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The answer is either "it goes on the threaded port of your cable modem" or "it goes to a distribution panel somewhere outside". It really depends what you meant by the question.
Normally you want to keep the cable as short as possible.
Technology has continued to progress but I think many cable providers are capping at around 100 mbps. I could be wrong.
Not necessarily.
It depends on the configuration your ISP used. Many would in fact share a pipe's bandwidth amongst blocks of homes. I not sure how prevalent that practice is today.
No. Every single home is on a different network.
It's almost 1:00pm and I've been so busy that I haven't had a chance to have breakfast yet.
We get 3gb with our coax connection. Fibre optics claim used to be the ones only capable of gig plus, guess that wasnβt true.
It is true. What's your upload speed? π
Fiber connections are synchronous. Meaning that the download speed is the same as the upload speed.
A gigabit fiber connection gives you 1 gigabit down and 1 gigabit up. A "gigabit" cable connection gives you 1.something gigabit down (it allows for spikes... Usually) and like 20-50 megabits upload.
Fiber ISPs may still limit your upload speeds but that's not a limitation of the technology. It's them oversubscribing their (back end) bandwidth.
Cable Internet really can't give you gigabit uploads without dedicating half the available channels for that purpose and that would actually interfere with their ability to oversubscribe lines. It's complicated... But just know that the DOCSIS standards are basically hacks (that will soon run into physical limitations that prevent them from providing more than 10gbs down) in comparison to fiber.
The DOCSIS 4.0 standard claims to be able to handle 10gbs down and 6gbs up realistically that's never going to happen. Instead, cable companies will use it to give people 5gbs connections with 100 megabit uploads because they're bastards.
Comcast has done some wizardry to finally allow decent upload speeds as of late. For years I've had 900Mbps down and 15Mbps up but with whatever upgrade they've done, I'm now at 900/200 which is decent enough. I honestly don't even need all this download bandwidth and would be happy with 500/500 but most people aren't running media servers and hundreds of torrents so they don't dedicate much to upload bandwidth.
Thatβs a whole lot of words to try and justify not maintaining a 1:1 ratio on my server bro.