Google: Another Experiment

[Excale]

That's right people, Google is at it again, and this time, a unique experiment, fiber internet to you home, not node, but your home.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Your guy's comment?
Mine is that I doubt it will ever hit where I live but if it does, I'm so in the experiment.

[Enzedder]

Its American experiment so it doesn't concern me but dam how I want it.

It may be 100 times better than the Internet there but its probably 1000 times better than Australian. I would jump at an opportunity to join.

[Excale]

^-ouch, aussie internet that bad? i heard u guys got caps and people hang outside big buildings and people mark them with an X meaning that they don't have secured internet o.o. And at night people have their laptops out to leech off the internet o.o.

[WingZero8788]

Like it would ever come around here, I mean we're still waiting for Fiber through SBC. But still, if it did I'd jump on that in a heartbeat.

[Sosseres]

That's right people, Google is at it again, and this time, a unique experiment, fiber internet to you home, not node, but your home.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Your guy's comment?
Mine is that I doubt it will ever hit where I live but if it does, I'm so in the experiment.

Some parts of Sweden has had 1 gig connections for home users for several years now. I have never had the luxury of living in a city with it though. :/ So nothing new to me really.

[WingZero8788]

That's right people, Google is at it again, and this time, a unique experiment, fiber internet to you home, not node, but your home.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Your guy's comment?
Mine is that I doubt it will ever hit where I live but if it does, I'm so in the experiment.

Some parts of Sweden has had 1 gig connections for home users for several years now. I have never had the luxury of living in a city with it though. :/ So nothing new to me really.

Yeah, that's probably the one bad thing about living outside a big city. Internet tends to suck.

[Mcgreag]

In Sweden small to medium sized cities tend to have the best internet as they are more likely to invest into municipal fiber networks.

I live in a town with 36.500 inhabitants (55.000 in the municipality area counting smaller surrounding villages) and I have fiber right into my apartment, I "only" get 100/100 not gigabit but I can live with that

Now if you move to Stockholm, Swedens capital you are lucky if you can get a good ADSL connection...

[Sosseres]

In Sweden small to medium sized cities tend to have the best internet as they are more likely to invest into municipal fiber networks.

I live in a town with 36.500 inhabitants (55.000 in the municipality area counting smaller surrounding villages) and I have fiber right into my apartment, I "only" get 100/100 not gigabit but I can live with that

Now if you move to Stockholm, Swedens capital you are lucky if you can get a good ADSL connection...

I can second this as being true. I live ~ 20 km outside of Stockholm in a different city and less than half the apartment buildings have fiber. Most only have cable or ADSL. I think Lund has the best connections in Sweden due to the University there.

The town [Lund] has 76,188 inhabitants in 2005,[1]  out of a municipal total of 105,000.

[BuriaL]

That's right people, Google is at it again, and this time, a unique experiment, fiber internet to you home, not node, but your home.
http://www.google.com/appserve/fiberrfi

Your guy's comment?
Mine is that I doubt it will ever hit where I live but if it does, I'm so in the experiment.

Iam somewhat sceptical to Google being an isp. Considering that they make theyre money on advertizement and information gathering.
I allso wonder if there will be any filters for these internet connections.
If they own the network that supply youre tv-channels, phone and internet access, it gives them alot of power. If they build a solid network with high speed, they might allso monopolize the market.


The network iam connected to is upgrading, to 400Mbit by summer. This is just for the private market.

http://www.altibox.no/nyheter?p_p_id=62_INSTANCE_I5bT&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=normal&p_p_mode=view&p_p_col_id=column-1&p_p_col_count=1&_62_INSTANCE_I5bT_s truts_action=%2Fjournal_articles%2Fview&_62_INSTANCE_I5bT_g roupId=10327&_62_INSTANCE_I5bT_a rticleId=463569&_62_INSTANCE_I5bT_v ersion=1.0

Iam not sure what the price on the connections will be, iam hoping it will be cheap

[vuzedome]

I don't care if Google is spying on me, I'll just use VPN, I get to enjoy the privacy and speeds.

[per]

Yeah, that's probably the one bad thing about living outside a big city. Internet tends to suck.

Then again, I live in a 'City' with some 3000 inhabitants.
And I have 1Gbps fibre.

[AceD]

Do them 100Mbit+ Swe cons have unlimited traffic aswell?

[per]

Do them 100Mbit+ Swe cons have unlimited traffic aswell?

Yes. At least mine do. For a grand total of (right now) $40 or so per month.

The installation did cost a bit more, but it was sort of unnoticeable since I was paying for a house, the lot and water/sewage etc at the time too... :-)

[bcr123]

It'd be neat to have but I honestly don't need anything faster than what I get now. The only thing I don't like about my current service is the cap but realistically I don't get anywhere close to exceeding it.

Given a choice of 1gb service for the price I pay now
or
my current service for a much cheaper price.

I'd go with the second option.

[Slysoft]

If this is a success google will officially own the internet.

[Nikaido]

meaning, they'll own all our souls.

[Stsin]

"FCC seeks faster internet for America, more spectrum for wireless data"
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/19/fcc-seeks-faster-internet-for-america-more-spectrum-for-wireles?icid=sphere_blogsmith_inpage_engadget

Back in 2007: "40Gbps internet connection installed in Swede's home"
http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/13/40gbps-internet-connection-installed-in-swedes-home/