[djrogers]

Pedantically speaking, it's difficult - in fact darned near impossible - for a single residential type host (ie, likely a laptop running windows) to utilize anywhere near the full 1Gb capacity offered.

That said, a botnet host running on this network would be substantially more capable of causing damage than a host on an 8Mbps upstream.

Hopefully google has plans or already has implemented some ability to mitigate that type of problem...