[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[TangoLimaSierra]

No Goog. Not even for free.

[Revel]

No Thanks.

[Dr. Sivana]

Okay, so if you had the whole 100 Gbps, that would be an entire Terabyte in under a minute and a half. In reality NIC-mainboard bus connectivity, SSD access times, bus throughput on the SSD (often 6gbps or worse) make that utterly impossible.

At that level, latency is as or more important than raw sustained throughput, especially for gaming, but also for frequent small updates, as in databases. Movies would download fast, though.

[markman46]

I remember 300/1200baud modems and using compuserve and AOL, I have had 1gb internet from spectrum sense 2018 and I love it my laptops, desktop, tablet phone TV and directtv box all use it.

[grimalkin]

[UB355]

ATT just pulled in fiber. 300 up and down $60.00 month