Toilet Internet Service Provider

April 1st, 2007 by Kashif Aziz ( 2,195 Views )

No, It isn’t some local ISP who labels 64kbps as Broadband and it is neither the desi cablewalla. Toilet Internet Service Proivder is a project by Google:

Google TiSP (BETA)™, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users’ plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

For years, data carriers have confronted the “last hundred yards” problem for delivering data from local networks into individual homes. Now Google has successfully devised a “last hundred smelly yards” solution that takes advantage of preexisting plumbing and sewage systems and their related hydraulic data-transmission capabilities. “There’s actually a thriving little underground community that’s been studying this exact solution for a long time,” says Page. “And today our Toilet ISP team is pleased to be leading the way through the sewers, up out of your toilet and - splat - right onto your PC.”

Users who sign up online for the TiSP system will receive a full home self-installation kit, which includes a spindle of fiber-optic cable, a TiSP wireless router, installation CD and setup guide. Home installation is a simple matter of GFlushing™ the fiber-optic cable down to the nearest TiSP Access Node, then plugging the other end into the network port of your Google-provided TiSP wireless router. Within sixty minutes, the Access Node’s crack team of Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) should have your internet connection up and running.

More details are available here and the installation mechanism is illustrated here.

Fine Print: Another April Fool’s day prank by Google

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3 Responses to “Toilet Internet Service Provider”

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Adnan Siddiqi
April 1st, 2007 22:38 GMT
hehe. No doubt it was an awesome prank. I didn’t realize it was joke unless I reached to

Google TiSP (BETA)�, a free in-home wireless broadband service that delivers online connectivity via users� plumbing systems. The Toilet Internet Service Provider (TiSP) project is a self-installed, ad-supported online service that will be offered entirely free to any consumer with a WiFi-capable PC and a toilet connected to a local municipal sewage system.

I specially liked the PRESS RELEASE. Specially comment by Google SVP about Larry:

I firmly believe TiSP will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those users who, like Larry himself, do much of their best thinking in the bathroom

Speaking of Toilet, I made another post about how restrooms play an important role to be an innovative soul

http://weblogs.com.pk/kadnan/archive/2007/01/31/software-testing-in-toilet.aspx
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Kashif Aziz
April 1st, 2007 23:23 GMT
@Adnan: Speaking of Google pranks, have you seen Gmail Paper?

A stack of Gmail Paper arrives in a box at your doorstep, and it�s yours to keep forever. You can read it, sort it, search it, touch it. Or even move it to the trash�the real trash.
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Fahd Mirza
April 2nd, 2007 08:58 GMT
One of the rules of “The April fool” are that if anybody tries to make a fool of others after the noon of 1st April, he is considered a fool himself.

I am watching Google pranks right now, in the morning of 2nd April.

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