Originally Posted By: badtlc
My area has a lot of google fiber. Many complaints are starting to surface now with more users. I got a guy a few blocks from me who can't even download above 3 Mbps or 0.003 Gbps. Apparently Google doesn't have the backbone infrastructure in place.
There have been some complaints about the TV pausing/skipping, too. I'd personally recommend staying away, especially if you read their user agreement/privacy disclosure.
We had a library who turned down the free gigabit internet simply because of the privacy issues with the google contract.
As a side note, At&T and CCI have gigabit fiber services. I have CCI gigabit fiber internet for $50/month. It is amazing stuff and I get full gigabit speeds to speedtest.net servers, but the reality is right now the internet is the same if you have 50 Mbps+ because of bottlenecks in the net itself. The biggest thing about fiber is most have synchronous upload speeds and if you are a power use, THAT is a huge upgrade.
interesting, I am on the Missouri side. I was wondering if this was still in the guinea pig stage.