All You Need To Know About Google Fiber

So it’s a humbling experience for me considering I’m getting to try this out at such an early stage as this will be the future of our internet. So what about pricing? I will place the packages on your screen right now.

I’m personally paying these $70 a month option here and I won’t get into details about that TV bundle. But for those who think that maybe they don’t need a gig of speed here, there’s Fiber 100, which is still phenomenal as you do get 100 down, but more importantly 100 up. That package is $50 a month.

Now comparing to the world, listening to my viewers out there, those – let’s say they’re for like the Middle East or India in general. They are paying very high prices for slow speeds. On the other hand, my viewers from Japan and other various parts of Europe that actually has fiber, it’s actually cheaper than what the US is offering right now.

If you guys can, in the comments section below, let me know what country you’re from, how much you’re paying and how fast are your speeds. This will be very interesting to see and compare it basically. Now with that being said, besides the crazy speeds which I will show later, not many are aware of the benefits fiber has to offer.

Now when they installed this I had taken some photos here during the progress. They explained fiber cables run directly from the hub to my street here. The wire then continues into this side of my house, into this little box here that you can see. Nothing too fancy. But I just want to show you guys what’s inside out of curiosity here. The wire wraps around my house and then enters into my living room on the side.

So from the hub, the streets, all the way inside my home, the data is completely transferred by light and because it’s fiber, there’s no electrical interference that we see commonly on traditional metal wiring. Now only from the wall to the provided modem, through my Cat5e, into my computer is where any electrical interference may or can occur.

Now great for businesses in the city, of corporate buildings where there are tons of wireless signals, other electrical interferences. Fiber cables are generally immune to them. Now let’s get into the speed test here.

Here’s a quick video as proof this stuff is nuts and I will fast forward to the upload speeds, in which I will be more particularly interested in. Now as you can see, hitting over 900 on both ends with a two-millisecond ping. It’s insane. But let’s do some real world tests. Clicking on a YouTube video 4k video loads practically instantly with zero buffer time.

Now if you click on an un-buffered area, just skip forward. There is a slight delay but seriously minimal. Netflix is particularly or practically the same with instant video startups here and a slight or minor buffer if you do skip ahead.

Now let’s jump over to downloading games from Steam, downloading H1Z1, a file that’s roughly 6.5 gigs had taken a little over four minutes to do. Getting on PlayStation 4 and I think PlayStation 4 owners can attest that download speeds are never near what you’re getting from your internet service providers. Doing an internet speed test, it’s good compared to the past but nothing close to what fiber is offering. I also had the chance to download Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare during their beta last weekend. If I recall, it was about maybe 15 gigs or so and they had taken about two hours to do. But of course when playing games even with a 20-megabit download speed, games usually run perfectly fine.

So overall, everyday tests like webpage loading. It’s a similar experience, nothing too crazy. 4k and Netflix really shines with near instant, sometimes instant results. Downloading is indeed faster. But depending on their servers, from Steam or whoever it may be, it might not allow you to download as fast as you would expect.

Now my reasoning behind that, the average speed in the world is nowhere close to what fiber is offering. So I’m sure corporate server owners haven’t caught up to fiber speeds, which is very much understandable.

So last, as I stated, I’m actually more interested in upload speeds. That’s the biggest difference coming from two to ten megabits upload from my previous provider and now we’re jumping to 900 megabits in upload speeds.

Now first, which is my full time job uploading YouTube videos, in this instance, a huge difference was noticed. By the time Google Fiber finished with that same 800-megabyte file, Time Warner’s 10 megabit upload was still at around 13 percent.

For a stream, very minor pixilation during fast-moving scenes but overall a great image. Sixty frames per second, full HD and I have my laptop and iPad viewing the stream at the same time in the house. Their internet simply didn’t slow down.

So with all that being said, I do see some of the benefits at the moment now and it can be overkill for some things today. But I’m excited to see what the future holds and I’m certain streaming 4K or sending massive amounts of data within a business to cloud servers, through simply offering more reliable internet in various parts of the world, that’s just some of the potential that Google Fiber or fiber internet in general has to offer.

So that’s it for this video. Nothing too detailed or scientific but a glimpse into what you might experience when fiber comes into your area.