I live in Nevada and internet providers are slim. I’ve been looking around at the handful of companies that have internet. I live with family and their bill keeps getting hiked up. I’ve found an internet company with decent reviews but I’m stumped on something. What’s better copper cabling or fiber? The company I emailed said “Fiber has a higher potential maximum speed than copper”. My cousin tells me that’s not true because it’s part of their marketing speech. Can someone give me more information? I’m not sure what to believe.
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Fiber as a medium is faster. That doesn’t mean the ISP is giving a faster connection.
As an end customer you don’t care whether it’s fiber or copper. There are physical differences but they don’t matter at consumer level. You care about the advertised speeds.
Cousin dpsent know what he’s talking about
I worked at att installing internet for 10yrs, get fiber
It doesn’t matter.
Which provider provides better speed? Pick that one.
Which one makes you play the “fuck around every year to get a discount again” game? Pick the other one.
It all depends on the speed they are selling you. Copper and fiber come in various flavors. Thats JUST a cable - and most “copper runs” are actually fiber until the ‘last mile’.
Fiber is not always the same speed or faster than copper. We need more info on the actual speed they are offering.
It depends on what you buy, for internet speed both are good. Your internet will be 1,000mbit? Copper can go up to 10,000mbit so quick enough. Fiber can go up to like 400,000mbit in data centers. So yes fiber can be much quicker but both are already over kill.
It depends if the sound on copper can reach the speed of light on fiber. That chance is zero.
Fibre
The only reason I can imagine your cousin is saying that is because you have copper going to the house. Therefore any improvement paying for fiber gets immediately bottlenecked by that, so you are just throwing away money. If however you get fiber to the house, then there is a significant improvement, however this is not always possible.
Fibre is signficantly faster than copper.
The marketing crap is when they advertise fibre where the fibre goes as far as yur street, but then is copper the rest of the way.
That is not full fibre and you will be restricted to ~80mbps, whereas with full fibre you can get up to 1000bps