Google challenges US ISPs with 100Gbps fiber broadband

The Register ^ | 29 September 2022 | Dan Robinson

[ShadowAce]

[Tell It Right]

Google: Hey, ISP's. Use our very fast internet backbone. We won't snoop this time. We promise. We won't block "disinformation". We promise.

[ShadowAce]

Well, except that Google wants to be your ISP.

[Tell It Right]

That’d be like having Gretagore monitor my thermostat, or Stacey Abrams monitor my fridge.

[Roadrunner383]

Geez, I feel like a dinosaur. Our internet runs at about 60Mbs and the wife and I have no issues. Not sure what use we would get out of 100Gps.

[ShadowAce]

heh—mine’s a bit faster than 60Mbps, but I use it to work from home.

[Red Badger]

WOW! FASTER PR0N!........................

[Myrddin]

I waited almost 20 years for fiber to my premises. It arrived with 1 Gbps symmetric capacity. On installation day, it delivered 980 Mbps symmetric to my test device. Upload speeds remain 980 Mbps. Download has degraded somewhat with additional users on the network.

I'm paying $75/month for 1 Gbps symmetric now. My ISP was just "acquired" by a larger local ISP. New users will pay $99/month for a new 1 Gbps symmetric. Existing users were "grandfathered" in to the original monthly contract price.

Google would have to make an investment in fiber and do lots of infrastructure installation to bring 100 Gbps to my area. It is only present because local entrepreneurs made a significant financial commitment to install the fiber and get the external connectivity. I don't think the current fiber is capable of 100 Gbps. No switch hardware on my own premises runs faster than 1 Gbps. A few of the machines have Ethernet at 2.5G speeds, but they actually run at 1 Gbps on the local LAN.

[Grampa Dave]

“Geez, I feel like a dinosaur. Our internet runs at about 60Mbs and the wife and I have no issues. Not sure what use we would get out of 100Gps.”

My wife and I have basic TracFone Samsungs, and I use a Chromebook. On the basic Comcast, everything works as fast as we key in the data/question/login.

Sometimes after dinner about @ 6:30 pm, streaming shows can be a little slow getting onto or into a show. By 7:30 to 8 pm, that disappears. Our grandson tells us that the other old fogies and college kids are logging on to the same internet on our culdesac. His hotshot apple phone and IPad have zero problems in our home.

So like you, we basically have zero issues.

[ComputerGuy]

I still remember the thrill of upgrading to 14.4k

[Pollard]

download speed of 20.2Gbps, with a screenshot offered to prove it, although curiously omitting the upload speeds.

Probably uploads half your hard drive every time which slows things down.

[Glad2bnuts]

If you stream videos, and game it takes a lot of “juice”. I am satisfied with my 400 mbps service.

[Pollard]

I’m on DSL and get 30Mbps download and pretty close to that for upload which is fairly new. Used to get 10 Mbps download and 1Mbps upload at best. They’ve been running fiber optic in all the neighborhoods along the state hwy but are waiting on a fedgov grant to run it down the state hwy to town. 20 miles of rocky Ozarks hill country.

[Glad2bnuts]

I remember the baud rate of 8,800. It took minutes to upload a catalogue at the local Library.

[Pollard]

Good old dial up. Choices were aol or earthlink. IE or netscape.

[so_real]

Not a fan of the thought of having an centralized ISP monoply. Especially one with Google's privacy track record. With that kind of bandwidth, they can denial-of-service the competition right out business. Not good. They'll be our government's ISP in no time.

[cableguymn]

For basically ever... we have had 20 meg or less...

Then Musk sent me a starlink (not personally of course) and we see 150+ meg internet...

we got no clue what to do with all the speed.

[ShadowAce]

I’ve got 400Gbps now. I’ve gotten used to the speed of web pages loading as if they’re local. It’s quite amazing how internet speed can make your local computer feel so much more powerful.

[TangoLimaSierra]

No Goog. Not even for free.