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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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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Same. And they send me an email every few weeks to see if I’ll upgrade to 2gig. I pretty damn happy with just the 1gig. I can’t imagine what I’d do with 20gig.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I mean… I’m thinking…

    Would that be useful for hosting a variety of distributed services? Nah, bc the whole point is horizontal scaling. And 20gig is definitely vertical scaling, but then again, por qué no los dos?

    The metaverse (lowercase m) is expected to have lots of need for extremely fast and low latency networking. Even if it’s just short bursts here or there, in a live interactive situation, you definitely want geometries and textures downloading and rendering as fast as you can possibly get them.

    So maybe they’re just prepping for that, and trying to get whales to subsidize it all.

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