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Greg’s bite: Google Gigs KCK, town meeting notes

Greg’s bite: Google Gigs KCK, town meeting notes

Posted by | Apr 7, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

One Gig per second fiber optic Internet is coming to KCK starting late in the year or very early next year. Google picked Kansas City, Kansas, for a number of obscure reasons that have a lot more to do with our blind luck than anything else. As it turns out a number of odd factors in combination, led Google to choose KCK to test the notion of: what happens if you provide 1 Gig Internet at typical cable modem prices to Americans?  

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Greg’s bite: Google fiber optic test city

Greg’s bite: Google fiber optic test city

Posted by | Mar 31, 2011 | , |

By Greg Mills

I live in Kansas City, Kansas. I pay US$49.90 a month to Time Warner Cable for “Road Runner Turbo” Internet service. We had download speed this morning of 26.45 Mbps and an upload speed of .94 Mbps and a ping in 42ms. My iPad came in at 6.24 Mb/s download and .56Mb/s upload. Lithuania has an average speed three times what I do now. Just wait, Lithuania.

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Cloud Pull is like time Machine for Google

Cloud Pull is like time Machine for Google

Posted by | Mar 23, 2011 | , |

By ‘Doctor Dave’ Greenbaum

When Google suffered a major outage recently and temporarily lost customer files, I, like others, saw the signs of a storm coming.

Cloud Pull helps you weather the storm and keep your cloud-based information backed up.  It is a simple program that is simply indispensable.

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