From USA Today
This would be great, except that for most of us using our computers for surfing and searching and browsing and email, which happens mostly on parts of the Internet not under Google's control, we're still limited to the same old speeds ranging from about 3 Mb/sec to about 20 Mb/sec so a few miles of fiber-optic cables capable of a Gigabyte per second won't help.
In addition to that, there's the problem of how quickly your hardware can process its incoming and outgoing data packets through its Receive Window,
or RWIN. Even the latest dynamic and automatic setups such as used by Windows 7 and Windows 8 have their limits. So this extra fast Internet may not be the big deal it seems until other parts of the system catch up to it.
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