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Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service - The Verge

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https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/11/23997336/google-fiber-20-gbps-speed-early-access-2024

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  • jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m sure both of the cities that still have Google Fiber will be very happy.

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    • Delusional@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I swear it was a decade ago that it was rolled out in those cities. I haven’t heard anything about it since so I thought it was shut down.

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      • HubertManne@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        me2. Im like. it still exists?!

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    • wraithcoop@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Google fiber just rolled out to my neighborhood a couple months ago, I’m not sure how they prioritize rollout but I guess it’s still happening as long as Big ISP doesn’t have a monopoly stranglehold on the area.

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    • DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And b🇺🇲th cities are in 1 c🇺🇲untry

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      • akilou@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They’re also on the same planet. What’s your point?

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  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Fuck Google. These pieces of shit rip people off, lock them into storage plans while holding their email hostage so they can’t cancel, then lose their goddamned backed-up files. And don’t get me started on the selling of customer data. Just absolutely fuuuuuck Google. Fuck them. Every service they offer is offered elsewhere by less evil companies.

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    • Pechente@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every service they offer is offered elsewhere by less evil companies.

      And with other companies you usually don’t have to be worried, they will suddenly discontinue the service after running it half-assed in the first place.

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      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have been using Sync.com for a while now and am very happy with it. They’ve been around a long time. I doubt they are going to just vanish into thin air, but even if they did, I would prefer that to being lied to and stolen from by Google.

        Fuck Google. They fucked my business as hard as they could. Google is trash.

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    • solrize@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unfortunately Google is the only fiber and maybe only broadband supplier in my neighborhood. I’m still on site DSL. Comcast is as bad as Google afaict.

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      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I hear you. Comcast is fucking horrific.

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  • ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *20Gbps to your home from their node.

    However, you never upgraded your computer beyond a 1Gbps network connection, the cross connect down the line is limited to less than 10Gbps, the server you want to access throttles you to 100Mbps max, you have 100+ ms ping times.

    Unless you have 20+ devices in your house all trying to pull 1Gbps simultaneously, it’s a bit of a marketing stunt. There may be some edge cases, but even 4K streaming is only 25-50Mbps, so you could run 5 devices and be fine.

    What I’d love to see is guaranteed latency and QoS settings that ensure I’ll never be throttled during any period rather than more bandwidth.

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    • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Usenet can fill a 10gig line if you have a good enough computer. Maybe I want that 4k remix rip in less than 2 minutes…

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    • TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Perhaps it is for high bandwidth businesses and power users, not most home users.

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    • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah most people won't notice much of a difference past 1gbps for now. A lot of the infrastructure hasn't caught up yet and a lot of people don't even have fast enough WIFI routers yet.

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  • BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Wondering when the service will be discontinued…

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    • IntrepidIceIgloo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Knowing Google they’ll get bored with it in a year or two

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  • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Jesus, I don’t even have that in my data center supporting the entire LMS for a large university?!? Who needs that?

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh, cool, I’ll let the seven people know they can upgrade! Google fucking sucks. Fiber is just another piece of the scam.

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  • key@lemmy.keychat.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How the heck do you even utilize that? Most hardware doesn’t get beyond 2.5gig yet, you got to pay out the ass for 10 or higher since that stuff is all datacenter grade. You’d need a router or even just a computer with a QSFP+ port I guess. Easily several months bills in networking hardware if you don’t want to end up bottlenecked on your side. Definitely not for the typical home user anytime soon.

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    • ExLisper@linux.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess it’s for some startups that want to run streaming service from their garage.

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    • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Meh, you can do 20g over a pair of bonded sfp+. My cheap-ish Zyxel managed switch will let me do this

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      • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Even assuming you could do this, and your backplane even supported it, most of your end devices are still limited to 1 GB NICs, so you would need a large amount of people utilizing your network for this to make sense.

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    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I can get 8gbps for a reasonable price. For ~30 less I’m getting 500mbps because my firewall only supports about 700mbps of actual throughput.

      The home 2.5GE routers might have 2.5gig nic but I highly doubt they can support it for a sustained time.

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  • earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lol. Got 25/25G for $74/month.

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    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Where about? I’m stuck in Comcastland and get gigabit (down, the upload is pathetic) for 85 a month 😔

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      • earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Unfortunately only available in Switzerland:

        www.init7.net

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What did you have to pay for their router? Or did you buy your own router, if so much much did you have to spend?

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      • earmuff@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Being actually able to saturate 25/25G is anything but an easy task, unless you have the money to buy enterprise degree hardware. So I ended up building my own router. The CPU, the network card and the 25G SFP+ were the expensive parts. But I managed to stay around $1200 with second hand hardware. Before that with 1G or 10G I used the Ubiquity Dream Machine Pro.

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  • autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Google is rolling out its 20-gig internet service offering to Fiber customers in select markets, with installations starting in Q1 2024.

    The new 20Gbps internet service, which comes through Google’s GFiber Labs, won’t come cheap: it’ll cost customers $250 per month.

    Google plans to offer the connection initially in Kansas City, North Carolina (Triangle Region), Arizona, and Iowa.

    The service availability coincides with last-mile infrastructure upgrades by Google that include the installation of new Nokia 25G PONs, or passive optical networks, that connect all the way to customers’ homes.

    Meanwhile, Google Fiber’s gigabit tier still costs the same $70 per month since it first became available in Kansas City in 2012.

    Google previously advertised that 5Gbps internet could make it easier to upload or download any size file simultaneously, while 8Gbps could handle internet in “near real-time.” But when it comes to the new 20Gbps tier, Google says to expect simultaneous multi-gig connections across multiple floors with Wi-Fi 7 hardware.

    The original article contains 268 words, the summary contains 160 words. Saved 40%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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  • Ck0kt4l64748_@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    $250 hahahahahahah in Europe you pay that YEARLY hahahahah

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    • ripcord@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah yes, "Europe", where Telco costs are the same everywhere.

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    • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can't even get those speeds where I live. The fastest I see available is 1gbps down/100 Mbps up and this is a decent sized European city.

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    • Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For 20 gbit? Good luck with that.

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      • statues_lasers@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        25g fiber costs around 885 usd per year in Switzerland: www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/

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      • Ck0kt4l64748_@fanaticus.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Not for 20, for 15Gbps (:

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  • plague_sapiens@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Cries in 0,1 Gbit/s cause DE sucks ass. Won’t get fibre for years, but hey at least 100m away the municipality has fibre and the schools 1km away will get connected next year. They just put the cables around my street.

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    • fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And whose bright idea was it to lay new copper cables instead of going to fibre?

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      • plague_sapiens@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Kohl’s copper buddy. Fuck lobbyism, it only makes the riches richer. Doesn’t help everyone else…

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  • totallynotfbi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d be interested to know what the actual speeds will be outside of these pilot cities, and internationally. I’ve seen 10Gbps plans being advertised in my country recently, but they hide the fact that the international speeds are around 2 Gbps. (Still pretty fast, but definitely not worth the cost!)

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    • netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Having fiber runs to your house costs 10s of thousands. You typically only do that for large business.

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