So my house finally got fibre to the house . Gone from having a 30mb connection to a 1gb connection. My question is if I have a 1gb broadband plan should I be getting fairly close the 1gb speed fairly consistent? So maybe 900mb consistently? So when I first got it for the first few days I was hitting between 800-980mb consistently. But now I only get 500-600 at best throughout the day. I know the old "copper"cable was “up to” 100mb. And you got whatever you got. But with fibre I assumed you would always get pretty close to the advertised speed or am I wrong? Thinking of changing to 500mb as it’s cheaper and I’m technically only getting 500mb now anyway. Tested speeds are wired with cat 6 cable on a laptop.
Many people seem to get consistent “full” gigabit speeds around the clock with FiOS, but I do see slowdowns, regularly. Definitely slower during evenings and weekends vs during weekdays here in the south end of Richmond, VA.
I have never seen download speeds over 850 (direct from the ONT, local Ookla speed test server, using various computers) and my service more commonly tests in the 650 to 750 Mbps range, I do see dips in peak periods down to the upper 400’s. These speeds have gradually trended lower in recent years. Verizon has come out a couple of times to check stuff and each time they say everything is working fine.
This week one of their bucket trucks snagged a low-hanging line in my alley, pulling down a span of overhead fiber and old copper lines, which in the process tore their box off the side of my house, pulled off some siding, and yanked a knotted bundle of excess fiber patch cable out of my router though a small hole in my exterior wall and out into my yard. They just finished replacing three spans of aerial fiber (“squirrel damage” lol) and replaced everything from my ONT to the pole. No notable difference in performance since the rebuild. Whatever is constraining my network speed is at least something at the neighborhood level, not my connection.
tl;dr: While it seems uncommon, yes, there can be some variability to FiOS speeds.