Question about internet speeds

I have never actually imagined this question. I am assuming 100mb would be better no matter what it's from...because....100Mb...?

By "cable" you mean ADSL?

I think the difference would be the loss. You would probably get close to those 50 Mbps with fiber, while I doubt you would anywhere near those 100 Mbps on ADSL.

Or I could be totally wrong here, please correct me someone if it's so.

Fiber is rarely (never?) fiber to your house, just to your neighborhood and then copper wire to your house. I had a fiber service before and it was no different to me than cable.

Go for the faster download speeds, but read the fine print and be certain they will actually provide the advertised speed. Most ISPs nowadays will say "up to" a certain speed and then just provide a fraction of that.

Regardless of which you get, you're not going to get the speeds listed since ISP's list speeds in Mbps and not MB's. To make it clearer, the speed they state is megabits, not megabytes. For conversion purpose, 1 megabit is equal to 0.125 megabytes, therefor a connection like 100 Mbps isn't likely to get you download speeds faster then 12.5 MB's.

As for the difference between cable and fiber, to my understanding, with reputable ISP's, both services lines are fiber optics, with the exception of the final stretch to a house from phone lines, boxes, etc... The last stretch is typical copper for Fiber services, while cable runs through a coaxial cable. Even though the coaxial cable uses copper as well, it's designed in a way that is meant to reduce leakage/loss, so theoretically, cable would be the faster choice overall. However, I can say in my area, how cable services work, cable can be slower if the area you live in has lots of people using cable as their service, however, I've only ever run into this problem once in my life.

That all said, I personally prefer Cable, it's been the better service for me over the years. Currently have a 100 Mbps connection, but surprisingly am actually getting speeds of 130 - 160 Mbps most of the time, which results in my download speeds typically being 13-20 MB's.

Edit: Note that everything I'm saying is based on how NA ISP's operate.
Edit: Touched up post because originally I was thinking DSL, not Fiber, don't ask, brain is shot.

Theoretically, the cable would be better, but what matters is the real speed you're getting on each, not the advertised -- which also depends on how "honest" your provider is and how many other people in your area are using the service.

I would personally take the fiber, but it depends on how many people will be using the connection at once and what you do online. I would only see the benefits from 100 Mbit instead of 50 every once in a while when downloading a game, but I don't mind waiting a little extra time for that because I would see the benefit of the lower latency of fiber all day every day.

i voted for 100mb fiber because i didn't read the op❤

Are cables not fibre optic by default? I mean unless your cable network is like 30 years old they're using optical cables not copper wires...

100 Mbits is better (because it's the double) only if the average latency is better or the same as in that 50 Mbit fiber. It all depends on the carriers each ISP uses.

I'm surprised that ppl enjoy cable over fiber :-O in my country, they are gradually changing from cable to fiber, bcuz cable has slower speed than fiber :-O

There are wrong info in this thread, double check before you trust anything (including my post).

Let's assume the condition is the same for each type of connection (copper vs FO)

1. Internet speed (download/upload)
2. Pricing
3. Latency (impossible, actually)

then either has same quality. The only difference is your traffic destination. If you are from America connecting to Indonesia, no matter what kind of last mile you have, the difference is minimal and the only determining thing is how many hops you need to go through.

Now if we talk from technical perspective, Cable can hardly beat FO in terms of latency. FO simply has better quality here. If each has to go through 3 hops to the destination, one is cable all the way and the other is FO all the way, then FO wins hands down. Without a doubt.

People think cable has better speed than FO (yes, I saw this statement above somewhere)? The hell?

If your ISP is offering cheaper pricing if you use copper, it is understandable. The infrastructure is there already, at least in my country. If we want to use FO, they need to install new FO line of course, hence more expensive.

Fibre optic all the way. Speed can be increased a lot more on fibre optic compared to copper based cable like hybrid fibre coaxial.

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