hincandenza: "At 1Gbps, how do they stop you from just starting your own ISP and setting up your whole neighborhood with Wi-Fi for like, $5/mo?"Terrorism laws.
Harpocrates:Four years ago we connected our building block to a local ISP who dug fiber cable into our block and then lined each staircase with 100/100 Mbps connections. Granted, we were 8 apartments sharing that 100/100 connection but in practice the intartubes were never clogged. Upgrading to gigabit can be done by simply changing the router in the basement, but that didn't really make sense back in 2008.
100Mbps = $139.99
1000Mbps = $349.99
I personally think the lower tier packages are overpriced, but that the 1Gbps package price isn't too bad. For comparison in my neck of the woods, I pay $29.99 CAD for 6Mbps DSL.
google unrolling powerful apps that operate in the cloudCool, this company is getting more control over parts of the internet that we rely on so that it can get more control over parts of the internet that we rely on
I can't even get cable, adsl or cell service where I am.Hey! I'm in this club too! I'd write a little more about the Never Getting Bandwidth Sadface Satellite Club, but it's almost time for my ISP to close and I have to hit "Post Comment" now so this will go through in 3 hours.
Best I can manage is some mud slow, shit poor satellite service with a 5 gig cap for 60$ a month and a 300+ installation fee.
Screw you people.
What came first, the broadband or the national sport that requires it?Fupped Duck: If i were google I'd market this as "South Korean internet speeds now available in the US".Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish: Comparing anybody to the country whose national sport requires a broadband connection is kind of cheating.
eurypteris: Anything Google can do to undercut the new/old Ma-Bell duopoly should be cheered wildly.I firmly believe that more competition = better choices for the consumer, so I'm siding with "Go Google!".
This presumes Google is going to do be more responsible, which I don't entirely believe.
I have to disagree. I had a fancy 2400 baud modem - with data compression - in the pre-web days, and my recollection is that there was never even one second in human history when that was "fast enough" for anything at all. In fact, given the way the web and dialup modems developed in history, none of the standards that followed were ever "fast enough" either. I think most of the net users who eschewed broadband in the last days of dialup were probably motivated by cost, not by any sense that dialup was "fast enough."Why would you want broadband that quick?I love this question. Let's rewind 10 years: Why would I want broadband Internet service? All I do is read emails and maybe load the occasional website with photos. My 2400 baud modem is fast enough.
palbo:Like every other major provider, yes.
Short term it's probably gonna be great for customers. Long term, you better hope they don't become monopolic and then they decide you shouldn't really have anything to hide. Aren't they putting a whole bunch of money on lobbyists already?
juiceCake: Now if it takes 30 hours to do the same thing over the Internet, sure, you don't have to sit around and wait, but it takes 30 hours. You can't do a backup every day and by the time one backup is over you need to initiate the next, so your backups are constant.I think a differential backup system (rsync, robocopy) would buy you many orders of magnitude of performance and completely outshine the improvement that a gigabit connection would. And you can have it now, on today's internet.
antifuse: HD video at around 4 GB/hour is a fairly common expected standard, so a 2 hour HD video of your kid's school concert would take 1 minute, 8 seconds to upload ... But really, at that point you definitely are going to be limited by your hard drive speed.You might be limited by someone's hard drive speed. Is the site you're uploading to likely to be designed to accept uploads that fast? Residential internet in the 100Mbit range have been common in Korea and Japan for years, but the web as a whole hasn't sped up just because some people have such connections.
You might be limited by someone's hard drive speed. Is the site you're uploading to likely to be designed to accept uploads that fast?Presumably? Why not? You can break the video up and store chunks on multiple hard drives across your data center pretty easily, a kind of super-RAID.
I'm not hostile to the idea of faster broadband. I just don't think it's as exciting or as potentially important as the things the Internet has already done,Well, the tech that's in place today is optimized for the current bandwidth. Just like how in the modem days video was rare, and now it's all over the place.
and it seems sort of sad. Google completely trasmuted the web we know today, and this just isn't ambitious in the same way.It seems sad? Youtube was a huge advance, but it was dependent on people having the bandwidth to use it. The space advances you can make when people have more bandwidth is always going to be larger if people have faster connections.
No pricing power? What the hell, man? Telcos and cablecos are some of the most abusive and evil monopolies we have ever had. They extract rents left and right in service of picking the consumers' pockets as fast as possible. Free example: text messages. Used to be 10 cents per. Now 20. Did the network get more expensive? Did their capital investment get larger? Did fewer people start using this service, making them need to charge more to cover their fixed costs? No, no, and no. They raised prices because they could. Their investment was largely recouped by the networks' original purposes: phones and tvs. Internet service was a value-added service that they could offer largely for free.JPD sounds like he works for the phone company or something. It's amazing how something that's bad for the industry you work for suddenly seems terrible for everyone. Look at the debate over SOPA, or Net neutrality, whatever.
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