Google Fiber world's fastest broadband service, 100 times faster than norm

(CBS) - Google has changed the way people search on the internet. Now it's changing the way some people surf the web.

Hundreds of lucky residents in the San Fransisco Bay area are now accessing Google's one-gigabyte broadband service, which is being touted as the fastest internet connection in the world.

CBS affiliate KCBS tested the Google Fiber internet service, which is being offered for free in a neighborhood just south of Stanford University.

According to the station, a 95-megabyte high-definition movie trailer downloaded in about nine seconds.

Download speeds on the network were up to 300 Mbps, with an upload speed of 150 Mbps. Comcast's cable service, which has an average speed of 13Mbps, is about 1/20th the speed of Google Fiber.

Kansas City is the only other place to receive Google Fiber. It's part of an experiment involving as many as half a million homes to improve ways to build the network, to see what apps people might invent and how it would change the way we use the internet.

[kenshays]

CBS should check their facts. There are several gigabit networks in the world and Chattanooga, tn has had a gigabit network deployed for a year. www.chattanoogagig.com

[padiyar83]

Timeout son, you got your math wrong, if using Google network you can download 95 MB movie clip in 9 seconds and if using Comcast network you can download the same 95 MB clip in a "sluggish" 40 seconds.
GOOGLE IS JUST 4.4 TIMES FASTER THAN COMCAST, AND NOT 120x FASTER THAN COMCAST. :)

[jschamberlin]

Um, read the article again - it doesn't say 120x faster than Comcast, it says Comcast is 1/20th (one twentieth) the speed of Google Fiber....

[interested5461]

Yay google! Rescue us from this Comcast monopoly. Please!

[Bojax39]

Yeah! We'd much rather be held hostage by YOUR monopoly than THEIR monopoly!

[Jhihmoac]

I'll just wait 'til everyone offers it, be affordable then...

[robbyr2]

Fast it is. Amazingly fast? Yes. The sad part is that the 13 Mbps couldn't be advertised as "broadband" in much of the world. South Korea averages 4 times that fast already and at half the cost. No wonder the US is losing its lead in the internet age.

[rwsmith29456]

Oh, one more thing. This is going to make existing systems look like dial-up connections.

[wardwww]

Dial up ?? What's that ?

[Zarah210]

@wardwww - That's what my family still has. I find it hard to get all shivery-enthusiastic for people who already have access to broadband when their access gets even faster. Goody for them.

[rwsmith29456]

Being fast for individuals is nice, but the important part is to relieve the overall congestion.

[skeezix06]

Please send it out my way? Please?

[jefflock619]

and just when is the U.S. government going to go after Comcast on monopoly charges like it did with Microsoft years ago? Comcast charges premium prices for less than premium service.
13mbs/sec.....puh--lease!