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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.
*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.
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately Google is the only fiber and maybe only broadband supplier in my neighborhood. I'm still on slow DSL. Comcast is as bad as Google afaict.
I hear you. Comcast is fucking horrific.
Yeah. It's a sad state of affairs, isn't it?
then lose their goddamned backed-up files
Now obviously that shouldn't happen in the first place, but if a backup disappearing is a problem for a user, then that user didn't do their backups correctly.
But yea, fuck Google. Like, with a chainsaw. Sideways.
I definitely agree with multiple different backups but if you specifically pay a company $120+ a year to not lose your stuff then it should never get lost outside of the user doing something stupid like not paying.
Google advertises their Google One product and Google Drive product for use as syncing to their servers to "back up" your files. Their software incorrectly indicates some files are synced when they are not. There is no way to force the sync on such files. And there's no way to know they aren't actually synced unless you manually check all of your files through their web interface daily, which is time consuming and unreasonable.
Additionally, files that were previously uploaded to their cloud service (One or Drive or whatever they choose to call their overpriced storage on any given month) are known to vanish. This is a known, documented problem that Google has been "addressing" for countless customers and has been covered by several media outlets for months. Despite the new media attention, this is an old problem that has not been fixed for well over a year.
This is not user error as you would suggest. This is a "Google lying to their customers" problem. I know how to use Google Drive and their other products as I was an early adopter and was paying for one of their most expensive tiers for my business.
The correct solution to the problem was to move to a more honest service like Sync.com. I have had no such problems since moving. I recommend others get the fuck away from Google as soon as they can. Fuck Google. Their company policy is to just be dishonest, and that's reflected in their dishonest tech support (but that's a new rant for another time).
TLDR: It's not user error. Google is famously bad at syncing to cloud storage and they are liars about it.
Wondering when the service will be discontinued..
Knowing Google they'll get bored with it in a year or two
Oh, cool, I'll let the seven people know they can upgrade! Google fucking sucks. Fiber is just another piece of the scam.
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.
Jesus, I don’t even have that in my data center supporting the entire LMS for a large university?!? Who needs that?
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.
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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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.
And whose bright idea was it to lay new copper cables instead of going to fibre?
Kohl's copper buddy. Fuck lobbyism, it only makes the riches richer. Doesn't help everyone else...
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.
