Yes, I always use the ISP with the freshest fiber even if it's double the price.

>he doesn't get his freerange organic fiber from the farmers market

>>108615416
No. Aged fiber is better because after a while they settle in the ground and the light has solid, proven paths. Fresh fiber is subject to forces from the dirt settling and tubes bending. You never know if fresh fiber will survive or not, while older fiber is proven.

>>108615416
I get my fiber weekly from the local fiber butcher. If you can, get fiber on the spool, fresh crimped for you.

I've been on fiber-to-the-home internet since 2016 and I haven't noticed any degradation in quality over time.

If you're serious about fiber, you would grow your own at home. Much fresher and way higher speeds, the market variety just can't compare

I caught a fiber the other day and served it to my wife.
Very fresh

>>108615416
Yes it's better

After a while old fiber bends due to compression of dirt making the light have more resistance to find a clear path

>>108615416
I prefer mine to be a bit moldy just like my cheese.

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>>108615416
>old fiber gets disconnected and nobody polishes it
yes.
>installer sees pic related (0.00dB loss) and calls it good
no.

>>108615416
Make sure to air your fiber otherwise it goes bad.

>>108615416
Are you retarded?

>>108615416
you want fresh insoluble fiber

the one serious answer itt tho

Yes, fiber in the ground for too long faces bitrot which can spread to your hard drives via your downloads.

>>108615416
Old and worn cables can bleed light into the soil and kill off light-sensitive bacteria that live underground, which causes bacterial blooms and offgasses toxic fumes. If you don't replace your cables every few years it can become a health concern.

>>108615416
i once did an environmental cleanup over a fiber line. we had a fiber engineer there just in case we struck it. long story short we severed the cable(our fault. the excavator operator was an idiot) and it took them 19 days to fix it. the cable was old from the 00's and the fiber engineers kept fucking shit up. something about it being glass rather than plastic. osha stopped by while they were in a 5 foot hole and fined them. the osha inspector ended up causing a collapse by standing too close to the hole and the retards in the pit got covered up to their waste. we had to keep digging holes for them illegally. whole op took 2 months and we lost 800k. i don't like fiber.

>>108615416
From what I've heard fiber does degrade over time and has to be replaced every few decades.
But I don't think it's a big issue because the fiber is inside tubes and they should be able to replace it without much digging.

I think the quality variations with copper cables is much bigger because they pick up interference.
Copper ISP's often sell speeds that cannot be achieved in real life because it's based on ideal conditions, but I think fiber ISP's do generally achieve the advertised speeds.

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>>108615416
are you mentally ill?

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>>108615416
fiber optics do degrade over time but not enough to measure on all but the most sensitive machines.

maybe you're confusing it with newer cable standards being better

>>108619551
>causing a collapse by standing too close to the hole and the retards in the pit got covered up to their waste.
People should never work down a hole that can collapse that easily.
What kind of amateurish shit company do you work for?

I had a whore who would clip fiber cables to each boob and when she opened her legs she would eject radio signals and could play any music through wifi speakers, and the music would stop when she closed her legs. This was a big deal at the time, before we had access to iTunes stuff.

>>108619583
i don't remember the fiber company, some local outfit from flyover, but we never intended to put people in a >4ft hole. the whole are was sand and mud. we had a trench box but they wouldn't wait for us to install it. they just kept jumping in looking for the next crack. there were 4 regulatory bodies involved, 3 different contractors, and 3 different insuring agencies. shit was a mess and i spent more time in my truck dodging phone calls than watching the retards on the side of the road.