Will Fiber get me better ping for online games?

SquiddyButler · July 25, 2022

I moved to a rural area that averages 600+ ping so everything is unplayable. If I got fiber when it comes out here, what would my ping be then? This is my last shot I'd prefer 20-30 ping but I'd be happy with anything below 100 tbh.

PDifolco · July 25, 2022

Sure, I've 1Gb fiber and ping in Speedtest is...5 !

fuzz0r · July 25, 2022

1gig fiber here in rural area my ping averages 5, some days lower.

SquiddyButler · July 25, 2022

43 minutes ago, fuzz0r said:

1gig fiber here in rural area my ping averages 5, some days lower.

That's really good, I honestly thought it would've been way higher

BobVonBob · July 26, 2022

1 hour ago, SquiddyButler said:

when it comes out here

Unless you know a company that currently offers fiber or has fiber expansion plans that cover your area I wouldn't suggest holding your breath. Fiber is still difficult to find even in many suburbs, let alone rural areas. With the current build-out rate of telecoms in [insert literally any country] you'll probably be waiting at least 20 years.

That being said, 600 ping is awful, way worse than I'd expect even with rural internet. You might want to follow up on that.

TomChaai · July 26, 2022

Fiber or not is the last mile delivery differences. Unless your current last mile is absolutely garbage, I don't think this will make too much a difference.

Changing ISP however may improve things, for example they have a different upstream connection and their backbone has better connection to MS Azure/AWS/Google cloud PoPs.

PDifolco · July 26, 2022

2 hours ago, TomChaai said:

Fiber or not is the last mile delivery differences. Unless your current last mile is absolutely garbage, I don't think this will make too much a difference.

Changing ISP however may improve things, for example they have a different upstream connection and their backbone has better connection to MS Azure/AWS/Google cloud PoPs.

Are you sure? I thought that last mile stuff was a DSL thing and didn't apply to fiber

TomChaai · July 26, 2022

24 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Are you sure? I thought that last mile stuff was a DSL thing and didn't apply to fiber

Unless you are a large organization or an ISP, the fiber you get is also "last mile" fiber, usually EPON or GPON which one fiber strand gets multiplexed over a dozen households or so. The physical capacity of a household fiber strand is 1.25G or 10G, depending on generation.

Only large organization can afford native backbone level fiber connection, those often comes in dedicated pairs of fibers, no multiplexing, you always get guaranteed bandwidth and ping defined in the SLA, congestion does not exist.

Although home fiber multiplex ratio is much better than copper DSL or cable modem, also fiber is much more tolerant to long distance/poor cable quality. On DSL/Cable those things often ruin your connection speed, on fiber this is not an issue, the only issue is your broadband plan, not even multiplex ratio is an issue most of the time unless your whole neighborhood downloads 24/7, which I believe is extremely unlikely.