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by didon 1160 days ago
Advertised: 10gbit fiber symmetric - $30. Real: ~5gbit upload, 2gbit download (max); ~800mbit up & down (median) Sonic, San Francisco Bay Area
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How does that happen? Fiber shouldn't have congestion, right?
I attribute it to the speed test I server which is picked up - it is not the ISP provided one, so I assume there will be some variation of the measured bandwidth. Manual tests against the ISP provided instance is much closer to 10gbit, but I haven't bothered to automate it yet to graph it.

On other hand, my understanding is that fiber is not immune from congestion problems - the only difference is at what point it happens.