Google Fiber is launching the 5Gbps web plan it started testing in October. The service will initially cowl 4 cities, however Google says the $125-per-month service will broaden to different areas later this 12 months.

The brand new plan is out there at this time in Kansas Metropolis, West Des Moines and Fiber’s Utah cities. It has symmetrical add and obtain charges, an upgraded 10 Gig Fiber Jack (the small field housing the fiber cable’s entrance into your own home), skilled set up, a WiFi 6 router and as much as two mesh community extenders.

Though 5Gbps speeds may very well be overkill for many households, they may turn out to be useful for artistic professionals, players or others who want minimal latency or switch giant recordsdata continuously. For instance, a 150GB Microsoft Flight Simulator obtain that takes 11 minutes at 2Gbps would solely take about three minutes at 6Gbps (beneath ideally suited circumstances, anyway).

The upgraded speeds are a part of Google’s rejuvenated give attention to Fiber. The corporate additionally lately introduced its first community enlargement in years. However, maybe extra crucially, it reestablishes Fiber as an trade disrupter pushing rivals to improve speeds and decrease costs (possibly) on present plans. Comcast already provides 6Gbps service in some areas, but it surely prices a whopping $300 and doesn’t embrace symmetrical uploads.

Google additionally reiterated that Fiber’s 8Gbps choice, additionally introduced late final 12 months, remains to be “coming quickly.” That service will even embrace symmetrical uploads and downloads.