How Google fiber trumps Comcast in pretty much every way imaginable

The title sounds a little bit sensationalist, but I can't think of a better way to describe how much better Google fiber is than pretty much anything we've got around today. It becomes incredibly difficult to objectively compare Google fiber to any common internet provider without it sounding like an advertisement made by Google. Hell, I bet Google is going to need to understate their product for a lot of people to even believe them.

To start off, I'll give a bit of background into this. Comcast is pretty much the only service provider available to me in Marin, most places only have one or two options as far as internet goes, and for most people it's just Comcast. For a modem and high speed internet, we've been paying a little bit over 70$ a month. This includes 10 gb of online storage, and "high speed internet".

But let's just check what "high speed internet" really means. On www.speedtest.net  I've been getting an average of  ~ 15 megabytes per second download speed, and 4 megabytes per second upload speed. You can check this out for your own computer and check how your speed would stack up to google fiber too, if you want.Basically, for 70$ from comcast, right now I'm getting 15 mbps download, and 4 mbps upload with 10 gigabytes of online storage.

So what Is Google fiber offering?  Conveniently (for the sake of easy math) google's high speed internet plan comes in at the same price, 70$ a month, but what they're offering is radically different. For the same price, google is offering 1000 mpbs download AND upload, along with a terabyte of online storage. Let's compare those numbers for a minute. For the same price, I would be downloading over 65 times faster, uploading 250 times faster, and have 100 times as much storage space. To put that into context, it would take me less than 30 seconds to download all 5 seasons of The Wire off of Amazon.

Google fiber is already setting up in parts of the country like Kansas City, and it's become abundantly clear that without their monopoly on the market, Comcast is going to have to make some major changes to remain competitive. Either way, it's only good news for us consumers.