My town finally has access to residential fiber internet connections. After decades of Spectrum/Adelphia using dated coaxial lines and choosing to never upgrade them, someone else came in and in a very short period of about 2 months got fiber run through most of the city and surrounding towns. So far after about a month and a half on the service, it has been great. There have been 2 days with periods of slowdowns, but my understanding from looking online is that they were fiber cuts that likely affected other providers as well. During those periods, I did not lose service, but it was slow enough to cause buffering on video streaming.
Using my own equipment, I have been able to fully taake advanatge of the available speed reaching over 5 gigabits in a speedtest. Plus, with just 4ms ping time to a city more than 120 miles away, this blows away what cable internet could do. Now, I know my > 1 gigabit speeds will not last forever. If I was using Fidiums hardware I would be capped at 940/940 which is the max of a gigabit port on most routers once you factor in overhead. My understanding is that Fidium has not yet turned on QoS (Quality of Service) for downloads which basically allows me to run wide open touching 6 gigabits at times. I think the actual connection is 8 gigabits per line on their end but I have only heard of one person actually seeing that off a speed test. At some point once their network is stress tested and settled or bandwidth becomes an issue they would likely turn on QoS and limit speeds. In the meantime, Im going to enjoy fast ping times and steam downloads.
Looks like wordpress cant embed a youtube SHORT yet, so link here for speed test: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/REKNIJ-WVSk
