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Google Fiber Comes To Kansas City
tekgoblin writes "Remember the campaign Google announced a long while back to bring fiber to your front door? Well, it looks like they are making some actual progress now and launching part of the network in Kansas City, Kansas. The city of Topeka had actually temporarily renamed itself Google, Kansas, the capital city of fiber optics, in a move to get Google to lay fiber there. It seems to have worked, because a deal has just been signed to roll out fiber in the city, which should be available to everyone in the area by 2012."
They chose Kansas City, not Topeka, so no it didn't seem to work since they didn't choose Topeka.
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I can tell because the connection is slow :-(
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Having lived in KC a few years back I can vouch for the need to revitalize the area. If bringing in fiber can help get improved access for schools, libraries and community centers it might just get some the many kids off the streets and away from the crime that is rampant in many of the neighborhoods. KC KS and KC MO are both sort of teetering between cleaning up their act like Chicago or NYC, or falling into hopelessness like Detroit. If improved internet access and the investment it brings can help push that in the right direction I am all for it. Glad to see Google choose an under-served area with as much potential as KC.
I'm looking forward to the actual community impact of ultra high speed when most areas in USA don't have the same level of service. The regional impacts to Kansas City metro area governments (will they offer competing services?), wireline telcos (AT&T), cable operators (Time Warner, Comcast, SureWest), and other business sectors. The impact to education will be interesting to analyze. If Kansas City KS starts sucking up all the new start ups and attracting a lot more business the surrounding areas will respond quicker to competitive products and services.
This should help:
Google TiSP
Every Macbook or iMac for at least the last three years and every Macbook Pro, Mac Pro, G5, Power Mac tower, Powerbook for the last ten years.
Most better PCs have had gigabit NICs for the same period
I don't think that they would cap the connections, because as far as I have understood, the reason they are doing this is to analyze how people's internet habit will change in the future when gigabit internet is available on most homes. This way they can try to develop new products that will take advantage of this new habits.
The fiber Google owns is not owned by Comcast, Timer Warner, or Cox.
Well here is the answer. Can any company be worse than Time Warner and Comcast? I don't think so.
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They've gone about a fur as they can go.
Can you even buy a computer that doesn't have gigabit ether any more?
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I live in Kansas City, Kansas, and I'm confused. There is something suspiciously unsaid here. KCK (as it is locally called) is a terrible place. The main streets are walled up by one vacant store after another. The local government is highly corrupt, is only concerned with making money for its participants, and people don't argue these points. The murder rate is near the top for the nation, and nobody cares. The police perjure themselves any time they want. The residential areas have numerous "unfit" stickers on homes of families who couldn't pay their utilities. Most of the town isn't served by buses from Saturday to Monday. The most popular place is the food kitchen (where free meals are served), and the most used building is the jail-courthouse. The "public access points" referred to must be the libraries. These are ran by police-state-wannabes, who censor far more than Google would. I have not exaggerated once here. Yes, there is a commercial development in the far west that is doing well. I can explain that, but it is beyond the scope of comment. And yes, many newly arrived Mexicans consider the town a step up. Google people are the last I'd expect here. Maybe this is some kind of charity venture or social experiment. I can't figure it out.
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What, you bricked the router? Fat chance of connecting back to Kansas by fibre now you fool. You better hope the great oz has more than brains, hearts and courage behind that curtain.
Why, anybody can have a router. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that surfs the net or clicks on links in their mother's basement has a router. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers. And when they come out, they design networks with no more brains than you have. But they have one thing you haven't got: a CCNP.
John