Google Testing High-Speed Fiber Network At Stanford Res Halls 107
GovTechGuy writes with this news from "Google has reached an agreement to build its first ultra-high speed broadband network near Stanford University, the search giant announced on Thursday. The agreement with Stanford means the university's residential subdivision will be the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second, more than 100 times faster than the typical broadband connection in the US. The plan is to break ground early next year." That might just be worth $50,576 per year to have.
Fiber (Score:5, Interesting)
~10 years ago, Palo Alto installed a fiber network [cityofpaloalto.org] at a great expense.
I wonder if they're leveraging this existing network, or laying new fiber?
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The first post is never informative. I feel like you're doing it wrong.
Whereas the second post should probably at least entertaining so a pre-touche on that one.
Re:Fiber (Score:5, Funny)
If you're attempting to get meaningful information from Slashdot comments, you're the one doing it wrong.
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Shaw is doing this in Canada (Score:2)
Shaw is already offering gigabit FTTH Internet in Calgary and Vancouver (http://www.shaw.ca/en-ca/ProductsServices/Internet/The+Fasternet/).
They call it the Fasternet and it's free for 6 months. I already have 100mbps from shaw in Victoria and can't wait for gigabit. Google doesn't seem very cutting edge to me.
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That might be worth ... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure you'll be shocked to know he graduated with less-than-stellar grades, and then took a rather mediocre job afterwards.
More importantly... (Score:3, Funny)
What's his PVP ranking?
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lol i srsly googled their name to see if i can get in since this is my last year in highschool
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lol i srsly googled their name to see if i can get in since this is my last year in highschool
If you haven't heard of them before now, then you probably aren't Stanford material. And I'm quite sure if you wrote your application essay (especially this late) like that, you would be laughed out of the admissions process.
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To some students, it might be. Sadly enough I know someone who chose their undergraduate institution based on the ping times they got to their favorite gaming servers; he actually carried a notebook with him to each school he considered, and wrote down the ping times from each school to his favorite servers.
It's absurd to use it as the only criterion, but quality of internet connection is a perfectly reasonable thing to consider if you're going to be locked in to campus housing.
How convenient... (Score:2, Interesting)
After all the hubbub, they put their fiber network in their own back yard. Real surprising, guys.
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PornPerCapita (PPC) might just be the new meme to replace LoC...
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>>>Colleges just exist as a nice aggregator of folks who do this, thus leading to a higher concentration of porn streaming per capita.
But college boys have college girls to play with.
;-)
What do they need porn for?
I can see how this situation might not be realistic though, considering colleges ban torrenting. Just imagine: A 1 million K line and you can't use it for its main purpose. Disappointing.
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Actually the main purpose for bittorrent vanishes with 1gbit symmetric Internet. Why bother pooling upstream when it isn't scarce any more? You'd still want lots of peer-to-peer servers (so 10,000 clients weren't all hitting the same server), but there would be no reason for a single client to connect to more than 1 ser
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But college boys have college girls to play with. ;-)
What do they need porn for?
They can't all get laid, as can be seen in this soul-crushingly depressing Win7 ad:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upXD78-owwQ [youtube.com] :(
Re:How convenient... (Score:4, Informative)
There are only 850 homes that are being serviced at Stanford, mostly faculty (no dorms). Google has plans to scale they're broadband experiment up to 50,000-500,000 homes before their done.
Stanford was selected to be the first because it was small and close to Google's campus. It is essentially the trial run before the really big deployments.
The rest of the communities will be selected before the end of the year.
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are you purposefully being obtuse to the there/their/they're usage?
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Actually, I thought it deserved a comment because he reversed the usage on both:
Google has plans to scale they're broadband experiment up to 50,000-500,000 homes before their done.
Should be "Google has plans to scale thier..." and "...homes before they're done."
Such improper usage leads me to believe that the original poster just does not understand proper grammar.
What other bottlenecks? (Score:2)
They'll have gigabit to their curb but I can't imagine they'll be piped directly into a backbone or anything..
or will they? Does Stanford have a beefy link to the internet?
Re:What other bottlenecks? (Score:5, Funny)
This isn't a Stanford network; it's a Google network so it will probably connect to the GoogleBone. If you thought Google was fast now, just imagine - with this network you probably get search results before you type the query.
Re:What other bottlenecks? (Score:4, Funny)
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Fone Bone
Or possibly Thorn if you need a female connection.
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You mean, the Feds will.
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Re:What other bottlenecks? (Score:4, Insightful)
One gigabit per second (Score:3, Funny)
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My uni a couple of years ago had a whopping 300mb/month cap. 2.3 seconds.
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I think a certain university network I know has (had?) 10 GB/day. However, that did not apply to intra-campus bandwidth so it only encouraged people to access the ridiculous amounts available locally.
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I think a certain university network I know has (had?) 10 GB/day. However, that did not apply to intra-campus bandwidth so it only encouraged people to access the ridiculous amounts available locally.
Aww man, that just reminded me of the private P2P network my buddies setup in college a few years ago. It was totally local and private, and it was invite only, so there was basically no risk of getting caught. Very much content was shared over that link.
Ahh, the good ol days.
-Taylor
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Penn State upgraded about a year ago from 4GB/week to 10GB/week. Man, that was rough. Have to set up downloading linux ISOs on Sunday night - if they were DVD images, one download could eat your entire cap. That or use the wifi - but there's no wifi in the dorms, so you'd have to go elsewhere for that. I used to leave my laptop running in it's bag so it could hop between wifi nodes and download while I walked from class to class.
This is not for students (Score:5, Informative)
This network is for houses on Stanford's campus where faculty and staff live. The students will have to be content with only 100 Mbps in the dorms.
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yeah, well I'm stuck with a nice and crappy plan from Verizon, but now its switched over to "Frontier" and things have only gotten worse. I have a 1Mbit connection :/
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Where would you like to start up an ISP from scratch:
A university where you can find patient and probably gifted and future employees.
Or just jump to a city or an urban environment, where the phones could be slammed because "the internet is down" while they test and deploy.
Re:Yeah what is this crap (Score:5, Informative)
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This is not the same as Google's community fiber program.
so when will we be getting this? (Score:1)
Re:so when will we be getting this? (Score:4, Insightful)
Are you sure that's what you want? At least streetview stops outside your house. Sometimes. [streetviewfun.com]
With a Google ISP, you know they'd be cataloging every non-ssl page you visit, inferring things about ssl encrypted sites you visit (as your ISP they would know the IP address of the server you connected to, remember), and using every last bit of your data to target advertising and profit from you in any way possible.
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I'm sure they will.
Would that bother you?
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$50k? Uh, it's already available elsewhere (Score:1, Insightful)
In Japan they get gigabit for $90/mo and it has been available for 5 years or so. $50k seems kind of steep.
We here in the US seem to have a warped view of things due to our crapper Internet infrastructure.
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But $50k would be expected if the bandwidth was provided by a cell phone network....
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did you click the link you bloody moron ?
56k is the tuition cost
Re:$50k? Uh, it's already available elsewhere (Score:4, Informative)
The $50k is housing and tuition costs for Stanford students, not the price of the service. I'd link you to the source, but, yeah, you won't click it.
What about Peter Lothberg's Mom ? (Score:4, Interesting)
...the first place to test Internet speeds up to one gigabit per second
I think not. Peter Lothberg's Mom has had 40 Gbps [thelocal.se] for over 3 years now.
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More correctly, her basement did. In which her lowly geek spawn resides.
Drexel University has had this for years! (Score:3, Informative)
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Over here at UPenn, they've rolled out 802.11n campus-wide, and I've hit the max at 300Mbps or so. They'll be rolling out gigabit in the next year or two...
1000Mb connections are not unheard of (Score:2)
Just over a month ago, Slashdot reported [slashdot.org] 1000Mb connections (up and down) to the home for $349.99 per month covering all of Chattanooga, TN.
I can order it where I live...and, no contract for this fiber to the home connection either. If you want to hear it from the horses mouth, read it here [epbfi.com].
Also, I discovered that by adding a home phone (delivered via the same fiber) to that quote, the total price actually drops to $317.03 per month.
I have no personal affiliation with EPB, but I do think it is uber-cool th
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Exactly what I'm thinking...if you're going to post this news...at least don't forget about a fairly recent post that refutes it's "first" status.
I think its too bad that they picked an area that has the financial means to do this themselves, instead of helping an area that doesn't.
I think I speak for all of us when I say (Score:5, Funny)
Please seed!
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Gigabit since 2004 in dorms at U of Minnesota (Score:3, Interesting)
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Wrong Summary (Score:2)
Had it in 2003 (Score:1)
Case Western Gigabit in dorms since 2001 (Score:2)
When will it be available to us (Score:1)
I sometimes hate hearing about what's coming because it gets my hopes up NOW, instead of later, I know it is a catch 22, as we need more interest for things to advance, and you can't have interest by the masses without informing them in advance of what is coming, but MY GOD, how long before we get the cheap solar panels everyone keeps taking about.
Will this be another one of those stories that only 15 years later will we see our ISPs upgrade to this type of fiber???