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Bringing ultra high-speed broadband to Stanford homes
- atomical 16y agoUniversities have great connections. How about serving some of the under served communities first?
- Kliment 16y agoThat's what they're planning to do. This is a test, not a deployment.
- xtacy 16y agoThese homes are just for staff/professors. It would be lovely if the student residencies have access to high speed broadband as well. :-)
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- sqs 16y agoYeah, I think they have been focusing on installing wireless access points in the residences instead of upgrading the wired speeds, which have probably been at 100 Mbps for over a decade. Still, hard to complain, as I haven't ever seen any non-datacenter computer get more than 100 Mbps on the Internet.
- jedberg 16y agoI used to work in the ResHalls as Berkeley, and I can tell you a couple of reasons they haven't done a Gig-E upgrade. The first is that the upgrade from 10Mbps to 100Mbps was easy, because they just had to change out the switches and router blades, which require upgrades every few years anyway. Going from 100 to 1000 is a lot harder, because the physical cables in the wall are on the cheap side (it is a University after all) and can't support Gig-E. So it would require a complete rewiring of the res Halls. That, coupled with that fact that generally speaking there is little difference in speed when talking to the internet at 100 vs. 1000, it just isn't worth the upgrade. Most students don't notice/care, and also most of them just want to be able to move their laptops around without dealing with cables. They just want the internet to work wherever they happen to be on campus.
- diegob 16y agoWon't staff and professors have different usage patterns than the average college student? It might not show realistic usage ...
- jedberg 16y agoPresumably this is a good test of high end usage. It seems like they are using this is a stress test, not so much a "regular usage" test. Although, not all of those professors are Computer Science, and they have famillies that live with them, with kids and husbands and wives that have normal jobs. Most of them probably use the Internet the same way as any well to do professional and their family would.
- guyjin 16y agoI am so hard right now.
- hugh3 16y agoThat's nice, but what on Earth would any reasonable mortal do with one gigabit per second internet access? My standard Comcast cable can download high-def video faster than I can play it. What more could one reasonably want?
- akadien 16y agoMultiple simultaneous high-def video download in every room. More ads to sell.
- corysama 16y agoAnswering that question is exactly why Google is performing this experiment.
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- exit 16y agoi think the next big thing will be telepresence. rent a robot in some unfamiliar city to kill an hour before dinner is ready.
- hugh3 16y agoI parsed that incorrectly, but yes, I would totally be willing to rent a killer robot.
- bsk 16y ago"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
- bretthellman 16y agoNice for Stanford. Not so nice for all the communities that applied only to watch Google pick Stanford some ~7 miles away.
- txxxxd 16y ago"To be clear, this trial is completely separate from our community selection process for Google Fiber, which is still ongoing"