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Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Hypx@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.

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[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How about instead of working towards giving people stupid speeds that no one's wifi router is capable of dealing with anyway, you work on improving thr network enough to get rid of everyone's bandwidth caps and/or making existing services cheaper?

crickets

That's what I thought.

[–] root@precious.net 3 points 10 months ago

Because all they're doing to support 20Gbit is swapping some SFP+ or switches, and a new drop down menu in the CMS.

Actually hanging or trenching fiber is an entirely different ballpark of beaurocracy.