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Google Fiber delivers Internet speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second. That's 100 times faster than most current high-speed Internet networks. Google is exploring plans to lay down the special cables in nine metro areas: Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh-Durham, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and San Jose. That includes 34 cities in those regions.
So apparently, NYC is NO longer on the short list of newer techs.
The only tangible impact I can think of is Wall Street. Where tenths of a second could make or break you. Many firms are still based here strictly to save fractions of seconds on trades. I wonder what this service does to that competitive advantage
The problem with NYC here is that doing infrastructure work is so much more complicated and expensive. Everything is underground, and no one (like Verizon) is going to let Google use their conduits, so they have to dig up streets and lay their own. Then they have to get landlords and coop/condo boards to give permission to wire buildings (and then they have to wire the buildings.) Only then can they actually offer service to the end users.
In more suburban areas you just run the fiber on the poles (which seem to work like a common asset, since they carry electric, cable, and phone), and when someone signs up, pull the cable to the house.
In the 'burbs they got Fios way before the city, just for this reason. Everyone in the city likes the density, but sometimes it works against us.
The bottom line IMO is that other cities are more ... receptive ... to the idea of Google building and wiring up high speed internet infrastructure. There's a lot of politics involved, and surely pressure from Verizon and/or TWC and/or Comcast (or whoever owns Optimum) to keep the status quo.
You also have to think about the fact that Google likes to roll things out and put them in users' hands as early on as possible - for that you need test markets. NYC is not exactly a good test market because of the size.
Who needs more than 10 Mbps, which is more than good enough for streaming high definition video without buffering.
Will 1 Gbps help us type faster or make the streamed movies more interesting? Will our e-mail arrive even before it's written?
Too expensive for Google Fiber to wire New York? Verizon manages to do it. Is Google not as competent?
Who needs more than 10 Mbps, which is more than good enough for streaming high definition video without buffering.
Will 1 Gbps help us type faster or make the streamed movies more interesting? Will our e-mail arrive even before it's written?
Too expensive for Google Fiber to wire New York? Verizon manages to do it. Is Google not as competent?
KK, this is a step toward nano transportation of goods over the internet. heard of the 3D printer?
say i am a tomato vendor and you need one tomato for your lunch salad right now in the middle of no grocery shops. just shoot me an order over the google fiber. i will process it here and send you a bite-coded tomato over the fiber, which probably takes you a minute to download and print directly into your salad plate if you have the fiber connection... so think beyond the streaming and communication functions of the internet. there is more to it.
If you are learning lessons from the unemployed and almost homeless ex-far rockaway resident NYwriter..you are indeed a sad person. But you are not fooling anyone here...the only reason you are hanging around here is because you have nothing better to do and the place that you have moved to blows. I don't need any excuse to bash you..your dumb and juvenile comments are all the reasons anyone needs.
SobroGuy i see that you are trying desperately to win the title of "big mouth C-D forum bully"...
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so think beyond the streaming and communication functions of the internet. there is more to it.
