Cities Campaigning to Get Google Fiber Net Access
Cities across the nation are trying to get a daily dose of Google Fiber.
There wasn't any big media celebration when Wilmington, North Carolina was chosen to test the now-present digital TV transmission a whole year before it went nationwide. The city is now testing the market for White Space left over by the digital transition, providing free, public Internet access to anyone in a specific area.
But what's really making news is how cities across the nation are rallying to get first dibs on Google's intent to build an Internet Service Provider, aka Google Fiber. "Google is planning to build, and test ultra-high speed broadband networks in a small number of trial locations across the country," the company says here in its project overview.
"We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections," the company added. "We'll offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000, and potentially up to 500,000 people. "
So began a media frenzy. Cities of all sizes nationwide have spared no expense to capture Google's attention, and Zettaphile has captured some of the magic on its website, highlighting efforts by Columbia, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, Greensboro, North Carolina, Peoria, Illinois, and so many others.
As an example, Sarasota, Florida has apparently renamed its City Island to Google Island. Duluth, Minnesota mayor Don Ness tries to get the Internet search giant's attention by creating a spoof video where he declared all first-born boys to be named "GoogleFiber," and all first-born females to be named "Googlette." The mayor of Topeka, Kansas said that the city would be renamed to Google, Kansas for the entire month of March.
Meanwhile, the residents of Wilmington, North Carolina are basking in free, public Internet. It may not be 1GB/s, but it costs nothing to surf the Internet at the park. Now that's fiber you can really chew on.
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MY HARD DRIVE CANNOT WRITE DATA AT THAT SPEED
MY HARD DRIVE CANNOT WRITE DATA AT THAT SPEED
lol, SSD time
/sarcasm due to the ~$2+ per GB for SSDs.
I wish my city would do this... I should totally write my city council.
well get a new hard drive, my laptop drive writes at that speed.
I wish San Diego would campaign... We badly need it here...
hd p0rn just got a new subscriber if google comes to my town that is
Maybe they should join the church of google.
1 Gigabit is only 119.2 MB/s theoretically. Most standard hard drives come close at least for bursts, and all SSD's are easily capable of acheiving this. However most of the downloads would be directly to Ram, such as simply loading web pages very rapidly. And most broadband connections never actually hit 100% of there theoretical saturation anyhow. Especially since you would need servers capable of handling multiple 1GB upstreams, so realistically even if you got a solid 50MB/s transfer, that wouldn't be something to complain about. I for one am glad to see the ageing network infastructure finally being updated.
I hope my town of Schererville, IN gets it. My doctor keeps saying I need more fiber. ;-)
See, now this is cool and all, but in order to really enjoy the fruits of what Google is offering, you've gotta be able to actually handle those kinds of speeds. Yes, cities may be campaigning to have access to the 1gb/s speeds, but people at home will need the actual hardware capable of receiving such speeds. But props to those who have the means of taking advantage of this!
"Cities campaigning to get a free slice of the Google pie"...
There, I fixed the title for ya...
First of all you have to ask yourself where are you going to find a place to download at the max of 1Gbps anyways. I am positive very few sites could actually achieve this for one user and not drag the rest of their servers down the hole. Unless of course you are torrenting a dozen huge torrents where each one is hosting on a 100Mbps line I doubt you will see the max of that speed anytime soon. As most have already speculated, it's more of a publicity statement than anything really useful.
Grand Rapids, MI is on that campaign. I guess next week local business's are holding a rally in down town to get Google's attention. Our worthless state governor is in California kissing google's ass to get them to come here.
there was a time when people said half a megabit connection was excessive then youtube came along, give it time and im sure someone would find an application for a gigabit connection, im thinking hulu in HD 1080 style....
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Thank you Greensboro! Bring it!
First of all you have to ask yourself where are you going to find a place to download at the max of 1Gbps anyways. I am positive very few sites could actually achieve this for one user and not drag the rest of their servers down the hole. Unless of course you are torrenting a dozen huge torrents where each one is hosting on a 100Mbps line I doubt you will see the max of that speed anytime soon. As most have already speculated, it's more of a publicity statement than anything really useful.
A needed publicity statement if you ask me. Most non-technical people don't realize that ISPs are ripping them off big-time.
MY HARD DRIVE CANNOT WRITE DATA AT THAT SPEED
SSDs can! One Gigabit = 128 Megabytes.
curse you google for not dominating all life on earth already. it's google's fault that we're not able to play games lag free! /sarcasm
"It may not be 1GB/s"
I believe that is supposed to be 1Gb/s, as 1GB/s is 1 Gigabyte per second.
SSDs can! One Gigabit = 128 Megabytes.
Hard drive != Solid State Drive
Hard drive's peak at 100+MB/s, though the averages are lower. So in order for you to max out this thing, you'd really need a Solid State Disk.
Hard drive != Solid State DriveHard drive's peak at 100+MB/s, though the averages are lower. So in order for you to max out this thing, you'd really need a Solid State Disk.
That's exactly what the person you quoted it saying...
That's exactly what the person you quoted it saying...
Now that I re-read it.......
BaHH Here in denmark we have had 20 Mbit down and up for a long time for the neat price of 300 dkk (About 55$ us) a month...
Google give me a speed bump even tho we dont really need it...
Cudos to the lucky americans who will get it, shame on the stupid etempts to lure google into giving the city wide speed bumps, all this attention is just free PR
Will I be able to play Crysis multiplayer using this type of connection?
I've got a netgear switch with a 1Gbps fiber GBIC. I would easily saturate the gigabit connection provided at times, running 2 servers and 2 gaming machines, 4-10 VMs at any one time. I have access to everything from the internet.
To be able to have LAN speeds to that from just about anywhere, plus some latency would be fantastic.
Hard drive != Solid State DriveHard drive's peak at 100+MB/s, though the averages are lower. So in order for you to max out this thing, you'd really need a Solid State Disk.
Who has just one hard drive anymore...? I've got 15 attached to my network.
Bring it to Canada I'm tired of my 25mbps... browsing pron just isn't fast enough!
So... Willy Wonka is opening the chocolate factory. Question is.. who's going to get the golden tickets?