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Google's Experimental Fiber Network

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the contact-me-please dept.

gmuslera writes "Not enough speed from your ISP? Google seems to go into that market too. 'We're planning to build and test ultra high-speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the United States. We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people.' The goal isnt just to give ultra fast speed for some lucky ones, but to test under that conditions things like new generations of apps, and deployment techniques that take advantage of it." If they need a test neighborhood, I'm sure mine would be willing.

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  1. Old news by Tmack · · Score: 4, Funny
    They launched this a few years back iirc: http://www.google.com/tisp/

    tm

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    1. Re:Old news by Firemouth · · Score: 4, Funny

      I had this. I don't recommend it as it was pretty shitty.

    2. Re:Old news by rsborg · · Score: 5, Funny

      TiSP is WIRELESS - this article talks about fiber to the home

      Be careful, fiber will increase the "data" flow.

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  2. Community Organization? by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just tried to 'recommend my community' and apparently one needs to be part of some community organization to make the recommendation. I wonder if 'my house' can be considered a community organization?

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  3. Yes. by ChinggisK · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ostrich farming.

    1. Re:Yes. by abigor · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a "head in the sandbox" virtual machine.

    2. Re:Yes. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Ostrich farming.

      Never underestimate the bandwidth of an ostrich carrying a pack of SSDs.

    3. Re:Yes. by timeOday · · Score: 4, Funny

      Seriously? There are sheep working at google and I still can't get hired there?

  4. I'm shocked by Locke2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    23 comments about a 1 gigabit home connection, and not one of them has even mentioned the word "porn"?!? Man, you guys are slipping...

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  5. Re:Google by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 4, Funny

    Privacy protection; and ad-blocking.

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  6. Re:Google by Z34107 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Problem: All the competition is incompetent. Google is not. Google will move in to this area, destroy everyone else, and then there will be no more "competition" (not that there necessarily was any before). In the end, we might end up with but one ISP....

    Even if that happens, we'll still be (slightly) better off. Rather than have incompetent ISPs with no competition, we'll have a competent ISP with no competition.

    You can sign up for the beta here.

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  7. Re:more competition by mcgrew · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would expect the service to come down with time

    Well, with Comcast, the service DOES go down with time. Unfortunately the more the service goes down, the more the price goes up.

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