.

Data transfer rate

As of 2010, a typical 7,200 rpm desktop hard drive has a sustained "disk-to-buffer" data transfer rate up to 1,030 Mbits/sec. This rate depends on the track location, so it will be higher for data on the outer tracks (where there are more data sectors) and lower toward the inner tracks (where there are fewer data sectors); and is generally somewhat higher for 10,000 rpm drives. A current widely used standard for the "buffer-to-computer" interface is 3.0 Gbit/s SATA, which can send about 300 megabyte/s (10-bit encoding) from the buffer to the computer, and thus is still comfortably ahead of today's disk-to-buffer transfer rates. Data transfer rate (read/write) can be measured by writing a large file to disk using special file generator tools, then reading back the file. Transfer rate can be influenced by file system fragmentation and the layout of the files.

I think you're getting megabits and megabytes mixed up.

Google fiber is faster then Wireless N.

@JeanLuc said:

My town was going to get google's fiber with gigabit internet a few years ago. Sadly the City Hall turned down the offer because of the complaints from some fucking hippies.

fucking hippies. I would be angry as fuck if that happened in my area.

@Jams said:

@JeanLuc said:

My town was going to get google's fiber with gigabit internet a few years ago. Sadly the City Hall turned down the offer because of the complaints from some fucking hippies.

fucking hippies. I would be angry as fuck if that happened in my area.

Believe me I was.

Too bad it's for Americans. Well, good for them, but what do I care.

Yay.

I live too far from Kansas city to get sincerely excited (or worried) about Google's eventual rule.

Taking over the world finally? You poor, stuck-in-2005 soul, you. Google has been the supreme overlords of the world for a while.

This was only a matter of time. Google has been trying to improve and speed up things on the internet for some time, might as well cut out the middle men and fix it themselves. This feels like a win-win for consumers and Google.

I would love it if there would be 2 internet competing one against the other.

The SECOND this comes to Canada, which granted might be a long time because Shaw, Rogers, and Bell are going to fight tooth and fucking nail to keep it out of the country, I'm getting it. My internet with Shaw right now is 150 a month (with tax) for 250MB down and 15MB up (for a few months I incorrectly thought 25 MB up) with unlimited bandwidth and it's terrible. Oh it's fast but it's ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FUCKING DOLLARS FOR INTERNET.

Seriously guys, imagine the speed that your porn will buffer and/or download at. 20 videos loaded up and ready to go before you get the lotion out.

Seems irrelevant despite the coolness of the tech.

You can bet every ISP will fight this tough and nail and will lobby the heck out of congress over this. If Google fiber is successful ,the net neutrality war is back on.

Google would probably better off figuring out how to handle facebook instead of creating another war on another front.

Shit, I'd take the free one. The free one is a whole lot better than what I already have.

But then, I'm a cheapass. And a gigabit? A fucking gigabit? That's nucking futs. You know what? Maybe I'd upgrade. Yeah, I'd upgrade. $70 a month isn't bad for fucking instant everything.

EDIT: $70 bucks and a Netflix subscription. I still don't want to watch TV ever again.

lol guys i'm not even american as I've said but google will one day take over the world, shit they'll probably be the dudes that create skynet some day, literally owning the infrastructure of the internet is a good start for that, sure things take time, but with the amount of financial gain this sort of thing could give them, not just from consumers, but having a strong network means other companies will start to rent transmission space from you increasing revenue even more, (see Canadian wireless companies only bell rogers and wind actually own towers, everything else is rented) anyway with money like that you can fight off lobbyists a lot more easily. not to mention provide enough people with low or no income with free internet and you get a lot of public support.

Also @JeanLuc go punch those hippies in the throat.

@Socialone: Find an american IP address (proxy/VPN) and then use Google Music once. It'll be unlocked permanently, even on your Canadian IP address.

Google is going to rule the world, and I'm mostly okay with that.