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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.
Stanford?! I thought the point was to service areas that didn't already have good broadband. Really, this is some bullshit.
Well look at it from a testing point of view. No community can saturate an internet line quite as quickly or effectively as a bunch of horned up, tech-savvy college kids spending hours a day torrenting, playing facebook games, and streaming music, video, and porn 24/7.
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Are you sure that's what you want? At least streetview stops outside your house. Sometimes.
With a Google ISP, you know they'd be cataloging every non-ssl page you visit, inferring things about ssl encrypted sites you visit (as your ISP they would know the IP address of the server you connected to, remember), and using every last bit of your data to target advertising and profit from you in any way possible.
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.
Between google search, google news, gmail, googletv, and youtube, some people might be fairly happy with fast access to nothing but google. Throw in facebook and you'd have a reasonable Cliff Notes version of the Internet. And I'm only being about 2/3 facetious.
are you purposefully being obtuse to the there/their/they're usage?