- This is really unfortunate. Google Fiber has maintained a low, no-nonsense price for years with near-perfect uptime, and besides the odd upselling email, they have never really pushed upgrades. More importantly, I can use my own hardware without having to engage in a war with technical support on 2 hour long calls.
Maybe I was in denial that Google would behave differently about this product considering their track record.
- Google Fiber has been aggressively upselling us to a higher plan the last 6-12 months, prior to that in my 6 years with them I don't remember a single upsell. Guess I know why now, trying to grease the numbers for the highest possible sale price.
I'll be sure to take this as a warning sign in the future with other services if aggressive upselling starts happening unexpectedly.
by kylecazar
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- I remember when it was released and I wished I was in Kansas.
I'm smack in the middle of debating Google Fi, this probably won't impact my decision, but I wonder if it will suffer a similar fate.
- End of an era: GFiber's brand equity was weirdly valuable because it was one of the few ISPs people talked about almost like a software product.
by tomasphan
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- At this point purchasing Google services/products is a real risk for business continuity.
- We’ve gone back and forth between GFiber and AT&T in SF. Currently on AT&T because they do FTTP while GFiber is microwave backhaul. Once the drought years ended it was impossible to work from home on rainy days.
Sonic keeps promising they will be lighting up dark fiber in our part of the city but it keeps not happening. They’ll happily resell us the same AT&T service we’re already paying for, though.
- Well, shit. Google Fiber has been the least-bad residential ISP I've dealt with. They put the fear of Competition in all the other ISPs in town, giving us an immediate free speed boost years before Google Fiber actually made it to our neighborhood.
But more than most Google projects, it's always been clear that they could at any time get bored with it and give up.
by alanwreath
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- Ah the Google graveyard thrives.
- this will age poorly... and Google will launch a new fiber Network offering in 5 years
by burnt-resistor
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- I'm glad that a farmer utility co-op exists here that offers GFiber-equivalent of 1 GbE symmetric and unlimited data for no contract $99/month with an $65/month intro rate. Also has 500 Mbps for $75 ($40) and 250 Mbps $65 ($30). Municipal broadband and electricity needs to take back community services away from profiteering corporations and private equity vampires, and really benefit from government-assisted grants and loans and templatized processes and governance to bootstrap more of these.
One of the major pluses of GFiber is it largely ignored DMCA requests. Also, the 20 Gbps ONT beta service was rad. A weak point was their mesh routers that didn't work quite right and would refuse to work if "too close together".. 20 ft apart. Their customer service/tech support was pretty awesome.
by Simulacra
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- I remember when Google fiber was all the rage back around 2013, and I so desperately wanted it to come to my neighborhood, anything to offset the Comcast regime. Deeply disappointed that there were so many barriers preventing its expansion. From pole access to just straight up anti-competitive behavior from Comcast, fiber could've really been something great but the law just wouldn't allow it.
by vivzkestrel
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- any ideas why they are selling this?
by nodesocket
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- Well shoot. I have Google Fiber 1 gig, and generally been happy. Hopefully service uptime and price does not change.
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