The answer, based on this infographic, is no.
Where I live, I have access to faster speeds for broadband but the cost gets prohibitive. Google Fiber is very fast and cheap but only available in a few select places, mostly Kansas City at the moment. This infographic dives into comparing Google Fiber to other ISPs and pondering (for some reason), if Google Fiber could take over the world.
Google and Kansas City are living pretty large right now with their gigabit Internet offerings recently announced. Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced the Illinois Gigabit Challenge in his State of the State announcement this year to provide $4 million to the best proposal to build out a gigabit fiber network by the end of 2013. The applicants of the Illinois Gigabit Challenge were announced. You can find the over 40 applicants on the Illinois Gigabit Challenge website or posted after the jump.
Are you ready for Google the cable company? Kansas City was the chosen community to work with Google to integrate gigabit speed broadband access by running fiber throughout the city. Today, the company announced their residential plans for both gigabit internet and TV service.
The Google Fiber site has been updated to a Save the Date announcement for at least the past week. Tomorrow the announcement will be known and hopefully we will see some more details on Google’s project to deliver high-speed broadband access to Kansas City, Kansas. For those that may not remember, Kansas City was finally chosen after a long deliberation period by Google with some cities doing odd things to get Google’s attention. Google played along by renaming their site Topeka for a day and using Google Fiber as one of their April Fool’s Day jokes.
Though it sounds like a bad movie sequel, World IPv6 Day is back and it’s a good thing. Whereas last year’s World IPv6 Day was a 24 hour test by some of the largest websites on the Internet, this time IPv6 is being turned on and left on since no major problems were encountered during the test. While World IPv6 Launch is scheduled for June 6th, due to the international time clock, that means websites will enable IPv6 support in less than 12 hours from publishing time.
With the FBI approaching their July deadline for taking offline the interim DNS servers put in place following the shutdown of the DNSChanger malware, it could mean hundreds of thousands of PCs are not able to get to the web. Google is chipping in and adding DNSChanger detection to Google products. The messages will be in their preferred language and reads:
Your computer appears to be infected
We believe that your computer is infected with malicious software. If you don’t take action, you might not be able to connect to the Internet in the future.
Learn how to remove this software.
Back when I had first installed either Vista or Windows 7 at home, I immediately had a network problem. I solved the problem by unchecking the IPv6 protocol in the Local Area Connection adapter. It solved my problem then and the network became stable immediately upon restart. Working on a similar problem, simply unchecking the protocol was not enough. Fortunately, Microsoft provides an article on more thoroughly disabling IPv6 on Windows 7, Vista, Windows Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2.
Still disappointed that Kansas City, Kansas was chosen as Google’s test site for a fiber network? In the 2012 State of the State address, Illinois Governor Pat Quinn announced a comparable program for Illinois communities. Applicants may request between $1 million and $4 million from the state to construct or extend a gigabit-speed network that serves at least 1,000 end-users. … Continue Reading
