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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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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.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.
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.
This isn't a Stanford network; it's a Google network so it will probably connect to the GoogleBone. If you thought Google was fast now, just imagine - with this network you probably get search results before you type the query.
In fact, if you RTFA, you'll notice the phrases such as 'Test' and 'learn from the small deployment how to scale the Google Fiber program effectively for larger communities.'. This is intended as a close to home, easy deployment.
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.
What's his PVP ranking?
...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.
but what bone is the Google Bone connected to?
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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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.
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