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Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls
GovTechGuy writes with this news from "Google has reached an agreement to build its first ultra-high speed broadband network near Stanford University, the search giant announced on Thursday. The agreement with Stanford means the university's residential subdivision will be the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second, more than 100 times faster than the typical broadband connection in the US. The plan is to break ground early next year." That might just be worth $50,576 per year to have.
~10 years ago, Palo Alto installed a fiber network at a great expense.
I wonder if they're leveraging this existing network, or laying new fiber?
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Ohhh, the uses are endless!
To some students, it might be. Sadly enough I know someone who chose their undergraduate institution based on the ping times they got to their favorite gaming servers; he actually carried a notebook with him to each school he considered, and wrote down the ping times from each school to his favorite servers.
I'm sure you'll be shocked to know he graduated with less-than-stellar grades, and then took a rather mediocre job afterwards.
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After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.
They'll have gigabit to their curb but I can't imagine they'll be piped directly into a backbone or anything..
or will they? Does Stanford have a beefy link to the internet?
Lucky bastards..
My university has 4GB/day cap on the internet. hypothetically speaking, if we had this 1gigabits connection, it can become useless in 32 seconds.
This network is for houses on Stanford's campus where faculty and staff live. The students will have to be content with only 100 Mbps in the dorms.
The recipients are faculty and staff who live in houses owned by Stanford.
Stanford?! I thought the point was to service areas that didn't already have good broadband. Really, this is some bullshit.
So when is google going to roll out their ISP service? I want 1GBps, screw comcast.
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In Japan they get gigabit for $90/mo and it has been available for 5 years or so. $50k seems kind of steep.
We here in the US seem to have a warped view of things due to our crapper Internet infrastructure.
...the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second
I think not. Peter Lothberg's Mom has had 40 Gbps for over 3 years now.
I'm currently a student at Drexel University, and they've had gigabit Internet links for several years. It was initially implemented in the main buildings, but then extended to dorms around two years ago. I regularly download files from public Internet servers at over 20 MB/s, and the connection's mostly limited by my laptop's hard drive.
Just over a month ago, Slashdot reported 1000Mb connections (up and down) to the home for $349.99 per month covering all of Chattanooga, TN.
I can order it where I live...and, no contract for this fiber to the home connection either. If you want to hear it from the horses mouth, read it here.
Also, I discovered that by adding a home phone (delivered via the same fiber) to that quote, the total price actually drops to $317.03 per month.
I have no personal affiliation with EPB, but I do think it is uber-cool that I could upgrade to 1Gb by making a phone call and paying [a lot] more each month. Their 30Mb up/down for $57.99 is enough for me. :)
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But $50k would be expected if the bandwidth was provided by a cell phone network....
did you click the link you bloody moron ?
56k is the tuition cost
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The $50k is housing and tuition costs for Stanford students, not the price of the service. I'd link you to the source, but, yeah, you won't click it.
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As an election stunt last month or so, the Australian Government got the knob turned on the new National Broadband Network, being rolled out right now, setting it to 1Gbps instead of 100Mbps. So I think Australia beats Google.
Google pulls fiber to some "faculty- and staff-owned homes" at the school which incubated their search engine company?
They have fiber optics running at "up to one gigabit per second" even. For a distance of two whole miles. Wow. Good to know that in the year 2010 there's still cutting edge research going on in the Valley. Usually a Google project is a little more innovative and ambitious than that.
But wait: "The location just a few miles away from Google will also make it easier for engineers to monitor progress." Could it be that Google just might be interested in some other benefits of "easy monitoring"?
You don't suppose they could be .... nahh .. they would never be so evil as to test their personal data collection and targeted marketing algorithms on their old college professors.
Would they?
Shaw is already offering gigabit FTTH Internet in Calgary and Vancouver (http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/The+Fasternet/).
They call it the Fasternet and it's free for 6 months. I already have 100mbps from shaw in Victoria and can't wait for gigabit. Google doesn't seem very cutting edge to me.
What exactly are they "testing"? Aren't there enough trials of Gigabit around the world (in Tasmania, AU- http://www.nbntasmania.com.au -for example) that they could simply use the existing findings? Or is their something magical about fiber from Google?
When I was a freshman there, they installed gigabit ethernet in all of the dorms. This was way back in 2004. I can't find anything that old, but here's a source from 2006 to confirm it: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2075070,00.asp
The summary is wrong. Stanford provides discounted faculty housing. The article doesn't talk about their dorms.
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I had a GigE connection in my dorm at the University of Florida in 2003. Granted, all we did with it was stream music over iTunes and LAN Starcraft, but it was great for geek cred.
Useful background information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber_to_the_premises_by_country
I have this option available in my area (Helsinki), €99.81/month:
http://www.sonera.fi/laajakaista/laajakaista+kotiin/1000+megaa
Basically, it's 1000/100 but since I am more than happy with the 210/10 that I have currently I don't think I will be bothered to upgrade the monthly fee at this time (the 210/10 is €45/month). The speed is pretty much maxed out any time of the day or month, no limits, so it's all pretty kick ass. I don't really CARE; I been happy with my internet connection since I got ADSL 1024/512 back in 2000. THAT was awesome, upgrade from 56K dialup to 1024/512 felt like the speed was unlimited. =)
The difference from 10 MB/s to 100MB/s is irrelevant for me, I don't transfer that much stuff. My biggest transfers are Steam games now and then, 4-8 GB will be done in less than 10 minutes, that's better than good enough for me. But nice to see things going forward, not complaining!
They installed gigabit fiber in the dorms my freshman year. I guess we were spoiled.
Please challenge Comcast Google.
I sometimes hate hearing about what's coming because it gets my hopes up NOW, instead of later, I know it is a catch 22, as we need more interest for things to advance, and you can't have interest by the masses without informing them in advance of what is coming, but MY GOD, how long before we get the cheap solar panels everyone keeps taking about.
Will this be another one of those stories that only 15 years later will we see our ISPs upgrade to this type of fiber???