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Google: Another Experiment
WingZero8788:
--- Quote from: Sosseres on February 17, 2010, 04:09:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Excale on February 17, 2010, 03:06:42 AM ---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.
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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.
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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:
--- Quote from: Mcgreag on February 17, 2010, 10:50:41 AM ---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...
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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.
--- Quote ---The town [Lund] has 76,188 inhabitants in 2005,[1] out of a municipal total of 105,000.
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BuriaL:
--- Quote from: Excale on February 17, 2010, 03:06:42 AM ---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.
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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 ;D
vuzedome:
I don't care if Google is spying on me, I'll just use VPN, I get to enjoy the privacy and speeds.
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