Google Fiber Is Coming To Las Vegas 21
Google Fiber has confirmed that it has started construction in Las Vegas and Clark County, with its fiber internet service expected to be available "later this year." The Verge reports: On Wednesday, Google also confirmed that it's piloting simplified, "lifestyle-based" plans in Alabama and Tennesee, which were first spotted last month. The new $70 / month Core 1 Gig, $100 / month Home 3 Gig, and $150 / month Edge 8 Gig plans replace the 1 Gig, 2 Gig, 5 Gig, and 8 Gig plans that GFiber widely offers.
These new plans are also launching in all of the locations where GFiber is currently available in Arizona and North Carolina, GFiber spokesperson Sunny Gettinger tells The Verge. They're coming to most of GFiber's remaining cities within the next month, too.
These new plans are also launching in all of the locations where GFiber is currently available in Arizona and North Carolina, GFiber spokesperson Sunny Gettinger tells The Verge. They're coming to most of GFiber's remaining cities within the next month, too.
Re:Disrupting the ISP market since 2010 (Score:5, Funny)
At the rate they're going, it will disrupt the entire fiber market within just 200 more years.
Nice Speeds (Score:2)
The prices are up there, but so are the speeds. I currently have 300/300 with Fios, and it's only costing me $40/month, which seems like a really good deal. I don't know what I might do that would use faster speeds than that, but I'm interested in hearing what people who do have gigabit or faster speeds at home find those speeds useful for.
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Sailing the high seas?
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Never met an internet connection I couldn't saturate.
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Yeah, I have the same question. I am on a google fiber 500mbps account.
I can already watch two twitch stream full HD and upload a twitch stream full HD while the wife watches highest res netflix. And even like that I still have bandwidth left and latency is not impacted meaningfully. What would I need 8Gbs for?
Or is that for small business maybe?
Re: Nice Speeds (Score:2)
AT&T offers 5gb fiber here. I used to always get the fastest tier internet just because. Once I hit a gigabit I saw no purpose to go higher. Most networking devices cap out at 1gb. Shrug
Re: Nice Speeds (Score:3)
Re: back from the dead (Score:2)
Both early and late to the party (Score:3)
Google Fiber was one of the early companies to roll out reasonably priced fiber to the home. But it dragged its feet so long that now, the fiber market place is becoming saturated. In my 50-year-old neighborhood in suburban Houston, we had no fiber options just a couple of years ago, but since then, two separate companies rolled out fiber internet availability to every home. Even small towns like Buhler, Kansas have fiber internet available to every home. It's no longer the "new" thing, it's the commonplace, expected thing.
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Google Fiber was one of the early companies to roll out reasonably priced fiber to the home. But it dragged its feet so long that now, the fiber market place is becoming saturated. In my 50-year-old neighborhood in suburban Houston, we had no fiber options just a couple of years ago, but since then, two separate companies rolled out fiber internet availability to every home. Even small towns like Buhler, Kansas have fiber internet available to every home. It's no longer the "new" thing, it's the commonplace, expected thing.
Add small town Texas too. A company I'd never even heard of, Pavlov Media [pavlovmedia.com], has been running fiber through various small communities all around Texas. They apparently are from Illinois and have a lot of service dotted all over that state, but are just now making in-roads into other states. Their pricing is better than TFS's list of GFiber pricing, though whether they stay that way or it's just a foot-in-the-door price, I don't know.
I just got a notice today that service is now enabled in my area (they d
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how shared is google fiber at the local level? Do they have up 64 homes spit off the same cable back to the CO / RT or does each home have it's own run back to the co / RT?
Glacially slow rollout (Score:2)
The rollout in Austin began in 2014. I'm still waiting at my house and they are at least 15 miles away.
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Same in San Antonio. They constantly stick me with ads and emails about it too. They went into a couple wealthy neighborhoods and haven't expanded in a decade.
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They stuck it up here on the northside and I'm getting 1G/s symmetrical for something like $70/mo. I remember when I had it installed and then called to cancel Spectrum the market droid at Spectrum tried to explain how much of a better deal Spectrum was. Basically zero problems in the last couple of years since they installed it. Yes, Spectrum, that went out every other night at 3AM when I was trying to do work, and had some lame-ass asymmetrical model which really doesn't work in a lot of use cases today.
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And meanwhile... (Score:3)
...ATT just dropped DSL in my area and most likely, will never install fiber.
My local ISP tried for years to install fiber, and they were constantly blocked by the telcos.
Their attitude seems to be, we won't serve you and will use every dirty trick in the book to prevent anybody else from serving you.
Slow Stuff (Score:2)
Who cares about Google Fiber at this point? It was clear over a decade ago that they weren't ever gonna expand in any meaningful way. They also have a shady TOS that allows them to harvest much of your data.
I'll keep my 100Gig home fiber here from a local company that supports net neutrality and has great support.
Let's hope they do a better job this time (Score:2)
Private last-mile lock-in is sad (Score:2)