Punisher wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:00 pm
2. Not sire what the functional difference is between 500 fiber and 500 non fiber. I'd think that 500 is 500. This part cpuld be a me issue though
Unless they play hanky panky, Fiber is usually more accurately the data bits volume moving, rather than an "up to" burstable speed shared with all your neighbors on cable and cable on cable with one pipe of ???. Fiber will be up and down to fill the whole bandwidth running in parity (cable is usually
X down and some small fraction of
X up meaning slower uploads and slower downloads that rely on high output uploads as part of the download response) and
should have less latency (the packets actually travel faster, rather than just sending more or bigger packet to make data move faster). Put it all together that makes 500 megs of fiber "faster" than 500 megs of cable.
OtOH, cable can give you more bandwidth than your max in those bursts if modem allows it, the pipe allows it, and there is room in the pipe.
Octavious wrote: ↑Thu Dec 21, 2023 2:25 pm
Not really. The files being sent are so small that it's not going to make much if any difference.
Again, latency could very well make MP games more responsive on Fiber than on Cable. I sometimes get latency in excess of 100ms on my cable. If I were getting that on Fiber and it was
my end doing it, I would be livid.