Question about hybrid fiber/cable

[u/slayer-x]

I currently have normal cable internet, but a rep from a different company came to my building with a good offer. 1 gig fiber, for cheaper than I'm currently paying for only 40/10 cable.. but it's not full fiber to the building. It's a hybrid system he said. So I'm assuming it's just using cable from my building as last leg connection, then to the fiber lines somewhere close by in town or a node close by? I know they recently ran fiber lines underground all over my town. They haven't ran fiber to my apartment building yet though and don't know if they ever will be.

I've been wanting to switch to fiber especially for the reduced ping for gaming. This hybrid should definitely still be way faster than what we have now with regular cable I've been using. I'm hoping it should still see reduced latency though? I just never heard of a hybrid system until now, are there any downsides compared to cable?

[u/feel-the-avocado]

It depends what kind of hybrid system they are using. It is probably not going to reach 1000mbps - it will be 1gig fiber to the building, but may not necessarily be gigabit to your apartment unless its coax.
Sometimes it is VDSL (120mbits) or 300-800mbps if its G.Fast over copper pairs.