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Excellent - just scheduled installation the week before Christmas. Looks like a company called Pinnacle Fiber will be doing the install. Do we have to use the Google Wifi router or we can use our own?
Excellent - just scheduled installation the week before Christmas. Looks like a company called Pinnacle Fiber will be doing the install. Do we have to use the Google Wifi router or we can use our own?
You can use your own. I have a Linksys mesh system wired to my Google router and turned off the Wi-Fi on the Google one.
I'm currently on the 100 Mbps plan and just got an email saying that in February, current Fiber 100 customers will be bumped up to a special 500 Mbps plan with a $5/month increase. I'll certainly take it...$55 for half a gig.
I wasn't aware of this - and yes, it's in my email box, too. What great news - thanks for the heads up spideyman.
I'm sooo jealous right now! As an avid gamer and a remote employee - I'd kill to get a 1Gb download connection. Sadly... Google fiber isn't available in my neighborhood and I doubt it will be any time soon.
I'm currently on the 100 Mbps plan and just got an email saying that in February, current Fiber 100 customers will be bumped up to a special 500 Mbps plan with a $5/month increase. I'll certainly take it...$55 for half a gig.
Yup, I got the same email and I couldn't be more happy. Truth be told I suspect Google would have just grandfathered the old $50 rate into the new 500 plan without the price hike if not for the optics of giving some customers a freebie and not others. There might have also been legal considerations with government utilities oversights if they made current 100 customers switch to the 1G plan. It also sort of of indicates what kind of profit margin these ISP's are running if they can throw nearly a half a gig at you for next to nothing.
On top of everything, the communication, the trenching crew (pinnacle fiber), and the install/setup were all handled very well. Very pleasant experience.
You can use your own. I have a Linksys mesh system wired to my Google router and turned off the Wi-Fi on the Google one.
At my location in Cary, I have successfully connected a Google Nest Wifi AC2200 Mesh router directly to the Google Fiber ONT (Fiber jack) and get full speed service. The Google Fiber Box is disconnected and collecting dust. The fiber jack requires micro-USB power in this configuration because the Google WiFi router doesn’t support Power Over Ethernet (POE).
Google’s documentation on the subject is really ambiguous and confusing to me because it seems like the capabilities differ by market sometimes.
At my location in Cary, I have successfully connected a Google Nest Wifi AC2200 Mesh router directly to the Google Fiber ONT (Fiber jack) and get full speed service. The Google Fiber Box is disconnected and collecting dust. The fiber jack requires micro-USB power in this configuration because the Google WiFi router doesn’t support Power Over Ethernet (POE).
Google’s documentation on the subject is really ambiguous and confusing to me because it seems like the capabilities differ by market sometimes.
Hope that helps.
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You can use your own. I have a Linksys mesh system wired to my Google router and turned off the Wi-Fi on the Google one.
That’s good, because I was planning on buying one of those Netgear Nighthawk routers with 4 or 6 antennas and wide sq ft coverage. Unless anyone here has good experience with the Google WiFi mesh routers that Fiber installs for you?
I started the year happy with Spectrum's 100 mbps $50 plan. By last month they had forced me to 400 mbps $70 plan. Google originally promised to be a disrupter offering a couple low cost tiers. Now it sounds like just some more backroom price fixing.
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