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Google Fiber is offering early access to $250 per month 20-gig service - The Verge
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this post was submitted on 12 Dec 2023
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How the heck do you even utilize that? Most hardware doesn't get beyond 2.5gig yet, you got to pay out the ass for 10 or higher since that stuff is all datacenter grade. You'd need a router or even just a computer with a QSFP+ port I guess. Easily several months bills in networking hardware if you don't want to end up bottlenecked on your side. Definitely not for the typical home user anytime soon.
I guess it's for some startups that want to run streaming service from their garage.
I can get 8gbps for a reasonable price. For ~30 less I'm getting 500mbps because my firewall only supports about 700mbps of actual throughput.
The home 2.5GE routers might have 2.5gig nic but I highly doubt they can support it for a sustained time.
Meh, you can do 20g over a pair of bonded sfp+. My cheap-ish Zyxel managed switch will let me do this
Even assuming you could do this, and your backplane even supported it, most of your end devices are still limited to 1 GB NICs, so you would need a large amount of people utilizing your network for this to make sense.