Google Fiber: Why you need to get online 100 times faster..

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Google Fiber: Why you need to get online 100 times faster

 

By Blake Snow

Published January 24, 2014

 

 

 

 

I’ve seen the future. It’s called gigabit Internet by Google Fiber, and it just launched in my hometown of Provo, Utah, the second of three scheduled cities to get speeds that are 100 times faster than the rest of America.

 

“What good is really fast Internet if the content stays the same?” you may ask yourself. I certainly did, before testing the service. Besides, my “high speed” Internet from Comcast seemed fast enough, enabling my household to stream HD videos, load web pages quickly, and connect multiple devices as needed, largely without hiccup.

I was wrong.

 

Using gigabit Internet, even in its infancy, opened my eyes to speed and reminded me of why I love the Internet.

Most of us are conditioned to endure slow Google Maps, for example, even though we don’t realize it. We expect them to load in chunks when we zoom. We expect Street View to load sluggishly. We’re patient with satellite view because it’s cool, and because it requires patience to use. So we wait. And wait.

 

With gigabit Internet, maps load instantaneously. The performance is startling. I zoomed in on Manhattan from space faster than I could have fallen on it — no blurs, granulized lines or pixels. Just incredible speed and clarity.

Then I streamed 10 full HD videos in separate browsing tabs from YouTube -- with nary a loading bar in sight. They all ran without the slightest screen tear.

 

“Why would anyone want to watch 10 videos at once?” you ask. One person wouldn’t. But many people would. If you’re a household of 10 and everyone wants to stream their own movie on their own device, they can.

 

Capacity is the point. With Google Fiber, there’s no more bandwidth rationing, unless you opt for Google’s Free Fiber. That service is good for only one device, but still good enough for a single HD stream, according to users I spoke to. Not bad for free.

 

Other everyday web pages load with a bit more pop, but that might have been the stars in my eyes. Or it could have been the 915 megabits per second (both up and down!) I independently clocked, which is more than 120 times faster than the average U.S. broadband connection (8.6 Mbps), and more than double the fastest download speed and nine times the fastest upload speed of Verizon FiOS, the largest fiber optic Internet provider in the country. (More...)

 

Read the rest at : http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2014/01/24/google-fiber-why-need-to-get-online-100-times-faster/

 

/Steve

 

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I don't have the article but they were doing that up somewhere near the Netherlands or Sweden a few years ago and even had a 10GB connection in a few homes.   At the time (and pretty still is today) the 10GB was (is) very expensive equipment especially for a home user.  But with wide spread use it would drop quite a bit.  1GB used to be expensive but now days is pretty cheap hardware wise (not connection to ISP wise).

 

I'm sure that my grand children will experience common day 10GB or better connections in their lifetimes.

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Ron, 10 Gigabit or GigaByte? 

 

It's much more common in countries overseas, countries that are smaller than some states here in the US.

 

It's a discussion I've had with people online all the time - they get angry / jealous / concerned that other nations are able to provide really high speed Internet at very decent prices - ranging in the 100 Mbps streams for ~$50 to $100 USD (in equivalent local currency, of course) - and I have to remind them that the US is one of the largest countries in terms of land mass - as an example, I remind them of the 12:1 ratio factor when comparing India to the US.  India has 4 times the population but the US has 3 times the land mass as India - meaning a 12:1 ratio difference when it comes to counting people per square mile.

 

Now, in a lot of other countries, where the population isn't 1.2 billion, it's relatively easy for a nation to go through with a nation-wide high speed internet infrastructure that provides this high speed internet to the door of every household.

 

Here in the US, it is simply not that easy.  We simply have too many people spread out in rural areas that would (and currently does) make this high speed internet too cost prohibitive to just roll out to everyone at once.

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It is Gigabit - telco providers do not use byte   Gbps is the correct term.  Even my 10GB moniker is wrong.