How does fiber internet work? 0ms ping! 

This video was 14GB and uploaded in about 5 minutes. I can get used to this...

Bending the cable was pretty crazy! I think the zeros get through fine because they are round but the ones probably get stuck in the sharp bend.

"Internet service providers don't typically give life, they suck it". The most truest sentence on the internet

As a certified fiber installer/network admin, watching you bend that cable took years off my life. Kids, don’t go bending your cable just for fun. Eventually the stress WILL kill it!

When your ping is so good you're bottlenecked by the servers of the game company

Going from 50mb/20mb to fiber is such a massive upgrade! Congrats! I live stream games and work in tech and the first thing I did when I was established on twitch was pay for fiber. I went from living in Wisconsin with 40 - 60ping in most games I play, to 0 - 5ms at all times. It's amazing.

As a an ex-fiber tech of a couple of years, I loved seeing this video Quinn! Couple things! Gigabit is not crazy. I know thats hard for 99% of you, I had dial-up until highschool, 2009. I know. At my job, our PON was running 1Gb down, 250Mb up residential and business 500Mb up, with availability for 10G when we began installing in 2018 from day one. Base price was $99/mo plus install. When you bent that cable your service didn't slow down, it actually quit. Since the signal is optical-digital it's on or off. The cable might have broke too, I'd definitely not use it and I'm sure you won't. It worked afterwards because it's going a short distance and the break doesn't actually stop the signal dead. the cracks are like the surface of water, light can go through but the signal integrity is diminished. Put a VFL (visual fault locator) laser tester on it and that spot will always glow, but more when bent (light escaping the buffer tube). Again, very cool video Quinn!

"Internet service providers don't typically give life, they suck it" 😂😂

0:46 the "This" sounded exactly like Doug DeMuro's "This." Who agrees?

The one thing I remember after watching this video: Microsoft Edge is available for the Mac.

"Internet providers generally dont give life, they generally suck it." Thats an awesome T-shirt right there

When putting extreme bends in fiber optic cable, even if the connection is still working, it lowers the maximum (optimal) speed at which the data can transfer. So if your cable is rated to work at speeds of 10Gbps, extreme bend would probably lower the maximum speed possible, increase errors, and probably introduce latency. Those are some awesome statistics when testing your connection!!! 👍

*cries in 3rd world internet speed while watching the video in 480p*

"Internet Service Providers don't typically give life, they suck it" 1:05 😂

Snazzy Labs:"we have gigabit internet" Linus at L.M.G.:"hold my beer" proceeds to show 10 gigabit internet speed

Take a shot every time he says, “fiber”

Him: _Gigabit Internet_ Me: *Laughs in DSL*

Linus with his stadium grade router: well that's cute

I just watched a twenty minute video about an internet connections and enjoyed every second of it! Keep up the good work Quinn!

"we were stuck with some crappy around 50mb/s down and 25mb/s up" Me with 2mb/s dsl internet: -_-

Me: sees him bending the fiber My fiber: Don't even think about it

I really enjoyed your geeking out, I'm getting 1,000 mbps fibre installed next week (currently have 2mbps) and now I feel better about being so excited.

I'm certified in professional fiber installation, it all depends on the quality of what you get. The stuff we used in the past could be tied in a knot and would barely add any impedance. Fiber is really freaking cool.

snazzy labs: 1 Gbps internet meanwhile me: internet that barely hits 1.5 Mbps

Have to say the fibre durability test was a fantastic unexpected gem. Thanks!

We get download speeds of up to 1.5 Gbps up north here in Canada with Bell Fiber.

Network Infrastructure videos: my favorite ones 🤓

00:46 THIS..... Doug DeMuro Confirmed

In Stockholm, Sweden. You can get 10gbit in some residential homes, for ~$50/month. The isp is “Bahnhof”

Always interresting to see how different internet is around the globe. I know USA is a pretty huge contry, but I still find it incredible how many are stuck on so slow speeds.

I’m not even doing anything with Fiber, yet I watched the video. I could watch more, love how you explain the smaller details that normally get left out by others.

When you bent that cable one of two things might've happened. one. the light might've been blocked because TIR (total internal reflection doesn't occur at extreme angles, or two the bend caused a slight crack in the cable and when straightened out the light can pass through but not as well as it would've if it weren't bent.

You were pinging yourself at 17:19 lmao

Test your ping using PING in the command line if you want "real-world" results. I think the major internet providers detect SpeedTest and somehow skew the results. Also change the test server to one you know is definitely part of a competing network. You'll see ping increase (though not necessarily by much).

Wow, I am into the network topic since several years and you literally explained stuff so well, before that you normally had to look up several articles & videos to get the knowledge delivered by your video, well done 👍

This was an awesome video for explaining in pretty good detail how fiber works for the layman. I work as a PM in construction management for electrical and network installations and the part where you demonstrate the strength of the fiber Is an incredible teaching tool Good work man!

I've been using Verizon Fios for several years now and I love. A couple years ago I upgraded to their FiOS Quantum 1Gbps tier. The speeds are symmetric. I don't regret it for an instance. It's so much more reliable than the Optimum Online I had previously. The fiber line actually goes all the way into my apartment to this big box on my wall. From there it goes to my router via a coax cable. This box on my wall is plugged into a power outlet, too.

12:00 The reason why the internet didn't work with that bend, is because of how the photons inside the cable have to bounce more, making the signal weaker at the other end

Meanwhile, me, just an IT guy in europe, having 10gbit/s home internet. Do I need it? No. Love it? Yes. My bottleneck is now my HDD...

This channel reminds me of when i used to watch linus tech tips!

Feels good to live in country where 1Gbit connection costs ~20€/month. It is so usual in Lithuania that it is rarely surprising someone. But the real problem is users routers. They imagine that they can get same speed on Wi-Fi in any apartment or 2 floors house.

Damn I'm jealous. It's a shame people don't riot over our ISP's

I don’t understand half the things he’s saying but I still watch these videos

1 Gbps internet is great, I'm glad I have it!

12:00 that's a real BOTTLENECK

That's awesome! I didn't expect 0.2ms ping to ISP. It takes me 1-3ms to ping my own router on WiFi 6 and it sometimes jumps all the way to 50ms.

Fibre optic cables are made of 2 materials. The outer one has a different refractive index which causes light to reflect and travel in a zigzag along the fibre. If you bend it too tight you prevent the reflections continuing normally. The first examples were solid glass rods. They just got thinner.

I also have fiber optics down-300Mb/s up-100Mb/s and there is nothing more satisfying than watching and 4k/8k video where my old internet had problems with loading 720p.

Here i am still with my 6mbs comnection great!

3:49 My man rocking Juniper gear?! That's nice enterprise gear.

I was told ages ago when I put a 90° COAX connector on my cable modem to reduce tension of the COAX, that eventhough I measured no difference, he said, “Radio Wave Don’t to do Corners.” That was one heck of a corner.

imagine if someone breaks/cut that fibre cable that's outside the building .

Going from 50mbps is 1gbps is life changing. In all honesty, even homes need 1gbps to work effortlessly. With cloud services running, media servers as well as a number of streaming devices our total upload and download can creep up to over 500mb/s at any one time. When we was on 80mbps our house was a battle ground with constant arguments about lag (bufferbloat). The days of FTTC are definitely over. Businesses and consumers should be demanding full fibre now.

when your internet was faster than a big tech youtuber connection

Been installing fiber for av distribution for years, that bending had me freaking out. It's glass inside there, and once it's broken it's broken, don't try this at home

I'm getting 1 gig internet at my house this week. Very excited for it. I'm not sure if I */need/* it, but I wanted to try it out and possibly switch to a lower speed later on.

Nobody: Literally Nobody: Me: *Laugh's at 3mbps*

Great video, I tried to see what kind of performance with that 8k video I could get on my 200mpbs network. Surprisingly, it loaded and buffered just as fast as the fiber connection. I think you were getting bottlenecked by something for a whole 800mbps LOL

finally got a 100mbps internet connection life is good after that :)

"How does fiber internet work?" very fast. thanks for watching!

I am from india and i have jio as my isp and JioFibre is excellent as i never experienced speed slowdown which is very common in india I have 300 mbps plan and i get avg. speeds of 295 mbps with avg ping of 11

My internet is trash, so seeing this is just incredible. I really wish AT&T would get their act together and start giving people more than 3 mega bits per second so that we can do stuff at a good pace, meanwhile everyone else is talking about 80 megabits per second plus.

My AT&T fiber connection must think I’m a business cause my upload speed is always higher than my download. Sometimes by 200 Mb

Did you buy the Juniper modem? My install had a DZS and I don't have a fiber out.

No one ever does this THANK YOU for showing the browsing speed!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had 250/20, bought 100/400 fiber wifi, first time played wired/LAN, still the same ping

Thats cool to bad i was told by at&t i would get Fiber in 2019 and still dont have it.

My ping where I live is 20ms to the nearest city 20 miles away. It's clear that Century Link is using terrible equipment and has a 95% profit margin

Me laughing with my gigabit internet that i have had for about year and pay CAD 85

Outside plant fiber splicer here. ISPs, including mine, do bring fiber directly from CO/Headend or data center dedicated to a customer. Also, fiber click cleaners keep connectors clean and undamaged preventing bit errors.

I live in Utah and been using Google Fiber in my apartment for the last 4 years, I forgot what buffering is like...

lol I live in Poland in "small" city and I have 1Gbps fiber connection for more than a year XDDD before I had for 2-3 years 500Mb/s 😂

"Internet Service Providers don't typically give life, they suck it..." subscribed.

When you're so early that there's no dislikes lol

Ha, good old Juniper.... careful with the firmware updates... ;-)

At Spectrum they call it hybrid fiber coax (HFC). The fiber hits the node and the node converts it to s radio signal on the 500 line. They have repeaters to extend that signal further.

Snazzy come to my crib. I need this *delicious* SPEED.

Damm 🔥 this vido was so funny spanking the old modem watever 😂😂😂⚡

As a technician who was in a metro market with FTTH, I do have to correct one thing - yes, your fiber cable as a cable is split and shared throughout the neighborhood, but that's not the end of the story. You do have a direct connection - you have one strand of a fiber cable, and each cable has over a hundred other strands inside. You get full duplex 1Gbps even on a single strand, actually. One of the largest downsides to GPON is the fact it does not entirely negate ping - this is still affected by servers and the mux/demux of the light in the cable.

Nobody: Snazzy: ThAtS BaNAnAs 🍌

Me over here with my 500 kb/s internet speed feeling happy when it reached 1 mb/s

I moved from MN to FL. Have gig fiber in both. I had CenturyLink in MN. My ping to cloudflair DNS server was around 7-10ms typically. Same equipment but on ATT fiber in FL, same server is around 23-25ms typically. Best I can tell, it has to do with the routing outside the home. Everything goes to Atlanta, GA from my home in western FL. In MN, the ISP endpoint was much closer. Based on trace route, that is the best I could come up with for why ping was so different. Not a huge deal. Most things in north america are still under 30ms as long as the internet as a whole is running smooth between me and the server.

Germany: Down: 990mb/s Up: 100mb/s

I fiber to the pole and the node, which transmit wirelessly to a access point and to the router. 200/200 is the best! Fiber is beautiful!

Me: WHY CANT YOU JUST BE NORMAL?! My rural area internet that has me at at least 600 ping at all times: *SCREAMS*

a 0 ms ping is impossible, unless your internet is faster than the speed of light.....

"internet service providers don't give life they suck it" got me rolling 😂😂😂😂

Me: seeing how he touches this giant cable - 2:43 RU-vid: please check your internet connection. Also me: What have you've done!?

*gets incredibly close to screen* "You can see Marques' pores!"

"Fiber breaks if you bend it". Pretty much. I had some fiber at my old apartment just lazily ran it behind a couch and into the modem. Left the excess wrapped neatly like a rope and that was that. After a few days the cat went behind the couch and had a field day going through the hoops and playing with it until it managed to bend it to 90 degrees and cut my internet altogether. Of course I call the ISP and give them an earful and the guy goes "is the cable ok? does it have bends, etc." and at that point im fuming, of course it cant be a stupid cable but lo and behold, as soon as I straighten it, my internet is back. The cable itself is pretty resilient, provided you straighten it back in a timely manner. I took the time to route it properly and hide in the walls after we moved and haven't had a problem since.

me: wow 1Gbps internet also me here in the Philippines; cries in 100kbps

This is what oligarchy looks like: Today, the top one-tenth of 1 percent owns almost as much bandwidth as the bottom 90 percent"

Hello there, interesting video but I have some questions and one suggestion. I work for telecom company in canada and I install fiber optics too. I think it is passive method and we get 1000mbps speed here too. And the suggestion is please make the hissing sound or "ssss" sound a little less when you are sound editing your video. 👍

0:45 Doug De muro lmao

Him: 0 ping, 1tb download speed, 1tb upload speed Ours: 200 Ping, 3mbps download speed, 0.5mbps upload speed - PLDT Moment - Reply if you're using PLDT / Globe ( Pinoy Viewers )

I switched to 1.5Gbit download and 1Gbit upload fiber internet about 5 years ago and never turned back. This feels like normal speed for me now and 10Gbit seems like a incremental upgrade. But honestly beyond 1Gbit isn't really utilized in most scenarios and 10Gbit would require more complicated equipment and 2.5Gbit ethernet ports on your devices to take advantage. But obviously in the future everything will start to use more and more of fiberoptic connections throughput. So 10Gbit is good future proof... but the great thing is you can simply wait until that day comes and your ISP can upgrade you to 10Gbit with a phone call.

5:41 yes daddy slap my rou***

0:45 I thought that was Doug demuro reviewing a car ...

*That's why ISP's are still using copper lines due to durability. As someone who's been with Comcast, ATT, Verizon, and Frontier. I can guarantee at some point in time you will encounter speed drops due to a variety of reasons and the cabling issue is one of them.*

Meanwhile Linus: * Laughs in 10gbps internet *