Dropped $2k on a dedicated fiber line for our office, and it cut our latency in half

After three years of fighting with a shared cable connection that would tank every afternoon, we finally got a quote from a local enterprise ISP in Dallas for a symmetric 500Mbps fiber circuit at $800 a month, and 6 months in it's already paid for itself in saved productivity, has anyone else made the switch from shared to dedicated and seen a similar jump?

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blair63011d ago

I read a piece in a tech newsletter a few months back about how a lot of small businesses don't realize the difference between shared and dedicated fiber until they actually switch. The article compared it to having a private highway versus a crowded city street, which made a lot of sense to me. Your setup in Dallas sounds like a pretty smart move, because those afternoon slowdowns are usually from everyone in the neighborhood jumping online after lunch. We had similar issues at our place with a shared cable line, and the latency drops were brutal for video calls and large file uploads. It's good to see someone else prove that spending the extra money pays off in the long run.

the_emery10d ago

Wait, did that article mention anything about how much of a difference it makes for things like cloud backups or syncing large project files? I ask because we moved to dedicated fiber about a year ago, and the biggest change I noticed wasn't just during peak hours. It was during our automated backup windows at night. The upload speed stayed rock solid instead of dropping to a crawl. Did you see that same kind of stability with your switch?

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