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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
So let's say in a perfect world all steps have fibre-optics, how fast would it be to my Shaw connection? And I don't really know what bit rates are good.
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In simplest terms, Shaw's fastest connection, at 250 megabits per second downstream, is 0.25 gigabits. GPON fibre, which is what I think most ISP's in North America are rolling out, is rated for up to 2.5 gigabits, so theoretically it's 10x faster.
I say theoretically because both cable and fibre internet access have various kinds of overhead that decrease what you'd actually see at your PC, as well as their own unique scalability attributes that affect throughput as overall load increases, but in simple terms fibre is 10x faster.