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Google Fiber's 20Gbps Internet to Arrive by Year's End for Select Residential Users (www.pcmag.com)
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The company plans on offering the service to a small group of customers in select areas as part of an early access program.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know many, many businesses that don’t have 20 or 10 or even 1gig bidirectional internet. This is marketing fluff/flex as they know that even if they offer it to 100% of users. Only a very select few will consume it

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    What kind of non-business user can even use this. Even if we assume all of octomom's kids have 3 uncompressed 4k bluray streams running each at once - that's 2.5Gbps max. And no streaming service even offers uncompressed video.

    Seriously - what is the point of >1Gbps for normal use? Games? They can be preloaded days in advance nowadays. Even without preloading - it really doesn't take long to download on a gig connection.

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