Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disruption Promised

Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by ehnto on Monday March 05, 2018 @06:46AM (#16520386)

I have my pitchfork ready, Jono.

Actually we finally got NBN on my street and I am syncing at 75mbit (paying for 100) and frankly I am over the moon. The fastest I have had previous, after living all over AU, was 14mbit down, and I was the envy of my friends for that roaring waterfall of data.

Everyone else I know is on around 8mbit even in 2018.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by Whitestrake on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @12:42AM (#16527103)

Hoping against hope that we get a similar result when NBN rolls around to my neighbourhood. It would be absolutely awful for them to "upgrade" our system, after waiting so long for this, to the exact same or worse speeds as the ADSL we've been stuck with all this time.

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Re:Eight Years On, Google Fiber Is a Faint Echo of the Disru... by BigJono on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @02:02AM (#16527357)

That sounds like a dream. I'm sharing a 6/1 connection with 3 housemates and 2 partners. I honestly feel like I'm back in the days of dial-up.

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