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by short12 1684 days ago
At my last apartment it was gigabit. And it was definitely gigabit speeds
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Coax cable is limited to 10 Gbps (DOCSIS 3.1) and is shared with many houses/apartments (can easily be a few hundred modems) in a neighborhood. Theoretically only 10 people can use 1 Gbps at any one time, in practice probably even less.
There are at least 65 million homes in the US.