Although the fiber in my country seems more convienient at least compared to the American continent I decided to make a test with a 4G LTE router + sim data: Although the ping is high it doesn't seem to affect my browsing habits much especially in chrome-based browsers. Unfortunately my city is not reached by 5G. The monthly expense would be 9.99 euros/month 120 GB/month which for me and my wife is more than enough. For this test that will last 1 month I bought a data sim of 80 GB/month cost 7.99 euros/month.
UK: Surfshark VPN, wireguard tunnel: Peak is 43.7 FTTC. British Telecom, phone: VOIP landline via wireless smarthub.
I had a $99, 1gb cable connection in Oklahoma before moving to Arkansas. Here, semi-rural, all that’s available is a DSL connection with AT&T. It’s ‘officially’ a 1.5mb hookup, but my step son works for them for many years. Between him and the tech, they managed to get it to 14mb down. I’ll have to take what I can get!
I'm surprised at the speed of some of you guys, way faster than I thought. I have a 1000 Mbps down and 10 Mbps up connection via cable. But word on the street is that soon cable companies will offer way higher upload speeds via DOCSIS 4.0, because this is currently the only advantage that fiber has over cable. https://corporate.comcast.com/press...modem-technology-multigigabit-speeds-to-homes https://www.cablelabs.com/technologies/docsis-4-0-technology
There is no point in extra speed considering the limitations of disk/SSD. 50 Mbps is fine, even for Netflix, unless you intend to use it for WiFi or downloading large files. I am more interested in the upload speed due to cloud backups.
Anywhere that I have experienced fiber vs. cable the fiber service has been way more reliable. Some business, some residential. Even residential fiber is more reliable than business cable. This has been in multiple states and with multiple providers. I'm sure there are exceptions but as a general rule, it seems to be a rule.
Sorry guys, I actually have a 100 Mbps download connection, so not 1000 Mbps, it was a typo. And I agree, for streaming and websurfing 100 Mbps is more than enough. A better upload speed would indeed be welcome when using cloud storage services, 10 Mbps is way too slow.
Perhaps it depends on the country? I believe in Holland, cable and fiber are probably just as reliable but I don't have a fiber connection in my apartment, at least not yet. The major advantage of cable is that the signal runs to the home via coaxial cable, so you can plug in a TV in living room and bedroom(s) without having to connect the TV to a setup-box. Of course you will only be able to receive and record so called ''free to air'' channels. But most premium channels suck anyways.
Likely. I think critters are more likely to disrupt cable networks. Then there is weather, people digging up cables, hitting poles and so on.
The speed varies. At night the speed is around 35 mbps download and 80 mbps. In the morning and throughout the day the speed stays around 66 mbps download and 78 mbps upload.
9 Mb both up and down with the $30/mo. WiFi at the building where I stay. My budget Android 4G phone is faster, 24 Mb download over 4G indoors.
100/20mbit optic fibre at home, 16 euros/month. 10gbit/10gbit at work. It's crazy fast, i need 10gbit NIC capable network card and an ssd to my work puter, because my work puter HDD slows down my...linux distro loadings
