Quote Originally Posted by PenguinJoe View Post
Running Fiber Optic cables to the house is something that the cable & phone companies are doing only in new subdivisions here for the past year or two and only because they can drop the optical cables into the ground as the houses and streets are being built. For existing subdivisions that have fiber, the fiber optic cables only go as far as a neighborhood box (called a node), then existing copper wires brings it to your house. At present the cable & telephone companies can not run fiber optic cables to houses in neighborhoods that have not been plumbed for them at the start.

The good side of that is that you can get very high speed internet if you can afford it.

The downside is that third party cable internet companies (those that piggyback on the existing cable infrastructure) are cut out of the picture for a few years until the CRTC (the canadian governing body for telecom kinda like the American FCC) grants them permission. In short you are held hostage by the major infrastructure owners (Rogers Cable and Bell for us).
My grandma house i got from her when she died is from 1949 and we have fiber on that street.
Ping is 30 ms
30 mb/s download and 3 mb/s upload.
The cables were only for phone back then and nothing were changed they only came to install the router.
DGN and something from Netgear and it runs smoothly in there!
So idk if it depends from country to country