I’m sure both of the cities that still have Google Fiber will be very happy.
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.
me2. Im like. it still exists?!
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.
And b🇺🇲th cities are in 1 c🇺🇲untry
They’re also on the same planet. What’s your point?
Not only are these things usually restricted to a small number of cities, they’re also often restricted to 1 country. That’s my point
*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.
Usenet can fill a 10gig line if you have a good enough computer. Maybe I want that 4k remux rip in less than 2 minutes…
Perhaps it is for high bandwidth businesses and power users, not most home users.
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.
I upgraded from something like 200mbps to 1gbps a while back in my last place and I verified I had 1gbps but my download speeds even directly over ethernet were not much if at all faster from the sorts of places I typically download from. Like you said a lot of sites throttle.
Wondering when the service will be discontinued…
Knowing Google they’ll get bored with it in a year or two
Jesus, I don’t even have that in my data center supporting the entire LMS for a large university?!? Who needs that?
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.
I guess it’s for some startups that want to run streaming service from their garage.
Meh, you can do 20g over a pair of bonded sfp+. My cheap-ish Zyxel managed switch will let me do this
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.
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.
Lol. Got 25/25G for $74/month.
Where about? I’m stuck in Comcastland and get gigabit (down, the upload is pathetic) for 85 a month 😔
Unfortunately only available in Switzerland:
I knew I wouldn’t be able to get it, I was just curious. Thanks for sharing
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?
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.
Yeah, I guess 25G is the fastest way to qualify for r/homedatacenter, lol
edit: nvm. I just saw that they are trying to get 200 or 400G switches. Still, I suspect that most of them don’t have 25G WAN
If you‘re curious, someone else documented the PC build and I used this as a guide for mine:
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-internet-router-pc-build/
That’s neat! Thanks for the link.
Oh, cool, I’ll let the seven people know they can upgrade! Google fucking sucks. Fiber is just another piece of the scam.
Google Fiber sounds like a laxative. Does the user poop it out?
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!)
A better question, actually: Who’s the target audience for this? Unless you routinely transfer terabytes of data daily, I don’t see why you would need anything more than 1 or 2 Gbps - and if you do need to transfer that much data, wouldn’t it be more cost-effective to lease dark fibre instead?
Having fiber runs to your house costs 10s of thousands. You typically only do that for large business.
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.
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$250 hahahahahahah in Europe you pay that YEARLY hahahahah
Ah yes, “Europe”, where Telco costs are the same everywhere.
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.
For 20 gbit? Good luck with that.
25g fiber costs around 885 usd per year in Switzerland: https://www.init7.net/en/internet/fiber7/
Not for 20, for 15Gbps (:
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