Google Fiber is launching 5-gig and 8-gig plans early next year
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Google Fiber will soon offer some really fast internet speeds. | Image: Google Fiber Google Fiber will offer 5Gbps and 8Gbps tiers starting in early 2023 (via 9to5Google). The company is pitching these new offerings for people like creative professionals, those that regularly work in the cloud" or with large data, and households with many people sharing the internet, according to a blog post from director of product management Amalia O'Sullivan.
5 Gig will make it easier to upload and download simultaneously, no matter the file size," writes O'Sullivan. And 8 Gig will make sure that everything you are doing online is happening in near real time (without jitter and with low latency)." The tiers each come with a Wi-Fi 6 router and up to two mesh extenders with professional installation, but you can use your own router...