Google fiber is fucked

>>45767336
>mfw I live in Bloomington, a suburb of Minneapolis

HOLY FUCK

Hardly fucked. One city having 10 gigabit fiber doesn't make it any less awesome that other cities have 1 gigabit. It's their local cable company that's fucked.

Google isn't running Google Fiber as a serious competitive service. It's just doing it to see what kind of content and services it could provide in a community/environment/world where most/all people have Internet fast enough to make speeds not a practical issue.

meanwhile still no hope of getting a decent fiber connection anywhere else in this state.

>>45767392
and to be clear, by "community/environment/world" I mean whatever scope they're deploying it in. Right now they've only deployed in a handful of cities because each city represents another "n" in the sampling that is their broadband experiment.

>>45767336
>10 gigabit internet
>Implying even comercial grade products support this or will start supporting

My ISP has supported 10 gigabit forever and has a deployed infrastructure.
It's just unlisted and not runing for non comercial use.
So why bother.

>tfw cable still fucking me in the ass for 70/10 mbps for $99 dollarydoos.

why is this allowed?

>>45767484
because conservatives don't like the idea of corporations having to tread internet like a utility.

>>45767515
>conservatives
*conservatards

FTFY :^)

>implying lonely little you can take benefit of a 10 gigabit line, as the only user
>implying any website has 10 gigabit connection to answer yor requests with
>implying your hard disk can read/write with 10 gigabit / sec
>implying that you would ever utilize a 10 gigabit/s connection even if you hosted a shitty little website nobody visits, an IRC server for your perverted friends and a seedbox to help the world get hentai downloaded fast.

you have no reason to be jealous, turn off your computer and go up to the living room and give your family the present of your presense.

>>45767515
It's not a fucking utility and I'm not paying per GB.

>>45767484
I'm an Arab but was born in Sweden.
we don't even have fiber and we're not allowed to get it either because of the suburb.

meanwhile whenever I visit my relatives in Lebanon, they have actual cable internet.

when something like London riots happen here in Sweden, I'm going to enjoy myself.

>>45767580
>not using 10Gbit line to DoS other Cawl of Dooty players

pleb.

>>45767594
being classified as a utility doesn't mean adopting every aspect of utility management that other utilities share. It just means that ISPs don't get to make distinctions about handling certain data in special ways (e.g. charging you a premium for streaming video or coercing Netflix into bribing ISPs so their content comes through at the same speed Youtube and Vimeo does).

>>45767484
>only thing available for my area is Comcast at 20/5 for 70 a month or AT&T at .7/.5 for 50 a month
god bress

>>45767580
that's a shitty mentality. just because you can't utilize 10 gbps now, doesn't mean that will be the case in the future.

>>45767607
I guess it's true that you can't take the desert out of the Arab.

>>45767580
>give your family the present of your presense.
>the present of your presense.
>present

>>45767678
But it's not the future. It's today. And I literally can't think of any service that utilizes an internet connection that could possibly give 10 gbps. Some hop between their server and my home isn't going to support that.

>>45767830
Yeah! Candles work perfectly fine. Who needs light bulbs! Fuck progress!

>>45767336
10 gigabit is 1GB you fucking dumb niggers
>/g/
>technology board

>>45768012
this
you're all retarted

>>45768012
>anyone measuring bandwidth in bytes ever

not as dumb as you anon

>>45768012

and 1gbit is 128MB

what's you're point, faggot

>>45768067
Serious question: why don't we measure it in bytes? why bits?

>>45768012
>1GB
>not 1.25GB

>>45767336
>google
>watching every website you go to intensely

I'll skip Google Fiber, thanks.

>>45767677
>tfw AT&T pricing

>>45767830
Race to idle
cunt

>>45768079
Because the vast majority of people don't know the difference and it sounds better to advertise 80 megabits per seconds instead of 10 megabytes per second.

>>45767677
I forgot other people have it worse.

I guess Cox isn't as shit as I though.

>>45767830
streaming bluray quality

there

faggot.

>>45768079
Because bytes contain 8 bits.
You don't count in dozens and pairs do you?

>tfw no Los Angeles love

>>45767379>mfw I live in a suburb of st Paul...

>>45768149
The best part is the first half of this month I was getting disconnected every fucking 20 seconds for about 2 seconds because Comcast's hardware is 50 years old.

>>45767917
Again, *what are you going to do with it*? I'm not going to buy a fucking lightbulb if the wiring running to my house isn't hooked up to a power plant.

>>45768159
Bluray is just 1080p, you can already do that without 10 gbps. And more importantly, if you are going to stream whatever resolution would saturate that bandwidth, where are you streaming it *from*?

>>45767383
...and they're fucking over Comcast.
Can't wait until more ISPs do this.

>>45767677
You're lucky. All I get is 10/0.5 with a 250 GB cap for $70 a month.

>>45768222
>Again, *what are you going to do with it*? I'm not going to buy a fucking lightbulb if the wiring running to my house isn't hooked up to a power plant.
I'm going to do everything faster.

>>45768229
They disabled caps for my region for some reason. Still faggots though.

Goddamn I wish I lived in Minneapolis. I'm unfortunate enough to live somewhere else in Minnesota, where satellite is the best kind of connection I can get.

Thank you for just confirming everything I suspected and feared about Arabs.

>>45768087
>being that guy

>>45767580
Most websites can support extremely fast connections because the files are distributed across many servers and you can grab everything in parallel.

>>45768229
>tfw 5mbps at 15usd/month

>>45768240
>drive every day on an empty 5 lane highway
>city announces highway is now being expanded to 50 lanes
>"Now I can drive faster!"

>>45768317
>implying servers are using your shitty 5 mbps Comcast connection
If you get a faster connection, then the vast majority of sites will load faster because of it. Stop being retarded.

>400 kbit/s masterrace

>>45768317
that was a real dumb analogy

here's a better one for you

>tow 5 tons every day with your company truck
>company announces they're upgrading their truck fleet
>now you can tow those 5 tons even more efficiently!

>>45768524
You seriously think companies are retarded enough to let you run unthrottled connections to their services? A single hping3 command and the whole site would go down if that were true.

>>45768555
No. My analogy wasn't perfect, but it's better than yours. I have ~50 mbps from comcast tunneled over a VPN right now, and can torrent, stream, and play vidya without saturating either's bandwidth. If you think that you'll see a significant difference between 1 and 10 gbps, you're fucking retarded.

>>45768793
>You seriously think companies are retarded enough to let you run unthrottled connections to their services? A single hping3 command and the whole site would go down if that were true.
Hey genius, if you spoof UDP sources you can do that if your connection is fast enough. You're a fucking retard. What the fuck are they going to do about it?

>$400
oh im soooooo jelly....

>>45768162
Well we do when it comes to local storage. Why's that?

>>45767607
>I'm an Arab but was born in Sweden.

opinion discarded

>we don't even have fiber and we're not allowed to get it either because of the suburb.

top kek

Norwegian master race

>>45767336
>ign

10/10
piece of shit source get the fuck off, or use archive.today

>>45768162
>>45768079

Actually, you're both retarded. A byte is not defined as 8 bits specifically. This comes down to an architecture's byte size, and even the choice of the OS. It is de facto standard that a byte is 8 bits, but it this is not actually standardised with a specification. This is why they're sold as bits per second as opposed to bytes per second, because the latter would be incorrect for many systems.

>>45767613
>implying you even have a 10 gigabit nic

>>45767484
Because our ISP's in the States are corrupt as fuck.

>>45768162
I count storage in bytes, so why shouldn't I count speed in bytes per second? We don't use different distance units when we compare distance and fuel efficiency (e.g. we use "miles" and "miles per gallon", not "miles" and "kilometers per liter")

Why does this shit always go to the cities nobody gives a flying fuck about? NYC is the most important city in the U.S. bring dat shit hea boi.

>>45768222

>measuring videos in pixels
>not measuring in bitrate
lmao

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>>45770492
>Norwegian master race

>implying Norway is any better in terms of taking it in the ass from immigrants

>>45768222
>Bluray is just 1080p
>progress is bad
>why would not want to pay out the ass for a service that's far more shittier instead ?
Are you in the fucking US Congress ?

>>45770788
If it was an important city then Comcast would throw money at the courts and block it because of unfair competition.

>>45770688
Can't write or read a half-byte, CAN send or receive a half-byte.

>>45767336
The point of Google Fiber is for more people to do shit like this.

Looks like it's working. Good for everyone.

OP BTFO.

>>45770788
Minneapolis is important as fuck. It's a part of any major tour for big artists, it's where THE MALL OF AMERICA IS, etc.

>>45767336
The whole point of Google Fiber was forcing ISPs to do that.

more speed than you'll ever need.

grats?

good luck finding anything that can actually saturate that kind of bandwidth. something like that is nothing more than a speedtest pissing contest

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>>45771121
>It's a part of any major tour for big artists, it's where THE MALL OF AMERICA IS
>important as fuck

>>45771133

>than I'll ever need

Don't tell what I don't need, faggot.

>>45767594
Yes it is

>>45771145
what if 10 gigabit connections become mainstream, this would shift the industry

>>45771133
just like 64k memory is all I'll ever need, and Pentium 2 is never obselete.

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>>45768317
>>45768555
my god...

God damn it, stop teasing me, Google!
I'm forced to use 3 megabit AT&T DSL with ~15% packet loss and pings that climb into the thousands periodically.
It's not even because I live in way out in the country or anything, they just provide really shitty service and refuse to fix it. And I can't switch to anything else because they have a monopoly.
I hate AT&T so much...

>>45768307
how do you live

>>45768229
I wish I had that. I get 2/0.3 50 GB cap for $60/month .

>>45767607
>I'm an Arab but was born in Sweden.
ha

>>45771235
Those are actually pretty fucking smart. I think they're much more clever than they are bad

Where can I even get consumer 10Gbps network equipment?

>>45771484
>John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
>clever
k :^)

>>45771517
It's clearly intentional comedy, just like
>Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

>>45771539
Maybe that one you quoted, but the rest just sound like the kids got lazy.

>>45771517
I don't get it.

>>45771235
Most of these are very clearly jokes and not "bad metaphors/analogies". The list is pretty hilarious overall.

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This is all exactly according to keikaku from Google's point of view.

Google Fiber was never supposed to be the best possible internet service. They half-assed it from the word "go." The whole point of it was to make established ISPs look like lazy assholes. Like, Google can do this amazing shit without even trying, and Comcast is still gouging people for upload speeds that only look good when compared with dialup.

Google doesn't give a fuck who you buy your bandwidth from, so long as you have enough of it for them to be able to exploit it in their web apps.

>>45771499
Just plug a 10Gb nic into a PC or Linux box.

I have 10Gb internet at work, it's pointless. Maximum download you get even off a fast site is only a few hundred Mbit. Never even come close to maxing out 1Gb let alone 10Gb.

>>45767336

so what? the whole point of Google Fiber was to force the ISPs to innovate their regional monopolies to faster connections to get people to consume more content, thats why Google only went in to extremely vulnerable markets

>>45771566
Really?
The only one that sounds like it even might be just stupid is the one you quoted with the humming birds. And maybe the one where the shots rang out
The rest are obviously jokes

>>45767336
>mfw I live in Mankato
best christmas present yet!

>>45771761
Go to bed Jake

The real story here is that they are offering symmetrical 1Gbps for $65. Symmetrical 100Mbps for $48. I would be all over that. Like a god damned hobo on a ham sandwich.

I currently have DSL with "up to" 5Mbps down and "up to" 1Mpbs up. I get 4 down and 600K up. And it fluctuates. I pay $90 per month.

The worst part is I live 25 to 35 miles from Minneapolis/Saint Paul.

fml

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>>45770578
http://www.scorptec.com.au/product/Networking_-_Wired/10_Gigabit_Cards/49500-X540-T1?gclid=CjwKEAiA5emkBRCT_JL9p77IyF8SJADpztPyWPWzynSlcjkRfZxtUmgfNhnu5UsgqchEmbsQ9ZwFLxoCG-rw_wcB

>>45767379
I live in Eagan.
THAT FUKIN FEEL DOEEEEEEEE

>tfw living in Massachusetts with $20/mo 300kb/s internet

to be fair I could have 100MB/s internet if I wanted to pay for it, but this suits my needs

why is america technologically so highly developed but so far behind in terms of society?
>Males mutilating their sons because bitches like it
like some african ritual

>Muh internet fast lane program
>Muh monthly data caps
>Muh freedoms

>>45767607
>I'm an Arab but was born in Sweden.
Sweden
Yes.

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>tfw I live in maplewood mn

I did find out that us internet provides internet to an office building near me, so they must be running fiber all over the metro...

>>45767336
>http://ign.com/articles/2014/12/24/minneapolis-gets-10-gigabit-fiber-access

Goddamnit why are all the faggy cities getting it all first. When are major areas getting this shit? South Florida, NY, LA, DFW, Houston, etc FUCK.

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All these mnfags on /g/

Is google fiber a new botnet? At least my country will never get decent speed before 2070, let alone fiber

>>45767515
If its a utility it will be taxed and you'll be paying for tyrones/billybobs blazing fast porn downloads.

Not to mention they regulate whats in water..soon maybe whats in your internet.

>>45767336
Obligatory reminder that 10 Gbit/sec = 1.25 GB/sec

>>45771633

This, why the fuck did it take dozens of posts to call the OP out for being retarded. Google made it clear from go that they started GF to make it known that AT&T/Comcast bitching about infrastructure cost was pure bullshit.

Also ITT: ISP shills convince you that you can't handle 10 Gbit speed

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>>45767336
>headline about minneapolis
>all these obese little megachurch-going powerboat-loving gastronomically deprived exurbanites
>oh I live in bloomington/egan/excelsior/maplewood/forest lake/international falls/mcmurdo station/utopia planitia yards/goddamm deep space nine

Minneapolis is an actual location, it's not a feeling. You are not in minneapolis. You're probably impressed by the "gourmet food" section at Byerly's

>>45775688
Because drinking poisoned water will kill you, and dhitposting on 4chins wont.

>>45771235
>her vocabulary was as bad as like, whatever.
Mein seiden

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>>45767484
Capitalism!

>>45775949
Actually capitalism is the reason why soon the speeds will be improving.

>>45775697
Like that's not enough to download all your cantonese animated porn

>Municipal ISP
>Blowing out an ISP that will ever only see maybe 5 markets
They aren't even competing with each other.

>>45776298
>soon the speeds will be improving.
Too bad that's not going to happen.

>>45775949
Are you retarded?
There is almost no competition between ISPs in America.
Blaming the current situation on capitalism shows you probably shouldn't be commenting on politics.

>>45767336
>10 Gigabit internet
Jesus Christ that's incredible. I still can't get over how fast my fibre optic 55 Mbps is. But the 10 Gigabit is like a million times faster. We live in amazing times.

>>45775697
Random question: Is 1.25GB/sec enough to stream 4K video?

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>using comcast
>pretty heavy user
>get about 3 megabytes download/sec
>couple of years pass, price goes up etc.
>DL speed suddenly cut to 1.6 megabytes/sec
>$70 for this shit
um ok
glad i have exactly two fucking ISP choices and the other one wants to charge $50 for 768kbyte dsl

>>45776433
nice CGI grafics

>>45776373
No, it's less than 200 times faster.

>>45776398
I know it's bait, but 100mbps is more than enough (mb, not mB)