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Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by dingaling on Friday April 25, 2014 @01:41AM (#7644918)
> GFiber is the antidote to these parasitic bastards.

Google Fiber is a contended service, just like every other retail ISP. They're not doing anything particularly different.

Here's the average transfer rate on their 1 Gbps headline product:

http://www.speedtest.net/isp/google-fiber

Yes, 190 Mbps. Fast, but still contended.

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Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by eurleif on Friday April 25, 2014 @01:47AM (#7644925)
Is it possible that's more to do with people testing over WiFi than with the speed of Google Fiber itself? It's hard to tell a lot about the data, since they only provide averages.
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Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by asandweech on Friday April 25, 2014 @01:48AM (#7644931)
I think that average includes the free tier of Google Fiber which if I remember correctly is 5 mbps.
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Re:The Case Against ISP Tolls by arebop on Friday April 25, 2014 @11:23AM (#7647052)
I've heard that Google Fiber has inspired other ISPs in its service areas to initiate high-speed service. I wanted to see this contention though so I clicked around in speedtest.net a bit. Can you point out some contention, because I didn't actually find it [http://www.speedtest.net/local/kansas-city-mo].
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