Google fiber "We won't have fast lanes"

[Mitch3k]

Great atricle by Gigaom, worth the read.

http://gigaom.com/2014/05/21/google-fiber-we-dont-charge-for-peering-dont-have-fast-lanes/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If this gets into the WAN show, SPAM KAPPA IN CHAT

[AustinKZombie]

@LinusTech  @Slick

[ZetZet]

and again as an european I am surprised this is even surprising.

[Osmium]

This is great. While all the other ISPs take full advantage of the inevitable loss of net neutrality Google openly denounces it. That is both a genius business move and a great thing overall.

[JAKEBAB]

Seriously want google fiber to take over the worlds infrastructure and make all those dog telcos go bankrupt they deserve it!

[AustinKZombie]

Google is one of the world super powers

[ZetZet]

Seriously want google fiber to take over the worlds infrastructure and make all those dog telcos go bankrupt they deserve it!

don't need to take over the world. just usa, canada and aus and some desert where few people live.

[dlf]

This is great. While all the other ISPs take full advantage of the inevitable loss of net neutrality Google openly denounces it. That is both a genius business move and a great thing overall.

 

Seems like all the major companies that do not want it could force (to some degree) near dialup speed, so how the users like it for a week, that shoudl get people more active, I'd think.

[Mitch3k]

This is great. While all the other ISPs take full advantage of the inevitable loss of net neutrality Google openly denounces it. That is both a genius business move and a great thing overall.

Every ISP that isn't on Google's level should be shitting themselves right about now.

[JAKEBAB]

don't need to take over the world. just usa, canada and aus and some desert where few people live.

Im sure the people in uk have it pretty bad too.

[ZetZet]

Im sure the people in uk have it pretty bad too.

im remote areas maybe.

[JAKEBAB]

im remote areas maybe.

I watch a motovlogger and he has a business in london and complains because he doesnt have fiber....

[ZetZet]

I watch a motovlogger and he has a business in london and complains because he doesnt have fiber....

private houses always have trouble with fiber

[sof006]

Im sure the people in uk have it pretty bad too.

Nah, we don't. People like to bitch and moan saying we do but we really really don't.

 

I have been using the internet for years and to date I have had no issues. We don't get traffic managed or "fast laned".

 

 

EDIT: Only on the really really cheap internet packages you get traffic managed, if you can afford probably at the most £20 a month for internet then you'll get unlimited broadband with no traffic shaping.

[JAKEBAB]

private houses always have trouble with fiber

I thought the uk had fttn anyway? and they are replacing it with fttp now.

[Ras]

Heh, My exchange in London was finnally upgraded to fiber last month after 5 years of wait. Even then I am getting speeds of 45 Mb/s down because of the distance to the cabinet and all the joints in between, and BT will not upgrade the ageing old copper wires from my house to the cabinet.

[Nicktrance]

Every ISP that isn't on Google's level should be shitting themselves right about now.

 

Why? Google may have a better services but from what I understand the others have monopolies over many area of the US (that's kind of unheard of in Europe) so they don't care, at least for several years, and even if Google decides to suddenly complete nationwide rollout, there will still be plenty of people who couldn't be bothered to switch all their services from one provider to the next. The fact that they can do this whole fast lane bs means that they're not exactly worried in the first place.

[Misanthrope]

I'd be funny if Google fiber cities and neighborhoods started affecting real state prices, I mean I fucking hate to move but Americans seem to move a lot more often so maybe they would say "Yeah I'll move to bumblefuck ville since they at least have google fiber"

[zyvx]

Now they just need to hurry up and expand! We need choices! As of now, I have a choice between terrible service or terribly overpriced service (that's only marginally less terrible.) They seem to be doing a good job of ramping up, I'm just getting impatient and nervous w/ all this fast lane/net neutrality business that's been stewing for the last couple years.   

[StingBull]

Maybe they will have "ad lanes" instead.

[ItsComrade]

Well yeah. Its's all the fast lane.

[tk421]

I'd be funny if Google fiber cities and neighborhoods started affecting real state prices, I mean I fucking hate to move but Americans seem to move a lot more often so maybe they would say "Yeah I'll move to bumblefuck ville since they at least have google fiber"

 

It has done that on a very small scale here in Provo already.  I'm a student and student housing prices have not gone up but availability for residential complexes with Google Fiber are in high demand.  Thankfully my apartment is getting it but vacancies in units with GF access are hard to find right now.

[alepodj]

GET THEM GOOGLE!!! WUFF WUFF

[chpoit]

Heh, My exchange in London was finnally upgraded to fiber last month after 5 years of wait. Even then I am getting speeds of 45 Mb/s down because of the distance to the cabinet and all the joints in between, and BT will not upgrade the ageing old copper wires from my house to the cabinet.

Don'T complain about 45 mb/s, I get barely 1mb/s of download, and I live in a populated area, in Canada