News Google Fiber's $250 a month ultra-fast 20 Gbps internet tier hits early access, includes Wi-Fi 7 router

[Admin]

Google Fiber 20 Gbps plus Wi-Fi 7 router bundle has become available for early access at $250, with installations starting in Q1 2024

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[brandonjclark]

There are times I think, man, it must be nice to live in a city and get the latest updates.

Then I wake up.

 

[Giroro]

This is great news for literally dozens of people.

 

[eye4bear]

Having been lucky to get ATT 1gb fiber over 2 years ago (and LOVE it), I can not see the need for anything higher anytime soon. Seldom do I ever see anything using even close to my full 1 gigabyte, and that is with two 4K TVs streaming movies and I am watching some streaming adult programming, all of which is not coming close to taking up all my bandwidth. Unless you work from home and transfer huge files online, this is just extra horsepower under the hood that you might never need.

 

[SCP2000]

News like this will always make me envious of Americans. Google needs to expand into Canada asap. Then again, the CRTC despises any prospect of competition, so any attempt to breach the status quo would get snuffed out.

My 1000/100 is still decent by todays standards.

 

[shawman123]

Unfortunately Google stopped this project and they never launched it in bay area where they are based out off :-( Still I am not sure what is the use case for 20Gbps internet.

 

[Makaveli]

News like this will always make me envious of Americans. Google needs to expand into Canada asap. Then again, the CRTC despises any prospect of competition, so any attempt to breach the status quo would get snuffed out.

My 1000/100 is still decent by todays standards.

Bell Canada already offers 1.5, 3 and 8 Gbps fiber tier's. And most people can't even use the 1.5Gbps tier as they are still using 1 Gbps lan ports on their devices. What are you going to do with 20Gbps wan speed? do you have devices with 10Gbps ports on them?

I'm using the 1.5Gbps tier and I had to get a router with 2.5Gbps WAN and LAN ports aswell as a 1/2.5/5/10Gbps Nic for my desktop machine to even see that speed.

 

[Order 66]

Bell Canada already offers 1.5, 3 and 8 Gbps fiber tier's. And most people can't even use the 1.5Gbps tier as they are still using 1 Gbps lan ports on their devices. What are you going to do with 20Gbps wan speed? do you have devices with 10Gbps ports on them?

I'm using the 1.5Gbps tier and I had to get a router with 2.5Gbps WAN and LAN ports aswell as a 1/2.5/5/10Gbps Nic for my desktop machine to even see that speed.

My 50mb/s internet plan is crying right now. It's a shame I can't get fiber where I live and internet options are extremely limited where I live.

 

[SCP2000]

Bell Canada already offers 1.5, 3 and 8 Gbps fiber tier's. And most people can't even use the 1.5Gbps tier as they are still using 1 Gbps lan ports on their devices. What are you going to do with 20Gbps wan speed? do you have devices with 10Gbps ports on them?

I'm using the 1.5Gbps tier and I had to get a router with 2.5Gbps WAN and LAN ports aswell as a 1/2.5/5/10Gbps Nic for my desktop machine to even see that speed.

Must be nice having close to a 1.1 ratio. Strata here doesn't have access to Telus or Bell. I was spoiled after living in Hong Kong for a few years, which reflects my anger.

 

[vanadiel007]

This is great news. Gives you the ability to stream 20 HD movies at the same time, without any issues!

 

[SCP2000]

This is great news. Gives you the ability to stream 20 HD movies at the same time, without any issues!

Everyone knows it's for enterprise and e-peen flexing. I know Bravia Core streaming, albeit fairly exclusive, can get pretty demanding, so much that they require a hardwired connection last I checked. They offer streams at a much higher bit rate than the crap you find on mainstream streaming services.

 

[mspencerl87]

News like this will always make me envious of Americans. Google needs to expand into Canada asap. Then again, the CRTC despises any prospect of competition, so any attempt to breach the status quo would get snuffed out.

My 1000/100 is still decent by todays standards.

Americans everywhere else =
The majority of Americans have 1 choice where they live 2 if they are REALLY LUCKY.

America is so far behind the majority of the developed, and even undeveloped parts of the world.
We've already paid billions for fiber connectivity throughout all of USA, and yet. It's still not here.

You have faster internet than the majority of America, i promise.

 

[SCP2000]

Americans everywhere else =
The majority of Americans have 1 choice where they live 2 if they are REALLY LUCKY.

America is so far behind the majority of the developed, and even undeveloped parts of the world.
We've already paid billions for fiber connectivity throughout all of USA, and yet. It's still not here.

You have faster internet than the majority of America, i promise.

In this context, I mean California, specifically SoCal. I think it's safe to suggest that most Americans outside the coastlines are SoL. Starlink exists, but that's an entirely different topic of conversation. Unobtanium for most rural folk.

 

[jonathan1683]

available in 20 years. I live in LA and they dont have it. Good luck to everyone else.

 

[bit_user]

My only beef with my current cable internet is upload speeds. Even those are only an issue when working from home. Otherwise, I have no real complaints about my internet service. I am fortunate enough to live somewhere with 3 competing providers. So, perhaps that counts for something.

I sort of wonder whether Google isn't trying to use these WiFi-7 routers also to set up some kind of mesh network, for their Google Fi users. That's their cell phone carrier, in case you didn't know. It would actually go some ways towards justifying the need for such seemingly-excessive bandwidth. It's been tried before (I forget by whom: Verizon?), but with lower bandwidth service and modems that were optional for people to use (I wouldn't), hence I think it wasn't very popular.

 

[mdd1963]

One could download almost unlimited action 3D 4K anime with such speeds!

 

[bit_user]

And most people can't even use the 1.5Gbps tier as they are still using 1 Gbps lan ports on their devices. What are you going to do with 20Gbps wan speed? do you have devices with 10Gbps ports on them?

The third sentence of the article:

"To make the most of those 20 Gbps speeds throughout your dwelling, a Wi-Fi 7 router will be provided."
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The next question is obviously who has WiFi-7 devices, but I guess the presumption is they'll roll out at the same rate as prior ones. I don't know how much price premium WiFi-7 adds, however.

Let's hope the rollout isn't as slow as 10 Gigabit Ethernet has been (on client devices). Even most workstation motherboards don't come with integrated 10 Gig Ethernet, so you can't really claim that it's just about consumers' lack of need for it, as many workstations are sold to business users who want 10 Gig for fast access to networked storage.

 

[JeffreyP55]

Google Fiber 20 Gbps plus Wi-Fi 7 router bundle has become available for early access at $250, with installations starting in Q1 2024

Google Fiber's $250 a month ultra-fast 20 Gbps internet tier hits early access, includes Wi-Fi 7 router : Read more

250.00 a month? Stop me from laughing. Who the hell can use those speeds anyway?

 

[Makaveli]

Must be nice having close to a 1.1 ratio. Strata here doesn't have access to Telus or Bell. I was spoiled after living in Hong Kong for a few years, which reflects my anger.

You still have better internet than most Canadian's with cable. Rogers is still using a low split so only 50Mbps uploads and Shaw went to Mid split a few years ago its why they can offer 100Mbps uploads.

I can't imagine what speeds you were seeing in HK.

And while the throughput speed are nice on Fiber the biggest difference is actually latency and how stable the connection is. Been on fiber for 4 years now and not a single outage. When I was on cable you had to reboot that cable modem alteast a few times a year.

 

[BillyBuerger]

My 50mb/s internet plan is crying right now. It's a shame I can't get fiber where I live and internet options are extremely limited where I live.

Same hear. Rural midwest where there's only one option for DSL or cable (same company). I pay $70 for 50/5M. But while faster internet would be nice, I wouldn't want to pay more than I do. And other than when I need to download a game or something large, it gets the job done just fine. At least I don't have to deal with Comcast or the other large companies and all of their crap. Until some day when they buy out our smaller local ISP.

 

[SCP2000]

You still have better internet than most Canadian's with cable. Rogers is still using a low split so only 50Mbps uploads and Shaw went to Mid split a few years ago its why they can over 100Mbps uploads.

I can't imagine what speeds you were seeing in HK.

And while the throughput speed are nice on Fiber the biggest difference is the actually latency and how stable the connection is. Been on fiber for 4 years now and not a single outage. When I was on cable you had to reboot that cable modem alteast a few times a year.

First world problems, amirite

I had access to 1.1 2 Gbps.. this was in late 2017.

You're spot on about the cut-outs; it happens at least once a month, generally in the early morning hours. The latency is very erratic at times (as it is now!)

 

[derekullo]

Perfect timing for the super collider I was planning to setup in my yard!

 

[USAFRet]

My 100/100 FiOS has served me for years, and I see no need to bump that up.

I could get anything up to symmetrical gigabit, but I have no need.
YMMV.

 

[Math Geek]

i got the Fios Gb service and know i don't need the speed. was part of a bundle deal when it came out and they left the price alone. so long as it stays at $60 a month, i'll keep the Gb service. specially considering dropping to the 300/300 is $50 a month!!

but 20 Gb is crazy. i could see if you were splitting it up for an apartment complex or offices or something like that. but an individual user at that speeds would be insanely wasted. especially at $250 per month

 

[Trailer98]

Some of us poor schmucks who live on the fringes are lucky to get DSL...25m download, 1.5m upload. I can hardly download email if the Missus is watching Netflix.