Cable vs. Fiber Internet Showdown - Watch This Before You Make Your Choice!

Fiber or Fiber Optic Internet recently came to my neighborhood, so I went for it, but before getting rid of my Cable Internet, I decided to test them both out to find out which high speed internet option is the best! Welcome to: Cable vs. Fiber Internet Showdown! You are going to want to watch this video before making your decision on which internet delivery system is better. Thanks for watching. Please like and subscribe.

[DGNYY]

I have fiber for about six months and it’s game changer. So happy my state and town have the program.

[cyumadbrosummit]

One thing you forgot to mention is the latency difference which is arguably the most important thing for gamers playing first person shooters. The Cable in your test had over 3x higher latency at 20ms vs Fiber at 6ms.

[bogossemre]

That upload speed is just insane ! In less than two weeks I'll have fiber in home, can't wait !

[phbrinsden]

We recently got fiber in the neighborhood and I switched for several reasons:
1. Any time there was a storm the cable co went down. Fiber never goes down.
2. The cable would crap out almost any time for no apparent reason,
3. I have a great fiber price and it is fixed. The cable guys kept sneaking it up hoping you wouldnt notice.
4. Service. The cable co had terrible tech and phone service. They run the company in very old school way.
5. Even though cable had buried fiber it still had to come into the house via copper coax.
6. Cable relied on selling house phone and cable tv content and even security to up their revenue and it also kept sneaking up. The “packages” were infuriating. Fiber does one thing; deliver very fast and reliable internet connection. What you want in content and services is up to you to select and manage.

Now a second fiber company is laying fiber as I write. Options and competition is always good. The old cable company is dying as their business model is hopelessly out of date.

[SIOYGYG]

Fiber is also much more reliable than cable as fiber is virtually immune to electromagnetic interference

[jeffmiller]

I actually moved to an area that had because I wanted fiber. I have never looked back! It's amazing what people don't know about the differences. Great video!

[sleepii]

Switching from Cable to Fiber in 3 days! Going from $145 a month for 1000mbps to $35 a month for 1000mbps for fiber. Can’t wait to experience this!

[bs-h]

We recently moved to fiber. We did so because the provider in our area has a set price and it doesn't change when a so-called promotion lapses. The cost changes when it changes for everyone. They also will not throttle our speed like the cable ISP has been doing. I look forward to not having to call every 12 months to qualify for another promotion.

[HeavyMetalSonicRM]

I'm switching to fiber because it's supposed to be always on at full blast with no inconsistencies like cable, which only works when it feels like it.

[ZanesFacebook]

I was paying $50 for 300/30 cable. Three years later I was paying $80 for 300/30. Fiber came to my town and I got 500/500 for $40, locked in price for life.

Not a hard decision at all

[acemannw]

The latency is also really important part of your internet experience. Fiber was 6 ms which is really good.

[cableapostle]

Understand the fundamentals of how cable and fiber work: Fiber is WELL in my opinion much better if managed correctly. Fiber will $h!t on the cable network, any day and anytime. Most of your cable providers have deploy what you call HFC. That stands for Hybrid Fiber Coaxial network. The main backbone for cable operators is fiber. What they use to transfer fiber to coaxial is called a node. Node will create RF signals off the rip and become amplified several times before it gets to the tap to your house. CMTS is the 'other end' or partner of your cable modem. CMTS determines how the signals and how much of the adjustments and what your cable modem or those damn boxes get. Let's go back to the node. Did you notice the upload speed difference of cable and fiber. Why is the upload speed so damn low? One big answer... upstream. This upstream in cable is an example of 'low split' upstream. It's all a frequency RF game in cable. The biggest problem in cable is not bandwidth. The main problem in coaxial cable is the interference that goes inside the coaxial system. Ingress, noise or interference is the biggest enemy of the system. It's also high maintenance. Coaxial cable DON'T last forever, by any means. What's really sensitive is not just the coax but the QAM 256 and OFDMA carries that goes down the wire. When coax gets bad you'll see a difference in the reliability. Fiber is immune to that because light doesn't get interference from EMF. Fiber doesn't have many overhead like cable does. Fiber can travel it's signals like 30 miles. RF can travel is far as a quarter mile without an amplifier, depending on how much signals or dBmv is from one point to another. Also the girth of the cable MATTERS in insertion loss. You also got impedance in the cable. So in a short term Fible is better and symmetrical, because the light source can return its signals the same way as it receives it..

[patricknelson]

For anyone wondering why it took him 30s to upload 2GB file when he has “gigabit”, it’s because of 2 reasons:
1. Gigabit is “bit”, or 1 billion bits. Gigabyte is ~1 billion bytes (2^30 bytes) and 1 byte is = 8 bits. So, the shortest theoretical time at 916mbps is like 17.5s (or 16B bits ÷ 916M bits).
2. Network speeds on the server side. Chances are, the server he was uploading to could only accept speeds about half that.
Hope that helps!

[free__fall]

another thing to note is when streaming anything online you will notice a significant decrease in buffering times (little to none at all). So less freezing of streaming services and almost no latency at all when playing games.

[Ryarios]

The buried cable and telephone infrastructure in my neighborhood is over 30 years old. They are just now running fiber into my neighborhood. So, if nothing else, the infrastructure with fiber is new and hasn’t had 30 years to degrade and develop the problems that come with that. Also, I notice that everyday around 4:00 pm, my cable speeds turn to crap for a bit. I assume from all the kiddos coming home from school and streaming their favorite shows. I shouldn’t have nearly the same issue with fiber.

[mincai]

Also Comcast/Xfinity, the leading cable internet provider, is notorious for bandwidth sharing. Meaning you and neighbors have to share the 1G/s speed. If your neighbors are using a lot of bandwidth, your speed will drop dramatically. I can't wait for fiber optics providers to finally get to my neighborhood.

[skymyerspa]

this might be a long time till it comes out but DOCSIS the standard that cable modems use is coming out with DOCSIS 4.0 witch promises symmetrical, uploading and downloading. like fiber so we will see

[gamemasters]

while this video was done a year ago, it was recommended to me today, 11-29-2023; still valid information, fiber is the way to go, however, a lot of ethernet cards top out at about 1gig so even if you have a 5gig fiber plan your ethernet card may still throttle you at 1gig (easy solution is to get a more robust ethernet card).

[firstcynic]

Questions not asked but that need to be included in the decision.
What's the cost of the service?
Do you want another service along with your internet?
How many ethernet ports do you need on your modem?
What is the data cap & what are the penalties for going over?
Can you use your own modem?
Do you need high upload speeds?
How high do you need for download speed?

[bigmaxcc]

I prefer ookla I never trust Google speed test 😅