Wondering when the service will be discontinued…
Knowing Google they’ll get bored with it in a year or two
*20Gbps to your home from their node.
However, you never upgraded your computer beyond a 1Gbps network connection, the cross connect down the line is limited to less than 10Gbps, the server you want to access throttles you to 100Mbps max, you have 100+ ms ping times.
Unless you have 20+ devices in your house all trying to pull 1Gbps simultaneously, it’s a bit of a marketing stunt. There may be some edge cases, but even 4K streaming is only 25-50Mbps, so you could run 5 devices and be fine.
What I’d love to see is guaranteed latency and QoS settings that ensure I’ll never be throttled during any period rather than more bandwidth.
Perhaps it is for high bandwidth businesses and power users, not most home users.
Jesus, I don’t even have that in my data center supporting the entire LMS for a large university?!? Who needs that?
How the heck do you even utilize that? Most hardware doesn’t get beyond 2.5gig yet, you got to pay out the ass for 10 or higher since that stuff is all datacenter grade. You’d need a router or even just a computer with a QSFP+ port I guess. Easily several months bills in networking hardware if you don’t want to end up bottlenecked on your side. Definitely not for the typical home user anytime soon.
I guess it’s for some startups that want to run streaming service from their garage.
Meh, you can do 20g over a pair of bonded sfp+. My cheap-ish Zyxel managed switch will let me do this
Even assuming you could do this, and your backplane even supported it, most of your end devices are still limited to 1 GB NICs, so you would need a large amount of people utilizing your network for this to make sense.
Lol. Got 25/25G for $74/month.
What did you have to pay for their router? Or did you buy your own router, if so much much did you have to spend?
Being actually able to saturate 25/25G is anything but an easy task, unless you have the money to buy enterprise degree hardware. So I ended up building my own router. The CPU, the network card and the 25G SFP+ were the expensive parts. But I managed to stay around $1200 with second hand hardware. Before that with 1G or 10G I used the Ubiquity Dream Machine Pro.
Yeah, I guess 25G is the fastest way to qualify for r/homedatacenter, lol
edit: nvm. I just saw that they are trying to get 200 or 400G switches. Still, I suspect that most of them don’t have 25G WAN
If you‘re curious, someone else documented the PC build and I used this as a guide for mine:
https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2021-07-10-linux-25gbit-internet-router-pc-build/
That’s neat! Thanks for the link.
Oh, cool, I’ll let the seven people know they can upgrade! Google fucking sucks. Fiber is just another piece of the scam.
$250 hahahahahahah in Europe you pay that YEARLY hahahahah
Ah yes, “Europe”, where Telco costs are the same everywhere.
For 20 gbit? Good luck with that.
Not for 20, for 15Gbps (:
Can’t even get those speeds where I live. The fastest I see available is 1gbps down/100 Mbps up and this is a decent sized European city.
Google Fiber sounds like a laxative. Does the user poop it out?
