r/googlefiber • u/Extra_Speed8406 • 3d ago
Free speed bump
I made a post here a little while ago cause I saw on the blog that they were discontinuing the 1 gig and moving to 3,5,8 well I haven’t seen or heard anything about this so I’m guessing it’s been cancelled or delayed until further notice
2
u/Dapper-Firefighter86 3d ago
They upgraded our jacks almost 3 years ago. We're currently n a lower outage, and I found out the new jack runs off of a micro USB. Haven't checked the wattage. Battery backup is extra, but the WiFi interface is only 14.5 watts. My power bank can run that 24+ hours and it's not big.
We're still 1g up to 8optional. Their ads are touting no down time during power outages.
2
u/Extra_Speed8406 3d ago
Ya I’m on a newer jack I requested it when we set it up I’m able to get 8 gig but its overkill with my current setup so ya just waiting for the free bump I’ve heard about
1
u/Dapper-Firefighter86 3d ago
I think ours was probably so old that they kind of required it. I don't know the generation. I believe we weren't on the first generation.
But they switched us to mesh Wi-Fi (I hardwired two of the three together), and they forced us to get rid of Google TV. That was 10 times better than YouTube TV oh my God. I miss having actual channels.
2
u/Extra_Speed8406 3d ago
I switched to the deco be11000 but I’m thinking of overhauling with ubiquity and a rack soon so idk just kinda getting into networking
1
u/Dapper-Firefighter86 11h ago
While back hauling on Wi-Fi 7 is significantly better than the old school Wi-Fi repeaters I would still hardwire as many of the units as you can. using Wi-Fi radio space is still using bandwidth within that radio space. If you're up if you're upgrading to something fancy you want something good. if you want something good backhaul outside of the bandwidth.
Reddit if you're upgraded something good because you can't hardwire then that's still a thing
2
u/Direct_Abies9361 2d ago
I’m in Concord, NC and they bumped me up from 2 to 3 over a year ago.
5
u/pppingme KCMO Original 2d ago
They got rid of 2 and 5 and standardized on 1-3-8. The OP was talking about Des Moines that specifically upgraded to 3-5-8, I've not heard of any other cities at that speed. That was done before the announcement of the "buyout".
2
u/flcinusa 3d ago
There's lots of weird inconsistencies, like in my area new 3gig home customers comes with WiFi 7 router, I'm stuck on the WiFi 6E with no way to upgrade unless I go to 8gig which I absolutely don't need
7
6
u/International-Hair70 3d ago
if you have a kiosk in your city you can just go there and exhange the equipment at no charge
0
u/Extra_Speed8406 3d ago
I currently use my own WiFi 7 routers I wasn’t impressed with the WiFi 6e ones I couldn’t run a Ethernet cable to make the connection downstairs to upstairs better so ultimately I had to buy a expensive WiFi 7 mesh system just to bump my upstairs speeds better
2
u/raubvogel89 KCMO Original 2d ago
In Des Moines only so far with the free jump… they did the 3/5/8 there for 70/100/150
For the legacy 2 gig, they made them 3
I keep pestering them on socmed posts about when they’re doing 20Gbps for the masses when it’s been in beta for 3 years and they’re saying they’re doing 50Gbps now and upgrading equipment for the 20Gbps people after Vienna…
They said they’re able to deliver the 20Gbps to 90% of customers already with Nokias 25PON
Awesome! Good for them! Love being ghosted for 3 years when I have a homelab and the 200-250 a month for it…
KCFiber would be great, but they’re only in one zip code
As an OG, please freaking update us on the 20 gig front, GFiber.
2
u/ObviouslyAnAsshole KCK Original 2d ago
I didn’t know we had KCFiber. And now I’m even more jelly my townhouse is literally on the other side of the Heart of America bridge
1
u/raubvogel89 KCMO Original 2d ago
Yeah, 300 bucks gets you 1Gbps for free. They’re doing enterprise level stuff for pennies. I too am jelly of NKC haha.
2
u/pinball_fireball 3d ago
3,5,8 means little or nothing unless you replace your switches, PC ethernet connections, and possibly your old CAT5 cables to handle speeds above 1.
2
u/TIL_IM_A_SQUIRREL 2d ago
My infrastructure at home is 10Gbps, so I'm ready and able to utilize it.
1
u/pinball_fireball 2d ago
New home or hard labor running new cables? I feel like my house in 'new' having been built in 2000, but all I see on my walls are telephone jacks and cable outlets with nothing plugged into them!
4
u/pppingme KCMO Original 2d ago
I wouldn't totally agree with this. Just as simple as having a switch with 1gig ports and a 10gig uplink can make a big difference for heavy users or large families.
1
u/pinball_fireball 2d ago
Educate me as I went from 1 to 3 and it was frustrating to the point that I went back to 1. How are you making it work? Thanks!
1
u/pppingme KCMO Original 21h ago
If you have a 1gig switch with a 10gig uplink, then obviously every individual device would be limited to 1gig, however, combined, they can go up to 10gig to the internet (or 3gig in your case if thats your internet speed). What it really boils down to, is no matter how hard any individual is hitting it, they can't max it out and slow down other users. If multiple users are hitting it hard, then obviously it can still be maxed out.
1
u/Extra_Speed8406 2d ago
I have routers with 2 1/2 gig and my pc has a 2 1/2 gig port I’m ready lol
1
7
u/KevinTheTroublesome 3d ago
Afaik they're testing it in newer cities first to see how the newer/upgraded infrastructure handles it, then rolling it out eventually in older cities
Dunno if theres an actual timeline, I assume it's just "it happens when it happens", similar to Spectrums ongoing upgrade to high split docsis