New Google Fiber Plan: $100 For 2Gbps, Plus Wi-Fi 6 Router and Mesh Extender 36
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google Fiber will soon offer 2Gbps service for $100 a month, a package that includes a Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender, the Alphabet-owned ISP announced yesterday. Google fiber-to-the-home service never rolled out as far as many people hoped, but the ISP is still making improvements in cities where it does provide broadband. The new offering is double the download speed of Google Fiber's standard 1Gbps service and costs $30 more. While the new offer is 2Gbps on the download side, it will be 1Gbps for uploads.
In addition to fiber-to-the-home, Google Fiber offers wireless home Internet access in some cities through its Webpass service. Even the Webpass wireless service will get the 2Gbps plan, the announcement said. Webpass' standard speeds today range from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. The 2Gbps service will initially be available to some customers through Google Fiber's Trusted Tester program next month, with plans to roll out across "most" Google Fiber and Webpass markets in 2021. The announcement didn't provide any details on the Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender that will be included in the $100 price. Google Fiber provides 1Gbps customers a gateway and router in a single device it calls a "Network Box." "Why 2 Gig? This year has made this need for more speed and bandwidth especially acute, as many of us are now living our entire lives -- from work to school to play -- within our homes, creating unprecedented demand for Internet capacity," the Google Fiber announcement said.
Google says the 2 Gig speeds "will roll out to all of our Nashville and Huntsville customers later this year, with plans to launch the service across most of our Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass cities in early 2021." You can sign up here for an opportunity to be among the first to test the new speeds in your city.
In addition to fiber-to-the-home, Google Fiber offers wireless home Internet access in some cities through its Webpass service. Even the Webpass wireless service will get the 2Gbps plan, the announcement said. Webpass' standard speeds today range from 100Mbps to 1Gbps. The 2Gbps service will initially be available to some customers through Google Fiber's Trusted Tester program next month, with plans to roll out across "most" Google Fiber and Webpass markets in 2021. The announcement didn't provide any details on the Wi-Fi 6 router and mesh extender that will be included in the $100 price. Google Fiber provides 1Gbps customers a gateway and router in a single device it calls a "Network Box." "Why 2 Gig? This year has made this need for more speed and bandwidth especially acute, as many of us are now living our entire lives -- from work to school to play -- within our homes, creating unprecedented demand for Internet capacity," the Google Fiber announcement said.
Google says the 2 Gig speeds "will roll out to all of our Nashville and Huntsville customers later this year, with plans to launch the service across most of our Google Fiber and Google Fiber Webpass cities in early 2021." You can sign up here for an opportunity to be among the first to test the new speeds in your city.
GPON spilt over X homes? (Score:2)
GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and up to 1.25 G
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They could be rolling out 10G-PON
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and up to 1.25 G
This is XGPON.
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GPON provides 2.5 Gb/s downstream and up to 1.25 G
I meant its NGPON2. Up to 80Gb/s bi-directional.
upload speeds above 1 megabit in LA? (Score:1)
any...
day...
now.....
It's vaporware for nearly everyone (Score:2)
Re: It's vaporware for nearly everyone (Score:1)
Re:It's vaporware for nearly everyone (Score:4, Insightful)
The 0.1% of the population that can actually get Google Fiber must be stoked!!!
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20Mbps is totally inadequate. If someone starts a fast download your Netflix 1080p stream will start to buffer, let alone 4k. With next gen consoles going digital only that's going to be more and more common.
The thing about gigabit speeds is that you might not saturate the link much but that's the point - there is almost nothing you can do to degrade the experience for other users. Nobody is going to complain that the latency in their game is too high because you are running a torrent or downloading the lat
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20Mbps is totally inadequate. If someone starts a fast download your Netflix 1080p stream will start to buffer, let alone 4k.
Saying it doesnt make it true. 1080P requires less than 5Mbps. Stop lying. Why are you, on top of threatening to fuck with peoples children with his sexual deviancy, always such a fucking dishonest disgusting fuck?
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Whoops, did you forget to click the "Post Anonymously" checkbox?
Or are you normally a spiteful, potty-mouthed cunt who gets himself off on making unprovoked personal attacks on other posters?
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Or are you normally a spiteful, potty-mouthed cunt who gets himself off on making unprovoked personal attacks on other posters?
The threats he made are archived on slashdot, for almost a decade now, as well as an archive.org.
He, Amimojo, (who isnt female in spite of the sex change) made the unprovoked attacks, against the children of the people he disagreed with, all while claiming that his secretly fucking with your children was going to just, and I fucking quote, "social justice."
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Jeeze did I didn't realise those were your cornflakes I was pissing in.
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pay google to spy on you? (Score:3)
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You could easily add your ASUS firewall/router between the Google router and your home network. That would mitigate the issues you are concerned about.
Re: pay google to spy on you? (Score:2)
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What? Customers will pay Google to place a Google router in their house in order to enable Google to trawl data on every single networked device in their house? This really sounds like a raw deal! I get 450 Mbps from Spectrum for $45 a month. I have my own ASUS router. I think I'll stick with that.
You pay $45/month for 450 Mbps for Spectrum to spy on you and sell your data outright to 3rd parties.
I'd rather pay $60/month for 2 Gbps for Google to spy on me and keep my data to themselves.
At least with Google keeping my data, they are the ad delivery bottleneck and the advertisers don't get my data to leak all over the Internet in this weeks huge data breech.
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So don't use their router. I have had Google Fiber for almost four years. My Ubiquiti router works perfectly with it.
Except for having gigabit Ethernet, the Google router was the very latest 1995 technology.
Re: pay google to spy on you? (Score:2)
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Hmm, my choices are Comcast, or options that are slower than comcast. So I chose a slower one. A google option is a major improvement. It's not just the speed that matters, but how rotten the company is that offers it.
All the better to surveil you with, my dear! (Score:1)
New Google Fiber Internet with even faster personal data colllection!
SoNet Japan : 2Gbps+router for $40 per month (Score:3)
That is if you exclude the the first year where you'll get if for free.
MAGA has still a long way to go in Silicon Valley.
2Gbps is useless for most (Score:5, Informative)
I have gigabit fiber, I can upgrade to 2 Gbps for just 5 euros/month, I didn't, and I work from home and have roommates who are gamers. So that's pretty heavy use compared to the average household.
Why not? Simply, I almost never use even half of my gigabit link. The reasons can be multiple:
- The server on the other side is too slow (the most common one)
- A bottleneck at the ISP level (Google may do better than most on that one)
- I only have gigabit Ethernet to my PC, or worse, WiFi
- My PC cannot process data fast enough, 1 GBps is faster a lot of storage devices, and you can't really do complex processing at that speed
And even on the few time I take full advantage of my connection, usually downloading huge files from fast servers, typically things like AAA games, it is not significant, like saving a few minutes on an operation that takes an hour, unattended, once every few months.
The only real benefit I can see is if I run a server at home, 2 GBps *upload* bandwidth is quite cool. But for the download, gigabit and above basically means that you home connection stops being the bottleneck.
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I have gigabit fiber, I can upgrade to 2 Gbps for just 5 euros/month, I didn't, and I work from home and have roommates who are gamers. So that's pretty heavy use compared to the average household.
Why not? Simply, I almost never use even half of my gigabit link. The reasons can be multiple:
This is my opinion too. It is going to be at least 5 years before there is a measurable number of people who can use this speed. Until 2.5gbit or 10gbit switches and motherboards become mainstream 2gbit just isn't that useful to the vast majority of people.
I have about 100mbit down and I rarely use all of that.
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Aside from home professionals or the once-every-few-months download some of us do, what common or anticipated use case is there for speeds over a few hundred Mbps in the next, say, decade or two? Honestly.
1080p streams, which is what most people are still watching, only need 4-5 Mbps. 4K streams only need 20-25 Mbps. Even 8K just needs 4x that again, so about 80-100 Mbps. If you had a family of four, each with an 8K TV and each watching their own 8K stream at the same time, you’re still only talking a
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In Japan they deliver IP TV over fibre optic and having 2Gbps means your TV stream is never affected by internet use because most routers only have a 1 gigabit WAN port.
Most routers can't cope with 1Gbps anyway. It's even worse/better in Japan now were major cities are on 10Gbps and some are getting 20. Consumer grade hardware melts at those speeds. Most routers will just crash under the load. A decent pfSense box will stay up but won't push 10Gbps.
They are starting to push 8k TV over those links at very hi
New Zealand (Score:2)
Still waiting for 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T (Score:2)
802.3bz hardware is starting to trickle out, but it's been 4 years since the standard was finalized, and I would have thought hardware would have fully caught up by now.
Until 2.5G ports and routers are common household items - the way 1G has been for fifteen years - I and many others will pass on 2G service.
Who has a 2Gbps NIC? (Score:2)
This is unobtanium from a service that is impossible to get. Marketing!?
I suspect (Score:2)
This will not be available for even 5% of humanity. It will be only available in a country of plummeting global significance (rather like my own in fact), that is far away from the rest of humanity (not so like my own).
How would you feel if you had a "national" rollout in Northern Washington State? That looks to be a really nice place but it is not representative of your country and not a very big market either.