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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Didn't Google fiber either shut down or at least stop expanding?

They started to cancel it and then they canceled the cancelation. It's Google after all.

I think they slowed their expansion of new, unannounced cities. If they announced or started work in an area, it will very likely be finished. I think all of their "easy" targets were hit, others have fiber competitor or difficulties, and rollouts were more expensive than anticipated.

Only in certain places. They keep growing where I’m at.

They obviously didn’t shut down since they are still making headlines.

I'd settle for DSL in my home town, 20 minutes away from a major city. Satellite is the only option available 😫 why isnt 100% of America connected at this point?

Because Congress decided not to hold Internet service providers to account for the promises they made in exchange for not paying taxes 25+ years ago.

Because America is massive, and half of the country votes for people who like to privatize everything, and private industry doesn’t make money building thousands of miles of rural infrastructure.

I had DSL for 10 years. It sucks. Still better than satellite though. I'm sorry you're dealing with that.

How do people feel about starlink tho?

The service: good
Who it’s backed by and their capricious whims: bad

I was hoping that elon wasnt evil. "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain." Batman.

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

Eventually....

What does “will get upgraded” mean here. I have google fiber on the 1gig plan. I pay $70 a month and they email nearly weekly asking if I’ll upgrade to the 2gig for $100. 1gig is plenty for me but if I can take 20gig for $70 I guess I’ll take the upgrade.

20 gbps is going to require most people to spend significant cash for new networking hardware. These days most consumer hardware tops out at 2.5 gbps.

I have a custom built opnsense firewall... I can only handle ~15Gbps with ids/ips active... that was a $2500 server build to do.

What’s an acceptable timeline for you?

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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.

Customers will need new networking gear, too, and Google says you'll get a new fiber modem with built-in Wi-Fi 7.

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.

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Now, will they actually expand their coverage or just upgrade existing customers ?

Google Fiber was planned to install in my city, but their only way of delivering service to most neighborhoods was by digging into the roads to lay cables and then covering it up with rubber. Well, they did a terrible job with the roads, tons of damage and potholes, and then they "cancelled" Fiber, so it was all for nothing. You can't even get Fiber in my city now, even though the uncancelled it.