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Originally Posted by Switter
I am a remote work and chose quantum fiber. It has worked well for me. I went with the 500 mb because it's only $50 a month and I didn't notice a significant performance decrease from the 1gb, which I started with. I think people tend to overestimate the amount of bandwidth they need.
I've only had two outages since hooking it up 2 1/2 years ago. The first lasted of a couple hours, the most recent one (yesterday can believe or not) lasted about 30 minutes. You can cancel anytime, no contract.
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I think everyone had that outage yesterday. First one for me in 4 years.
You are right people tend to overestimate the amount of bandwidth they need and part of that comes from using cable. As mentioned, since cable is a shared service, some get more speed so when they get a slowdown, there is still adequate speed available to do what they need. Also, unless you get the most expensive cable internet package, the latency/delay is relatively high. Less latency will "feel" faster. With fiber no matter what speed you get, the latency is the same about 4ms. Very fast, so there is no need to get more speed than what you believe you need.