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Speaker 1: Stuff from how stuff flix dot com. Hello again, everyone,

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Speaker 1: and welcome to tech stuff. My name is Chris Poulette

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Speaker 1: and I am an editor at how Stuff works dot com.

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Speaker 1: Sitting acrossing me as usual as senior writer Jonathan Strickland.

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Speaker 1: So have you? Uh is your and it's kind of

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Speaker 1: a personal question. Is your internet sort of you know,

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Speaker 1: clogged up? Could you use more fiber in your internet diet?

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I could? And Google, if you're listening, I

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Speaker 1: would like some Google Fiber. Ah terrible, terrible jokes aside um,

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Speaker 1: and I really wanted to avoid it, but I couldn't. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'm weak. Uh yeah, we're we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: Google Fiber, which isn't a new breakfast supplement, is in

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Speaker 1: fact really really fast internet, even for those parts of

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Speaker 1: the world that have pretty darn fast internet. Um. You

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Speaker 1: know this is this is really cutting edge. UM. A

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Speaker 1: lot of us here in the United States where Google

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Speaker 1: Fiber is is operating, have uh even talking about broadband

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Speaker 1: speeds usually less than five megabets per second. Uh. Certainly

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Speaker 1: less than ten megabets per second, and that's reasonably fast

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Speaker 1: for a lot of applications. Minds faster than that, or

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Speaker 1: at least the advertised speed is faster than that. The

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Speaker 1: actual speed versus the advertised speed is also an issue.

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Speaker 1: But um, yes, there are certain areas where you can

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Speaker 1: get faster, but we're talking way faster than even that. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I mean we we've we've talked about how South Korea

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Speaker 1: and UH and Iceland among other places, have you know,

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Speaker 1: in the in the easily double digits, you know, thirty

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Speaker 1: or fifty megabets per second. But this is faster than that.

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Speaker 1: This is talking about a gigabit per second. So a

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Speaker 1: thousand megabits per second. Yeah, that's that's incredibly fast. Now

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Speaker 1: to to really kind of get an idea about this,

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Speaker 1: you have to go back a little bit. So well,

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Speaker 1: I dusted it off, Yeah, yeah, we found it. I

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Speaker 1: was wondering what that big lump was under the sheet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the stuff you should know. Guys left it in Uh.

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Speaker 1: It was weird. I don't know what they were doing,

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Speaker 1: but they were in apparently fourteenth century Scotland. There was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it was crazy. I think they were shopping for Kilts.

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Speaker 1: I could have told them that they needed to go

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Speaker 1: to seventeenth century at the at the earliest, but anyway

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Speaker 1: found it. Let's get in the way back machine. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm just gonna set this to march here and

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Speaker 1: push the button. Frank all right, now it's gonna open

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Speaker 1: the door. You know, I don't remember that being so

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Speaker 1: disorienting deafening, Wasn't it amazing? Yeah? For a minute there,

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Speaker 1: all I would I could hear was bagpipe music. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's still some after effects from the way back Machine.

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Speaker 1: So Google announced in March that they were going to

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Speaker 1: do this. They were going to run fiber out to

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Speaker 1: some community in the United States and it would give

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Speaker 1: speeds up to a gig of it per second, and

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Speaker 1: uh and and the cities across the United States responded

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Speaker 1: pretty enthusiastically, all wanting to um but all of them,

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Speaker 1: many of them wanting to to court Google to come there. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: let's see if let's see let me just let me

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Speaker 1: just unroll this map here. Okay, so you see you

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Speaker 1: see the state here, Um, that's it's a state, Kansas. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now you see this city here, Topeka. All right, you

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Speaker 1: know what Topeka did in order to try and at

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Speaker 1: Google to come there. Is that the city that renamed

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Speaker 1: itself Google. Yes, they renamed themselves Google for a day, Kansas,

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Speaker 1: Google Kansas. That's not a command. We're not asking you

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Speaker 1: to go out and Google Kansas. That's what Kansas, Topeka,

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Speaker 1: Kansas renamed itself in order to try and tempt Google

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Speaker 1: present day to talk about that. All right, Hey, after this,

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Speaker 1: getting some Scotch jaggs, you know, maybe some haggis, which

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Speaker 1: so what does Google call those groups of people? They

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Speaker 1: call these areas fiber hoods. Okay, I think that's a

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Speaker 1: name that has been met mostly with um, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: that's really silly. But it's okay by me if Google

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Speaker 1: to include on that be funny but weird. Uh? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: then this could eventually extend to all different areas around

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Speaker 1: just await Google uh ultimate and inevitable renaming to Skynet. Alright,

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Speaker 1: So do you have anything else to add about Google Fiber. No, No,

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Speaker 1: not really, but it uh you know people who have

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Speaker 1: been talking about how it is limited and include that

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Speaker 1: But it but it's early that this is a trial.

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Speaker 1: They're going to have to work this kind of thing out, um,

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Speaker 1: and I think that is very possible that that these

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Speaker 1: it's it's going to have a reach into other Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, I think it will affect television, the way

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Speaker 1: as we switch over to more of a v o

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Speaker 1: I P or Voice over Internet Protocol UM solution. You know,

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Speaker 1: you know there there's a lot of that. This will

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Speaker 1: than you might think just by it being limited to

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Speaker 1: keep your eyes peeled, guys. And if hey, if we

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Speaker 1: us know, send us a message, tell us what you think,

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Speaker 1: tell us what the experience is like. So far. Uh,

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Speaker 1: goes live. We're recording it in early August, but of

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Speaker 1: and they would like to share their experience with what

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Speaker 1: it's been like. Let us know, especially if you want

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Speaker 1: to make us turn green within the and talk about

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Speaker 1: how you wrote the response before we were able to

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Speaker 1: ask the question, because that's just how past your Internet is.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy being green. I guess not all right, guys.

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