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First day's opinion(s)....
1) The speed is awesome. Duh! See attached.
2) Now that they've sold you on the "all the TV boxes in the house are a wireless AP and will be an extension of your overall Google Fiber home WiFi network", then they get there and tell you they won't enable it unless you demand it. They want the APs to be 150-200 feet apart before they're actually OK with it. Evidently it's the typical salesman vs. engineer deal, and the feature really isn't ready for prime time. According to the people who actually look you in the eye (unlike the corporate/sales assholes), Google doesn't actually want to enable it right now because the radios apparently step on each other and all the wireless devices get confused, quit working well, disconnect and reconnect a LOT, and it's causing a lot of calls. So it'll work someday, but the sales people don't have the balls to quit selling it like it's ready for Prime time.
3) It blows that Google decided to have their "TV Box" be controlled by a Blue Tooth remote. So if you're coming from Time Warner where you got one "official" remote (like Google), most off-brand remotes could still do 99% of what the Time Warner remote could do, and controlled the TV box and the TV too. Not so with Google. And there appears to be an IF receiver in the box, so it's bothersome. Google's answer is to use their Google Fiber App, and that App kinda sucks for being a Set-top box and TV controller - you can't do things like control volume, and that's dumb. So that off-brand universal "in the kitchen" remote you might have used to mute the TV for family dinner is now junk. Simply stupid IMO.
4) While their Android and iOS "Google Fiber" App seems OK for the phone/tablet/iPad, watching TV on your laptop is a pain! Instead of them having you logon to Google on your laptop, then giving you a TV guide, Google has opted to give you links to about 25 TV show's web sites and from there you have to tell those many different sites you're a Google Fiber subscriber before you see the program. We'll see if it allows you to watch those "channels" even though you're not connected to your home network because you are simply a Google Fiber subscriber. So far it looks like it will, so that's nice I guess. But I think Time Warner 1000% wins that feature.
5) They won't run Cat5e cable to all the wired locations you want, they'll only run one; so chose the location you want the full Gig wisely. The rest are probably going to be wireless. I know I'm going to be using a couple of 5-port Gig switches and running some Cat5e on my own!
6) The remote seems to have a lot more lag in operations like pulling up the guide. It was enough slower that I was pressing the guide button twice because I didn't think I had pressed it.
So, I'm not trying to sound too negative, but I'm offering true feedback. I think too many people will be too giddy about the 970Mbps and forget to remind Google they have some areas that aren't as cool as the people they're competing with.
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