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by silotis 638 days ago
IME most new residential fiber deployments in the US are using XGS-PON which provides 10 Gbps in both directions. Typically ISPs don't put the maximum number of clients in a node that the standard allows. I've heard 32 is a common number in practice.

Obviously it'd still be a bad idea to run a high traffic server on a residential connection, but as long as you're not streaming 4K video 24/7 or something you'll probably be OK.