Google free and gigabit internet!

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Gigabit internet for only $70 a month, no caps or throttling. I'm sure they'll quickly crack down on P2P though and inspect high-usage people, it would be a shame if people ruined this and got us a cap because they keep using 10 terabytes of data a day.

Comcast's 105Mbps internet is like $110 a month and I believe that's introductory, also it's comcast and it doesn't have 105 upload, let alone a GIGABIT.

Free 5/1Mbps internet with a $300 setup fee!
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Originally Posted By: Grant11


Free 5/1Mbps internet with a $300 setup fee!
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The question is how long would it be "free"? For life, that would be a incredible offer.

That speed is perfect for me, if only they would offer this in the rest of the country.

A LOT of internet users don't need lots of bandwidth or speed, because we don't stream a lot of video or play games.
 
WUUUUUUUT. Man, I'm SO glad I don't serve the kansas city market. The fastest we offer atm is 50/5 for $100 a month. =| I would not be able to sell internet in that market with that. I both really hope they do, and hope that they don't offer it around here. Yes because I would jump on it in a heartbeat, and no because it means I would never be able to sell anyone hih speed internet again.
 
Originally Posted By: Grant11
Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
Only in Kansas City KS/MO?
https://fiber.google.com/cities/#header=check&upcoming=%252Fkansas%253F MO.

Not in Houston....rats; I need some competition for U-Verse. It is a good service (almost no problems), but like with the others, cost keeps rising.
 
Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
Only in Kansas City KS/MO?


Yes, it is another google experiement I believe to not only provide ultra-high speed access but also to see what type of business and applications appear. Basically they are creating the future of the internet in KS.

Interestingly enough using wifi in your home with this speed would act as a choke because at best I think 300Mpbs is possible at the very best but most is
I only use Ethernet for my stuff but do have a wifi router for apple devices and a tablet.
 
Originally Posted By: rjundi
Originally Posted By: 2010_FX4
Only in Kansas City KS/MO?


Yes, it is another google experiement I believe to not only provide ultra-high speed access but also to see what type of business and applications appear. Basically they are creating the future of the internet in KS.

Interestingly enough using wifi in your home with this speed would act as a choke because at best I think 300Mpbs is possible at the very best but most is
I only use Ethernet for my stuff but do have a wifi router for apple devices and a tablet.


This is why gigabit ethernet, and 802.11ac is going to be extremely important going forward. (ac is theoretically capable of 1200 on the 5Ghz channel, actual is of course much lower) Even 450mb/s n is only actually capable of in the high hundreds/low 200s
 
Originally Posted By: rjundi

Interestingly enough using wifi in your home with this speed would act as a choke because at best I think 300Mpbs is possible at the very best but most is

With wireless G...

AC at 1.3Gbps

I'd imagine at some point here we're going to start actually feeling cancer cells growing every time we stream a movie if we get petabit internet at some point. Or maybe you don't even need a computer at that point, you'll be able to see the wireless signal illuminating particles in the air.
 
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Originally Posted By: Grant11
Originally Posted By: rjundi

Interestingly enough using wifi in your home with this speed would act as a choke because at best I think 300Mpbs is possible at the very best but most is

With wireless G...

AC at 1.3Gbps

I'd imagine at some point here we're going to start actually feeling cancer cells growing every time we stream a movie if we get petabit internet at some point. Or maybe you don't even need a computer at that point, you'll be able to see the wireless signal illuminating particles in the air.



Well we just purchased (mom did) that Netgear R6300 AC router. I have the AC band turned off, because I obviously don't have anything that supports it. But the 2.4Ghz and especially the 5Ghz range are phenomenal. With previous routers, on our couch the signal strength of the 5Ghz band was between 70 and 80 dbm. With this one, it's 50dbm. Same as the 2.4Ghz band. That's really really good. Especially with 300mb/s with my laptop. Considering picking up another antenna and a 3x3 card for my laptop so I can get the 900mb/s total, between a 450 2.4 and 450 on 5Ghz. Theoretically anyway. Actual throughput will probably be closer to like, 300-400mb/s. My laptop has gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0 for file transfers anyway.
 
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Originally Posted By: Grant11
Originally Posted By: rjundi

Interestingly enough using wifi in your home with this speed would act as a choke because at best I think 300Mpbs is possible at the very best but most is

With wireless G...

AC at 1.3Gbps

I'd imagine at some point here we're going to start actually feeling cancer cells growing every time we stream a movie if we get petabit internet at some point. Or maybe you don't even need a computer at that point, you'll be able to see the wireless signal illuminating particles in the air.



Well we just purchased (mom did) that Netgear R6300 AC router. I have the AC band turned off, because I obviously don't have anything that supports it. But the 2.4Ghz and especially the 5Ghz range are phenomenal. With previous routers, on our couch the signal strength of the 5Ghz band was between 70 and 80 dbm. With this one, it's 50dbm. Same as the 2.4Ghz band. That's really really good. Especially with 300mb/s with my laptop. Considering picking up another antenna and a 3x3 card for my laptop so I can get the 900mb/s total, between a 450 2.4 and 450 on 5Ghz. Theoretically anyway. Actual throughput will probably be closer to like, 300-400mb/s. My laptop has gigabit ethernet and USB 3.0 for file transfers anyway.


Generally the router isn't the problem, it's the wireless card. Even 10/100/1000 cars might only get 100 with a gigabit connection, if they're [censored].
 
At around 1000 Mbps (125 MB/s), the hard drive speeds of typical home PCs also start becoming bottlenecks. It's not an issue at short bursts as cache can be used to mask it, but when transferring large files between two internal SATA drives on my media PC, I can't get it to go faster than about 120 MB/s.

Granted, these internal HDD transfer speeds will improve by the time Gigabit Internet becomes widely available.

Also, a gigabit switch on typical home router or even a standalone gigabit home switch isn't really capable of delivering anywhere close to actual 1000 Mbps throughput. You'd need business grade equipment for that.
 
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
At around 1000 Mbps (125 MB/s), the hard drive speeds of typical home PCs also start becoming bottlenecks. It's not an issue at short bursts as cache can be used to mask it, but when transferring large files between two internal SATA drives on my media PC, I can't get it to go faster than about 120 MB/s.

Granted, these internal HDD transfer speeds will improve by the time Gigabit Internet becomes widely available.

Also, a gigabit switch on typical home router or even a standalone gigabit home switch isn't really capable of delivering anywhere close to actual 1000 Mbps throughput. You'd need business grade equipment for that.

Large files can easily get 150MB/s on good drives, millions of tiny files are what go below 100, usually around 20MB/s. If you have gigabit internet you should easily be able to afford a velociraptor, SSD, or at least a high transfer rate regular HDD.
 
Originally Posted By: Quattro Pete
At around 1000 Mbps (125 MB/s), the hard drive speeds of typical home PCs also start becoming bottlenecks. It's not an issue at short bursts as cache can be used to mask it, but when transferring large files between two internal SATA drives on my media PC, I can't get it to go faster than about 120 MB/s.

Granted, these internal HDD transfer speeds will improve by the time Gigabit Internet becomes widely available.

Also, a gigabit switch on typical home router or even a standalone gigabit home switch isn't really capable of delivering anywhere close to actual 1000 Mbps throughput. You'd need business grade equipment for that.


I dunno what your buying then. Every gigabit router I've had has easily managed 900-950mb/s transfers across gigabit clients. Most of the time it's bottlenecked by the 5,400RPM drives I use for my file server.
 
I say with my experience with Google Voice for free. I think this Google internet free will work too. it's just not fast enough for me. but who knows, the company I work for pays for my internet for telecommuting. but if I quit, I might want this free google internet if they come to Nashville area.
 
also notice how Google is expanding like mad. Google Voice, Google Internet, Google TV, they providing cell service yet?
 
Here in a couple weeks we'll do their pre-registration. Have only 25 left in our area to sign-up. We'll do the 25/month and free internet for now basically the same thing as the time warner we have but hopefully more reliable.
 
The free internet plan sounds good, if you can't afford the $300 up front they let you spread it over a year. Good business practice.

I'm paying time warner nearly 50 per month for 10/1 service, so 5/1 for free would be just great.

I have no need for gigabit.
 
Originally Posted By: JustinH
The free internet plan sounds good, if you can't afford the $300 up front they let you spread it over a year. Good business practice.

I'm paying time warner nearly 50 per month for 10/1 service, so 5/1 for free would be just great.

I have no need for gigabit.


I would so pay $70/mo for gigabit.
 
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