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Google Fiber launches in Kansas City - $70/m for Gigabit Internet
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Google Fiber launches in Kansas City - $70/m for Gigabit Internet

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  • TaylorTaylor Member
    edited July 2012

    It will come to the UK one day :P

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Damn... I wish I lived there...

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  • AsadAsad Member

    @LiquidHost said: Damn... I wish I lived there...

    This..

  • Too costly? Move to Canada. This would exhaust my old Rogers cap in 25 seconds. Rogers best package is 75M down, 2M up for 99.99 a month with a 250gb cap. That's about 4 minutes of downloading at gigabit speeds.

    I already asked my wife if she's ever thought about moving to Kansas City. ;)

  • earlearl Member

    Wow.. you could offer colo services at home!!

  • @Taylor said: Its to costly, people do not need 1000 up and down.

    They also offer free 5 Mbps connections, if you pay the construction fee.

  • vdnetvdnet Member

    @earl said: Wow.. you could offer colo services at home!!

    >
    I'm sure they have terms of service blocking any type of hosting.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    @earl said: Wow.. you could offer colo services at home!!

    Yeah.. Can you imagine it, direct 1gbps fiber, going straight to your basement based DC :D

  • MrAndroidMrAndroid Member
    edited July 2012

    You think WholeSale/DataShack/Joes will use this?

    Cheap peer.

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  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @Taylor said: Its to costly, people do not need 1000 up and down.

    costly? $70? come on! It's the cheapest thing I have look at!

    WTF?! Free INTERNET?!?!?! OMFG

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited July 2012

    While they get their Gigabit internet, my fight for 100Mbit internet finally paid off today, guess what.. ta da.. But it's only 100/10. ;(

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  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    I already get around 100mbps for 12-13$.. Anyway, I have never managed to get over 50mbps from international sites (I did get 60-65mbps uploading files to my Austria server, but it is something rare).

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep

    @LiquidHost said: 12-13$..

    /me jelous, we'll be paying £25/month for 100/10mbps..

  • TazTaz Member

    Kansas will get more kiddy host running from their basement soon :)
    raspberrypi colo, It is TIme!

  • InfinityInfinity Member, Host Rep
    edited July 2012

    @liam said: ford suck ;d

    That's my neighbors car hence the blurring, they've got two Mercs and a BMW so it's only right of them to get a Ford too. ;) I lol'd when he had to park his merc on the main road since there was no space.

  • Nick_ANick_A Member, Top Host, Host Rep

    "Google believes that its fiber will put data access speeds on the same exponential growth curve, saying that a Gigabit is only the beginning of its plans." Wow

  • Am quite happy with 100Mbps Down :)

  • TaylorTaylor Member

    A gigabit should do the whole whole street!

  • @Infinity said: /me jelous, we'll be paying £25/month for 100/10mbps..

    $140/month for 12/1Mbps here.

  • subigosubigo Member

    I would almost consider moving to Kansas City now, it if wasn't in... Kansas City.

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  • Yeah you guys need to come to Canada, telco prices are insane.

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  • What would you even do with 1Gbps down? Seems a little.. much.. yeah?

    I can understand for an office building, sure. But to your home?

  • TaylorTaylor Member

    @Taylor said: Its to costly, people do not need 1000 up and down.

    >

    I retract my statement, everyone can use a gigabit.

  • blackblack Member
    #!/bin/bash
    while :
    do
     wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
    done
    
  • Google Fiber should go to Datashack. :)

  • DamianDamian Member

    I think this is MUCH more interesting:

    Free internet at today's average speeds
    Future-proof your home with free internet at today's average speeds.
    You can upgrade to Fiber speeds anytime, with no additional equipment needed.
    Up to 5Mbps download, 1Mbps upload speed • No data caps • Free service guaranteed for at least 7 years • Includes Network Box
    $300 construction fee (one time or 12 monthly payments of $25) + taxes and fees
    
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  • pcanpcan Member
    edited July 2012

    Gigabit speed with no data cap is the enabling step to server-based computing. Google will recover the investment by having people to scrap personal computers and replacing them with locked mobile devices / thin clients that use their services. This kind of computing device is actually well suited to non-technical people.

  • JTRJTR Member

    Nobody can use 1gbps, botnets are about to get some serious teeth, Google as an ISP is a horrible idea with their privacy record, and content servers can't deliver 1gbps to multiple users.

  • subigosubigo Member

    @JTR said: Nobody can use 1gbps, botnets are about to get some serious teeth, Google as an ISP is a horrible idea with their privacy record, and content servers can't deliver 1gbps to multiple users.

    I can use it.

    You obviously haven't used other ISPs, like Mediacom.

    Content servers can deliver a lot more than that...

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