Google Fiber’s 20-gig service costs $250 per month
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What would you download with a 20Gbps internet connection?
    • Delusional@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I swear it was a decade ago that it was rolled out in those cities. I haven’t heard anything about it since so I thought it was shut down.

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    1 year ago

    Fuck Google. These pieces of shit rip people off, lock them into storage plans while holding their email hostage so they can’t cancel, then lose their goddamned backed-up files. And don’t get me started on the selling of customer data. Just absolutely fuuuuuck Google. Fuck them. Every service they offer is offered elsewhere by less evil companies.

    • solrize@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Unfortunately Google is the only fiber and maybe only broadband supplier in my neighborhood. I’m still on slow DSL. Comcast is as bad as Google afaict.

    • miss_brainfart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      then lose their goddamned backed-up files

      Now obviously that shouldn’t happen in the first place, but if a backup disappearing is a problem for a user, then that user didn’t do their backups correctly.

      But yea, fuck Google. Like, with a chainsaw. Sideways.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Google advertises their Google One product and Google Drive product for use as syncing to their servers to “back up” your files. Their software incorrectly indicates some files are synced when they are not. There is no way to force the sync on such files. And there’s no way to know they aren’t actually synced unless you manually check all of your files through their web interface daily, which is time consuming and unreasonable.

        Additionally, files that were previously uploaded to their cloud service (One or Drive or whatever they choose to call their overpriced storage on any given month) are known to vanish. This is a known, documented problem that Google has been “addressing” for countless customers and has been covered by several media outlets for months. Despite the new media attention, this is an old problem that has not been fixed for well over a year.

        This is not user error as you would suggest. This is a “Google lying to their customers” problem. I know how to use Google Drive and their other products as I was an early adopter and was paying for one of their most expensive tiers for my business.

        The correct solution to the problem was to move to a more honest service like Sync.com. I have had no such problems since moving. I recommend others get the fuck away from Google as soon as they can. Fuck Google. Their company policy is to just be dishonest, and that’s reflected in their dishonest tech support (but that’s a new rant for another time).

        TLDR: It’s not user error. Google is famously bad at syncing to cloud storage and they are liars about it.

      • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I definitely agree with multiple different backups but if you specifically pay a company $120+ a year to not lose your stuff then it should never get lost outside of the user doing something stupid like not paying.

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    1 year ago

    Jesus, I don’t even have that in my data center supporting the entire LMS for a large university?!? Who needs that?

  • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Cries in 0,1 Gbit/s cause DE sucks ass. Won’t get fibre for years, but hey at least 100m away the municipality has fibre and the schools 1km away will get connected next year. They just put the cables around my street.

    • Saff@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m fortunate enough to get 1gig through Vodafone, but even then the upload speed sucks so bad. Every time I see Telekom speeds I feel so bad for the guys that can’t get Vodafone. I keep looking at houses outside the city and the infrastructure is awful. I keep seeing 20mb as maximum on the house listing!

      Would be a welcome competition for Google fibre to come here, but as far as I know they only ever did the US right?

      • plague-sapiens@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, Vodafone DOCSIS is OKish. Had that in another flat some years ago, but random reconnects occured all the time. Right now 1und1 being fucktards too. I wanted to move my 250Mbit/s DSL, but couldn’t do it online. Had to call, end of story I had a brand new 100Mbit/s contract and my old 250 one was still active at the old address… Took like 10 calls and many hours to fix this. Still don’t have the Instant Starter Kit with LTE. Gonna call them later…