Google Fiber Gaining 5 Gbps and 8 Gbps Internet Tiers in Early 2023 - Tom's Hardware

Google announced it would present importantly faster fibre broadband services aboriginal adjacent year. Two caller velocity tiers are being introduced to the Google Fiber stables: 5 Gbps ($125/month) and 8 Gbps ($150/month) services. These volition beryllium symmetrical services wherever upload and download speeds are equal. In addition, Google volition supply subscribers with Wi-Fi 6 routers and up to 2 mesh extenders to present robust net speeds passim their households.

In September, the Google Fiber Connect blog teased that employees were investigating a symmetrical >20 Gbps work successful Kansas, truthful readers mightiness beryllium a small disappointed by the announcement of 8 Gbps speeds, astatine best, today. However, Google has kept the offerings it has created symmetrical, volition eschew information caps, volition not enforce installation fees, and claims that it volition support “accessible prices.” So, however bash the caller Google Fiber offerings signifier up compared to what already exists? Check retired our features and pricing examination array below.

What is startling from the supra is what mediocre worth the entry-level work of 1 Gbps appears to beryllium successful airy of the new, faster services utilizing the dollar-per-Gig metric. Of course, determination are fixed costs to providing the connectivity and instrumentality to immoderate premises, and galore customers whitethorn spot nary request for >1 Gbps speeds.

Google addresses the supra gripe successful its blog station by asking, "Who needs 5 Gig and 8 Gig?" The reply is customers who privation to beryllium acceptable for the adjacent large bandwidth-hungry developments of the net age, arsenic good arsenic “creative professionals, radical moving successful the unreality oregon with ample data, households with ample shared net demands.” In different words, immoderate pastime oregon occupation wherever ample record transfers are indispensable should payment from the faster speeds, and Google besides hints astatine reduced lag successful time-sensitive operations similar stock dealing and FOREX – but doesn’t specifically notation gaming.

The archetypal regions to entree these new, faster Google Fiber tiers volition beryllium Utah, Kansas City and West Des Moines via aboriginal trial programs. Interested parties and existing customers should registry their involvement here for retail rollout successful aboriginal 2023. Near the extremity of its blog, Google said 20 Gbps services were inactive successful testing, truthful we tin clasp onto anticipation that determination volition beryllium further faster GFiber tiers added successful the coming months. In the meantime, Google could truly bash thing astir ‘accessibility’ if it flattened retired the dollar-per-Gig metric for its 1 Gbps and 2 Gbps work users.