Google Fiber facts
While investigating facts about Google Fiber, I found out little known, but curios details like:
AT&T Charges $40-$50 less for gigabit broadband in markets where Google Fiber exists.
Google wraps its undersea fiber optic cables in Kevlar to protect them from shark bites.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about Google Fiber I managed to collect.
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AT&T Will Match Google Fiber's Speed & Pricing, But Only If You Allow AT&T To Spy On You
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Google wraps its trans-Pacific fiber cables in Kevlar to prevent against shark attacks.
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Since google fiber started rolling out in 2013, the average speed of american internet almost doubled from 6 to 11 mbps
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The total bandwidth of Cuba is 209 Mbit/s upstream and 379 Mbit/s downstream. To put that in context: someone with Google Fiber has a higher capacity link than the entire nation of Cuba because there are no fiber optic cables connecting the island to the Internet.
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In 2013 a Comcast exec insisted that Americans don’t really need Google Fiber-like speeds
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CenturyLink says Google Fiber is like having a fancy sports car, It might go 200 miles per hour, but what good does that do if the speed limit is 60?
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Sony has an ISP called So-net that offers internet speed up to 2 Gbps with the Nuro service. It's twice as fast as Google Fiber's 1 Gbps internet speed.
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A penis has a higher theoretical bandwidth than Google Fiber; when calculating the 'bit' representation of human genome base pairs halved within the average amount of male spermatozoa ejaculate represents 78,000TB of data, with an average ejaculate rate of 5 seconds yields 15,600TB/s bandwidth!
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Google had to develop a Kevlar-like material as a way to wrap miles of undersea fiber optic cable, protecting it from damage caused by shark bites, meaning the internet has literally suffered from SHARK ATTACKS!
