Google Fiber world's fastest broadband service, 100 times faster than norm

(CBS) - Google has changed the way people search on the internet. Now it's changing the way some people surf the web.

Hundreds of lucky residents in the San Fransisco Bay area are now accessing Google's one-gigabyte broadband service, which is being touted as the fastest internet connection in the world.

CBS affiliate KCBS tested the Google Fiber internet service, which is being offered for free in a neighborhood just south of Stanford University.

According to the station, a 95-megabyte high-definition movie trailer downloaded in about nine seconds.

Download speeds on the network were up to 300 Mbps, with an upload speed of 150 Mbps. Comcast's cable service, which has an average speed of 13Mbps, is about 1/20th the speed of Google Fiber.

Kansas City is the only other place to receive Google Fiber. It's part of an experiment involving as many as half a million homes to improve ways to build the network, to see what apps people might invent and how it would change the way we use the internet.