• CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.

    But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.

    It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.

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      3 hours ago

      Yep very true.

      To me the main benefit of the direct fiber connection is the symmetry. With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40. Moving large files back and forth to work is very painful.