On 2023-03-03 12:17, James Knott wrote:

With cable the all the customers on the segment are sharing the same bandwidth.
So if your the first one on the cable you have the full speed to yourself but if your number 100 then you and the 99 other people are sharing that speed.

If you're on Fibe, you only have your own wire out to the node in the neighbourhood. From there, it's shared. Not much different from cable.

Forgot to mention, even with original ADSL, with the dedicated copper pair, going back to the CO, the Internet connection was still shared at the DSLAM. Several years ago, I was setting up some DSLAMs for Sprint Canada, just before Rogers bought them. Each DSLAM shelf had 32 lines connected to it, but all that traffic wound up on a DS3, which was 45 Mb. So, you had 32 ADSL lines sharing that 45 Mb.