Interesting story in today's Kansas City Star concerning the latest wrinkle in the coming of Google Gigabit to the metro. Seems that someone shared the concern I expressed in my original post on the subject that Wi-Fi speeds were-and still are-far too slow to make truly practical use of that much bandwidth, at least compared to a wired connection.
So now I suppose we can attribute the fact that, at least as far as I know or have heard, there's no actual construction underway anywhere yet to Google's concentration on developing and arranging for licensing and production of these new high-speed interface devices.
Well, pardon me for a moment, but if this is the case, the cart just might be getting in front of the horse here. We're coming up on a year since the big announcement and no one's gigabitting yet-wired or otherwise. Maybe whoever is in charge of this decision ought to stop and remember how long it took 802.11n to go from draft to final adopted standard, and then ask himself or herself whether taking the chance of Big Telecom, Colossal Cable or the Goliaths who own the power grid stealing a march on Google are worth it.
Besides, although achieving gigabit Wi-Fi within a reasonable time sounds plausible, that executive might want to consider the experiences of someone I know who's occasionally pulling the Internet in over Bluetooth right now. If that someone's reports of its speeds (or lack thereof) are to be believed, Gigatooth may be a slightly more daunting proposition.
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