Google Fiber offering 8 Gig plans

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To think we can get 8 Gbps up/down for $150/mo at your house. Go back to early 2000's and 100Mbps connections at the datacenter, let alone home, was insanely expensive.

We have had 8Gb FTTH for a while... but there is a trick: symetric "physical" 8Gb, but actual internet bandwidth is usually asymetric and severely limited.

In switzerland, they started to deploy symetric "physical" 25Gb FTTH.

Namely, the limiting factor will become the actual backbone: non-domestic fiber "size" and carrier network routers (even those you have in local fiber network nodes).

Hopefully, the bandwidth will stay so overkill for the usage it will make low lantency QoS for very bandwidth limited traffic useless for a while (but better be ready because this is complicated and not only technically).

Dial-up, ISDN, DSL, cable, T1 lines... nothing available in those days was as fast, inexpensive, and/or accessible as modern fiber is. It's truly wondrous.

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