New Google Internet Service Unveiled

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-rt-us-google-kansasbre86p16i-20120726,0,2673184.story

KANSAS CITY, Mo./NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc unveiled its Google Fiber broadband Internet service in Kansas City, Missouri, on Thursday, promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than some of the fastest available from traditional U.S. cable and telecommunications companies.

The new Google Fiber TV service will be priced at $120 a month for a package of major broadcast networks, 1 gigabyte per second Internet speeds and 1 terabyte of cloud storage.

For $70 a month the service will not include the traditional TV channels.

The new advanced service will offer features such as the ability to record eight TV shows at a time and store up to 500 hours of high definition programming. The user can use a tablet or smart phone as a voice-activated remote control if the user wants. Google is offering its Nexus 7 tablet with the Google TV app to early users of the service.

Google Fiber TV will allow users to search live channels, Netflix, YouTube, recorded shows and tens of thousands of hours of on-demand programming.

The new service will also be available to residents of Kansas City, Kansas.

"The Internet is a huge positive force, and yet we are at a crossroad," said Google Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, who has played a lead role in overseeing the Fiber project. He said Internet speeds had leveled out for broadband since around 2000, and Google would making it 100 times faster.

"We at Google we believe there is no need to wait," he said.

The download speeds would be around 1 gigabyte a second, according to Google executives who were presenting a demonstration.

Google invested in building out fiber in Kansas City, Missouri in 2011 after inviting cities back in 2010 to help identify communities that would be interested taking part in the project.

(Reporting By Carey Gillam in Kansas City, Missouri, and Yinka Adegoke in New York;editing by Sofina Mirza-Reid)
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1 GB/s? fuck. Must have.
 
If they can get this up and running on a large scale, they be even more of an unstoppable tech juggernaut.
 
lol holy shit 1 gig per second? I'd easily pay $90 a month for speeds like that.

Hope they go nationwide over time. I have ATT DSL and it can take me about 2 hours to download a 8 gig file from xbox live, and I'm paying around $56
 
[quote name='Strell']Google has given Abraham Simpson a reason to recognize Missourah.[/QUOTE]

There are still too many states. The United States should really only be seven regions named after the biggest city in that region. So Missouri would either be in Chicagoland or Texasville.

It would be called the United Areas of America.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZbzncPXIUY

And yes, it would all be served by 1 Gbps Internet service.
 
[quote name='elessar123']It's 1Gbps, not 1 gigabytes per second.[/QUOTE]

Gb bits and GB bytes is one of those confusing things that no Internet company really clarifies along with how fast it's going to go at peak times.

1 Gbps is still legitimately 100 times faster than the current standard broadband speed. Too bad it's not available to people outside of the test area at the moment. Like I previously stated, Google would solidify dominance for the next decade minimum if they invested into bringing the technology to the masses.
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']i hope this forces some hands.[/QUOTE]

Would love this. I am just so tired of only having ATT and Comcast as choices, which to be fair might be better then what others have to.
 
I've never seen a need for the super high speeds many seem to crave. Guess because I hardly download any large files. As long as I can stream video in HD without buffering I'm good to go and that doesn't take all that fast of speeds.
 
Awesome. About time somebody moved forward here in the US with a project like this.

Hope it goes well in the test market, and then, Google expands quickly.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I've never seen a need for the super high speeds many seem to crave. Guess because I hardly download any large files. As long as I can stream video in HD without buffering I'm good to go and that doesn't take all that fast of speeds.[/QUOTE]
Do you not think it would be awesome to find a 10gb game, buy it, download, and be playing it in a matter of minutes?

I'm not sure what my exact download speed is, but a new game (8-12gb) from steam takes me about 8 hours to download.

Its not even the down that I care about though, its the up. Little known thing about VLC player, you can stream from it to anyone with VLC.
 
Sorry, I wasn't saying it was slow by any means. My phone internet was shoddy today, so it took several tries just to post that short correction.

But yes, gigabit is fast. However, remember that Wireless-N maxes out at like 150 mbps, and less in the real world. You'll have to go back to GigE (Gigabit ethernet) to use that kind of speed.

And then need to utilize striped RAID to achieve the write speed. Or use SSDs, which will fill up 100GB in under 14 minutes...

The plus side is that it'd make cloud storage a reality, which I'm sure that's what Google wants.

I would drop Time Warner in a heartbeat.
 
If I had this, I wouldn't know what to do really. I mean my download speeds are right now 125 kb/sec max. Usually more around 95-115 kb/sec. If I could download games in minutes, it would be welcomed than days.
 
I guess I'm the only one here who would setup a miniature data center for personal use. Buy a block of IP addresses and get rid of the sites host and just operate the DNS to point to shit on my network through the block of IPs I would be paying for. Would host my site/ftp/games/voice and such. Backup would be on the google drive they're offering for free with it except for the stuff I would need to keep highly encrypted, which would go elsewhere.

Almost makes me want to move to Kansas City, but I think my job prospects would be worse there for IT than where I'm at now. Not that I have any proof that's actually the case.
 
[quote name='4thHorseman']Went ahead with the $10 pre-registration fee. Now I only need another 120 people in my area to register....[/QUOTE]

I would just pay for my entire neighborhoods registration.

Where do you go to pre-register?
 
[quote name='TheBigAndy']I would just pay for my entire neighborhoods registration.

Where do you go to pre-register?[/QUOTE]

https://fiber.google.com/about/

There is a blue button near the top to click on that says "pre register"
 
For all those that don't understand the math, 1 byte=8 bits, so a 1 gigabit connection means you will be downloading at 125 megabytes per second.

edit: lolz...beaten twice
 
[quote name='crystalklear64']Do you not think it would be awesome to find a 10gb game, buy it, download, and be playing it in a matter of minutes?

I'm not sure what my exact download speed is, but a new game (8-12gb) from steam takes me about 8 hours to download.

Its not even the down that I care about though, its the up. Little known thing about VLC player, you can stream from it to anyone with VLC.[/QUOTE]

Games are the only big files I download. So I guess it would be ok for that. But I'm ok just downloading things over night. And I doubt I'll game beyond this generation so that's kind of moot for me. Plus the only full games I'm downloading are PS Plus freebies, and PSN is so slow it would even be moot for me right now. :D

I don't care about streaming things to others etc. as I don't do any of that kind of stuff. I'm not all that tech savvy so my internet use is just web surfing and e-mail mainly, with some downloads of MP3s from Amazon and games on Xbox (arcade and dlc) and PS3 as well as streaming Amazon video and occasionaly using Skype for video chats.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Games are the only big files I download. So I guess it would be ok for that. But I'm ok just downloading things over night. And I doubt I'll game beyond this generation so that's kind of moot for me. Plus the only full games I'm downloading are PS Plus freebies, and PSN is so slow it would even be moot for me right now. :D

I don't care about streaming things to others etc. as I don't do any of that kind of stuff. I'm not all that tech savvy so my internet use is just web surfing and e-mail mainly, with some downloads of MP3s from Amazon and games on Xbox (arcade and dlc) and PS3 as well as streaming Amazon video and occasionaly using Skype for video chats.[/QUOTE]
You forgot to include teh pr0n.:lol:

I enjoy the speeds, but I probably won't be gaming after this generation either. Hell, I have 2 PS3's and one is being exclusively as a media box in the bedroom. A 20Mb connection is fast enough for what I use.
 
I would hope that with that kind of bandwidth available, the TV service isn't horribly compressed.
 
[quote name='dohdough']You forgot to include teh pr0n.:lol:

I enjoy the speeds, but I probably won't be gaming after this generation either. Hell, I have 2 PS3's and one is being exclusively as a media box in the bedroom. A 20Mb connection is fast enough for what I use.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, Pornhub doesn't require much speed to stream. ;-)

I have 10 Mb currently, and had 6Mb the last place I lived, and never had issues.

Seems it only matters for people who are downloading and/or uploading huge files on a regular basis.

I guess it will matter more as more video goes streaming and quality starts to rise up toward Bluray quality etc. But I don't have a lot of interest in that. I prefer buying discs for things I want to own, and current streaming quality is fine by me.
 
I'm happy with entry level FiOS data/phone (no TV). I get 16+ down and 7 to 9 up. It's suppose to be 15/5. For the price it is awesome.
 
The bit/byte math needs to be taught in school and on ISP commercials. I would venture to say 95+% of consumers don't understand what internet speeds mean. It's just a number and higher is better. "Ooo, my ping is almost up to 1000. Pretty good, right?"
 
[quote name='Sir_Fragalot']If I had this, I wouldn't know what to do really. I mean my download speeds are right now 125 kb/sec max. Usually more around 95-115 kb/sec. If I could download games in minutes, it would be welcomed than days.[/QUOTE]
I'm on the old ass 768kbps DSL plan, but I just did a SpeedTest.net test and I got just a hair over 1mbps.:whistle2:s

Of course, it's also the middle of the day and most normal people are at work or outside enjoying this roasting summer heat.:razz:

Anyway, I really, really, REALLY hope they bring this to the NE corner of the country.:pray:
 
[quote name='btw1217']The bit/byte math needs to be taught in school and on ISP commercials. I would venture to say 95+% of consumers don't understand what internet speeds mean. It's just a number and higher is better. "Ooo, my ping is almost up to 1000. Pretty good, right?"[/QUOTE]

Considering I knew EEs that get them confused, it'd be pointless.

What they really need to do is use one unit. Not one for hard drives, one for bus speeds, and one for file sizes. They probably should use the 1024 one though, since only storage manufacturers really use 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte. And get rid of bits-per-second in the commercial world.
 
[quote name='elessar123']Considering I knew EEs that get them confused, it'd be pointless.

What they really need to do is use one unit. Not one for hard drives, one for bus speeds, and one for file sizes. They probably should use the 1024 one though, since only storage manufacturers really use 1000 bytes = 1 kilobyte. And get rid of bits-per-second in the commercial world.[/QUOTE]
It's largely due to the difference between binary and decimal systems. It's why people complain that their hard drives don't have as much space as it's advertised as. Software will read the drive using binary, while they advertise the size using decimal. They do it because otherwise all the huge drives would have much less space to advertise.
 
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