Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service

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Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service

For now this is early access, but "most" customers will get upgraded eventually.

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Google Fiber is getting outrageously fast 20Gbps service​

For now this is early access, but "most" customers will get upgraded eventually.​

RON AMADEO - 10/26/2023, 1:56 PM

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Google Fiber is still operating in a handful of cities, and now the bandwidth-rich are getting richer: Fiber plans to upgrade some users to outrageously fast 20Gbps service by the end of the year. Google's Wednesday blog post calls this part of a "GFiber Labs" experiment and says the service "will initially be available as an early access offering to a small group of GFiber customers in select areas."

The 20Gbps service is made possible by new networking gear: Nokia's 25G PON (passive optical network) technology, which lets Internet service providers push more bandwidth over existing fiber lines. Google says it's "one of the first" ISPs to adopt the technology for consumers, though at least one other US ISP, the Tennessee provider "EPB," has rolled out the technology. Customers will need new networking gear, too, and Google says you'll get a new fiber modem with built-in Wi-Fi 7.
Fierce Telecom spoke with Google's Nick Saporito, head of product at Google Fiber, who said, “We definitely see a need" for 20Gbps service. For now, Saporito says the service is "a very early adopter product," but it will eventually roll out "in most, if not all, of our markets."

According to that Fierce report, Fiber is built on Nokia's "Quillion" Fiber platform, which is upgradable, so Google only needed to "plug in a new optical module and replace the optical network terminal on the end-user side" to take its 5 and 8Gbps infrastructure to 20Gbps.

As always with Google Fiber, this is a symmetrical connection with 20Gbps down and up, so you can create content, like posting a YouTube video, in a flash. That's an incredible speed compared to most other ISPs. I live in a bandwidth desert ruled by the local broadband monopoly, Comcast, and this is 1,000 times more upload speed than the nearly 20Mbps upload Comcast will sell me.

There's no word yet on the price or which utopian Google Fiber cities will get access to the 20Gbps service, but Google has already run trials in Kansas City, Missouri. Currently, Google Fiber costs $70 for 1Gbps and $150 for 8Gbps. Interested customers can sign up for early access at this link.

 

[Bboystyle]

They need to take their bytch ass to my area

 

[Geek Nasty]

Crazy bandwidth I’d rather have cheaper rates than 40X bandwidth. I think they keep doing this because theyve got the throughput but dont want to sell lower tier plans.

I’m on Google Fiber and they forced everyone to upgrade to 500Mbps minimum.

 

[the cac mamba]

my 100mbps is working just fine

besides the napoleon account, who the fukk needs 20 gigs per second?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Crazy bandwidth I’d rather have cheaper rates than 40X bandwidth. I think they keep doing this because theyve got the throughput but dont want to sell lower tier plans.

I’m on Google Fiber and they forced everyone to upgrade to 500Mbps minimum.

Same shyt they do with phones, televisions, and everything else, they need to keep making more money so they continuously tell people they need more more more.

 

[bnew]

Same shyt they do with phones, televisions, and everything else, they need to keep making more money so they continuously tell people they need more more more.

some people do want more .
this is my traffic from a single desktop..

 

[Yapdatfool]

Same shyt they do with phones, televisions, and everything else, they need to keep making more money so they continuously tell people they need more more more.

You buggin.

We as consumers should push for higher speeds, lower costs, better coverage, with unlimited usage for mobile and fixed internet.
I'm paying 100 for 300MBPS, that 70 for 1GBPS would be a godsend and its unlimited too?! sign me the fukk up!!

 

[Hood Critic]

They been laying fiber around my area for over a year and its only available in pockets

I'm impatiently waiting.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

some people do want more .
this is my traffic from a single desktop..

How much of that is bloat that wouldn't be there if companies felt they actually had to conserve bandwidth rather than fill it? How much is extra shyt you don't really need to download and doesn't make your life better?

I use about 1GB a day and an enormous portion of the data that comes over my line is just fukking ads, cookies and trackers, with way overbloated sites like gmail and facebook that take forever to load just to show me nothing. Unless your work requires something specific or you're addicted to porn and social media or watching hours of television / online video games, I don't see why the average person would need that much bandwidth. But the more bandwidth that comes available, the more companies figure out a way to fill it.

Other than higher resolution on movies, extra bandwidth has done literally nothing to improve my life in the last 20 years. I was perfectly happy with my 2003 internet experience, the things I needed to load were loading fine back then.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

You buggin.

We as consumers should push for higher speeds, lower costs, better coverage, with unlimited usage for mobile and fixed internet.

Besides the fact that I've never felt I needed any of that other than "better coverage", what are the social costs of all that? How much energy and water usage across the country is currently being devoted to this thirst for ever-greater bandwidth and ever-more data? What's the endgame there?

 

[bnew]

How much of that is bloat that wouldn't be there if companies felt they actually had to conserve bandwidth rather than fill it? How much is extra shyt you don't really need to download and doesn't make your life better?

An enormous portion of the data that comes over my line is just fukking ads, cookies and trackers, with way overbloated sites like gmail and facebook that take forever to load just to show me nothing. Unless your work requires something specific or you're addicted to porn and social media or watching hours of television / online video games, I don't see why the average person would need that much bandwidth. But the more bandwidth that comes available, the more companies figure out a way to fill it.

Other than higher resolution on movies, extra bandwidth has done literally nothing to improve my life in the last 20 years. I was perfectly happy with my 2003 internet experience, the things I needed to load were loading fine back then.

that doesn't apply to me,

almost all of my network devices have some type of blocklist setup.

 

[Pressure]

They been laying fiber around my area for over a year and its only available in pockets

I'm impatiently waiting.

I’ve been running 2gbps and lord have mercy

20 would really help with video editing

Game streaming

 

[Hood Critic]

that doesn't apply to me,

almost all of my network devices have some type of blocklist setup.

Same - Pi-Hole in a docker container.

My home is a highly connected one, utility priorities for us are electricity, internet, water, natural gas.

 

[Hood Critic]

I’ve been running 2gbps and lord have mercy

 

[ORDER_66]

20GBPS that's fast...