Impressions From Early Google Fiber Locations > No one here understands what this speed is used for

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Re: No one here understands what this speed is used for

Ban.

reply to ITALIAN926
How about Carbonite being able to back up 20GB of vacation photos and videos from my PC to their server in under an hour instead of days on my current connection, reducing the chance that a drive failure on my machine causes me to lose all of the photos and videos?

How about being able to record 8 HD shows at the same time on the DVR, all while streaming Netflix to 3 different machines at once, having a Skype video conversation with my mom, and downloading the latest Windows ISOs 3 at a time, and not having any of them have issues with bandwidth?

TD

Where is carbonite storing your data Dave?, assuming you are in KC?

reply to towerdave
Carbonite is crap...they're throttling you at their end, more than likely.

Sorry, I'm trying not to be too much of a Backblaze shill here, but I can upload things at a reasonable pace on them...which is why my desktop is currently fully backed up

reply to towerdave
I often argue the case that a smartphone app doesn't need more than a few Mbps on a 4G network. Most people don't need much even for home service either. Even most power users don't need more than 100Mbps, but does that mean Google shouldn't be offering this? I'm more interest in the uplink than downlink - and yes, FIOS would be enough too but it looks that VZ has stopped rollout and charges more. Google has the edge.

The VZ FIOS Fanbois probably don't have much to worry about yet. Google still hasn't delivered this widely yet even in KC. And they might give up in a year or two and sell the network to someone else.

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What?! You actually use your Internet connection for more than e-mail?! You use more than 5GB a month?! You DATA HOG you!!! Stop slowing down my Internet connection!

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reply to ITALIAN926
Great thing about America, nobody will stop you from looking foolish.

Youre entitled to your opinion, but its foolish to pay extra for speeds not utilized.... utilized, EVER.

Uh huh. What's foolish is to pay for speeds that are 10% of these and only a few dollars cheaper..... and saying it's not utilized ever is beyond foolish.

If you don't want the speed, take the free option. You could just as easily say it's dumb to pay for slow speeds from someone else when you get it for free from Google.

Some people always have to complain about anything & everything.
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"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini

I meant ever, as in todays usage. Bad wording. I didnt mean never in the future.

reply to ITALIAN926
seriously? you don't think people will EVER use those speeds? Really?

Most people now? Hell no.

The most popular BW consumption that people do right now is Netflix, and thats streaming HD over 5 Mbps. So, do you want to stream to 200 bedrooms at once?

and let me ask you people something. If Gbps subscribers in KC are visiting a server in California, what throughput will they see?

reply to ITALIAN926
They're offering 1Gbps for around the price people are paying for less than 10Mbps. It would be $79.99 a month for me to get 7Mbps DSL. Google is offering 100x that for $10 less.

100x the speed for less money... the problem lies where exactly?

reply to ITALIAN926
most sites (microsoft, amazon, netflix, etc) will hit multiple gbps no problem.

At one point in time I had a dedicated server in NYC that could pull an ISO from a server in Japan at 750mbps no problem. That was just for testing. From Cali, it was hitting >900mbps. The tier 1 networks are more than capable of hitting these speeds and most webservers are easily upgradable to hit it also. Bandwidth is cheap in datacenters.

reply to Xioden
$10 less? Great! 10X's, 50X's, 100X's , who gives a crap? People are being brainwashed into thinking they need such speeds right now, and it truly doesnt matter for 99% of people.

reply to ArrayList
Please explain why my 42/33 drops down to 5-20Mbps when I test to the west coast.

42/33? what ISP are you on?

FiOS