Bell Fibe 3 Gigabit Internet Review (Part 1) 

UPDATE: Part 2 is shot - unfortunately- so is my motherboard. Just RMA’d it so I’ll try to get this video done as soon as it’s possible. This would be a community post- but not enough subs yet. For those who subbed to get me to 300, I thank you immensely.

I genuinely love to see Canadian telecom and tech content, great vid.

The second of your videos I’ve watched. Love the depth of explanation, while you take the time to distill the complexity. Greatly appreciate Canadian tech content that is so thoughtful and practical. Really, really, well done and thank you!

Hi Shaun, thank you very much for working hard and making good videos for us. I'm waiting for part 2

Loved the content. Precise language, informative and your opinion clearly stated and explained ! I want more !!

Love your ability to articulate information and great video as always!

Please continue to make more content! Real good info and we'll put together!

As a premium subscriber to RU-vid I get to see tech video without the ads - there are a lot and most are not worth the view. Well, yours is in the top 10%. I subbed maybe a week ago and impressed to see the continued quality content combined with a wicked sense of humour. Who knows where this will lead?

I picked a good time to leave Rogers for Bell..4 days after I switch.... Rogers is down all over the country

Bell is currently doing their fibre cable installations in my neighbourhood. Really looking forward to part 2!

Bell called me offering a 2 year plan. It includes 3GB speeds, bell Premium tv package, 2 year of HBO and home phone for $85.00/month. Thanks for the video!

Hope your MOBO is well. I enjoyed your part-1 and looking forward to part-2. Being a CISCO tech head my perspective on speed is total end to end throughput and it is doubtful that we will see 3Gb in real life. Since the internet is built on "best effort" full speed is unlikely. Not having seen part-2 I hope you included real world data transfers. Thanks for all the good work.

Bell finally opened up their Fire 3.0 to my house. Installation coming this week. The monthly cost is cheaper than what I pay Cogeco for 1Gbps. Excited!

Yes relevant Canadian tech content! subscribed!

helpful video thank you & subbed

This is definitely good in terms of overall ISP competition, hoping that Bell continues to compete intensively. Bell would legitimately be the most well rounded ISP if they simply offered hardware that was simply more open, easy to use bridge mode, easy to use your own wifi gear, etc. Hoping that bell continues to compete with rogers and overall internet prices fall for all in Canada. Our market for internet is just outrageous for the prices we pay and the connection we get on average. Great video review, keep these internet videos coming.

So I got the Bell Fibe 3Gbps, and I've ordered an ASUS RT-AX89X. Since you're also in Canada, I'm curious what is the best way to build a small home 10Gbps network beyond those components. If I use the 10GbaseT port to connect to the HomeHub 4000, then I'm left with an SFP+ port. Should I buy an SFP+ switch, and SFP+ cards for my desktop and NAS,? Or should I buy a 10GbaseT switch, and 10GbaseT cards for my desktop and NAS, and also buy a 10GbaseT transceiver/adaptor for the SFP+ port in the router? 10GbaseT switches seem to currently be exceedingly expensive, or just plain unavailable. I found mention of the TP-Link Jetstream T1700X-16TS switch as being an affordable consumer 10gbe device, but it's now "end of life", and there doesn't seem to be anything like it. Now that I need 10Gbps, it seems like the chip shortage has made things ludicrous.

Multiple simultaneous connections to ul/dl large video files from large NAS

One of the biggest perks imo for this type of speed would be uploading terabytes of hard drives asap, but at that point google's daily upload limit might be annoying

Hey guys. Does anyone know if the 10g port in the back the HH4000 is compatible with NBASE-T??? I am asking because my house has only CAT5e cables.

Maybe you are starting but by watching your videos you have potential to be a very good techtuber. Good luck and i love your videos, the quality of them are insane. Like 3 months ago my company of wifi connection offer fiber óptic, and i updrade from coaxial to fiber. I live in México and the maximum Plan they offer are 1Gbps is like 70dls/month. Right now i have 200 Down and 100 up, but im gonna upgrade to 1Ggps but i wanna aproach the speed. What would you recomend me to do? I like a lot the theme of wifi conection, Pc's technology and programing. Btw im planning to buy a Router from Asus the Asus AX6600 Tri-band (2 of them to use Mesh) Maybe you can make a video talking about the Mesh wifi's.

I can't get enough speed. On the 1.5Gbit profile now but need the CO in my area upgraded before 3 will be available - the second it is I'm jumping on it. I have a VPN between my family households which backup their NAS devices and store my offsite backups via Veeam. Centralized Ubiquiti doorbell/security camera video storage for my family and Plex access provided from my household to family and friends. Pushing 3-6TB+ usage a month. What's even more incredible is my family households all being on Bell FTTH get around 8ms ping between them (all using PFsense IPSEC VPN) across the city which is nuts, just as a test I tried running iSCSI over that and it actually seemed to work not too bad though I had no real use to do so. With my Steam library downloads and general usage on top of all that I feel the need... the need for speed.

i got the 1.5g package right now and i think thats insane. i went to the site and now they got 8g. that's insane. 8000 up 8000 down.

came back to this video.. got a free upgrade with bell to the 3GB from 1.5 & got the new gigahub & super pods which are suppose to be WiFi 6 (supposedly) - it was actually 5$ cheaper then my 1.5 with the hub 4000. Tech is coming to install this next week. I don't think I'll see any difference as I only use wireless lol.

Other than video content sharing, certain individuals or institutions require high speed internet to transfer large data sets. I can think of few examples like scientific and space exploration research where they gather large amounts of data. In a lot of cases the data is so large that it is faster to transfer it in person. This can become very expensive if the data is collected across the world and broken down elsewhere. In a lot of cases like video content sharing, the data needs to be processed in different parts of the world. As technology evolves so that the need for faster internet. I’m glad to know that Bell and Rogers are stepping up their game in this field.

What type of cat cable did you use for that speed test can you try the speed test with basic cat 6

Quick question. Was there any hardware required to upgrade to the 3Gigabit, besides installing Bell's Gigahub in your home? Did they have to run new fibre cables to your neighbourhood, to accommodate the higher speeds, or was it a seamless upgrade? I'm in Halifax, and we're capped at 1.5gigabit right now, even though I already have the Gigahub. I'm just wondering if they need to change the existing infrastructure, or just change things internally?

Where's part 2? And are you going to do a review on the new 8 Gbps that Rogers and Bell have released in Toronto? There's also a small company in Markham doing 10 gbps if I'm not mistaken!

I'm glad they came out with this gaming and schooling is not a good mix it was slow when my sister was in school and School starts soon so I'll try to to upgrade before school starts even with the 1.5gbps package

Hey Shaun also in Ontario, do you know any retailers that carry the Asus rt-ax89x to take advantage of 10g port besides amazon

Keep it up brother. I love your videos

I'm glad you mentioned how stupid the upper ends of speeds are. Most customers mostly compare Gigabit Ignite vs Gigabit Fibe which already is the problem because without any knowledge, if Gigabit Ignite doesn't work why would they go for a lower speed with a different company. The rationality of realizing how overkill the service is actually more of a topic than anything that has to do with these upper end speeds. Most people don't even know what the average household for 2 people watching netflix would need vs household of 5-6, everyone just wants Gigabit if they don't know any better.

Is the 3gbps package good for a house with 3 people. And 25 devices.?

LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.. I just moved downtown and upgraded to the 3k package had 5 techs come out here and a cable guy to upgrade the splitters in my building boy what a headache! anyways I noticed when i run a speedtest on ookla and change the server to frontier or teksavy the speeds are much lower closer to gigabit speeds... only the North York server the one you chose in this video shows higher speeds... why is that if they are all bell? are we getting lied too? Also my gaming pc I bought last year has a 2.5gb ethernet port so can i upgrade without having to upgrade motherboard to 10k port?

I work in bell sells and is kinda surprise when I give my customer the 3 GIB for 104$ for lifetime while they pay 120 for rogers with 1GIb down and 30 UP. Bell just keep improving in my opinion and other will fallow aswell

We need someone who is Canada focused! and like the setup!

After the Rogers outage and ANOTHER outage in my neighbourhood (been down since 2pm yesterday) it looks like I will be making the jump to Bell. Not to mention little problems here and there throughout the years. Disgusted with Rogers lately. Their infrastructure is ancient.

There is no point to upgrade beyond gigabit plan if my router only supports gigabit wan right? Can the homehub 4000 do wan aggregation?

I'm thinking the most common use case, given that most people may not have all the fancy 10 Gb switches and Cat 6e wiring, wouldn't be a single device saturating the line, but rather multiple devices in the home all downloading/uploading at the same time.

Who would use a 3 gigabit internet plan at home? Sound off here in the comments!

Thank you Shaun :).

If youre just using the home hub 4000 can you reach beyond gigabit speeds with the 10gig port provided on the home hub 4000?

What’s ridiculous is while Bell finally upgraded to the HomeHub4000 for the 10Gbit port, they are still selling WiFi pods that don’t do Wi-Fi 6 still. They should have rolled out new pods at the same time. Telus advertises 2.5Gbps and throws in Wi-Fi 6 pods. Which is why I will continue to use my 1.5Gbit connection and Wifi 6 router through pppoe and Wi-Fi 6 OneMesh extenders. we have 3 floors so I have 2 extenders so we get seamless Wi-Fi 6 from upstairs all the way down to the basement continuously without losing connection. Plus we have 4 people in the house all doing online gaming, live-streaming, downloading, or streaming content. Remember the 1.5Gbit is THROUGHPUT so you’re forgetting people with families that share the bandwidth. I love how I can download things for work and the rest of my family can still get great speeds without effecting mine. 3Gbit is tempting but I’m still on promo pricing until October of this year, but after that I may upgrade to a setup with a 10gbit ethernet port and upgrade to the 3Gbit service. It’ll only be $14 more per month at that point and I already pay for the homehub 4000 since the 3000 is a literal hunk of junk that always needed resetting. The removable SFP module was the only benefit to it, but passthru works just as well.

i was buying used mellanox 10gbe cards on ebay 11 years ago, cheep. i bought my dell 10gbe switch from there back then also, alot of us home, enthusiast been ahead of the curve, along time.

i have gigbit but already have a 10Gig network switch and 10gig Nic inside my pc In preparation for higher speed fiber

Great video bro

i have a 2.5g ethernet port on my MOBO. Unfortuneatly its locked at 1000/1000 and i cant find a way to increase it to 2.5. I changed the speed/duplex to full 2.5, but when i check linkspeed in network it still says 1000/1000. I am at a loss on what to do.

I am on 10 Megabit Down 1 Megabit Up. We are in a building and they have fiber in the Ottawa valley but it is going to take a couple of weeks for the landlord to get back from his work trip. I have got letters signed by all 3 buildings to get other gamers/content creators in on this. It is a good idea since we need to grow RU-vid for the gaming farmer developer communities.

It would come in really handy for VPN into a cooperate network with a 10Gig already fibre uplink… for downloading large files, programs and uploading, and working within the system directly without going through other programs and services out there… Also it would be really useful in a Home VPN, to another home or office VPN… like ubiquiti (Unifi) systems, which you would still need both ends to have the right hardware to do it all…. Like I don’t have bell where I am (yet) but I think they’re installing it now…. Lots of digging in the are and fiber lines… If two content creators, had it they could easily share files like it was in their same network, you know *cough cough* or vpn into a main directory if the source had the same internet for uploading completed videos to a paid service… either way I could try with my Unifi Dream machine pro SE with its connection if I can get the internet lol

In your next video can you please talk about wifi performance with the new package? I currently have 1.5Gbps from Bell. All my devices are connected wirelessly to the Home Hub 4000 and, on my wifi 6 devices, I get more than 1Gbps depending on the service I use. Thank you.

Bell just opened availability down my road last week and now they are already starting to offer 3Gb fiber (not in New brunswick yet :( ) is honestly insane coming from mediocre Rogers Gigabit. Surprisingly enough my motherboard has the capability to reach 2.5Gb so atleast I could most of the speeds offered (But like you said services don't reach more than 1Gb most the time).

I just looked on bell's website and they are now offering 8gb up and down with a new wifi 6e router!!!

There is a benefit to 3 Gbps if you live in a place with multiple machines that may be making use of the internet heavily. Even with most standard hardware being only equipped with 1 Gbps ethernet that means you and two roommates or whatever could each have 1 Gbps up and down fully dedicated to them. With the price of renting a place these days being enormous (at least here in Ontario), and the prospect of having to roommate it up just to get by, this is a pretty darn solid choice to keep everyone happy, imho. That or you could just be a power user with like constant uploads going to YT while you stream to other platforms while you run Backblaze while playing with friends on Steam Remote Play Together while also contributing to the peer-to-peer Windows Update service (where they use people like you to host some files to make things faster), et cetera without making a dang dent in your experience. I just got 1.5 Gbps because that's the max they had in my area and it is gosh darn insane the amount of potential it has unlocked.

So did you get the 8Gbps?

Just saw your vid. Neat and awaiting part 2. I'm a DSLR member as well and watching the thread. I also don't get the whole "Who needs speeds that fast" and have seen and hated it plenty. Not that I need them, I want them for what I do/could use them, especially for upload. In US, Comcast gives me a 42 upload which OneDrive makes cry every time. My connection is 1400/42. And as for uses, for me, it's gaming (Downloads on 4 systems all at once, for example.), Geforce Now streaming at 50MBPS while other things are going on. And PC downloads or YT streaming. 3 of my systems would pull 2G if available, so I'd love a 3GB connection. But 2.5G would also play nice. Also uploads to services like OneDrive. The 42 upload I have is pathetic in 2022. A 3G connection isn't for joe user, who as you pointed out, doesn't usually have the hardware grunt to get past 1G without special preps, like SSDs, CPU and 2.5/5/10G NIC cards and switches that can do the same. But I'm also not joe user. Love the bit about you using a ASUS AX89X (ASUS AX86U here) I, too, know the horrors of a AIO provider gateway. You will pry my router from my hands.

You asked to give a reason as to why someone in a residential would need to use a symmetric 3gb network. So here my break down…… 4 cell phones, 2 tablets, 6 TV’s, 3 laptops, 6 fire sticks, indoor and outdoor wireless security cameras (total of 10 cameras), ring camera doorbell, 5 Google mini’s, 2 ps5’s, 2 ps4’s, 1 Nintendo switch, so in an actual total of devices that are actually online on a daily I would have to say is a total of 26-29 devices being used on my network. In total of all my devices I have close or over 45. I feel that a person who is completely wireless with a full mesh set up to equally put internet throughout my house consistent the 3gb is the way to go. Not to mention my house is a powerhouse for streaming all day everyday and I have a son who streams on twitch also. Needless to say it’s incredible once your completely wireless how much internet speed decreases the more devices you add to you network. Let me know if you agree or disagree, great video and detail!!

Hey my friend which cat 6 cable do you suggest do you have a link ? i am asking because my imac use to run my 1 gigabit internet just fine i use to have max speed now i only get 300 download but max upload 940 ( on a 1 gig bell fiber to home) i just upgraded to 3 gig because it was a good deal and i do stock high frequency trading but was just curious if you have any idea why my imac doesnt support my full speed i will buying a mac mini m1 and macbook pro m1 max but i would like to know out of curiosity why my imac download speed was so low ...when i do a speed test on my xbox series x it is the same maybe i was thinking it was my ethernet cables but i tried using the cat 6 that came with homehub 4k still no success

your fun to watch man

What telco companies don't often mention is that the client devices, if accessing on wifi, need to have internal wifi cards that support these higher data speeds, and to bear in mind that device processor speeds can also limit performance. I don't understand why people need 3Gbps data speeds either, other than people falling for a telco's sales hype.

Correction. Fibrestream has the fastest internet service in canada. 5gbps symmetrical.

I went to 3gig cus it was only 10 dollars more then my 1.5 and if they ever make the servers faster to respond I already have it

Your issue with your thinking is that you're by yourself. If you're in a home with a family of 4 people who all utilize hardwire internet connections, phones, gaming devices, etc; all at the same time, the 1Gbit, 1.5Gbit, and 3Gbit offers more THROUGHPUT. You're only thinking along the terms of sending the maximum speed to one device and hogging all of the bandwidth for yourself. But these higher tier plans actually mean you can spread out the bandwidth across your home to all of your devices without interfering with each other's speeds. Example: I have Bell's 1.5Gbit service hooked into my 2.5Gbit WAN port on my router to send internet via WiFi 6 around my home wirelessly and then I have cables hardwired to both of my computers in my office. This means I can max out to 1Gbit speeds on my computer while the rest of my home (smart devices, mobile devices) and family member's computer's have access to the other 500Mbit of throughput without interfering with my 1Gbit speed. Take this same logic to a 3Gbit connection and you have 1Gbit hardwired and then 2Gbit throughput available to the rest of the household shared either wired or wireless. Allowing everyone to get 1Gbit theoretical speeds without slowing any other connections down. Make sense? Internet speed isn't about MAX SPEED to ONE DEVICE.... it's about sharing that bandwidth across your entire home to all of your smart devices, mobile phones, gaming consoles, computers, laptops. When you think of things from the mind of a single guy just wanting to get all excited about maxing out your 10Gbit ethernet port with the fastest internet then you're thinking in a very narrow view. But also if you can afford 3Gbit internet then it shouldn't be difficult for you to have a 10Gbit switch and just hardwire all of your computers adding a 10Gbit port to them. With Windows you can add a 10Gbit Ethernet jack easily, and even with older Macs without 10Gbit ports you can get an adapter that converts Thunderbolt to 10Gbit Ethernet as Thunderbolt supports up to 40Gbit speed transfer. Then you can also get a WiFi 6E router in the future once mobile/devices in the home start to upgrade to WiFI 6E antennas and utilize that extra throughput even more! Add in MATTER technology for smart homes and building up your thread network and it'll be the fastest/low latency smart home available and make life wonderful for a tech enthusiast like ourselves.

I calculated a download of 512 GB (the standard size for xbox one drive) at the rate of 3gbps to be 22 min and 45 seconds according to a download calculator. So yeah, any game out there can be downloaded in less than a half an hour. It is insane.

I think one scenario is large family houses where alot of people saturate the network. Like 7+ person families. You got a couple people streaming 4k, someone downloading a game, moms browsing tiktok etc. Everyone gets "max" speeds. It might make sense for them f they all want seamless connections.

Higher speeds are coming soon if I am not mistaken, 5GBPS and 8GBPS. In the testing phase right now, but I've seen it in the wild and it's crazy.

So Bell vs Rogers's new 8 Gigabit plan. Hands down, Bell is the option to go with @ 135.00 / month vs Rogers at 399.99 / month. What are Rogers's product owners thinking?

Pirates need it "har har"🤣

Awesome job :) zoom zoom

I hate rogers ISP and had to deal with them for like 14 years and finally bell offered fiber. the 3 gig wasnt really that much more than the 1.5 or whatever so I went with it.

Agree with your synopsis, this is a market competition move allowing Bell's marketing department to position Bell as a leader. If this is what it takes to push faster profiles and hopefully lower the cost for 500/1Gb/1.5Gb fibre, I'm all in. Truth be told, I heard from a Bell tech that they was positioning 10Gb FTTH, the 3Gb doesn't surprise me. Edit: Since hearing they wanted to push 10Gbps profiles, I'm still looking for the elusive cost effective 10Gb switch using RJ45 and not SFP+.

I'm getting 3gb installed today. I've had Bell's FTTH since day one launch, what 4 years ago? I still have the same HH3000 modem which has given me headaches since day one. I have 5 people in my household and typically 4 of us are streaming 4k/gaming/ whatever like 24/7, not to mention the 20 some IOT/phones/devices/computers etc sharing the bandwidth. The extra 15$ should be a no brainer.

In Toronto and getting this upgrade tomorrow! However my office on the other end of the house is hardwired with cat 5e. I think I might be screwed even with a 10gbe nic.

Some folks near my Toronto house have 10Gbs.

Rogers way behind my area don’t even have fibre optic 😢 on 1Gb download and 30 upload 😂😂😂

What was your latency on your router?

The service of 3 gigabit is for big families , I have 150 megabits and we are a family of 5, when my company starts offering 500 megabits, was a life changer, streaming (Netflix, prime video, you tube, music) was amazing, I play Xbox mostly every night, when I had the 150 megabit service, my lag and bad connection was horrible, my kids play on their Nintendo switch and they had problems to find matches (they connect vía wifi) when i upgrade the connection, no problems at all, my wife seen Netflix, 1 kid seen RU-vid, and the other 2 kids playing switch, and myself playing the Xbox, everything running seamless, so a service with high bandwidth is mostly for big families who uses a lot of internet, this 3 gigabit connection I recommended if you have kids who stream, you have devices that needs to connect to internet like tv´s, music devices, streaming devices, security devices, well you get the idea. I am thinking moving to Toronto Ontario, if you have the time to tell me which areas of Toronto can have this service, that will be asome, great video, have a nice day!!!!!

My browser has 340 tabs I have 3 monitors on at all times, in a house with 5 people, 8 cellphones 2 tv boxes and a Xbox lol

Sorry but for a tech reviewer, I was surprised as to why you used the RU-vid buffer example. RU-vid NEVER fully loads the video from beginning to end in one shot, no matter how fast your internet speed is.

Do a 8 gigabit review!

Still no pt2?

When is part 2 coming?

Mostly because the lower bell packages are going to get price increase while Gigabite Fibe 3.0 will have credit for x amount of years. As a consumer it looks good faster speeds for less money.

What is part 2 coming?

were is part 2?

Pt2 ?

28$ cheaper than what I have for my videotron 400d and 50 up. So the price difference makes it verry apealing.

That Gamer Nexus pic 😂🤣

Got fiber installed :) then trying to upload to any service like google gets limited to sub 100mbps :(

I RUN 10gig Sfp+ LC IN MY BEDROOM!

they have 8 now, are you going to review that brah??

I just upgraded from 1.5gig to 3gig because it was $5 cheaper lol.

I have the 3GB bell and 1B Rogers and I get 800-850MB from Rogers and 750-933Mb from bell per second download. Rogers 1GB is faster and more consistent then bells on my ps5

So where is the cheapest place to get a nic card that can handle this speed in Canada all I’ve found is one for $120cdn. Too rich for my blood

I think bell could offer 100 Gigabit internet and id still not use them, the anxiety of billing and customer service issue with bell would keep me up at night, The number is nice but my 120/30 with fizz as yet to make me wish I had more.

To answer some your question I have around ten 10 gigabit ethernet cards which would take full advantage of those speeds, like you stated before no body else at this time supports those speeds what's even the point of upgrading your service ooh ya bell canada can drain your bank accounts faster.

Wow, it's 2022 and we're just now getting acceptable speeds from ISPs. Just wish they didn't have everyone by the balls in terms of cash. Super jealous of you, I'm stuck on DSL still until the clowns at bell continue the upgrade and bring fibe from the street behind me to mine 💀💀

Let's say if you have 3gig internet, you just get a wifi 6 or 6e router

Subbed @ 800 for Part 2!

lol fibe is not fiber.... its there way of adding more customers... Hamilton has no fiber optic structure, not eve, near the airport, which I'm roughly 3/4 of a mile from, and availability here is, adsl a 5 megabit per sec...... but more like ,5 megabit per sec, I''m switching to tek savvy asap

its for wifi 6 owners