Hello,

my ISP is deploying fibre under the FTTH architecture, which means that it will use PON or shared fibre method. I read online that it is up to 32 end points on the same optic strand.

For the moment I am under copper internet and I have those performances:

dowload: 60-70 mbps (23 latency) | upload: 30-35 mbps (155 latency) | ping: 11ms

For the switch to shared fibre, my ISP proposes a base offer of “up to 500 mbps D/U” and a middle offer of “up to 2.5 gbps D / 500 mbps U”.

My questions are:

- Is the 32 end-points a standard limit or is it up to the ISP to decide what is the limit? If it is at ISP discretion, up to how many end-points can we have?

- Following that, is the performance of Fibre only on the speed or also on the latency?

- When they say “up to” what is usually the realistic number we get out of it?

- As it is shared fibre is the noise on peak hours creating same disturbance on the signal? Or is the fibre less impacted than copper internet?

Thanks in advance for your help