These choices substitute the 1 Gig, 2 Gig, 5 Gig, and eight Gig plans at the moment accessible in different supported cities. Like the present 1 Gig plan, Google Fiber’s new Core 1 Gig choice prices $70 / month with symmetrical 1 gigabit per second add and obtain speeds. It comes with GFiber’s Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 6E Router and helps as much as one mesh extender.
The $100 / month Residence 3 Gig plan sits between the $100 / month 2 Gig and $125 / month 5 Gig choices, providing as much as 3-gig speeds, a GFiber Multi-Gig Wi-Fi 6E router, as much as two mesh extenders, together with precedence room optimization that brings “further wired connectivity to the rooms that matter most.” Subscribers may add an web battery backup for an additional $10 monthly, which provides as much as two hours of “full-bandwidth uptime, with no web sluggish downs” in case an influence outage knocks out your router or fiber jack.
Lastly, Google’s $150 / month 8 Gig Edge “always-on” plan comes with add and obtain speeds of as much as 8 gigabits per second, the identical GFiber Wi-Fi 6E router, and as much as two mesh extenders. It additionally provides as much as 5,000 sq. ft of protection, precedence room optimization, an included web backup battery, and a 25 % refund in case your web goes down for over 45 minutes.
When requested whether or not Google Fiber will deliver these new plans to extra places, Google spokesperson Sunny Gettinger mentioned the corporate can have “extra to share within the new 12 months.” Since Google Fiber’s inception in 2010, the corporate has been step by step increasing its fiber footprint throughout the US whereas reaching sooner speeds. Google rolled out a 20-gig Wi-Fi 7 plan in choose cities final 12 months.
Replace, December twentieth: Added a response from Google.
