Is fiber worth it?

[bartosimpsonio]

So a regional ISP is selling cheap fiber optic access in my city.

Is it worth it?

Is fiber fast for upload and download or just download?

Are IP addresses usually fixed on fiber? Can it host sites?

What is your experience with fiber? Thanks for tips.

 

[Sui<3]

It doesn't matter if your internet access is delivered by fiber or by copper. What matters is connection speed. Fiber is usually faster, but you can also get some pretty slow speeds via fiber, as it's just the transport medium.

Whether your IP is fixed or dyanmic by fiber or by copper depends on your ISP. Just ask them how they handle it.

 

[davids355]

I wouldn’t move in to a house or office that didn’t have fiber, put it that way.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

It doesn't matter if your internet access is delivered by fiber or by copper. What matters is connection speed. Fiber is usually faster, but you can also get some pretty slow speeds via fiber, as it's just the transport medium.

Whether your IP is fixed or dyanmic by fiber or by copper depends on your ISP. Just ask them how they handle it.

I wouldn’t move in to a house or office that didn’t have fiber, put it that way.

Thanks for your replies.

About the upload/download difference, is fiber symmetric? Or also one slower than the other?

 

[Sui<3]

Fiber internet can be both asymmetric or symmetric. Consumer internet connections are asymmetric mostly. Most of the time, fiber is faster than copper for internet connections.

My advice is that you don't concentrate so much about whether it's fiber, but what is actually offered to you in terms of connection speed, etc.

 

[Dopious]

Fiber is the shit .. Just go for it .. Get a 1 Gbps if you can, it is smoooth .. =)

 

[tb303]

Fibre should always have a lower ping which speeds up web browsing a lot. Copper needs error correction like interleaving which slows the packets. And of course the rates are higher on fibre with less dropped packets. So yeah always fibre if possible.

Its no good if the ISP is shit and over subscribed though. Be wary of that if its a long contract.

 

[Stavro]

The speed, UL/DL ratio, etc, all depend on what the ISP offers, there's no one-size-fits-all answer about fiber/cable.

My ISP offers fiber in some areas, and cable in others, but on both connections the plans max out at 500/25. To the end user, there's no measurable difference between the connection type, the only difference is how many connections the ISP can put on the same line.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Fiber internet can be both asymmetric or symmetric. Consumer internet connections are asymmetric mostly. Most of the time, fiber is faster than copper for internet connections.

My advice is that you don't concentrate so much about whether it's fiber, but what is actually offered to you in terms of connection speed, etc.

Fiber is the shit .. Just go for it .. Get a 1 Gbps if you can, it is smoooth .. =)

Fibre should always have a lower ping which speeds up web browsing a lot. Copper needs error correction like interleaving which slows the packets. And of course the rates are higher on fibre with less dropped packets. So yeah always fibre if possible.

Its no good if the ISP is shit and over subscribed though. Be wary of that if its a long contract.

The speed, UL/DL ratio, etc, all depend on what the ISP offers, there's no one-size-fits-all answer about fiber/cable.

My ISP offers fiber in some areas, and cable in others, but on both connections the plans max out at 500/25. To the end user, there's no measurable difference between the connection type, the only difference is how many connections the ISP can put on the same line.

Thanks for your input, folks. Gona ask the ISP for more infos before deciding. It's a bit more expensive than my current copper pair but seems like it's worth it.

 

[BrandingCat]

Usually upload rate it`s 1/3 of download. But we are bored here and we want more than 1gbps at 10 USD

 

[davids355]

Fiber is the shit .. Just go for it .. Get a 1 Gbps if you can, it is smoooth .. =)

I’m blocking you now. Sorry. Gbps internet.... that is but a dream here in the uk.

 

[Dopious]

I’m blocking you now. Sorry. Gbps internet.... that is but a dream here in the uk.

Haha .. =) Sorry to offend you .. =)

 

[ExperimentalSEO]

You'll probably have to get a business plan in order to host a site from home using a fiber.

 

[cmasex]

Over here upload is the same as download speed, real fiber should not need to differentiate. I have 250/250 mbit/s.

 

[Neptune's Kiss]

Damn. I pay $80 USD/month for 1 gig down. Coming from unreliable bullshit 100 megabit down at similar prices I feel spoiled with what I have now

 

[BassTrackerBoats]

I thought this was some kind of thread about diet and the kinds of foods one should eat.

Fruits and vegetables are good for you usually for those that thought the same.

 

[centrino31]

I think it's absolutely worth it. The potential for faster speed is really cool, and once you experience it you can't go back.

 

[Roboxit]

Fiber is the speed for the future. I work in a telemarking company and they say it's the speed of light.

 

[Stavro]

Fiber is the speed for the future. I work in a telemarking company and they say it's the speed of light.

That's just a marketing gimmick.

The speed of light in a fiber optic cabling is virtually identical to the speed of an electrical signal over copper coaxial cable, both are 30% slower than the theoretical maximum speed of light.

Depending on the exact setup, an ISP can easily provide multi-gigabit speeds over copper, and they can provide sub-broadband speeds over fiber. The composition of the cable has no meaningful effect on the speed offered to the customer, only the total number of customers that can be connected to a single cable run.

 

[Aaric]

I found copper noisy always. Fiber has no such losses.