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Google Fiber offers 8 Gbps in Austin for half the price. They're also piloting 20 Gbps in some areas.[0] I wished it were available where I live because the only maximum options currently available are 1 Gbps through either GVEC (fiber) or Spectrum (cable). Spectrum is slow and has outages occasionally. GVEC lacks useful information on their website and hides pricing.

0. https://fiber.google.com/gfiber-labs/20gig

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Anything beyond 10 Gbps is basically the datacenter world and the switches, NICs, etc. are going to be real expensive. I wonder if their terms allow hosting on that 20Gbps plan as that's probably the only real use for it.

They also refuse to do installs in new builds in many neighborhoods. I have lived sandwiched between two addresses that have Google Fiber, and they have refused to come out to install the last 25 feet of cable to my house for 5 years. So I'm paying $100/mo for crappy Spectrum internet that goes down all the time.

I've reached out to them several times to come out or do a survey, or run the existing fiber through already existing conduit and they just refuse.

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