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Originally Posted by jrref
What you need to realize is cable internet is shared with all your neighbors so at different times of the day and or at night your speed will decrease and vary when everyone is streaming TV, etc. Also, you may be getting 1.3 Gbps but that's only download. Your upload speed is about 35 Mbps because cable does not give you bi-directional speeds. You are probably no where near using all the bandwidth to your home but this information is good to know because on some cable systems they don't add capacity when needed and you could have bandwidth problems when too many people are streaming for example.
Fiber on the other hand is not shared meaning every customer has a unique lightwave path back to the ISPs servers and the speed is bi-directional. So if you are paying for 1Gbps speeds you get 1Gbps download and upload.
Osceola Hills, Dunedin, most of Hillsboro, Fenney, and other Villages with homes built circa late 2014 on should have Quantum Fiber and the newer homes just being built have Centric.
When the homes are built in the Villages the cable and fiber infrastructure are installed so what you have is what you have. I haven't seen any infrastructure additions on established Villages like in NY/NJ where Verizon deployed FiOS fiber all over regardless of when the homes were built.
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I'm aware of the "shared" aspect of cable as I used (~10 yrs ago) to work in the NOC of a HORRIBLE private MDU cable & DirecTv provider in NJ that provided internet & DirecTV for MDU's nationwide however this is The Villages where RARELY is any bandwidth used by neighbors. Most here think 100Mbps is "high speed" which is plenty for most people
. I have 3 24x7 2K security cams streaming live 24x7 plus a ton of other stuff sucking up bandwidth and am paying for the 1.2Gbps tier from Comcrap (because it was about $50/mo
CHEAPER than their 900Mbps tier at the time) and have NEVER seen less than 1.3 up to 1.4Gbps and believe me I check quite often particularly at night when I use it. They currently only provide 30-40Mbps upload which is more than enough. I actually get LESS upload because I am using their MODEM (free for 2 years + free unlimited data - damn their data cap which my cams ALWAYS went over) in bridge mode and they don't like that. All the current streaming done by most folks here uses minimal bandwidth. When we had Fios up north, at that time 200Mbps was "blazing fast"
and we did get 200/200 service. I don't think there are many Comcrap nodes that get overloaded here in The Villages and I also think they now can work around that at the times IF or when it does.