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deadmetheny
It's finally happened, Google has brought their near-complete lack of user support and eventual abandonment of services to the real world.
smileysteve
I'm pretty sure that At&t beat them to the punch when they oversubscribed pppoe servers with dsl.

Or more recently, when the only hardwire internet you can get has 384kbps up stream.

jjdusk
People are using Google for their ISP? Wow...
smileysteve
It's a valid option when the others are also content and advertising products, or trying to sell your data. All with known horrible service.
beatgammit
And that's why I stick with my crappy municipal fiber. I pay more for less bandwidth vs competitors, but my internet is very consistent (speed tests show that I'm getting exactly the advertised speed) and my city is small enough that I doubt they're competent enough to care about my data. I mean, they're a fiber service, yet their residential speeds max out at 30mbit/sec or something, so mistakes were made in building out the infrastructure (they _must_ be using a ton of base 100 cables/switches for the last mile).