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Originally Posted by Fish
Fiber is a different animal than other broadband offerings. If you're getting a nice stable connection now, then it'll likely be that way the entire time. That's just the awesome nature of fiber broadband. And when you've got a really stable 5Mbps connection, you can stream anything and everything you want. Especially if you're just pushing one stream at a time.
I pay for the Gigabit service. But truth be told, 95% of what I do with my bandwidth would have sufficed with the free connection. It's almost impossible to max out that gigabit connection. The sources you download from become the bottleneck and you'll never max out your bandwidth. But that said, when you do have a nice source with sufficient bandwidth, it's pretty incredible to see that data stream in at multiple MB/s. I can decide to try a huge 60-100GB game, and that shit just flies. Once you experience it, everything else is slowmo.
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Yep. I do not need the full bandwidth pipe of the 1000 Mbps connection (although we often have four netflix streams and downloading all going on at once), but I am not going back. Bandwidth needs are constantly increasing as well as streaming becomes more and more prevalent at greater quality.
I love my google fiber and hopefully they stay in this business for a long time.