Cable vs. Fiber Internet Showdown - Watch This Before You Make Your Choice!

Fiber or Fiber Optic Internet recently came to my neighborhood, so I went for it, but before getting rid of my Cable Internet, I decided to test them both out to find out which high speed internet option is the best! Welcome to: Cable vs. Fiber Internet Showdown! You are going to want to watch this video before making your decision on which internet delivery system is better. Thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe.

[@cyumadbrosummit3534]

One thing you forgot to mention is the latency difference which is arguably the most important thing for gamers playing first person shooters. The Cable in your test had over 3x higher latency at 20ms vs Fiber at 6ms.

[@LoveWhatYouDo]

Great point. So less of a delay with fiber. Great for gamers, too.

[@thelandonm1357]

20 ms ain’t bad, it’s better than most joes out there

[@FrostyStarts]

Other than random ping spikes cable has so you will not always get 20ms

[@troy028]

My cable latency is 10ms n spikes up to 35ms sometimes. Always between those points. If your latency is 50ms or below then your winning

[@darrenmcgruther6851]

My cable ping is never more than 9ms our Fibre ping is 3-5 ms. Virtually no difference. And we are getting symmetrical up/down over coax this year

[@phbrinsden]

We recently got fiber in the neighborhood and I switched for several reasons: 1. Any time there was a storm the cable co went down. Fiber never goes down. 2. The cable would crap out almost any time for no apparent reason, 3. I have a great fiber price and it is fixed. The cable guys kept sneaking it up hoping you wouldnt notice. 4. Service. The cable co had terrible tech and phone service. They run the company in very old school way. 5. Even though cable had buried fiber it still had to come into the house via copper coax. 6. Cable relied on selling house phone and cable tv content and even security to up their revenue and it also kept sneaking up. The “packages” were infuriating. Fiber does one thing; deliver very fast and reliable internet connection. What you want in content and services is up to you to select and manage. Now a second fiber company is laying fiber as I write. Options and competition is always good. The old cable company is dying as their business model is hopelessly out of date.

[@ItzAwsomeWasTaken]

Yea, during power outages I like to use a generator and turn on my modem and it still works because of fiber

[@phbrinsden]

@@ItzAwsomeWasTaken Agreed. Do the same.

[@acreguy3156]

*"I have a great fiber price and it is fixed. The cable guys kept sneaking it up hoping you wouldn't notice."* Evidently, you haven't experienced Bell Fibe at its best. With them, they guarantee a fixed price but to keep things legal, they slowly reduce the discount rate so they can charge more over time. This is in Canada by the way.

[@Let_em_know]

​@@ItzAwsomeWasTaken your modem would still work even if it was cable.

[@SIOYGYG]

Fiber is also much more reliable than cable as fiber is virtually immune to electromagnetic interference

[@iamnobodyy_]

what does this exactly mean if you dont mind sharing?

[@kingyuonobryant1416]

That right.

[@HeavyMetalSonicRM]

​@@iamnobodyy_You won't lose service when it storms.

[@srtology]

@@HeavyMetalSonicRMunless lightning hits your line and fries it. I had this happen twice with att fiber. First time it fried the line, second time it fried the line, fiber box and router.

[@crush8436]

@@srtology how can it hit line when 99% of it is underground? can it fry it when it hits ground? no pun intended but isnt it "grounded" ???

[@ZanesFacebook]

I was paying $50 for 300/30 cable. Three years later I was paying $80 for 300/30. Fiber came to my town and I got 500/500 for $40, locked in price for life. Not a hard decision at all

[@Golurktric]

May I ask which company gave this awesome service

[@htinsharkyaw8308]

Fiber here cost around 13USD for 40mb/10mb Damm I felt so jealous now

[@cpujolsfitnessandmusic3386]

@@htinsharkyaw8308 90$ for 1 gig over here - 110$ for 2.5

[@007bogossemre007]

That upload speed is just insane ! In less than two weeks I'll have fiber in home, can't wait !

[@iamnobodyy_]

mbn do you have it now and can you tell a difference? they have it in 77% of my zip code area but i have yet to get it kinda sad cse ive been waiting about 4 years since i heard abt it just wish i knew how much longer it will take

[@kingyuonobryant1416]

You will like it alot it good for streaming Netflix and playing PC game

[@juliotorres9720]

Nice 👍🏼

[@johnh8705]

I got Google fiber last year. Best ever

[@skorpyo331]

​@@johnh8705wheres that available?

[@acemannw]

The latency is also really important part of your internet experience. Fiber was 6 ms which is really good.

[@pw9404]

I’d take the 20 any day lmao I’m sitting at a low of 90ms on a good day 😭

[@portman8909]

I'm on ADSL. Get spikes of up to 500 ms on ethernet lol. Can't wait for fibre optic to get installed in the home!@@pw9404

[@hommeboy]

Great video. I've been trying to convince my folks to make the switch to fiber optic.

[@bs-h2342]

We recently moved to fiber. We did so because the provider in our area has a set price and it doesn't change when a so-called promotion lapses. The cost changes when it changes for everyone. They also will not throttle our speed like the cable ISP has been doing. I look forward to not having to call every 12 months to qualify for another promotion.

[@rollina2000gt]

Agreed. I have been doing the promotion dance for years with cable. Have Fiber being hooked up this Friday and then its bye bye cable.

[@Adriana_Es]

Which fiber company is this? I'm trying to decide whether to do Xfinity Fiber or Verizon Fios.

[@marcfabricatore1506]

@@Adriana_EsXfinity Fiber is faster at 10 Gbps speeds. But, Verizon will offer you 1 Gig Symmetrical Fiber for $90 a month. With Xfinity Fiber, you only get to choose the 10 Gig Fiber for $330 a month

[@free__fall4974]

another thing to note is when streaming anything online you will notice a significant decrease in buffering times (little to none at all). So less freezing of streaming services and almost no latency at all when playing games.

[@cableapostle]

Understand the fundamentals of how cable and fiber work: Fiber is WELL in my opinion much better if managed correctly. Fiber will $h!t on the cable network, any day and anytime. Most of your cable providers have deploy what you call HFC. That stands for Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network. The main backbone for cable operators is fiber. What they use to transfer fiber to coaxial is called a node. Node will create RF signals off the rip and become amplified several times before it gets to the tap to your house. CMTS is the 'other end' or partner of your cable modem. CMTS determines how the signals and how much of the adjustments and what your cable modem or those damn boxes get. Let's go back to the node. Did you notice the upload speed difference of cable and fiber. Why is the upload speed so damn low? One big answer... upstream. This upstream in cable is an example of 'low split' upstream. It's all a frequency RF game in cable. The biggest problem in cable is not bandwidth. The main problem in coaxial cable is the interference that goes inside the coaxial system. Ingress, noise or interference is the biggest enemy of the system. It's also high maintenance. Coaxial cable DON'T last forever, by any means. What's really sensitive is not just the coax but the QAM 256 and OFDMA carries that goes down the wire. When coax gets bad you'll see a difference in the reliability. Fiber is immune to that because light doesn't get interference from EMF. Fiber doesn't have many overhead like cable does. Fiber can travel it's signals like 30 miles. RF can travel is far as a quarter mile without an amplifier, depending on how much signals or dBmv is from one point to another. Also the girth of the cable MATTERS in insertion loss. You also got impedance in the cable. So in a short term Fible is better and symmetrical, because the light source can return its signals the same way as it receives it..

[@BigBeastfull]

Thank you for that pro information. Unrelated to fiber vs cable. My Xbox seems to lose its connection every couple of minutes, just for a moment. I started researching networking and how internet connections work. I came across a bit on how RF interference can mess with a wireless access point. As well as having too many access points in one area on the same or similar channel(I live in an apartment). Furthermore, in my investigation, a few months ago, I talked to a utility worker outside my home. He said he was picking up on high levels of noise, which probably meant a corroded cable somewhere underground. Anyways. I'm in the middle of a career change. How is the cable industry? I see fiber installation trucks going everywhere in my area

[@juliotorres9720]

I like the speed of light 😎💡

[@jeffmiller1140]

I actually moved to an area that had fiber..... because I wanted fiber. I have never looked back! It's amazing what people don't know about the differences. Great video!

[@dennisp8520]

Yep I bought my house with fiber availability being top of mind when making my purchase decisions. That being said it hasn’t been all good, unironically I had better reliability when I was on Comcast. I have only been in my house for about 2 years, and I have had 6 instances where my fiber was cut by my ISP when they would do burials to hook up my neighbors. I also suffered from packet loss on the initial installation due to a bad splice job of the fiber and just a list of other things. Fiber will always be better when done right but it’s also a pain to work with it and has its own issues

[@HeavyMetalSonicRM]

I'm switching to fiber because it's supposed to be always on at full blast with no inconsistencies like cable, which only works when it feels like it.

[@Babbages]

cable uses neighborhood bandwidth sharing wich means neighbors downloading and streaming a lot can affect a hole block almost then if your like him with extra tv service it can even slow it down in your house even more and be more incosistant when tv is on because now that line is split even more.

[@dennisp8520]

@@Babbagesany consumer connection is gunna have share bandwidth at the node this applies to fiber not just cable. It’s also not something to particularly worry about since the engineers that make the big bucks account for all of this before they build out to make your neighborhood serviceable. It was always a mute point and the only time it ever becomes a issue is with very high density housing so like apartment complexes

[@DGNYY27]

I have fiber for about six months and it’s game changer. So happy my state and town have the program.

[@techtoonspire]

Finally got the answer of this question *"Why my upload is too much slow"* After 7 Year Now I will buy a fiber connection Thank U very much for making this VDO

[@bigmaxcc]

I prefer ookla I never trust Google speed test 😅

[@skymyerspa]

this might be a long time till it comes out but DOCSIS the standard that cable modems use is coming out with DOCSIS 4.0 witch promises symmetrical, uploading and downloading. like fiber so we will see

[@Ryarios]

The buried cable and telephone infrastructure in my neighborhood is over 30 years old. They are just now running fiber into my neighborhood. So, if nothing else, the infrastructure with fiber is new and hasn’t had 30 years to degrade and develop the problems that come with that. Also, I notice that everyday around 4:00 pm, my cable speeds turn to crap for a bit. I assume from all the kiddos coming home from school and streaming their favorite shows. I shouldn’t have nearly the same issue with fiber.

[@nobrand7957]

Please offer comments on both the CAT cable and network port. For best speeds, which cable should be used. What network card should be used? What are best setting should be applied in network settings to obtain the best UP & DOWN speeds?

[@robertwhite9898]

Good video! AT&T has yet to come My area to put in fiber. Fiber can handle a lot . I currently have AT&T internet access & it seems to do .fine . I had internet access from Spectrum cable formerly TWC . Time Warner Cable . They got to be too over priced. The speed wasn’t all that great.

[@byteme6346]

Google came into Louisville, but pulled out a year later. I now use Verizon 5G. It's slower than Spectrum, but I'm only paying $20/month. Spectrum costs above $70/month.

[@firstcynic92]

Questions not asked but that need to be included in the decision. What's the cost of the service? Do you want another service along with your internet? How many ethernet ports do you need on your modem? What is the data cap & what are the penalties for going over? Can you use your own modem? Do you need high upload speeds? How high do you need for download speed?

[@gamemasters]

while this video was done a year ago, it was recommended to me today, 11-29-2023; still valid information, fiber is the way to go, however, a lot of ethernet cards top out at about 1gig so even if you have a 5gig fiber plan your ethernet card may still throttle you at 1gig (easy solution is to get a more robust ethernet card).

[@HZGamingVR]

Thank you sir! I'm a Content Creator and I need this Fiber for mt 18 GB Videos lol :)

[@JayOrlando32828]

Yes very helpful thank you

[@otogiosu]

For your fiber setup, is that actually a modem? Or does that just convert to rj45. I thought fiber only needed a router since it's already a digital signal. Never had fiber so just curious.

[@hungrynapps]

They would still give U a router for wifi and to control your bundle service

[@jclements7361]

I had Comcast cable for years and then ATT became available in my neighborhood. Cable upload speed has never been fast, generally 75mb in my area, however fiber is equal speed up and down. My 1000 fiber service speed tests ~930mb due to the required overhead, which they warn you about when signing up. Even better is the fact that in my 3 years with fiber is has been down only twice, way less than my cable experience at the same house.

[@Ty_gamingg]

In my opinion regardless of if you upload stuff frequently or not, why not get more band for buck with fiber since (at least in your case) not only do you get exponentially better upload speeds, but you also get better ping. I'm switching to fiber this month and in my situation it is going to be half the price than what I was paying for cable so I don't really see why you choose cable over fiber at all.

[@JoshuaBridge-cp4pp]

absolutely! I was paying $120 for cable internet for 200mbs. I would of changed long ago but we only had one cable provider in our area for years. The minute fiber came 6 months ago I switched instantly and never looked back. I jacked our speed up to a 1gb (which for me is light speed.) and I pay half of what we pay for cable. our first bill ran us almost $70. some companies give away internet. For sure worth every penny. Also letting everyone know I use their wall modem but I have a Netgear Night hawk AX8 Duel Band Wi-fi 6 router which can transmit up to 6gbs of data. When it comes to streaming and gaming I do not mess around.

[@patricknelson]

For anyone wondering why it took him 30s to upload 2GB file when he has “gigabit”, it’s because of 2 reasons: 1. Gigabit is “bit”, or 1 billion bits. Gigabyte is ~1 billion bytes (2^30 bytes) and 1 byte is = 8 bits. So, the shortest theoretical time at 916mbps is like 17.5s (or 16B bits ÷ 916M bits). 2. Network speeds on the server side. Chances are, the server he was uploading to could only accept speeds about half that. Hope that helps!

[@victimsofgravity]

Great video 🎉

[@michaeljarcher]

Got to be some kind of nugget to choose outdated copper cables over light ones (pun intended). Contention ratio faster speeds are a thing of the past when fibre is in the building. (do you think those transalantic cables are copper in the bottoms of the big wobbly oceans of the world!

[@Kaelleonm4913]

My area has Verizon Fios or EarthLink as the only options for fiber internet. I'm renting out a room in a 2 story apartment home with 2 different couples using 2 different ISPs (of which I know one is Verizon), I wanna know if its still possible for me to have my own ISP? I am by myself and only want fast wired fiber internet for my PC, gaming, streaming and maybe a couple other devices.

[@weegeemike]

Unfortunately i live in a newer neighborhood (developed ~25years ago) so all of our utility cables are undergroud, which means that local ISPs are prioritizibg older areas with above ground utilities to switch to fiber first, so unfortunately it isnt available in my area. I only have 2 options, Spectrum or ATT DSL. Obviously i went with Spectrum due to their faster speeds over DSL. I would switch to ATT in a heartbeat if they got fiber in my area, but since they dobt, my Specrum setvice is up to 10x faster downliad speeds. Upload speeds suck, no better than 20mb/s any time of day.

[@phbrinsden]

My neighborhood was built 50 years ago with all underground utilities. One of the fiber companies had permission to install at the front beside the street. They were super quick installing and, apart from an occasional sprinkler pipe they had no issues. The new fiber outfit had to install in the easement at back and their drill had to skip around power and gas lines as well as the crappy old cable co. Lines. Much more difficult and expensive to do. But they got it done.

[@philshepard2556]

You plugged into a 1Gb port on the Comcast XB8, you should plug into the bottom right port which is 2.5Gb. I'm getting 1.4Gb Down but not much UP.

[@jaycahow4667]

DOCSIS 4.0 Cable is coming. It can do up to 6GB Symmetrical over existing Coax cable. Comcast has already announce successful testing earlier in 2023. It will be great for those who cannot get fiber but who knows what it will cost.

[@deepspacecow2644]

funny thing is, the cable companies keep needing to add more and more fiber to add more nodes to get higher speeds. Just run ftth at that point.

[@xVertigo101]

I have 2gbps fiber and usually see 5 or 6Gbps symmetric Pretty amazing

[@SaifAli-qg8si]

I notice the cable company installed a drop amp in the basement. That tells me the signal comes in weak and needs to be amplified to reach acceptable levels .

[@mincai5865]

Also Comcast/Xfinity, the leading cable internet provider, is notorious for bandwidth sharing. Meaning you and neighbors have to share the 1G/s speed. If your neighbors are using a lot of bandwidth, your speed will drop dramatically. I can't wait for fiber optics providers to finally get to my neighborhood.

[@elliethegamer4712]

But what fiber service is the best for streaming and gaming

[@kennixox262]

Nice to have a choice. Around here most places have underground utilities and no one is keen on digging up the streets and properties to lay fiber optic cables. Newer neighborhoods yes, homes built 15 years ago, nope. We also have just one monopoly cable company, COX which is not horrible. Pretty reliable, relatively high prices and for me, only use the internet service. No phone or TEE VEE stuff.

[@JoshuaBridge-cp4pp]

When a cable company has a monopoly in your area they have the right to jack up your price really high just because they can. Between them and Optimum/Suddenlink they all do the same. except Optimum service and customer service is bad could not be happier to get away from them once fiber optic came in. People have said for decades they had the same provider around and were happy someone new finally came in.

[@arthurharris980]

My subdivision was built in 1996. We now have the option of cable or fiber. Last year Conexon Connect came and dug up everyone's yard and installed the necessary equipment for fiber optics. I will be switching over next month from cable. The price for cable internet is getting out of control.

[@outlet6989]

I currently have cable service thru SPECTRUM. It provides me with three services. Internet, TV, and Landline phone service. I've signed up for Fiber Optic service which is now being installed. Will the new Fiber Optic installation provide me with all three services or only the Internet? Will I be able to cancel my SPECTRUM subscription, or will I need to keep it for my TV and phone service? How many Ethernet ports will the new modem have? I currently have two PCs a printer, and a caption phone connected to my provider's modem. Since I will need to make decisions in the near future any help would be greatly appreciated.

[@JJFlores197]

That depends entirely on your new internet provider. You usually need to subscribe to those extra services otherwise you will only get internet service. Most routers have 4 ethernet ports. If you need more ports, you can buy a network switch and plug it into a free port on the router.

[@cjhan47]

For the same price I'm always picking the fastest however in my area you can get 2.5 gig up and down fiber for the Samer prices 1 gig with cable with the much slower upload speed. Needless to say I'm switching to fiber soon.

[@Edp-jf8zn]

hello is the ASUS AC2900 WiFi Gaming Router (RT-AC86U) compatible for fiber

[@TheCultureCallout]

I chose fiber for my photography business. Sending my clients their gallery by cable took 1 hour. Now it takes 1 minute. Sending large photo files

[@jeremygeorgia4943]

Uploads are USUALLY slower - no matter who provides your internet. HOWEVER, I recently moved, and they don't have cable out here. It's a remote place, and internet options are limited. HOWEVER, one of the providers (TDS) started offering fiber. I only have the 300Mbps plan, but it usually meets or exceeds that, and the upload speed usually meets that or exceeds it. Upload speed is important. It's especially important, now that speeds in general are getting faster. Internet usage is typically two way communication - especially during browsing. The more information you can send, the faster your experience will be, or at least, your experience will be slowed, whenever a server is waiting for your response. Of course, this will be important for uploading videos to KZbin & other sites. It could also be important for online gaming as well.

[@chasen432]

Would my 1000down and 35up which it never hits 35up its usually around 14 to 20up. But I find my pc which is hardwired to buffer and skip on YT. Hulu Live on the TV will drop resolution from 1080p to 480p then after a few seconds goes back up. I have tried EVERYTHING. My own equipment, tried other streaming services etc. I have come to the conclusion that 35mbps up is just absolutely too slow for todays time. I am seriously thinking about ditching cable that I have been with for over 16yrs and go with ATT Fiber. Cheaper, Faster, and no contract. Will upload speed affect live streaming like Hulu Live TV and YT videos?

[@squonk86]

There is no comparison the fiber is the way to go,I personally have Greenlight but had cable and the cable was more expensive and much slower

[@SuperFredAZ]

I have had fiber in my house for the past 6 years. It has been ultra-reliable, one outage in all those years. the problem was the power supply for the fiber "modem", which the cable company (Cox) provided free, free service call too. No doubt, for me fiber is the way to go.

[@Bigdadzhousegainz]

For protection of your data I’m assuming a hacker or anyone who knows a thing or two would have a little bit of harder time taking your data to their warehouse?

[@luxuryviplifestyle9494]

Greatest Inspiration and we need and wish real best 8K 60fps or 120fps HDR10+ resolution clarity quality for videos or photos and Sound in full HD 3D Stereo Surround , Soon Please

[@JoshuaBridge-cp4pp]

when I had cable my latency was 35ms and now my latency is between 4-6ms. world of difference for gamers like myself who want and need the fastest connection possible. coax just cannot compete with fiber optic cabling when it comes to speed. Also I would like to ask you if your using a Cat 6a cord. The reason you may not be getting the full 1gb speed is because cat 6 is tapped out a 1gb. so you may be at the top of the speed for that cable to transfer your data. try using a cat 6a ethernet cable. This has a transmission speed of 10gb. This is more than enough to gain the full capacity of that speed you want. I love fiber optic and if you get the chance to switch to fiber optic with a decent company, do so. Just depending the companies watch what your getting into and do some research. great video

[@tegrqbruh4158]

even cat 5a cabling will do 10gbps just fine over short distances, the speeds will be limited by the network nic inside your motherboard, which in his case it is a 1gbps one.

[@VinylRescue]

Well, I've had Comcast since the early 2000s when they took over AT&T Broadband. I also upload videos for my YT channel and recently uploaded my first 4K video, and it took almost 2 hours to upload!? Unfortunately, I don't have a fiber option to switch over to, and if it becomes available, I'm in. I really don't understand why Comcast has such sloooow upload speeds! I'm sure I'm not the only one unhappy about this drag your heels speed! 😡😡

[@Paul_Speers]

I hate how my job is to work with fiber and computer systems but don't have fiber in my neighborhood

[@troyBORG]

Yeah your test didn't show the ping differanced between the two.. I'm guessing you should have something like 1-5ms ping on fiber, and like 25-60ms ping on cable. Oh I guess it did show. I was pretty close with my guesses.

[@ricardoflores1986]

Fiber 10/10, every day we sync about 25GB of files for business purposes, the symmetrical speeds are a time saving.

[@SiriusSam]

LOL @ 35mb upload not good enough... what you running an Enterprise network ?

[@ciausaofficial]

I have atnt fiber 200mpbs and I’m connect on wifi playing fps latency is 6 highly recommended

[@Babbages]

cable uses neighborhood bandwidth sharing wich means neighbors downloading and streaming a lot can affect a hole block almost then if your like him with extra tv service it can even slow it down in your house even more and be more incosistant when tv is on because now that line is split even more.

[@ryans413]

lol his upload on cable is what I get for my download

[@facebookmakesmesick]

I get 11 ping on speedtest. Bit xbox says o6 latency. If I switch to fiber an get 1 gig plan will it reduce latency on my xbox1 or is it a waste? All speedtests say 9-11 ping for me.

[@AsdzWins1]

If you like ur internet now keep it. If price is good keep it. Sometimes fiber won’t make the best latency upgrade depends on ur location and what provider.

[@benaiahswordsmen6236]

Switching to fiber as soon as its available. They just dug and put fiber optic lines right outside my house. The cable company keeps imcreasing my price without notice, and am constantly having outages with terrible customer service.

[@ThmsDouglas]

My local fiber has fixed pricing while my Cable internet service provider is ALWAYS changing the price and it's never lower always higher.

[@kosager]

it also depend on location my house the fiber keeps going out so i decided to stick with cable for now i have 300 mbps plan and sometime get around 500

[@Bradster006]

I upgrading to fiber because wireless internet horrible I only able get 50 and sometimes buffering & picture on streaming tv get blurry. We getting fiber installed Thurs

[@0bsmith0]

I never want to go back to cable.

[@fox_foxivich]

you should've tested the xfinity ethernet speed from the orange port. That's the fastest port

[@roa4031]

丁寧でいいね

[@mangakey]

All this is true BUT cable companies are working on getting their upload speeds the same as their download speeds.. Some earlier than others Spectrum plans to have all customers on what it calls a high split by end of next year.. and I imagine many cable companies will follow soon after... having said that fiber will still be more reliable though

[@BlakeTechnology99]

It’s not just about the speed tho. If the fiber ISP has better customer service and attractive pricing, the decision might be based on those factors

[@deepspacecow2644]

Still has all the downsides of coaxial cables. Goes down in storms, much more vulnerable to interference, and goes out with power failure

[@tthams73]

“Speed” isn’t everything and those speed tests don’t take into account the # of devices connected. Or how many households on your street are active. In addition, the providers server capacity is another huge factor. Many cable lines are not capable of handling heavy traffic. The speed test sending a single bit of data is going to report fast speeds. However, streaming or uploading large amounts of data from multiple devices will bog way down perform poorly. If you have multiple devices connected and streaming at the same time- go with fiber.

[@dorianjennings7284]

What was the provider

[@luisjd_6077]

What can I do since where I live there is still only cable coming to the house. Would I be able to use a MoAC adapter connect the coax to it and then to the modem and make it faster?

[@cableapostle]

Absolutely not. MoCA is only used as a last resort to using an existing coaxial cable as for means to create an 'ethernet based' network. MoCA uses even higher frequency bands than most cable providers will bring into your home. MoCA is only to be used within the SAME network in your home. That's it. You also are required to use a MoCA filter to trap the MoCA frequency from leaving your house. If you chose to use your modem to connect with a MoCA adapter that modem has to have the MoCA feature on it. MoCA is yet another overhead to convert RF to ethernet.

[@skorpyo331]

Att fiber finally available here. Best believe install happening tomorrow. Yes fiber faster. And yes im happy goin from 50mbs att cable to fiber 300mbs. All i need.

[@GoldSeals]

My DSL is slightly faster than the old dialup.I also have comcast cable internet too.Its way faster than the DSL.My comcast usually goes out all the time but my DSL used to never go out.Now my DSL goes out more than comcast,Presently my DSL with a landline phone has been out for 3 weeks now.They claim an underground cable is the problem.They cant seem to fix it.

[@sabatrol8182]

I started working in an ISP and this is my no BS advice: Simple answer for anyone in a rush there is more loss in cable internet, and it can be interfered. HOWEVER, fiber optical internet doesn't have loss it's only slight loss basically pick fiber if it's not expensive. The people that work on optical internet in an ISP work with more patience and do better jobs. I would recommend optical internet in 99.99% of situations.

[@captainsmackyou302]

I hope to never have to use cable again in my life

[@muhammadomar784]

I have a new company in my area providing 10 gigs speed for 50 bucks a month with free installation I have the instalation scheduled will provide an update once I test it out myself

[@10001willy]

Cable's like paying for a full tank of gas and only getting half the tank.

[@hungrynapps]

Ping speed and upload is very important for gaming also .and streaming. Imo .. unless its Netflix lol

[@maxthemagition]

You forgot to mention the quality of a telephone call over copper v fibre. I think that you will find the quality of the copper call is much better than the fibre, the reason being that fibre entails bit rate reduction on phone calls whilst copper is analogue. It the same problem with mobile phones which used bit rate reduction. Just try and compare a copper to copper phone call with a mobile to mobile phone call and you will notice the difference immediately. Even a copper to mobile phone call is very poor quality. You could use a Lindos tester to get a complete test results.. that would be very interesting!

[@Eyeofnelms]

I chose fiber optic because gigabit cable cost 10 dollars more, and wouldn't even give me a tenth of the upload speed, so there was no reason to really keep cable internet.

[@accumulator5734]

Actually light travels at 67% the speed of light through a fiber while RF travels at 87% speed of light through a coax main line, so actually the signal travels faster through coax than through fiber, look it up.

[@mr.exodus3844]

In my province there are two big internet companies, one of them has fiber and the other one doesn't. The Fiber one, boasts about how you can get 1000 MB download speed from their 1.5 GB internet bundle, I've done tests on this at a friend's house and it's true, it's pretty close, the other company recently apparently got fibreop, however this isn't true, they have fibreop running to an internet node in your area but, from that node to your house is still cable. For download speeds, both companies are pretty evenly matched. Look for upload speed. The fibreop wins hands down, and the company that uses cable only has a maximum upload speed of 15 MB. I'm not sure how this would affect you gaming wise, but I do know that if you stream a lot, it would probably affect you.

[@Todd.T]

What cableco is that???

[@mr.exodus3844]

​@@Todd.TEastlink it's a Canadian internet company internet in Canada Sucks ass especially in the maritimes

[@kingyuonobryant1416]

Love my fiber it fast I absolutely injoy my internet

[@fadinglight7264]

900mbps up?? bro could stream in 4k no sweat

[@tdadp]

Fiber for working for home

[@ThatsGuy410]

Waiting for fiber in my area, 2GB down for $100 a month, no data limits!

[@FinkworldTravels]

CABLE (copper cable) is shared when it comes to transferring data, there's just no way of getting around it. Fiber Optic is dedicated, meaning the fiber optic line you have is YOURS and it is a direct route to your ISP without sharing. Why anyone would pay for cable internet if fiber optic is available and closely matched in price is beyond me.

[@vibrantgleam]

Unless you never use your internet or just use it on occassion, but nowadays that's becoming less common.

[@deepspacecow2644]

Fiber is usually shared on a PON network. One PON port goes through a splitter into 32 or 64, then those run to the houses. The bandwidth is still shared unless you have a rare ISP running active ethernet.

[@sampahumeoli]

and starlink?

[@Scorpio_1974]

When it comes to gaming the Latency is very important go ask a gamer they will tell you it is so 20ms vs 6ms. My point is Fiber has way more less Latency than cable. I am sure Cable is some areas have 40ms & someone who has fiber has 1ms or zero.

[@deathkvltTV]

I switched to fiber so my livestreams actually hold up. Cable is horrible when it comes to uploads speeds. Well, it is on my block at least.

[@benaravensfan]

Some people don't have a choice. Comcast has a monopoly here in Baltimore.

[@VenxVenue]

I get tops around 600 mbps up and down when I’m really close to the fiber optic modem and that’s not even using the fiber optic Ethernet for the 1 gig up and down

[@stevejohnson1321]

I would love to get rid of charter, but we have no other choices.

[@Sigma4Life972]

If you want 2 ip addresses cable is thenway tongo, fiber will require you to pay for 2 services or hooking up slower switch.

[@Scorpio_1974]

By the way those that curious what is the Orange on back of the Xfinity is Ethernet port 2.5Gbps speed.

[@Todd.T]

The problem is the assumption is that every cable network is the same configuration. I get 9ms ping times and have 170 mbps uploads on my cable. The current limit is 1.5gbps down. This cable network was installed in probably the late 70s. A lot of the current limitations are because cable companies run multiple service styles on a network. A fiber GPON uses IP only and coax uses IP over modulated RF which is one more step that adds latency, plus they have broadcast information for older digital boxes. If the cable company ran IP only, then they can fully use the network for data and go pure IP. I haven't heard of anybody having an issue with 9ms ping vs 1ms ping. A cable system maxed out on the latest tech will do 10gig/6gig. Some will do 10gig/10gig using a different technique. Since I know some more technical people with cable experience may be foaming at the mouth, my network is a 1.2ghz RPhy node with a mid split return and the OFDMA carrier is from 45-85mhz. I also have two OFDM carriers, one with a PLC at 350mhz and the other PLC is 920mhz. The system has not been segmented and has 350 modems on there. About 20 percent of the modems use the three 256QAM upstreams and one 64 QAM upstream and thirty two 256 QAM downstreams. If the system goes high split, the oldest digital boxes with a 129mhz FDC will go offline. If the system goes dual OFDMA return the 19mhz RDC for those boxes will also go offline. The 64 QAM cannot be 256 without killing the 19mhz RDC due to it's width. Some times the OFDMA is in the dirt beneath 19mhz on a 42mhz return. Any new 1.2ghz areas have no more than 30 modems per port on a node with no actives. They will run at 1.8ghz if my crappy huge neighborhood network runs at 1.2ghz, with amps, on a 40 year old network. Fiber GPON going in from a telco. Nobody cares. 170 upload is enough, 1.5 gig download is enough. Most houses have the modem shown in the video which means there is only one modem per house instead of 5 TV boxes (with modems) and an internet modem and a phone modem. All the new TV boxes are IP and don't use broadcast. Within months 500 up will be a reality. Every cableco greenfield install is FTTH since 2012. Every new upgraded coax network is now going IP fed to the node. Every new node clamshell has the ability to swap out the RF module and install a GPON module. An AI combs the networks in 15 minute intervals and creates calls for any deviances so that they will be fixed before the customer sees it. Not all cable companies are slow and stupid.

[@brettpopowich1980]

Was this GoNetSpeed or Frontier?

[@LoveWhatYouDo]

GoNet.

[@user-gj3jv7bk8o]

can't be more nicer video then this

[@TripleAAA11]

Fiber is the way to go, cable is affevted by 100 more things than fiber, example a typical fiber neighborhood can have upwards of 50 active devices, or “powered” devices, fiber only needs power to 1 device to run a neighborhood. Plus no 5G interference compared to cable “coax”

[@LEMON48]

In Poland for FTTH 850/400 i am paying eqivalent 22$ /month

[@greggower8899]

The slow upload speed may have been the plan you signed up for. I have 800/20.

[@JM-wn6gu]

Fibre optic is superior to Cable in every way