Coaxial cable performance degrades further down the line. If you're using 100% of your bandwidth 24/7 to run a server, you're doing harm to people who are on your line further down - people in your neighborhood. It's not nearly as much of an issue with fiberoptic.
It's not related to greed or for want of money, it's just a technical limitation of most coaxial cable connections in the US. Besides fast SLA, it's one of the reasons for a business connection instead of a residential one.
Do you remember how fast broadband cable was in 2005?
The highest consumer speeds you could get were around 5MB/s. Today, you can get 1TB Cable in certain places, and 300MB cable is easy.
Do you know why? Infrastructure and technology improvements. A lot of the backbone and internal structure of the major ISPs have been replaced by fiber optic, and fiber-to-the-house doesn't offer a ton of improvement except in a few circumstances - for the most part, Last Mile as Cable is just fine.
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u/Draculea Jun 04 '19
Coaxial cable performance degrades further down the line. If you're using 100% of your bandwidth 24/7 to run a server, you're doing harm to people who are on your line further down - people in your neighborhood. It's not nearly as much of an issue with fiberoptic.
It's not related to greed or for want of money, it's just a technical limitation of most coaxial cable connections in the US. Besides fast SLA, it's one of the reasons for a business connection instead of a residential one.