So my house finally got fibre to the house . Gone from having a 30mb connection to a 1gb connection. My question is if I have a 1gb broadband plan should I be getting fairly close the 1gb speed fairly consistent? So maybe 900mb consistently? So when I first got it for the first few days I was hitting between 800-980mb consistently. But now I only get 500-600 at best throughout the day. I know the old "copper"cable was “up to” 100mb. And you got whatever you got. But with fibre I assumed you would always get pretty close to the advertised speed or am I wrong? Thinking of changing to 500mb as it’s cheaper and I’m technically only getting 500mb now anyway. Tested speeds are wired with cat 6 cable on a laptop.
There are different types of fiber out there in the wild. Yes the physical cable is the same but deployment is different. There is shared fiber that will say speeds are “up to” such as Google and municiple fiber and then there is dedicated which is guaranteed. Dedicated will come with service level agreements. That’s why you can see different pricing for different fiber services. Shared fiber might be amazing for a time but will eventually get oversubscribed and start to vary more usually because the provider is borrowing the network. They need to get a certain number of customers before they can borrow more bandwidth which usually doesn’t happen. These networks usually don’t get upgraded over time