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Final 12 months Google Fiber introduced it was form of coming again to life. For years, the service—which had Google roll right into a city, lay down miles of fiber-optic cable, and begin competing with the native ISP monopoly—had “paused” additional growth. Now, for no matter purpose, Fiber is again, and the corporate is providing a brand new excessive of 5 gigabits per second.

In fact the draw back to Google Fiber is all the time the very restricted rollout space. Google says 5 Gig service is coming to “Kansas Metropolis, West Des Moines, and all our Utah cities,” and that is it. Google Fiber introduced plans final 12 months to roll out to 5 new states finally however has no plans to ever attain a large rollout.

Should you reside in one of many blessed Fiber cities, the service sounds nice, although. That is 5Gbps symmetrical, so 5Gbps obtain and add speeds, which is an enormous enchancment over one thing like Comcast and its ~35MB add speeds. Should you’re a content material creator, developer, or, particularly, somebody who recurrently generates 4K video, regular ISP add speeds will be crippling. Google’s 5Gbps service is $125 a month, which features a professionally put in 10 Gig fiber modem and “a Wi-Fi 6 router and two mesh extenders.”