They've been expanding again, and are now offering 8gbps in my area. I've been very happy with it, and I'm still only paying $70/month.
That’s absolutely amazing. Besides hosting at home, do you feel any difference vs say a 1gbps line? Surely most servers won’t saturate this when downloading or browsing?
Our ISP (Sonic) offers 10Gb uncapped for $50/mo.
I don't feel any difference over our previous 1G service, other than it never lags, even if multiple kids are streaming video and I have a backup running. The biggest difference is that it's half the price of the 1G service that ran over AT&T's fiber.
Re:Why GitHub Won
by nickstinemates on Monday September 09, 2024 @06:59PM
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I really wish Sonic would expand out to West Marin. My only options are comcast and starlink.
Ouch. I was ecstatic when they started offering service in my neighborhood in Alameda.
Google Fiber is actually working on expanding to where I live, I keep getting ads on Youtube for it.
> talk about a data selling gold mine with all that traffic
IIRC, Google doesn't sell user data. But it's plenty valuable to them all locked up.
Re:Why GitHub Won
by scarface_74 on Monday September 09, 2024 @07:08PM
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Google literally abandoned Fiber in at least one city and left roads in disrepair via “shallow trenching”
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Frankly, I’m just as shocked they didn’t go full throttle with it either, because talk about a data selling gold mine with all that traffic
While I’m on that subject, it could have been a real opportunity for them to push fiber + YouTube TV as a package. Google isn’t good at making original content but at some point they have made a software + services play that makes such a package more palatable and user friendly, imagine subscribing to a YouTube channel and it becomes a channel as part of the TV app for instance. A lot of people watch channels like this as it is.