--- title: Fiber is FAST! How Fast? description: How fast is fiber? 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How Fast? ## Fiber is FAST! How Fast? [0](https://blog.greenlightnetworks.com/blog/fiber-vs.-cable#comments-listing) - - - - ![cable vs fiber inforgraphic](https://blog.greenlightnetworks.com/hs-fs/hubfs/cable%20vs%20fiber%20inforgraphic.jpg?width=559&name=cable%20vs%20fiber%20inforgraphic.jpg) - It takes less than 10 seconds to download a two-hour movie with a 1 Gig fiber connection, compared to 10+ minutes on a 20 Mbps cable connection. - Download a 9-hour audio book in under 1 second with fiber versus 45 seconds with cable. - A standard TV show takes 6 seconds to download with fiber, compared to 2.5 minutes with cable. Fiber allows you to binge watch shows on streaming platforms and not wait for TV shows to start and buffer. Importantly, with fiber optic technology you can stream on 15 or more devices all at the same time!  A fiber optic connection supports all your wireless devices at the same time, with more than enough bandwidth.  Gamers will love playing multiplayer games without a lag and buffer with the high-speeds fiber technology provides. Fiber also offers symmetrical upload and download speeds, which means you can upload information to the internet just as fast as you can download it! Fiber allows you to share faster, instantly uploading videos and large files at the click of a button. One of the major drawbacks of cable technology is that you share your bandwidth with your neighbors. Your speeds will be slower and not what the cable company is “promising” during prime time hours because everyone will be sharing bandwidth. With fiber from Greenlight, every customer gets their own dedicated bandwidth with a super-fast fiber connection. Our base plan offers 500 Mbps which is more bandwidth than the average household needs today. With the internet becoming more central to our lives and technology improving, fiber is future proof. 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Download and upload time estimates based on maximum connection speeds. Actual speeds will vary. 100 times faster Internet comparison is based on average US download speeds of 18.7 Mbps according to Akamai's State of the Internet 1Q2017, where Greenlight offers up to 2,000 Mbps download. $5,437 increase in value is based on sample median house price of $175,000 per an article published June 30, 2015 in the Wall Street Journal. **© 2017 Greenlight Networks. All Rights Reserved.**