I feel they may have been something of a catalyst that got other providers to start upping the speed. At this point, a lot of service providers offer at least 1 gig download speeds, with fiber being synchronous often. Some places offer up to 10 gigs to residential.
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MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 10 hours agoDo you think Google Fiber made the average internet speed increase in part?
BassTurd@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
crank0271@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wasn’t Google Fiber available in like, one town in Kansas? So I suppose yes, it did increase the average speed, but by a very small amount.