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.

Gotta push back on that a little. Tenants say "prob the breaker" all the time, that's just their guess theyre not electricians. The real issue is you showed up and saw the melted lug with your own eyes, which means the problem was already screaming at you. If you rely on what tenants say instead of checking everything yourself youre gonna miss stuff like that. They dont know the difference between a tripped breaker and a bus bar melting down, and expecting them to is kind of on us.