Fiber Optic cable to regular modem?

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Reyero

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I have a 5Mbps internet speed and is mostly good at downloading, but at gaming the ping makes it to 150 - 300ms.

So my friend and I were curious about "FIBER" so we had to research it and knew that the Fiber Optic Cable is one of things that makes "FIBER" fast.

So the question is, if I applied a Fiber optic cable to my modem/router will it somehow improve???

I'm also open to any of your opinions
Im a noob at networking sorry about that

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Thanks :D

 
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No, it doesn't work like that.

Your internet speed is regulated by your ISP and what you pay them. For you...5Mbps when talking to the outside world.

Inside your house, most all recent equipment will do a theoretical 1Gbps. 200x faster than your ISP speed.
But this is only between your PC and the router. And this is only if your are on a wired connection. WiFi to the router will be substantially slower.

Just stringing a fiber line between your PC and the router (and you can't do that) will make zero difference in your outside speed.
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No, it doesn't work like that.

Your internet speed is regulated by your ISP and what you pay them. For you...5Mbps when talking to the outside world.

Inside your house, most all recent equipment will do a theoretical 1Gbps. 200x faster than your ISP speed.
But this is only between your PC and the router. And this is only if your are on a wired connection. WiFi to the router will be substantially slower.

Just stringing a fiber line between your PC and the router (and you can't do that) will make zero difference in your outside speed.
 
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bill001g

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First if you are running wireless then that is cause of your high ping times likely. Ping is generally a measure of distance so if you were to somehow magically get a fiber run between your house and the game server it would run at the speed of light. Since a lot of it already runs over fiber anyway its hard to say.

Obviously you can only control what is inside your house unless you have many millions of dollars to pay to dig up all the streets. So even if you were to spend the $500 or so it would take to run optical cable between your router and your PC you would not even be able to measure the decrease in latency. It is actually a huge number like 100km/sec difference but since you are talking maybe 10 meters it would reduct your ping time by about 1/1000 of a millisecond. So now you would get 149.999ms instead of 150ms.
 
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It is also important to know the even if your ISP is blazing fast you rely on other isp's to get your data from point A to point B. Think of it like driving cross country. You pass through many other towns and they may have different speed limits(assuming you can not stay on the freeway).

So for my to open toms hardware my request for the site has to pass 16 other routers and 3 different service providers. If something happens outside of my ISP, then can not generally do much about it. Now the internet is supposed to be able to kind of route around problems areas, but this is not a government/business office or anything so it does not work that way for most users.
 
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