The three types of fiber are:

• Fiber to the Node (FTTN) reaches within a mile distance from your premises. This means that it travels this length through copper, making it slower.
• Fiber to the Curb (FTTC) stops at the utility pole closest to your premises. This leaves a short distance that utilizes coaxial cable and is the second-best option.
• Fiber to the Home (FTTH) is fiber all the way and thus the fastest choice. 

Let’s take a look at the benefits of fiber.

Speed

You can expect a speed of 1 gigabyte per second. This is many times faster than cable at 50-100 megabytes per second. You can see the difference by comparing the time it takes each to download a two-hour high-definition movie. The former takes a mere 40 seconds. DSL is the longest at half an hour, while cable is in-between and takes seven minutes.

Reliability

During peak hour traffic online, cable gets overloaded with everyone in the neighborhood streaming. This results in the screen freezing while you are playing a game or watching a movie. This doesn’t happen with fiber as it can cope with many times the users of cable and is also faster, so data moves at a consistent pace. Fiber is also largely immune to outages that are common with cable.

Absence of Throttling

Just as the power dies on a really cold day because everyone has their heating units plugged in or on a hot day when the entire area is dependent on air conditioning, cable also gets overloaded and reduces its speed to prevent outages. This is known as throttling. It allows everybody some connectivity, but nobody has the expected speeds that they are used to. Fiber doesn’t easily get overloaded so there is no need for throttling.

Matched Upload and Download Speeds

Cable usually has different speeds for uploads and downloads, with the former being much, much slower. Your cable ISP does this because, in general, most users do less uploading than downloading and more bandwidth is allocated to the former. Fiber, on the other hand, has identical upload and download speeds so that the user is never waiting.

Better 4K TV

Ultra-High-Definition TV is great as it has four times the pixels of regular TV, which means better pictures. Unfortunately, with cable, that means that you also use more bandwidth. Streaming suffers as a result of reduced speeds. This doesn’t occur with fiber.

Gaming Consistency

When you are playing your favorite game, every moment counts, and you need the game to respond instantly to your prompts if you want to avoid your character being killed during the glitches that happen with cable. Fiber provides the consistency of data flow that eliminates this problem.

If you are looking for a great online experience, Wyyerd offers 2-GIG symmetrical speeds and unlimited data. All the equipment is included and there is no installation fee. Additionally, there are no surcharges or surprise rate increases. Best of all, they offer local support, which few ISPs do.

As you can see, fiber is virtually essential for most of the reasons you go online for. 

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