News Google moves into ISP realm

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2010/02/11/google-moves-into-isp-realm/1

Google has announced plans to launch a trial fibre-to-the-home service which will see the search and advertising giant offering 1Gb/s Internet connections to home users.

 

Ah, this story doesn't let the truth get in it's way at all does it?

There are conducting trials with up to 500,000 people (multiple small scale sites) to test new fibre rollout strategies that they can then pass on to ISP's in order to give fast network rollout a kick up the arse. Also it doesn't help remind ISP's that if they didn't improve their network and keep it open then Google certainly has the pieces in place to move into the market.

 

Any word up upstream speeds?

 

look at tomshardware there is more detail

and you have to vote for your town to do this and it is only availible in the us

 

125k bytes is now ulktra high speed broadband? Thought that was known as midband... or not even that... slowest broadband I know of is 2Gb/s....

yes, indded, out by a factpor of 1000

 

you are incorrect. the slowest broadband you know of is probably 1Mb/s, not Gb/s. This is a thousand times faster than a 1Mb/s connection.

 

Not enough sleep.

Oh yes. that really is quite fast

 

Fiber should be a 1-to-1 link right? So up and down should be the same.

 

Time for me to stop looking like an idiot hopefully.... Maybe its technically a 1-1 link but my fibre isn't, ive got a 20Mb down but a 2Mb up, maybe thats just the ISP but its not necessarily a 1-1.

 

Sure you're not talking about a Cable connection?

 

Yup, definitely fibre, ill check, its either 2Mb up or 4Mb up, certianly not as fast as the down though.

 

Fiber usually isn't 1to1. It's usually dedicated down and shared up (at least that's how it is here in Portugal). For home use at the moment we have 100Mbit down dedicated and 100mbit up shared between 5~20 households. For the industry there are a few banks (2 or 3) with 10Gbit.

 

but will it run onlive lol

 

Cloud computing, anyone?

 

Im sure this is all a plan for Google to get out there OS to more computers this will increase the speed at which the cloud os will load.

Also the fiber link that i use on a regular basis is 1:1 and thats in the uk, and i get about 50mb both ways.

so just depends where you are and how its set up but im all for supporting the fast internet connection

 

can you batter the internet, does it taste nice with chips

 

not available for Canada.... booo

 

http://www.google.com/tisp/install.html
These are their devious plans.

 

LMAO .

 

Blackie you got the wrong date to post that one, 48/49 days early