(To put that in perspective, with Google Fiber you could download more than 40 songs at 3MB each per second.) For now, Google Fiber is only available in the Kansas Cities (Missouri, Kansas).

Google Fiber offers both upload and download speeds of a gigabit per second. Internet speeds are currently the slowest of those in any major global country. Google first teased Fiber in 2010 to deliver broadband at up to 100 times faster than current Internet speeds, which lag behind innovations in computing power and storage. Google says U.S. And lest anyone feel like they’re getting too little gear for their dollars, Google throws a new, fully functional Nexus 7 tablet in with the package, loaded with the app that controls everything. Plus everything’s searchable by voice and text–on-demand video, web content, live TV, and home media content. Yes, that’s still a big rig, but together, along with a terrabyte’s worth of storage in the Google Drive cloud locker ( $600 a year a la carte), the three pieces of hardware house virtually all of the media you create or consume–on almost every imaginable device you use to create or consume it. Google Fiber TV reimagines the typical cable hardware setup with three Google devices–the Network Box (the modem), TV Box (the cable box), and the Storage Box (the DVR). In doing so, it also revealed more about its march into the hardware business and how it plans to literally lay the groundwork for a massive new national content business to compete with cable. Suddenly it makes sense why mayors were swimming in icy water and renaming city landmarks to win the project for their burghs. Today the search giant announced its planned services for Kansas City’s Google Fiber network.

Google fiber download speed test