In thinking about the possible uses of an ultra-high speed Internet connection to the home, it seems like, with an external speed of 1 gigabit, the major slowdown will come inside the home, when transferring data within an existing home network.

I  am currently connect to the Internet through a  Netgear DG834G Wireless Modem Router.  For networking, I use the wireless features with my MacBook Pro laptop and a Lexmark All-In-One Printer, which also has wireless capability.

My older Windows PCs are networked using Netgear XE103 Powerline Network Adapters, connected to hub switches.  I have been using this system for some time, and have been happy with my recently tested 1230 kbps Internet connection speed, and 85 mbps home network transfer speed.

With Google Fiber providing a possible  1 gigabit download and upload speed, however, 85mbps will probably seem pretty slow.  I don't know what the upper speed limit for powerline networking is, but the fastest speed I could find doing a quick search of the internet was 200 mbps, and the price for that adapter seemed pretty steep.

With a 1gigabit Internet connection speed, it will  be faster to send data to a computer outside the home network, and then download the data to a computer on the home network.

As more information is made available about the Google Fiber service, I anticipate  that I will be looking at  ways to improve my home network performance.