Anyone have Google Fiber?
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I was in Salt Lake a few weeks ago and the hotel had it. Seemed fine from a speed standpoint. I know its supposed to be like 1 gps or something, but honestly I can't tell anything apart these days. ***** all just instant these days... It's not like it's 1999 again and I am going over to my buddies ******** dorm room to steal some T-1 to download some MP3's.***
From a reliability standpoint. No brainer. Who do you trust to do it right of these 4
Google
ATT
Cable Company
Weird obscure fiber local fiber provider.
If you can get the Google Fiber, get it.
ETA. Really drunk tonight. Aploghises for the confusion if id make sense.
From a reliability standpoint. No brainer. Who do you trust to do it right of these 4
ATT
Cable Company
Weird obscure fiber local fiber provider.
If you can get the Google Fiber, get it.
ETA. Really drunk tonight. Aploghises for the confusion if id make sense.
Google came into our city last year and installed the infrastructure for it to every house that wanted the free routing. A neighbor decided to get the service last month and said they cant tell it being any faster than their old internet and Google Fiber costs $5 more.
They were paying $65/mo flat for life with the phone company to get 100mps service with no data cap.
They are now paying $70/mo with Google Fiber to get 1gb service with no data cap.
The old service was plenty fast for them(they have 3 kids, stream, etc) but I guess going Google Fiber sets them up for not slowing down later. Their old setup was a locked in price for life though and there is something to that.
Pluses and minuses to both, like most things.
They were paying $65/mo flat for life with the phone company to get 100mps service with no data cap.
They are now paying $70/mo with Google Fiber to get 1gb service with no data cap.
The old service was plenty fast for them(they have 3 kids, stream, etc) but I guess going Google Fiber sets them up for not slowing down later. Their old setup was a locked in price for life though and there is something to that.
Pluses and minuses to both, like most things.
Same here. I've been on ATT at I think the 300MBPS and they've upgraded me on a trial basis (to I think 500MBPS) and I couldn't tell the difference. All we do is stream and work stuff though. Kids play some games but they are not into it enough to worry about speed. I do think the streaming services will cut down your quality now before they pause to buffer, so maybe I'm getting lower quality video, but it seems fine to me.
Now maybe as the kids get older and we're more likely to be streaming 3 or 4 things instead of a max of two, it will be different.
Rambling thoughts...
The best thing is the customer service. If I ever have issues, I'm on the phone with a person who is actually in Boise, Austin, etc., in under two minutes. Their techs are A LOT better than other people I've dealt with. When things do mess up, I feel more in control of the situation if that makes any sense. Far cry from Xfinity.
We made the switch once we decided to cut cable and just stream during football season. I pay $70 a month for Google Fiber, then sign up for YouTube TV ($75 a month) from August to January to watch CFB. During football I'm glued to Twitter, so I miss the how cable is "live," where YouTubeTV is delayed 25ish seconds.
The biggest issue for me is be prepared for outages if you live in a construction zone. Here in Nashville, Comcast and AT&T had judges block Google from running their lines on the power lines. So Google has had to run their lines through the street (about a foot off the curb) in a six inch trough. At least once every two months, we lose internet due to the massive construction here in West Nashville. Crews will dig through the streets and pop lines, and we're out for 4 hours minimum until GF can fix it. And this unfortunately has happened in some less than ideal times, especially during WFH.
All said, I favor Google over the others.
The best thing is the customer service. If I ever have issues, I'm on the phone with a person who is actually in Boise, Austin, etc., in under two minutes. Their techs are A LOT better than other people I've dealt with. When things do mess up, I feel more in control of the situation if that makes any sense. Far cry from Xfinity.
We made the switch once we decided to cut cable and just stream during football season. I pay $70 a month for Google Fiber, then sign up for YouTube TV ($75 a month) from August to January to watch CFB. During football I'm glued to Twitter, so I miss the how cable is "live," where YouTubeTV is delayed 25ish seconds.
The biggest issue for me is be prepared for outages if you live in a construction zone. Here in Nashville, Comcast and AT&T had judges block Google from running their lines on the power lines. So Google has had to run their lines through the street (about a foot off the curb) in a six inch trough. At least once every two months, we lose internet due to the massive construction here in West Nashville. Crews will dig through the streets and pop lines, and we're out for 4 hours minimum until GF can fix it. And this unfortunately has happened in some less than ideal times, especially during WFH.
All said, I favor Google over the others.
Google Fiber made a big splash over here in Atlanta in 2015 when they announced their fiber to homes rollout plan. We signed up in Sept 2016, and then installation finally happened in our neighborhood in June 2017. The initial plan was 1GBps internet and 200+ cable package for $130 with no equipment fees. At the time, I couldn't get fiber from any of ATT/Verizon/Comcast, so I was happy to have it. Never really had any complaints.
We moved in late 2017, and our new place has never had the option for google. We did upgrade from the 100mbs ATT non-fiber to 1GBps ATT Fiber a few years back, and it has been great. It did take some tinkering to get my eero system to handle all the routing work instead of the stock ATT modem/router that you are required to use. The one quirk is that your TV connections (via ethernet) have to be directly to the modem and not routed through the eeros.
Most people that say they can't tell the difference when upgrading plans probably are using old hardware that can't even handle the higher connection speeds. My 2015 mac book pro tops out at 600Mbps via wifi even in the most ideal conditions (2 feet from an eero mesh unit that has an ethernet backhaul to the main router). I'm far and away in the top 5% of people who have spent money/time on their home network because of my long term WFH setup; the average person is just using a single (terrible) modem/router that their ISP leases them.
If you can get any fiber option to your house, get it. Then, spend some money and upgrade your network equipment.
We moved in late 2017, and our new place has never had the option for google. We did upgrade from the 100mbs ATT non-fiber to 1GBps ATT Fiber a few years back, and it has been great. It did take some tinkering to get my eero system to handle all the routing work instead of the stock ATT modem/router that you are required to use. The one quirk is that your TV connections (via ethernet) have to be directly to the modem and not routed through the eeros.
Most people that say they can't tell the difference when upgrading plans probably are using old hardware that can't even handle the higher connection speeds. My 2015 mac book pro tops out at 600Mbps via wifi even in the most ideal conditions (2 feet from an eero mesh unit that has an ethernet backhaul to the main router). I'm far and away in the top 5% of people who have spent money/time on their home network because of my long term WFH setup; the average person is just using a single (terrible) modem/router that their ISP leases them.
If you can get any fiber option to your house, get it. Then, spend some money and upgrade your network equipment.
I have ATT fiber and love it. The att guy installing it told me you won’t be able to tell a difference in the speed of your devices what fiber gives you is the ability to add more devices and maintain that speed. We have a lot on our wifi including our home security system. We have never had a problem streaming anything or any buffering issues and such. It’s been great
So far in this threads I've seen mentioned speeds of "1gps, 100mbps, 1gb, 500mbps". I myself pay for "up to 40mbps" from MaxxSouth but have never seen more than 21mbps. We (up to 5 of us) stream (no cable just internet tv) from 3tv's regularly, tablets, a laptop, a PC, as many as 5 phones this past weekend, etc. I don't have any complaints w/ my "up to 40mbps even w/ all of these devices, it loads sites and streams media just fine especially once I got a mesh router system. I will say there are no gamers at all, mainly music, video and tv streaming. What do you do w/ all the extra speed?
We have cspire fiber here and I've been really happy with it. It was a drastic improvement from xfinity.
Well, streaming porn and not having the video buffer when it gets to the "good part" is a wonderful thing. Allegedly.
Streaming 4k youtube video while on a zoom call from the same computer while my family also streams as much music/tv/games as they want with zero drops in quality.
The biggest difference when going up on speeds is what the default stream rate gets set to. Whenever I watch anything on youtube, I will automatically get the highest quality available (usually 4k, but some don't upload that high of quality). I can even watch 8k with no buffering, but there really isn't any difference to me visually because I don't have a screen that can actually show the difference.
I can also stream games from my xbox to my windows machines with almost zero latency.
Even when my network does have a bottleneck and stutters for a second, it immediately returns to high quality streaming instead of either buffering or dropping to 480p video.
The biggest difference when going up on speeds is what the default stream rate gets set to. Whenever I watch anything on youtube, I will automatically get the highest quality available (usually 4k, but some don't upload that high of quality). I can even watch 8k with no buffering, but there really isn't any difference to me visually because I don't have a screen that can actually show the difference.
I can also stream games from my xbox to my windows machines with almost zero latency.
Even when my network does have a bottleneck and stutters for a second, it immediately returns to high quality streaming instead of either buffering or dropping to 480p video.
I went from 300 mbps to 50 about a month ago when I dropped my Comcast bundle package and haven't noticed any difference. But I'm single. I may have Youtube TV and a Chromebook going at the same time but no buffering at all.
Got a dumb question. A couple of weeks ago our local rural power company installed Fiber optic cable in my neighborhood. I know C-Spire will be using it but can Google use it? If not is there any advantage to 'Google Fiber' over any other Fiber optic cable? I guess my question is......is fiber optic cable universal? Yeah...I'm old. Ha. I can't see converting over at this time anyway as I'm only paying $44/mo for Comcast internet and I own my on modem/router. But if performance drops and my equipment becomes outdated I will do so then.
Got a dumb question. A couple of weeks ago our local rural power company installed Fiber optic cable in my neighborhood. I know C-Spire will be using it but can Google use it? If not is there any advantage to 'Google Fiber' over any other Fiber optic cable? I guess my question is......is fiber optic cable universal? Yeah...I'm old. Ha. I can't see converting over at this time anyway as I'm only paying $44/mo for Comcast internet and I own my on modem/router. But if performance drops and my equipment becomes outdated I will do so then.
Got it and love it. Only issue was it took several weeks for them to cut concrete and run the line to my house from the nearest junction box across the street. Also, would have preferred for the location where they went into the house to be a little bit more centrally located, but my lot layout had its own challenges that kind of prevented that. But try to have some say in that if you can.
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