Yes very good information indeed, the bottle neck I was referring to was what ever device, computer or router he was using at the time of the speed test. They can only handle so much, unless his router and computer can handle 1gb of Internet.
Also I never thought of the upload being factored into the x20 faster, but that make a lot of sense.
Is the fiber cable itself called 1gb fiber? Anyone know? Like ethernet cords are cat5 and cat6.
I looked into it and most fiber is only running at 300 megabytes ( don't get me wrong that's a ridiculous amount of Internet speed, especially when you're me and have none because you don't want to sign up for a two year contract due to waiting for this fiber lol)
Anyway that's why I asked to see a speed test, curiosity to see what we are going to get here in town. If it ends up being 1gb I am going to be baffled lol.
I don't work for UIA, and I haven't talked to them. I've read their proposal for CASF funding, as someone who spent the last quarter century doing this kind of stuff it pretty much says exactly what they're going to do.
Here is how I read it:
UIA is installing fiber, running at 1 gigabit to every served customer. 1 gigabit, "uncorked" in both directions, from here to his Point of Presence (POP) here in town. That fiber connects to at least one "backhaul" circuit. I think he's got a 1 gigabit circuit back to his Ontario NOC via terrestrial microwave, and I expect he'll add capacity as needed.
It's easy to measure how much "load" is on the circuit(s) from here to his NOC, and there are Industry Standards for when you add capacity.
It is
Intuitively Obvious to the Most Casual Observer that Verizon was either grossly incompetent by not monitoring usage and happily selling bandwidth many times what they could actually handle, or they just didn't care since they were the only game in town.
So, bottlenecks:
You're right, of course, that most of the home routers we have are likely not able to handle a full gigabit. I don't think it matters.
Tracing from my Frontier DSL to FAST.COM, Netflix' speed test site, there are 10 routers. There are at least twelve wires (copper, fiber, whatever). Each router can be underpowered, and each wire can be too small. The one from here to L200.LSANCA-DSL-72.gni.frontiernet.net (my gateway) undoubtedly is (that's my DSL line plus the fiber hooking Wrightwood to the world).
I used Netflix because that's a good example of the biggest bandwidhth use we might have. Voice over IP is something like 0.02 megabits so it doesn't even count. Netflix will work at 0.5 megabits (and if latency is low, you won't have buffering). They want 3 megabits for solid SD video, 5 megabits for HD, and 25 megabits for UltraHD. Numbers for Amazon's streaming would be the same.
A gigabit is 1000 megabits. To use a full gigabit, you'd need 200 televisions watching HD video from Netflix. I don't have an UltraHD TV, let alone the 40 TVs that it'd take to fill a gigabit.
That last bit is the major point I've been trying to make: UIA is saying "20 times faster" because it's really difficult to find something that can really use a full gigabit of data. They also can't guarantee anything beyond their own network.
In the year 2026 that may be very different, but UIA won't have to rewire, just upgrade their feed.
